What?!?! Why? What sense would that make? First of all, why would a team give up assets to trade for him, and then simply buy him out? And why would he give up all that guaranteed money? That makes no sense at all.OTFP wrote:
What?!?! Why? What sense would that make? First of all, why would a team give up assets to trade for him, and then simply buy him out? And why would he give up all that guaranteed money? That makes no sense at all.
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We can answer this one even easier.
Who in their right mind gives up $40M because they have to move to a different city?
Well, what city would it be? Would it be one of the cities that is close to the nuclear plant in Japan? Or a city in the Ivory Coast? You couldn't pay me enough to move to one of those.
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I think a player Ed can be a KG type of player a pf/c. i think amir is right though and we need a big body. could u imagine if dwight did come to to.. wow lol. the more we keep talking about centers maybe kanter is the guy we end up drafting this year. ( dont let my kanter comment turn this into a draft page) i was jnust commenting on the need for a center.
What division do those two teams play in again?
They're NDBL teams.
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LOOL, Amir wants to be the leader !! Scrubs are taking over Raptor and future will be even worst than what it is now.
Show up in the Ivory Coast with $40M and you are the Immediate Ruler and Sovereign Leader.
Show up with $20M and you could probably work a deal.
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Ya, but you'd last about a month.
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Read the post I was commenting on dude. I'm not that dumb.
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lmfao...i don't understand how anyone can still this tool...andrea blows harder than jenna jamieson
"the raptors were my fav team growing up"-kevin durant
He may not play centre now but in the western conference final serious 2000/2001 against the lakers guess who was guarding Shaq.
Well, in 2000 it was Arvydas Sabonis. That was an awesome series. Imagine if he had joined the league when he was in his prime...we'd be talking about him right up there with Shaq and Kareem and Russell as the greatest centers of all time.
In 2001 it was David Robinson and Tim Duncan, most of the time. Another classic series I remember well. In fact, the t-wolves got knocked out in the first round every year from 2000-2003.
Perhaps you meant the 2004 western conference finals, where the Lakers played the T-wolves? Because if so, the answer is it was a platoon of Michael Oliwakandi, Earvin Johnson and Mark Madsen, mostly using Haq-a-Shaq. They even used noted Raptor porker Oliver Miller when the other guys ran out of fouls. Garnett had his hands full dealing with Karl Malone, and couldn't afford the foul trouble. I can only recall a very few possessions where he was stuck on Shaq, and he sure as hell didn't play anything resembling defense. Had some real conflicted emotions about that series/season, as a life-long Jazz fan and Lakers-hater, seeing the mailman in forum blue and gold.
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I think Sabonis deserves to be in conversations no matter how many years he played in the league. He dominated overseas for years and that should be worth something too.
agreed. truly revolutionary player right there. i could care less if he played 2 games in the league.
every big man who can bang down low, rebound, pass like a PG, and shoot a jumper from more than 10 ft from the basket owes him a debt of gratitude for breaking the mold
I love Amir. I really do. But I'm not sure what measure he is using when he says that the team "definitely got better than last year". Maybe he is referring to the team's draft position.
I also find it slightly amusing that he claims the Raptors "pretty much don't need any pieces" and then 90 seconds later he is throwing Bargnani under the bus by saying that the team needs a legit center.
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Amen. That's what stood out to me as I read it too. That last game against Miami made it pretty clear to me that the pieces we have aren't anywhere near enough
"We could use a center, like a Dwight or KG, I think we could use a legit center. It would work well with all the 4s on the floor."
I think as a fan it's easily for us to assume he's making a back-handed comment about Bargs, as if he really means to say:
"Currently our center is Andrea Bargnani and he's no good. We need to replace him with a legit center, like Dwight or KG."
In my early years I was in a band, where I played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals. One day we decided as a group that we should consider bringing in a singer who could do lead vocals, so that I could concentrate more on my guitar skills. I never took this as them meaning they wanted to replace me because I can't sing that well (I still ended up doing backup/harmony). It just allowed me to concentrate on things I was better at.
I'm not saying Bargs is the answer, but let's not misconstrue what Amir Johnson is saying and turn this into a story about players turning on eachother. Bargs himself said he'd prefer to play PF, which is also a roundabout way of saying this team still needs a legit C, which we do.
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This is an excellent point ebrian. There are multiple ways to take what he said. This is one scenario that could be right.
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