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Speculation he'll get 4.2 mil or so. Coulda used the TPE

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 19, 2012 -> 11:51 AM) Allen is not a premier talent at this point in his career. He'll be a nice role player no different than Horry. Except much better at making 3's. Allen 35 y/o: 44.4% Allen 36 y/o: 45.3% Horry 35 y/o: 36.8% Horry 36 y/o: 33.6%

This team is going to provide me minimal joy this year

Holy cow... Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale The #RedSox and #Marlins discussing blockbuster: Carl Crawford and prospect to Miami for Hanley Ramirez and Heath Bell. #MLB

While talking about certain metrics and how they translate in terms of average, above average, etc. Viciedo has an ISO of .195 this year. .200 typically translates as "great". He is 23.

Summer. League.

Jonathan Feigen ‏@Jonathan_Feigen Once it is official on Lin, Rockets will have to waive one player, wait 48 hours, then sign Omer Asik to offer sheet and begin that process.

It's highly unlikely the Rockets will withdraw their (verbal) offer to Asik, that kinda stuff is really frowned upon

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 17, 2012 -> 12:16 PM) I'd love to see the Tigers overspend like that. Hell yes, I hope Theo robs them

5 mil TPE would have been an option, also without matching Asik the Bulls would have access to the MLE I believe

I'd make a sizeable wager on the Bears being better than the Lions

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 16, 2012 -> 06:47 PM) Any Illini fans see the home schedule this year? It should lead to a lot of wins, but holy hell is it unexciting. W. Michigan Charleston Southern La. Tech Penn State Indiana Minnesota Purdue Times like these are when its just not great that your dad has season tickets and loves coming down for every game

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jul 16, 2012 -> 11:49 AM) That means nothing in the NFL world. Need to find out how much guaranteed. Obviously...

Schefter reports an average of 8 mil per year

Four year deal, still waiting on financial terms

This would seem to be a good sign: Israel ‏@iidonije @MattForte22 Congrats Bro!! #BearDown EDIT: And this...YEEE Sean Jensen ‏@seankjensen BREAKING: #Bears agree to terms with Pro Bowl RB Matt Forte on a long-term contract, according to source close to the situation.

Brees agrees to a contract. 100M/5yrs

That's great to hear

Well, if you consider Iguodala's contract AWFUL, then you would certainly classify Deng's as BAD

Noah I would be fine qualifying as a bargain, especially after seeing what Brook Lopez got. Deng, however, is certainly not a bargain.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 03:49 PM) No argument. I mean, yes. They aren't an elite front office. I do think they are a bit above average, though, but conservative. I think their issue is they don't look at the nba championships as their god-given right the way the LAs and Bostons do and with our history there's no reason we shouldn't. That said, I just don't think trading for howard would work out. But next off-season I want there to be fireworks. I mostly just want to tread water until I see something interesting, the most interesting thing about this offseason was PGs, so, not really helpful. Fair enough, I agree with that for the most part. The way I see it, while it doesn't have to be this offseason, soon enough there is going to have to be some risks taken because a 2nd star is absolutely essential to the contention for a championship for the foreseeable future. It's not necessarily the end of the world that it didn't happen this summer, but I sometimes question whether GarPax has what it takes to make the 2nd star happen in ANY offseason.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 03:42 PM) The amount of times things like that have happened in the NBA is startling. Counting on an amount of luck if you are a good franchise and bad luck if you are a bad one should be factored into your decisions. Right, and the winning the lottery for Rose and the tearing or Rose's ACL are about as equally improbable, thus a wash. I wasn't saying that Rose should be taken out of the equation, but you can't mention that the front office got unlucky and look bad because of his injury when the only reason they looked good in the first place with him was pure luck as well.

Demetri McCamey is on the Bulls summer league roster

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 12, 2012 -> 03:09 PM) If someone was willing to offer it, and it fit into their cap situation, it would have been done already. You would think... If he gets claimed off waivers one would have to wonder. Not too mention obviously you are going to diminish his trade value when you make it blatant to the rest of the league you aren't going to keep him. If he is claimed off waivers or inks a contract similar to the one he was on then the only reason to think it wasn't possible is because no team was willing to part with a 2nd round pick...something which typically nets a couple hundred thousand dollars cash.

Alex Kennedy ‏@AlexKennedyNBA C.J. Watson has drawn interest from several teams. He can be claimed off waivers until Friday at 5 p.m. ET. If unclaimed, he's unrestricted. Can someone please tell me why we didn't scoop a 2nd round pick to add a bench player for Watson?