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QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 09:22 AM)
The Nuggest were desperate to dump salary so that they didn't have to pay the luxury tax.

 

That's what you get when you resign Nene to a 60/6 deal though, and have Kenyon Martin making close to a max contract.

 

The Bulls would have had to trade either Hinrich or Hughes to be able to acquire Camby.

And that would have been bad because...?

 

I don't really care much, as I don't see the Bulls competing next year, regardless. But short term, Camby's a nice player to have, and long-term, you get out from Hinrich's contract. Not sure if they would have wanted Hinrich, though.

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QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 10:46 AM)
And that would have been bad because...?

 

I don't really care much, as I don't see the Bulls competing next year, regardless. But short term, Camby's a nice player to have, and long-term, you get out from Hinrich's contract. Not sure if they would have wanted Hinrich, though.

Well I mean they would have had to have done a salary dump to get under the cap so they could acquire Camby (and maybe renounce the rights to Deng and / or Gordon also).

 

The only team really out there with cap room was the Clippers (originally) and Memphis.

 

Memphis doesn't need Hinrich with 3 PG's already on the roster, and Hughes has what 2-3 years left on his deal for around $15M?

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QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 07:46 AM)
And that would have been bad because...?

 

I don't really care much, as I don't see the Bulls competing next year, regardless. But short term, Camby's a nice player to have, and long-term, you get out from Hinrich's contract. Not sure if they would have wanted Hinrich, though.

The Nuggets were wanting to move themselves out of luxury tax territory. That means that they needed to trade Camby to a team who either had a contract that just expired (Memphis, basically) or they needed to trade him to a team that was under the cap (Memphis or the Clippers). The only way for the Bulls to get a piece of this would have been to trade Hinrich/Hughes to either Memphis or LAC for a draft pick, thus allowing the Bulls to get under the cap. Considering the Clips just signed a PG, they're not going to have any interest in that. And Memphis isn't going to be spending money right now, they've made that clear.

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QUOTE (DBAH0 @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 10:50 AM)
Well I mean they would have had to have done a salary dump to get under the cap so they could acquire Camby (and maybe renounce the rights to Deng and / or Gordon also).

 

The only team really out there with cap room was the Clippers (originally) and Memphis.

 

Memphis doesn't need Hinrich with 3 PG's already on the roster, and Hughes has what 2-3 years left on his deal for around $15M?

Pretty sure Hughes has 2 years left. Same as Camby, iirc.

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QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 16, 2008 -> 09:10 PM)
They have CP3...hard not to like them...

Just wait until Posey cheap-shots someone and starts a fight and CP3 winds up missing a couple playoff games for walking away from the bench.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 17, 2008 -> 01:19 PM)
I knew that part, I just figured if you're going to compare him to harrison, we may as well note all of the issues there...

I would not be surprised.

 

The announcers were really slobbing him during the Finals, I was getting a little sick.

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QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 22, 2008 -> 03:54 AM)
So the Bulls and Jazz are playing a pre season game at Assembly Hall in Champaign, pretty cool imo.

 

I always thought it would be a cool idea to play NBA pre-season games at more college arenas.

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QUOTE (jackie hayes @ Jul 7, 2008 -> 05:17 PM)
First game was the Pacers-Thundercats. :lol: (Announcers gave that name to OKC. I'm still not sure who Lion-O is supposed to be. And yes, they really were calling someone Lion-O.)

 

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 7, 2008 -> 05:46 PM)
BTW- I wonder if ThunderCats is their official name now?

 

QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 22, 2008 -> 11:53 AM)
Oklahoma City Thunder????

 

Those summer league announcers were pretty close, eh?

 

:D

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