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It'll be because LeBron wants to leave Miami for any of the reasons Woj alludes to: he wants to make it up to Cleveland, he'd rather have free rein over a franchise, his agent told him to, or whatever. If James leaves Miami it won't be because Arison can't afford to put talent around him. Is Mickey Arison really going to tell Bron-Bron he can't afford to keep Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh, or bring in another star into their place? Of course not. So we circle back to the Heat and LeBron. Mark Cuban and James Dolan used to do the same thing before the former realized the importance of payroll flexibility in talent acquisition and the latter hired folks who understood it. Mikhail Prokhorov brushes max contracts off like dandruff.
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Jerry Buss can cover a $100 million payroll with his local TV deal and still have tens of millions left over. They are, unfortunately, limited to the select few teams who either a) have the ability to amass talent through the draft and retain them via canny front office work ( Thunder, Spurs), or b) have ridiculous amounts of pliable assets, preferably money (Lakers, Nets, Knicks, Heat, Bulls in a bizarro world where Jerry Reinsdorf isn't cheap). and re-signed Gerald Wallace at eight figures a year. and traded spare parts to pick up Joe Johnson's max-value contract still worth $90 million over four years. and gave Brook Lopez a max-value $60 million, four-year deal. And super teams are dead? The Brooklyn Nets gave Deron Williams a max-value $100 million, five-year deal. The Lakers, carrying the highest payroll in the land, boosted their cap level by swapping Andrew Bynum for the more expensive Dwight Howard and dished out a multi-year deal worth $9 million annually to the 38-year-old Steve Nash. I would be a whole lot more sympathetic to this argument if just six months ago two super teams weren't bolstered or created wholesale. And months before it was necessary to do so, before the Memphis Grizzlies could make a run in the Western Conference playoffs, they moved Rudy Gay to Toronto and out of Zach Randolph's and Marc Gasol's lives. James Harden leaves Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook for Houston. The Super Friends scenarios are gone, replaced with the NBA's vision of talent spreading out to the have-nots. For him, the economics of the sport keep reaffirming that three's a crowd now, that James will have to choose a partnership with one superstar teammate. The problem I have is that Woj argues that the Gay trade means the end of the super team.Īs a Western Conference contender disassembled out of frugality and panic on Wednesday, Miami Heat star LeBron James should've been recalibrating the realities of the free-agent frenzy awaiting him in 2014. I have no problem with Woj writing amazing deconstructions of ESPN, and I have no problem with anyone critiquing an NBA executive. Me? Criticize basketball opinions for being overwrought? My tea kettle is not black, y'all.
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Calling the Butler move a "disaster" is hilariously overwrought, but. He was the next Michael Sweetney, after all!) But I honestly don't mind the digs at ESPN (four letters Woj will never type or say in succession), and once you take a job making personnel decisions for a team, your previous decisions are open game. (Many of us, not just John, were fooled by Jackie Butler.
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Woj refers to Hollinger as a "statistician who worked for a cable sports company" and lays into him ( unfairly) for telling the San Antonio Spurs to sign Jackie Butler years ago. Most of the focus on the column in question has been in Woj's welting of new Grizzlies exec John Hollinger, a former ESPN scribe. PRADA: Grizzlies win by losing Gay | THE HOOK: Raptors are brilliant! He's the don of a strong NBA reporter set.Īnd man, he is so very wrong about what the Rudy Gay trade means. And given the extremely high quality of reportage in the NBA - Marc Stein, David Aldridge, Sam Amick, Howard Beck, Marc Spears, Steve Aschburner, Michael Lee and many more I'm leaving out - that says something. It's not a surprise when Woj breaks a big NBA story. He broke the Rudy Gay trade this week because of course he broke the Rudy Gay trade. (What a bold statement.) If I had easy access to him, I'd ask him what I'm having for dinner tomorrow, and were I an NBA player, I bet he'd know.
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Full disclosure: I think Adrian Wojnarowski is the best NBA reporter on the planet.