I'll be interested to see what Iggy does, I think that's a huge deal for the Warriors. Obviously when you have Durant, Curry, Klay, and Green you're the favorite, but they did lose some key bench players after their 2015 title that hurt them vs the Cavs last finals. If they lose their 2015 finals MVP and imo a big part of their success again this year to free agency, that bench starts to get chipped away at with guys that can be taken for granted. Similar to what happened around Shaq and Kobe during that dynasty, by 2004 we were top loaded and had a bench of mostly..pieces we could afford. That hurt us big time when Malone went down. If the Warriors want to keep winning they need to pay their stars (Curry is up for big money right now) and somehow maintain their glue guys or the bench like Iggy and Livingston.
I agree that they should focus on resigning those perimeter bench guys but I'm afraid some teams will give them a huge offer. with that said, I think it goes without saying that players will be flocking this offseason to want to play in gs. hard to beat playing in California with a team that wins and appears to have so much fun while doing it
I've posted it a bunch, but Durant and Curry together will have to take MUCH less in order to avoid massive luxury tax penalties. The key truthfully is whether or not the Warriors are willing to pay roughly 1.75 on the dollar for their team. That means if their roster reaches around 130-140 million (it will), they need to be willing to spend over 200 million to keep them all together. They might be willing to do it.
They have a window to win 3-5 more rings, as long as they are getting to the Finals and Lebron is getting older, there's really no one stopping them but themselves. They shouldn't pull an OKC and blow up a solid core, dish out the money and reap the benefits. Not guaranteed to have another run like this, as a franchise you have to take advantage of that.
I agree, but we're Laker fans. We expect that sort of thing. Most other franchises have quelled under the pressure of that kind of money. We'll see what they do. If I'm the league, I'm poaching their role players though. I'm offering Iggy big money. I'm offering McGee more than a year. I'm doing what I can to start poking holes in their foundation.
McGee is going to get a big payday. People need to offer Livingston and Iggy money, they are arguably the two most important outside of the big 4. I wouldn't mind taking a crack at either of them to be honest. Iggy gives us what we wanted from Deng and Livingston is one hell of a back up PG, especially if we draft a rookie PG.
Neither of them have a reason to leave. They are far along enough in their careers and made enough money that I think they'd rather have an opportunity to win a few more championships vs pursue a few more millions.
To keep their death lineup , the number of 1.4 billions in salaries and tax penalties for the next 4 seasons was mentioned here and there on Twitter . As for the Cavs they will be tax repeater next season ... not sure Gibert will be willing to spend a LOT of money for a long time too
does houston even have the cash? totally odd fit with harden, too. there's only one ball, and i'd bet those guys are close to 1 and 2 in terms of total time dribbling the basketball in the entire league.
Do you guys think West will recommend paying the money and trying to keep both Paul and Blake, or if not which one? Coming from his GS philosophy Paul seems way too ball dominant and an unlikable d***. Blake definitely a d*** too but injury prone on top of that. Best Nancy Kerrigan wail ..... whyyyyy ... whyyyy .... whyyyyyy, Jerry?
jokic is a total badass? that's about all i got. both houston and denver seem like really lame possibilities. you either get lebron to come join you with the jv squad, or you go to SA with leonard.
