Official 2016 Free Agency Thread

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  1. CaCHooKa Man

    CaCHooKa Man Administrator: Media Staff Member

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    Ezeli said he bought a one way plane ticket to Portland so he was taking anything they threw at him
     
    CaCHooKa Man, Jul 7, 2016
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    Crabbe cakes...
     
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    gcclaker Moderator Staff Member

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    Yes, at times Ezeli played liked the Wes Johnson of centers...
     
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    I like it, but where did Lou go?
     
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  5. CaCHooKa Man

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    Incoming: Kevin Durant

    Outgoing: Harrison Barnes, Andrew Bogut, Festus Ezeli, Leandro Barbosa, Mo Speights (+ Varejao and others)

    Is 1 really > 5? Golden State's bench will absolutely suffer. I can't emphasize how important their bench was. They kept the momentum and allowed guys like Curry to play a solid 35 minutes every single night. Those guys were also perfect for the system.

    David West helps. But they've got a lot of vets to recruit and I don't see this year's bench being as good. And that means the Warriors won't be as good as last year. You heard it here first. My prediction is 65-68 wins, obviously they're still going to dominate.
     
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  7. trodgers

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    They didn't make that move for more regular season wins though. They made it to beat LeBron. And I can't see them losing.
     
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    Bold = Taken.
    Updates: Ian Clark, Ezeli.

    SMALL FORWARD
    Kevin Durant +16 MAX 2 years, 54.5M
    Luol Deng 5 MAX (4/72)
    Chandler Parsons 4 MAX (4/94)
    Harrison Barnes 0 MAX (4/94)
    Gerald Green -7 (Knicks reportedly interested - they'd have an interesting team)
    Kent Bazemore -8 (4/70)
    Solomon Hill -9 (4/48)
    NICK YOUNG -14
    ANTHONY BROWN -17

    GUARD
    DeMar Derozan +1 MAX 5/145
    Courtney Lee -4 (4/50)
    LOU WILLIAMS -4
    Gerald Henderson -5 (2/18)
    *Tyler Johnson -7 (4/50)
    JORDAN CLARKSON -7 (4/50)
    Sasha Vujacic -8
    Arron Afflalo -8 (2/25)
    *Allen Crabbe -9 (Meeting with Nets?)
    Jerryd Bayless -10 (3/27)
    E'Twuan Moore -12 (He intrigues me) (4/34)
    *Isaiah Canaan -13
    *Dion Waiters -14 (Back with OKC?)
    *Ian Clark -15 (1/? Warriors)
    Donald Sloan -16
    Markel Brown -18 (Some talks fell through; no longer restricted)

    POINT GUARD
    Mike Conley +6 5/153
    (? Deron Williams) 1/10
    Brian Roberts -9 (Vet Min)
    ? Ramon Sessions ?
    *Langston Galloway -11 (?signing with Pelicans)
    DA RUSSELL -12
    Shane Larkin -14
    *Tim Frazier -14 (He really intrigues me) (Knicks interested)
    MARCELO HUERTAS -15
    Ray McCallum -19

    TOP TIER (MAX Players?)
    Hassan Whiteside +12 (4/98)
    Pau Gasol +11 (2/30)
    Al Horford +10 (4/113)

    SECOND TIER (~17.5M)
    David Lee +6 (In talks with GS)
    Al Jefferson +5
    Zaza Pachulia +4 (1/2.5?)

    THIRD TIER (~15M)
    Nene +1 (1, 2.9m)
    Amare Stoudemire 0
    Ian Mahinmi 0 (4/64)
    Jordan Hill 0

    MIDDLE OF THE PACK (~12.5M)
    Marreese Speights -1 (Warriors WERE interested)
    Cole Aldrich -1
    Timofey Mozgov -2 (4/64)
    Festus Ezeli -2 (2/14)

    Downward Slope (~10M)
    Joakim Noah -3 (4/72)
    ROY HIBBERT -3 (1/5)
    Bismack Biyombo -3 (4/72)

    Steep Descent (~7.5M)
    *Meyers Leonard -5
    ROBERT SACRE -6
    Willie Reed -6
    JJ Hickson -6

    Bench Players (~5M)
    Jason Thompson -7
    Jason Smith -7 (3/16M)
    *Motiejunas -7 (I think Houston tendered QO to him)
    TARIK BLACK -7 (2/12.5)
     
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    Lebron won with Kyrie Irving and thats pretty much it. Sure, he got rebounding here and there but this is basketball, all you need is superstars. Depth is overrated.
     
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    did Lebron and Kyrie defend all 5 positions too?
     
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    Just saw that. Woooooow.
     
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    bench players that havent proved anything getting that much? smh.......
     
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    Damn that's a lotta dough. I figured he'd get that kind of money and I'm kind of glad the Lakers didn't offer him that much.
     
    therealdeal, Jul 7, 2016
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    Lebron did everything.
     
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    That's quite a bit for a one dimensional bench player that I've never even heard of until free agency started
     
    CaCHooKa Man, Jul 7, 2016
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    Traded to another team.

    I don't think that's fair for two reasons...

    1.) Were they theoretically going to dish out new deals for all those players? I'd say no, especially to the back end of those names.

    2.) It's not a 1 v 5 thing. They replaced Bogut with Zaza, Speights with West, Varejao with Jones.

    Would we as Lakers fans be happy getting Durant for Barnes/Ezeli/Barbosa/Rush? I'd crap my pants personally. That's a steal. I'll reserve judgment on their bench until they fill it out, but I would say one thing that hurt their bench was the fact that they had too many bigs and Kerr didn't know who to play. They still have Livingston/Iggy off the bench, the only two real contributors aside from Barbosa. And KD is basically bringing entire bench production just by himself. As T said this isn't about the regular season, they could be the 8th seed and still be fine. Give me KD in the playoffs over the bench any day, especially on the road where they didn't show up.
     
    Doc Brown, Jul 7, 2016
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    And how many of those guys showed up in the Playoffs? 1 > 0
     
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