How could any other NBA team not see him as a cancer now? I mean seriously? A separate jet? Tell me, Jimmy, using this little rag doll, where all the bad Heat players touched you.
ALL of Thomas Pynchon's characters - and there's about 3000 of 'em - have weird-azzed names. I resonated with the character of Zoyd. I wish I did not resonate. But I did.
he has a 52 million player option, and at this point, he'll have to exercise it and be stuck. Unless he thinks he can sell craptons of coffee, that's his last big payday. Too bad. Seemed like a fun guy to root for, but it's not acceptable to be a bad teammate or bad influence on team culture.
Does he have a no trade clause that he can change his mind now and do the opt in with Miami or does that go with him to whatever team Riley trades him to?
he doesn't have a no trade clause, but if a team trades for him and he let's them know he won't be exercising his option or extending with them, he holds some leverage unless the team is just absolutely tanking and blowing up their roster. Miami will expect some value, but it will probably require multiple teams to make salaries work. He's created a big mess for himself and has just cost himself 10's of millions IMHO of course.
i posted about it a few days ago, but it really is pretty damning for an organization that is touted (and participates in this) for having a better culture than everyone else. i wonder if their mystique will die with riley like ours did with dr. buss. and if riley's finally been passed by. the failure to close several deals with player demanding to go to miami, followed by this mess... will say that watching miami get destroyed by a trade demand is pretty enjoyable after years, maybe decades of them being the winners in many of these situations (and the losers in none). at least we had to deal with the shaq thing (to miami, no less!). anyway, the media still isn't blasting miami for this, so maybe the brand will survive. and who knows, maybe someone bails riley out here, but there have to be at least some teams who will refuse to help on principle (as happens with us all the time). hilarious that butler's PO cuts both ways, as sirron said above: to teams who would trade for a 50 million expiring: nope, i'll opt in. to teams hoping to get one and half years of contention: nope; i'll opt out.
