If we by some miracle add two max guys, I think one of them will be acquired in trade. Other than Durant and Horford I'm not sure what other guys I would be happy maxing out to come here.
What about Howard. I know I know everyone is against this idea. I am too for a long contract. But what about 1 year maybe with an option for a second year. This way he gets to make the max and has a chance at an even bigger max. And we are not stuck with him 4 years from now when he plays 20 games and sucks and is one of the highest paid guys in the league. If other teams only offer him a long deal at close to the max he might just take our 1 year max deal. There are only a handful of players ot get by FA or trade so we likely will have money left over anyways. And even at 25 mins a game he would answer a huge problem for us.
Lots of cap space is not much of an "advantage" this summer, since a lot of teams will have cap space for at least one max free agent.
It gives us the advantage that we can sign one guy like KD and say that we can trade for another guy by not making the other team match salary. Or just sign one max and 2 other non max but high paid guys. Having more to spend is certainly an "advantage."
Deja vu..
Greedy owners. Well, at least they got paid for our playoff appearance and first round exit. That is the ultimate goal for our team right?
Get on treadmill. Make $. Promise fireworks. Repeat.
Ten years since 07' coming up.
What do you want them to say? We expect nothing good will ever happen?
Also the 10 years comment is just silly. in year 1 we won the title. Are you really mad that the ownership couldn't bring in another KG and Ray in the summer of 08? We were contenders for many of those years and now after a few years are an up and coming team with more assets then we did in 07 when we got KG and Ray. This anger at the ownership is outrageous. Can anyone remember the 15 years before Wyc bought the team? This teams is a lot of things, but mismanaged it is not. And there are a lot of teams that are. Blaming the team for one or two guys not signing here is just silly.