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I believe that you are wrong about this. He has to be traded to create a trade exception. I cannot recall ever hearing about a "released exception".

Okay. Thanks for the clarification.

Yes, I think I am.

no problem. it's all confusing and they keep changing the rules. that's just one that I happened to read about recently.

I love Love and think he is a very good player. Andrew Wiggins is 20 years old and is looking like a surefire superstar. You take that over Love every time because of the value of Wiggins cheap contract and the fact that he will likely play more years than Love from this point on.

Hey if all it took was a tweet from the King to tell Love to step up and fit in for Kevin to play like he did yday, we need to get the King to tweet that in regards to JF and Justin Gilbert lol!

Love was on fire yday.

LeBron doesn't Tweet about teammates. Don't you know anything?

The NBA salary cap rules are more complicated than any other professional league, IMHO. I always get a headache trying to figure out what's legal and what isn't.

MLS' salary rules make the NBA look like first grade math. Not that anyone cares about the MLS.

Glad I don't care about MLS .... lol

or 1st grade math

I am perfectly fine with 1st grade math .....It's when we get into some truly brain twisting 3rd grade stuff that I run into trouble.

Does any one still want Ray Allen?

Meh.

He is probably better than Mike Miller and James Jones at this point.

Didn't think about that I guess...

But I don't expect them to play any minutes passed the 1st round anyways..

I'd rather see if a guy like Jermaine O'Neal, or Okafor are healthy enough..

I think we're fine in the guard category..

O'Neal to Dallas seems like a done deal. Okafor has said he is sitting out another season.

Stoudemire might be an intriguing guy off the bench if he is bought out.

I was never interested in him to begin with. Do we really need another Mike Miller on the roster?

I'd take him, but as the way things are constructed, we don't need him. They need to find another big somehow. Just someone who can come in and play for Mozzy.

I really like the way these trades have made our team. We're not perfect, but the rotations seem much smoother. Everyone knows their role. JR Smith provides what Dion Waiters might've been able to in a few more years. He's a chucker, but he is more timely, and he's been hustling back a ton. I love seeing that. It really seems like he's bought in.

If it means he's playing more of the minutes going to Miller and Marion, then yes.

As Sperg said, we probably need a backup big and a better back PG.

Ray Allen isn't going to be playing any SF, so probably not. Backup center is probably our biggest issue right now. We need a guy to spell Mozzy. We don't really need guys to backup Irving and Lebron. Come playoff time, those guys aren't coming off the bench anyway.

We need a backup big. More than a backup PG. Just get a 7 foot body.

You want Alex Kirk back?

Greg Oden is available.

Or...

LBJ coming back makes it easy to forget what a clown show we were last year.

Chris Grant was terrible.

Yeah.. but.. sabermetrics.. and stuff...

I will forever be grateful that he got that Clipper's pick unprotected.

And that he was able to split up Bynum's contract into two parts. Still, the overall singing of him is now considered highly questionable in itself.

I wouldn't say he was completely terrible. He did pretty well in trades, he never signed anyone to a really stupid, back-breaking contract, and he did the right thing in taking Kyrie over D. Williams. His biggest flaw was trusting too much in sabermetrics and drafting horribly outside of Kyrie.

Unlike Ferry, Griff walked into a situation where he had cap room, could maneuver around to bring guys in, and had actual assets to bring in other guys.

Drafting horribly when you have a four-leaf horseshoe up your ass is kind of an issue.

Then again, he didn't completely whiff on draft picks either. While yes, we missed out on guys like Drummond, Oladipo and Klay Thompson, we also could of very easily had guys like D.Williams, Jan Vesley, Thomas Robinson and Otto Porter. At least guys like Dion Waters were good "enough" to parlay into Shumpbert, JR Smith and Mozgov.

Thats the biggest issue I had with grant, we got crazy lucky in the draft lottery and he just couldn't draft for anything. Kyrie the exception but there wasn't even a hint of indecision on who was #1, but man others like thompson at 4 and waiters...ugh. He was great in trades and could move players to get more picks etc, just couldn't do anything with the picks.

Griffin will earn his accolades after this season. If we make it deep in the playoffs it will be easier, if we get bounced early, this offseason will make or break him. He was gifted lebron coming back which made everything alot easier..Moving waiters for JR and shump looks to be a great move, I still don't like the 2 picks for stone hands mosgov, but he is starting to fit in defensively very well. We are built for playoffs right now..Even blatt has shortened his rotation.. I think thats more because our bench is the worst in the NBA. I think Griff is going to still try to add a couple pieces. A big/backup pg and/or allen, but my money is on allen ending up with either atlanta or on a west contender.

I want to beat Miami, badly.





I agree with Whitesides, that Lebron guy is kinda good.

About as balanced scoring as possible right now

http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400579088

We're carving them up with passes.

This is our starting center

Nice win tonight.

When they flip the switch, they seem to score at will.

This was beautiful. 32 assists on 44 made baskets. Wow!

The Wizard of Moz was our leading scorer with 20, and he went 9-11 from the floor. He and James are definitely creating somethign special as far as chemistry.

JR Smith ..... remember that selfish guy? ...... well, he had 7 assists tonight. SEVEN! James also had 7, Kyrie had 6 ... and in only 20 minutes, Love had 4.

What a game. If they can continue this type of play, no one is going to be able to touch them. They have so much talent offensively that if the make that extra pass for a wide open shot, they will have someone who can knock it down. 7 guys were in double digits. Man, this was fun to watch.

and guys like that are the complimentary pieces you need to win titles.