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Wilson Sting

Years ago

Heat plan to pursue Carmelo Anthony

Why would players want more rings if they've got a couple? I would've thought money would be the motivating factor. I can understand chasing a ring if you don't have one (Carmelo) but for guys like Wade, Bosh and LBJ, what's the incentive? It's not like they're going to be a 10 season dynasty.

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Anonymous

Years ago

does the big 3 qualify for the veterans minimum?

in all honesty they could sign for $1 each if they had too .

all they want is the rings

they make enough from nike & Li-Ning etc

they own homes , have nice cars

nobody cried this season when the lakers flushed 30million up Kobes ass

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MACDUB

Years ago

How do you stop this?

A "hard salary cap" would go a long way. Not the "soft cap" that is currently in effect.

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MACDUB

Years ago

"The heat have built there star power through free agency and the draft (Wade)."

I like how you had to throw Wade in there just so you could say "and the draft"

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MACDUB

Years ago

Rav, I have heard rumours of Ibaka to South Beach.

Micky Arison is also said to be in discussion with Chris Paul.

He has indicated that discussions with Durant hit a road block because KD wasn't too happy about starting behind Lebron James.

Curry is looking to put pen to paper sometime in the next week. Love do has indicated his interest and reckons he can nab the starting PF spot.

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MACDUB

Years ago

The point of the CBA was to make small market teams more competitive. It has not worked. This is ridiculous. It makes a mockery of basketball and it is not how competitive sport should operate. Saw this from the article:

“The Heat are in essence trying to emulate some of the longstanding policies employed by their current Finals opponent, as the Spurs have been able to keep Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili together for more than a decade -- while routinely strengthening the supporting cast around them -- because their three best players have been repeatedly willing to take pay cuts.”

How dare they compare what the Heat are doing to what the Spurs have done. The Spurs drafted their big three (Parker and Manu pretty late in the draft). They built their team, they didn’t buy them.

Carmelo to the Heat is a real possibility – Third party deals don’t happen in the NBA; rather they are disguised. Is there any rules regarding endorsement deals? Hypothetically, all these companies could say to Melo’ come to Miami and sign him up on various endorsement deals to negate the lost salary. It happened with Lebron and Nike – because Nike products sold in much stronger numbers than they ever did in Cleveland.

If this does go through, small market teams like Minny, Milwaukee, Utah etc. have to make a stand and hold the NBA accountable. Would hate to see it happen. Its disgusting – the league is in a bad state at the moment in terms of parity of talent. There would be nothing stopping Miami from eclipsing Jordan’s record of 72-10. Jordan did it against NY, Detroit, Indiana, Orlando every year. The East is terrible, the Spurs are at the twighlight and theres no legitimate future contenders. This is sad.

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Statman

Years ago

A tTeam loaded with Super Players doesn't always win, look at the Lakers when they bought in Payton and Malone to chase a ring.

Plus any team with Carmello in it will struggle when there is only 1 ball to share....

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