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The point of having a cap is to limit trades.

Because a single roster spot means so much in basketball, with just five players to a side and a possibility for one of them to take a quarter of a team's shots nightly, trades and acquisitions mean so much more than they do in baseball and football. So in order to limit players being shipped any time a dork like Larry Brown gets a bit of a red ass, a hard salary cap is put in place to force teams to match salaries so that the trading partners (if over the cap) are bringing in as much salary as they're taking out.

And because the luxury tax is far, far more prohibitive; even if biggish owners are going over the luxury tax, you're still not seeing a gulf in the NBA like you do between the Yankees and Royals. The cheapest NBA team, the Memphis Grizzlies, was a top-five team in terms of payroll for a few years in a row at the outset of this decade. And some of the taxpayers (both this year and before) aren't exactly in hot spots. Orlando, San Antonio, and Denver come to mind.

All which makes Reinsdorf look even worse. Grabbing Alex Rios while treating his other team (the most profitable team in the NBA for the last 13 years) like the Kansas City Royals, refusing to top the luxury tax.

I want both those picks to be traded. It's an awful draft, and the team doesn't need any new guaranteed contracts when its trying to sign Gordon and work trades.

I still think Stoudemire is more realistic. But not realistic at all. I'm in LA now, and nobody thinks he'll be traded this summer. And the Raptors are likely just to see if they can do right by Bosh.

No source, a made-up player (who the hell is Loul Deng?), and it's the mark of an NBA idiot is when they fail to recognize that, just because you hadn't heard of John Salmons until recently, it doesn't mean he's 24. He turns 30 a month and a half into next season. 2008-09 was likely his career year. It's downhill after this. Salmons presence does not make it OK to trade a 24-year old who put up stats similar to Salmons' career-year at age 22.

A mark of an idiot in general is when they fail to distinguish between "resign" and "re-sign."

Not slamming you, RV. Just the nameless guy who posted this.

"A guy crying about a chicken and a baby? I thought this was a comedy show."

Brilliant.

It may have felt slim to some, but to me it reminded of some very good Taxi/Cheers episodes that were one big "we love this cast and these writers and each other and everybody hug!"-laydowns. I dug it.

Multiply the man love that I have for Rashida Jones by 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012, and you'd get the man love I have for Nick Lowe.

So, I've been exchanging emails with Ken Tremendous since, what, 2005? And he knows I live in Lafayette:

http://www.jconline.com/article/20090321/NEWS/903210325/1001

And my last name is Dwyer, like the cripple boyfriend, though I was never in a band called "Just the Tip."

Not that any of this is weird.

Quote from: PenFoe on April 29, 2009, 10:54:08 AM

Quote from: air2300 on April 29, 2009, 10:43:37 AM
If the NBA suspends Dwight Howard for kind of elbowing Dalenbert last night, will they suspend Rando for punching Miller? 

I don't think either plays are suspension worthy but it will be interesting to see how NBA handles it.

Also, I agree that the Bulls should knock Rando on his ass.

 

Howard - yes
Rondo - no

You can at least make a semi-argument that Rondo was going for the ball.

So, was that a designed play for Miller?

Yes, I brought it up during the time out to someone I was watching the game with. Because the Celtics switch on every screen in that situation, it's designed to use that aggression against themselves. Make your own joke after that line.

The NHL had five games on the other night. If Stern put five playoff games on for one night, I'd be PISSED.

Ratings are up, actually.

And the reasons the Bulls didn't play on Wednesday, well, do you want five playoff games a night? Or do you want to let the fans of the league have a chance to see just about every minute of action?

Spector may deserve angel wings for sifting through the Let It Be tapes, but he's right back down into hell for nearly destroying All Things Must Pass with that horrific production.

On its own, the album is a giant. The best solo Beatle album. But to overcome Spector's knob(s)? Legendary.

I've seen Superbad.

Have you seen Ghostbusters II?

I love Joshua.

It's been everyone's go-to visual non sequitur for years, but I didn't know it made its way to Desipio.

Eventually, everything does.

140 quid?

Hmm.