Marcus Camby is negotiating a buyout with the Raptors and look to be pursued by a few teams, from Marc J. Spears of Yahoo Sports: “The Toronto Raptors are expected to negotiate a buyout with veteran center Marcus Camby of the final two years, $7.5 million of his contract, a league source told Yahoo! Sports. The Raptors acquired Camby in the recent trade that sent forward-center Andrea Bargnani to the New York Knicks. Camby said after the trade was agreed upon that he would prefer to play for a title-contending team. Camby, 38, played sparingly for the Knicks last season. The Los Angeles Clippers, Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls are expected to have interest in Camby if he clears waivers and becomes a free agent, a league source said.”
- James Dolan may have looked to trade Iman Shumpert because he didn’t want to play in the summer league, according to Stephen A. Smith of ESPN:
- Kenneth Faried explained why he was comfortable being naked for ESPN’s Body Issue. Lets just assume that the man might have been a tad intoxicated during this “interview”:
- Stan Van Gundy expects the Miami Heat to make a move for a true center, from Chris Tomasson of Fox Sports Florida: “Stan Van Gundy doesn’t think the Heat will be staying pat this summer: “I don’t think they stand pat,” Van Gundy said of the Heat, even though Riley has talked about mostly bringing back the same cast next season. “They didn’t stand pat when they got Ray Allen (last summer) and Chris Andersen (last January). I think you’ll see them look for another true center to play against the Roy Hibberts and the Tim Duncans.”
The Lakers are hoping to acquire LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony next summer, from Ramona Shelburne and Brian Windhorst of ESPN: “The Los Angeles Lakers, whose plan to re-sign center Dwight Howard did not pan out this offseason, are looking at adding LeBron James or Carmelo Anthony — among others in a star-studded 2014 free-agent class — front-office sources have told ESPN. Opinions are split on whether the Lakers can actually land James or Anthony, with one source calling it “realistic” and another saying it was “far-fetched at this point.”
Glen Grunwald expects Anthony to stay with the Knicks for a long time, from Ian Begley of ESPN New York: “”It’s really premature for me to talk about [Anthony’s opt-out]. We obviously love Melo, we think he’s great for New York and New York is great for him,” Grunwald said on a conference call. “We see it being a long-term, successful partnership with him as we go forward. But right now, it’s just too early to say anything other than we’re looking forward to this coming season and we expect to have a good year.”
Chris Kaman wants to reach All-Star level again and is looking forward to finding out just how good Kobe Bryant’s work ethic really is, from Mike Bresnahan of Los Angeles Times: “He made his only All-Star team in 2010, averaging 18.5 points and 9.3 rebounds that season for the Clippers, and hopes to climb back to that statistical altitude. “I feel confident that I can be at that level,” Kaman said. “Whether I’m an All-Star or not, I can’t say.” After spending so many years in the same city as Kobe Bryant (eight seasons with the Clippers), Kaman is curious about him. “You always hear a lot about how hard he works,” Kaman said. “Watching Dirk [Nowitzki] this last year was impressive to me, what he goes through and the things he does. I want to see what the big deal is. His mentality is much different than most players and that’s why he’s where he’s at.”
The New York Knicks are now saying that the offer for J.R. Smith was never for four years, according to Howard Beck of The New York Times: “The revelation that J. R. Smith had knee surgery Monday — just four days after signing a rich, new four-year contract — made the Knicks’ investment look instantly suspect and possibly ill-advised. But the surgery was not a surprise to team officials. And the investment was not as extensive as first believed. Smith’s deal covers a maximum of three years, with a total value of $17.95 million, not the four years and $24.5 million that was widely reported, including in The New York Times, last week.”
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Dwight is just using D’Antoni as an excuse. Dwight wanted out because it wasn’t the ideal situation for him (ie the Lakers wouldn’t kiss his ass…evidently being the future isn’t enough). But all of his excuses of Houston is a different offense than LA’s is exactly that–excuses.
Dwight Howard is a good pick n roll guy as a lot of ppl can attest. That was why MDA was looking forward to coming to the Lakers. “Kobe AND I have Nash and Dwight to run the pick n roll with? Sign me up!” Remember how enthusiastic he was for coming here? But eventually it started to wane horribly? That was right around the time where he was learning that his guys don’t want to play the role they’re best at.
I do (surprisingly) believe Nash that the offense will be more fluent because it will be ran through Gasol.
I get that whole premise of bash Dwight Howard because he left thing out of lakers fans. However, Mike D alienated his whole team last year with 2 exceptions… Kobe and Nash. He also was so stubborn with his offense that he benched Pau and tried to get the guy to shoot 3 pointers. Thats never going to happen out of a F/C that has never really operated outside of 15 feet before in his career. Then theres the injury factor which Mike D did not handle well at all and historically never has.
What people fail to realize here is that in Phoenix Mike D had his ideal roster for the most part and still only had a 7-8 man rotation. Mike D has not had his ideal roster since then. There was always the excuse of wait until so-and-so comes back. However the roster was built for Phil and not Mike D. Mike D refused to adjust. Kupchak refused to get Mike D some players for his system saying that when everyone came back everything would be wonderful. Everything was far from wonderful. Everyone can and rightfully so blame Buss and Kupchak for the dysfunction. Dwight looked at the dysfunction and basically said no thanks. An athlete only has a limited shelf life.
As great as the lakers have historically been, unless something radical is done in the next few years, there will be a celtic-of-the-90s-like drought for the next era of the lakers and for the rest of Dwight’s career, thus proving Dwight Howard right in his decision to leave, in spite of his poor execution in the matter. Dwight’s execution of the matter makes Lebron’s “The Decision” seem like childs play in comparison.
Oh, I’m not dissing Dwight for picking Houston, it was the right pick for him. I’m just saying he should’ve just came out and said I don’t want to be here when he knew he didn’t want to be here instead of stringing the team along.
As far as the Lakers drought goes, we’ll see. A lot of their future is tied into next summer. This is the first time in ages they’ve had this kind of cap space and if they pick right, they could be setting themselves up for another era (which is the plan). Granted, I have to trust idiot Jim Buss (whose nowhere near his father in terms of running a franchise) to make the right call. Hopefully, Jim will listen for the next few years to Mitch, Phil and Jeanie since he obviosuly doesn’t have a clue.
RE: MDA. I don’t know. I think if the roster had been healthy all year and in the playoffs, they wouldn’t have been swept by SA. Plus, the team really has been built for Phil and plugging MDA into that was boneheaded (yet another reason idiot Jimmie needs to step down…I don’t think it’s Mitch since he can only do what Jim allows him to do since Jim signs the checks).
That said, MDA is fortunate that the Lakers pulled out of their nosedive at the end of the season because if reports are true, he was about to get bounced out of there.
I’m not even really giving this upcoming season much bother. I’m watching but I don’t expect much since they’re clearly in cruise control since they know they’re going to overhaul the entire roster next summer, when everyone comes off the books.