Miami Heat Road To The Lottery Thread

Maggette is VERY underrated in the sense that he gets to the line and applies pressure on your opponents front line.

Corey Maggette has a "winner's" game. He would be a great asset to a contender. To the Spurs...wow..the rich would be getting really rich.

 

Well said. If you look at his career stats, the number of free throws he draws are astounding. And he's a career 82% FT shooter as well, so he cashes in on those. Good thing, too, since he's not much of an outside shooter, though his midrange game is okay.

Again, I'd advise him to take a one year MLE deal if I were his agent. He's a guy that should be making a lot more, and has been victimized by a poorly-timed entry into the market.

 

The Heat are one of five teams who are interested in Maggette.

 

The Heat are showing interest in several different players including James Jones, Patrick O'Bryant, Tyronn Lue and Sebastion Telfair.

 

wooohooo!

 

Yeah. Hasn't every suitor of his offered the MLE? Hopefully the Heat made one.

 

Good lord....first Derrick Rose gets caught speeding at 100mph..and now beasley gets an elbow to the chest. bad start for the top 2.

 

Not that I have any desire at all to help the Heat, but this is incorrect. The summer of 2010 is when all the big free agents come out. At present, Miami has $21.9M committed to the cap that summer, $17.1M of which is Dwyane Wade's player option. Using that $21.9M figure as a baseline, and assuming a salary cap of $63M, that leaves Miami about $41M in cap room at present. If Corey Maggette is signed to a MLE deal, that reduces their room to around $34M.

Even next offseason, Miami has $35.3M committed in salary. That leaves, at present, about $25.7M in cap room, assuming a $61M cap. More than enough to pursue a max-level free agent and have Maggette's contract on the books.

Maggette's not the best fit for the Heat, actually (they need a shooter more than another slasher), but he's an excellent player and if he's not a perfect fit, you can't complain about the price. Maggette would probably be a sixth man, and a small-ball lineup of Wade, Maggette, Marion, Beasley and whoever the hell's going to play point could be hard to match up with.

 

We are gonna BUY EVERYBODY.

I foresee this lineup for 2010

Chris Paul
Wade
Lebron
Beasley
Dwight Howard

Bench:

Boozer, Monta Ellis, Chauncey Billups.

 

Yeah Ellis is highly unlikely like you said. He is expected to fill the PG void for GS that was left behind by Davis.

 

Interview with ya boy Beasley.

http://www.nba.com/heat/news/insider_michaelbeasley_080702.html

 

They're trying to steal him away from the Clippers after they got Davis from them.

 

Not surprising. I wonder who we'll target at center.

 

... then I shoot myself, or let Boik do it.

Those are my two most hated players in the NBA.

 

Adding Nocioni and Hinrich to our team makes us much better.

both can shoot..both can defend...Nocioni is a great rebounder at the #3 spot..can play a little of the #4....

and we retain our cap flexibility? great deal if we do it.

Although I think that we need to exhaust every trade possiblity with Marion before we pull this one.

 

Posey isn't a punk, he's just a great defender. Hinrich and Nocioni are pricks.

I'd rather beat whatever team he's playing on.

We could also strike a deal with Satan, but both options leave us without a soul.

 

Yeah but I don't think he ends up there. He and Baron Davis are good friends and if it wasn't for Brand saying he would come back to LA, Davis wouldn't have signed.

My guess is Patrick O'Bryant.

 

Couldnt agree more.

 

Lol, I didn't know you guys thought I was a Heat fan. I mean I do keep up with them more than most teams but thats just because you guys have your own thread for them.

 

And then Beasley can ask Barkley how to get into Wade's Fav-5 in addition to getting some socks for his footsies.

 

Why the hand-wringing over Diop? Were you really dying to pay $6M a year for 5 points, 6 boards and 25 minutes per game from your center for the next 5 years?

 

790 is reporting that Elton Brand has told the Clippers that he would be open to a sign and trade to Miami if the deal does not INCLUDE Beasley.

790 is saying that the Heat is prepared to offer Marion and others for Brand.

 

Could Brand and MB play together....seems like a wierd match up....put MB at the 3 maybe?

 

Wasnt that just a precautionary measure?

 

I see Beasley as a Antawn Jamison/ James Worthy type. he can play the 3.

 

Has a player ever demanded a trade less than a week after signing a 5 year contract? Because I'm pretty sure that's precisely what Baron Davis would do if the Clippers did that. Not even Donald T. Sterling is enough of an idiot to do something like that.

What, exactly, would the Heat give up apart from Marion that the Clippers would actually want? Obviously not Beasley or Wade. I can't see an offer of Marion and Udonis Haslem for Brand and Tim Thomas's crappy contract blowing up anyone's skirt.

Well, Worthy's the best case scenario, to be sure. He could also be the next Glenn Robinson; nice all-around offensive game, no defense, bit of a head case, and falls off a table after his 29th birthday. Antawn Jamison is probably a pretty fair comparison.