The Complete List of 2010 Free Agents

[GeneWilderSTL]

niiice list summer 2010 should be an interesting one for the NBA

[Apocalyptic0n3]

Link?

It was on Yahoo!, likely in The Ball Don't Lie. My brother is the biggest Nowitzki fan in the world (which is weird because we live just outside of Detroit) and he cites this as a reason for that quite often.

I don't feel like looking for the story right now (It's midnight, been up since 4, got class at 10), but you can give it a try in TBDL. I'll try to remember to search for it again tomorrow. I want to say it was around draft time that i read it.

[GeneWilderSTL]

a few of those guys are gone in trades before the season is out. that list is going to whittle down by the time summer hits.

I know for sure that redd is gone by the tradeline.

[nbastatus]

Top Tier Free Agents

Lebron James (P)
Dwyane Wade (P)
Chris Bosh (P)
Joe Johnson
Paul Pierce (P)
Amare Stoudemire (P)
Dirk Nowitzki (P)
Manu Ginobli
Tracy McGrady
Carlos Boozer
Shaquille O'Neal
Yao Ming (P)
Ray Allen
Allen Iverson
Rajon Rondo (R)
LaMarcus Aldridge (R)
David Lee
Richard Jefferson (P)
John Salmons (P)
Michael Redd (P)
Rudy Gay (R)
Luis Scola
Raymond Felton
Ronnie Brewer (R)
Marcus Camby
Randy Foye (R)
Kenyon Martin (P)

Lakers please.

[WuTangWizard]

I've read that Nowitzki plans to opt out and sign for as little as he can without the NBAPA getting upset with him to try and allow the Mavs to sign another player.

Never was a fan of Nowitzki personally, but if this is true... this makes me like and respect him a lot. A very selfless thing to do for his team.

Gilbert Arenas once said that

[bagelred]

Dirk accepting less money won't help at all. Don't you guys know how NBA cap works?

Mavs are over cap whether Dirk accepts less or not. So Mavs only have MLE to work with regardless of what Dirk does.

[moaz]

Link?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...y.73fb020.html

Some, like Nowitzki, can exercise an option they have after the 2009-10 season. In Nowitzki's case, he can earn $21.5 million in the 2010-11 season. Or he can opt out and be an unrestricted free agent. A more appealing option for the Mavericks is to extend Nowitzki's contract and reduce the 2010-11 salary considerably, but add many years onto the deal to help make it fair to Nowitzki.

With that sort of deal, the Mavericks could get well under the salary cap and be a major player in the 2010 free-agent frenzy.


@ bagelred
I think they would find a solution if he really want to do it.

[bagelred]

@ bagelred
I think they would find a solution if he really want to do it.

Let's look at the guaranteed contracts:

Jason Terry $10.4 million
Jason Kidd $8.5 million
Shawn Marion $7.2 million
Matt Carroll $4.3 million
Kris Humphries $3.2 million
Jose Juan Barrea $1.8 million
Roddy BeouBois $1.2 million
Greg Buckner $1.0 million

That's $37.6 million right there.

Let's say Dirk Nowitski gives up his $22 million to accept what? Let's say $12 million a year, a ridiculously low number for Dirk.

That's about $50 million in Mavericks salary.

The salary cap will be about $52 million. That doesn't even include Josh Howard who Mavericks have an option on.



Sorry, the facts say that article doesn't know what their talking about.

[KB2009Champ]

Lakers please.

As a Laker fan why on earth would you want Ray Allen on the Lakers? Not only do he and kobe not get along, they also play the same position. You think Allen would be fine with coming off the bench behind Kobe?

Me thinks not


I would never want to see Ray Allen in the purple and gold.

Lmao at picking Ray Allen, of all those FAs to be on the Lakers. Nevermind the fact that the Lakers don't even have the $$ he'd want.

[Pharcyde]

Bulls: Kirk will ask for a trade at the deadline to be a starter somewhere (Portland?), we then trade him for expiring contracts.
Then sign Anthony Morrow for the perfect fit next to Rose, then sign Chris Bosh to a max.
We then bring Asik in for a back up, because Brad Miller will be over paid somewhere like the Mavericks for desperation.
Then we sign a back up PG like Steve Blake.
The last step is choosing between trading Deng or resigning Salmons.

Line up:
Derrick Rose
Anthony Morrow
Deng/Salmons
Chris Bosh
Joakim Noah

Bench:
Steve Blake
John Salmons or a SG from the draft
James Johnson
James Johnson/Taj Gibson
Omer Asik

My life would be complete.

[chains5000]

That article about Dirk and Dallas salaries was posted nearly a year ago.
Their contract situation has changed (as bagelred explains).

[quasimoto]

I've read that Nowitzki plans to opt out and sign for as little as he can without the NBAPA getting upset with him to try and allow the Mavs to sign another player.

Never was a fan of Nowitzki personally, but if this is true... this makes me like and respect him a lot. A very selfless thing to do for his team.

What does that mean?

[BFRESH44]

Can't wait until Amare signs with Miami next year...

[Zan Tabak]

It's going to be madness.

[beasted86]

Let's look at the guaranteed contracts:

Jason Terry $10.4 million
Jason Kidd $8.5 million
Shawn Marion $7.2 million
Matt Carroll $4.3 million
Kris Humphries $3.2 million
Jose Juan Barrea $1.8 million
Roddy BeouBois $1.2 million
Greg Buckner $1.0 million

That's $37.6 million right there.

Let's say Dirk Nowitski gives up his $22 million to accept what? Let's say $12 million a year, a ridiculously low number for Dirk.

That's about $50 million in Mavericks salary.

The salary cap will be about $52 million. That doesn't even include Josh Howard who Mavericks have an option on.



Sorry, the facts say that article doesn't know what their talking about.

Thanks for pointing out what I was about to repeat. About 2 months ago Dallas fans tried to argue the same thing with me, when I pointed out this same thing.

They kept trying to reiterrate somebody would just GIVE them a superstar for Dampier's "player exception contract" and a first rounder.

Their only realistic option is to trade Joh Howard for a medium tier C (Okafor, Chandler, maybe......... Bogut), or Dampier's expirer for a salary dump bad contract.