DeacKillsaDevil

You're really getting upset about Jamal before the new CBA is in place? Has anyone resigned their own FA's at this point (other than those on rookie contracts ala Teague)?

Half of the players drafted in the 1st round this year will not be in the league after 5 years. It was an awful draft.

The Chris Singleton who tore his ACL?

lol Who in their right mind would buy this team?

Seriously? It's a great time to buy them. The franchise will be cheaper now than if you bought them if nothing was going on with the Hawks or the ASG.

Anyone who says trade Josh is a fool. He was arguably the best player from start to finish this season. During the season it was b/t Smoove and Horford. During the playoofs Smoove and then Teague. Smoove carried us in the Orlando series and was great vs. Chicago. We do not need to trade him. We need to find a true center, move Horford to PF and Smoove to SF. Yes SF. We can then trade Marvin for a bench player.

Your lineup looks like this

PG Teague

SG Johnson

SF Smith

PF Horford

C True Center

Smoove has some absolutely awful games in the playoffs.

VCU was in the freaking final 4. I don't want anyone from College.

VCU also had a lot of transfers from High Majors. For instance, Skeen was at Wake Forest before he had academic issues.

Cousins is a cancer

Is this a legit rumor?

Why would we be the one giving up picks?

Jamal Crawford's D sucks, too. Could we replace JC with ME? Would ME embrace a 6th man role? Not sure what we would give up, but maybe it could work.

The biggest influence an owner has is in setting a budget for the team. San Diego is among the dregs of the league:

2011 - 27th highest payroll

http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/baseball/mlb/salaries/team

2010 - 29th highest payroll

2009 - 29th highest payroll

2008 - 19th highest payroll

2007 - 24th highest payroll

2006 - 17th highest payroll

2005 - 17th highest payroll

2004 - 17th highest payroll

2003 - 27th highest payroll

2002 - 26th highest payroll

2001 - 25th highest payroll

They have not been league average once in the last decade. The Hawks are well above league average this year.

The W/L success of a team on a reduced payroll is the mark of a good general manager - not the mark of a good owner.

Nothing about Moore is encouraging to me.

My only problem looking at this is that too many people assume that an owner has a bottomless pit of money to fund a team and fail to realize all that goes into budgeting items like payroll. Also, baseball is a sport without a cap and most teams can't compete with the $ they throw around in NYC and Boston.

If he is willing to foot a top 8 or higher bill every year (i.e., exceed the size of the #9 Atlanta media market) and look to hire smart management to run the team, I am all excited but the San Diego Padres have been a pretty poor franchise and if he is going to correlate his spending to Atlanta's subpar attendance numbers I don't want to see that happen. In the year Cuban bought the Mavericks their attendance was 75% of what it has been since he gave people a good reason to care. (600K in 1999-2000 when he purchased the team in January of 2000 and 800K+ since 2001-02).

http://www.proadvance.com/topmediamarkets.html

What I really want is a rich owner who wants to be a winner - not one who is planning to use this to make his money.

You've raised some good points that make more less apprehensive of Moore but I still hold a healthy skepticism of someone who didn't spend enough to fund a median payroll in 12 of the 13 seasons he owned the Padres. I want an owner in competition with other teams to win a title and ready to spend to win like I think we will see from Mikhail Prokhorov.

Maybe two such owners exist in all of sports. They all want to make money..even Prokhorov. They didn't get into a position to buy a team without making money.

According to the Charlotte Observer, Teague and Clark are looking into a defamation of character lawsuit.

You guys really post at the height of your emotions.

This team would have gotten maybe two rebounds if Horford wasn't playing.

0-7 with 4 TO's and a block. The Jsmoove apologists will say how much that block meant while a 3rd grader will see rest of it is killin

He was the same way at Wake. Don't read too much into this.

Yes, please

Don't the Blazers have a reputation for 4th quarter comebacks? I think the announcers said they lead the league in wins when trailing going into the 4th quarter.

I just read this article too. This would be a blessing! I sure hope it happens. I figure it can't get much worse than ASG(we can only assume).

The owners of the Bengals, Hornets and Clippers say hello

I just remembered that there was some investment firm looking to develop the Gultch near the Dome and Phillips. Yeah, just looked it up and it's Jacoby Development. They According to the AJC: "Jacoby is vying with two other large firms to build a transit station near CNN Center on a site known as “the gulch.” The huge transit development would be just blocks from the new stadium" LINK. Where the new stadium is in refernce to the new open air stadium being proposed for the Falcons.

I'm not sure what a "transit development" is, but given the ciity's desire to keep revitalizing that area, this seems to be a clue as to who the new buyers may be.

Cousins and Dawson company are some of the others.

It's the multi modal site that they want to put in where the Gulch is.

I thought you could always sign someone for the Vet minimum

From the ESPN article:

The Clippers would give up a likely top-10 lottery pick to make the savings happen. "That just shows you how much we hate this draft," one Clippers source told ESPN.com.

Sessions is garbage. He could not even start in Minny when there was no pressure. Every team he has ever played on was a loser. He is a loser and will be a waste of time and he cost too much. We are adding another Zaza. A guy that Sunds dumb arse thinks he is getting a bargain for that will prove that assumption wrong. Zaza and Sessions will be making almost $9 million next year, wanna know how much Harris makes? $9 million. That's how you F up your cap "DumbSundofaGM".

Could the same be said about Devin Harris? He didn't play much in Dallas and has only been good on a bad team in NJ.

I would do this deal: Marvin and Jamal for Felton and Harrington.

Why would Denver do this deal?

I was expecting to find facts to support the "fools gold" statement.