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No. They league already did that with bird rights and the extra year and extra money. If anything remove the cap, and salary restrictions and allow teams to pay whatever needs to be paid to keep the stars. When players you have never heard of are getting max deals the only leverage superstars have is that they can leave.

Sam Presti must be inconsolable. Westbrook is leaving next year too. You drafted Durant, Westbrook, and Harden. Nobody has drafted a group of stars like that. And he loses them all.

Very surprised! Its a short deal though. The league has changed. Superstars of yesteryear would never have done this. Klay, Steph, and Durant, that's a lot of shooting.

If we had a really smart point guard, or point forward to make this thing work, we could be really good. But as is we are going to be a mess on offense.

Buy why give 70 million to Bazemore? That's just absurd.

Danny Ferry would have found someone off the trash heap. Another JYD, another Bazemore. You don't give 70 million to a guy like that.

If we are not rebuilding, then open up the wallet.

We choose political correctness over competence. So we deserve to suck. We made our bed, now we have to lie in it.

I like Mike Bell, he's pretty funny. Most of them are annoying though.

Agreed.

So true. Its absurd.

Every player Ferry got on the cheap went on to get a big contract. Milsap, Carroll, Bazemore. No way Bud and Wilcox make those moves, these guys are amateurs.

Hyper-political correctness comes first, competence and winning come second, welcome to 21st century McCarthyism.

He could of made in the NBA as a stretch 4 if he was a better 3 point shooter. But he would go ice cold from 3 for games at a time. It was brutal.

Virtually every move Ferry made worked. Signing Sap, JYD, trading Joe Johnson. If you think Bud would have made comparable moves you're kidding yourself.

Bud is not qualified to be GM. He just isn't. Its a full time gig, and its takes experience. You don't moonlight as GM.

I resent Bud for not coming to Ferry's defense. Instead he exploited a ridiculous overblown controversy to force Ferry out and take complete control of all basketball decisions. I guess Bud thinks he could of pulled off the Joe Johnson trade, the Milsap signing, bringing in Korver, bringing in JYD, etc. So far Bud has not done jack squat to improve this team , Post- Ferry. And Guess what? Bud is not qualified to be GM. He just isn't. That is a totally different skill than coaching. It requires your full time dedication.You don't coach by day and GM at night. Sorry, you just don't. Hawks need to remove Buds personnel powers need to be removed and a general manager hired.

Look at some of Ferry's moves. They were actually quite brilliant. Do you really think Bud would have pulled off the Joe Johnson trade? Please, Bud is out of his league, and he does not deserve to be GM. Bud exploited an over blown controversy (it was only a controversy because it was coming off the heals of the Donald Sterling fiasco) to take control from Ferry, when really he should have been going to bat for Ferry. There is only one pompous ass here, and it's not Ferry.

47 wins. Second round playoff exit. Hope I'm wrong.

I would feel better if we still had Danny Ferry. Ferry was aggressive, found ways to make moves. Bud has too much on his plate, he is not ready to be both coach and GM. We do not have a starting caliber small forward. We just haven't recaptured the magic after the high of that long winning streak. Sorry guys, but we are taking a step back this year.

Lets go there actually. People should have the right to, of their own free will, use chemicals to alter mood or consciousness if so they desire. Anything less is tyranny.

Mike Scott is another victim of our society's evil, oppressive and racist war on drugs.

End the war on drugs. People have a right to be free.

Bud is drunk with power. Letting Ferry go will be our undoing.

Why? second round picks are worthless.