Houston is looking really good in the west. With Chandler parsons and James Harden to go along with dwight the rockets seem to making some noise.
The west is wide open, i could see many teams coming out next year. Its not that much of a stretch
Dwight Howard has had 5 coaches in 15 months. Think about that. He ran Stan Van Gunndy out of Orlando. Mike Brown is back in Cleveland again.
Howard does not deserve nor the benefit of the doubt between him and D'Antoni nor will he be receiving it from anyone. He is the defintion of a coach killer.
Dwight seems like one of those guys who thrives more in a secondary market. He never seemed to like the spotlight and pressure of LA and this decision is not at all surprising. It is hard to imagine Kobe sticking around much longer to come back to what is quickly becoming an awful Laker roster.
can talk about something else besides Dwight and Lebron. Probably not though
I'd prefer to hear you talk about Andrew Bogot and Wayne Summers.
Also Hack'em Warrick.
Be careful what you wish for. A guy with a Tim Tebow avatar just replied to you...
Lin's assists are going to look nice.
with a 34 year old kobe, 39 year old steve nash, 33 year old metta world peace and 33 year old pau gasol I doubt the lakers are contenders anytime soon. Also with Mike D'antoni coaching I doubt the lakers will be winning a championship anytime soon.
I'm glad thats over so i can quit hearing about him all day on Sportscenter. I doubt he ever wins a title because he doesn't seem to have the mental toughness to lead a team. And how long until he asks Houston to fire their coach? 1-2 seasons?
from 2004-2007 the lakers were bad
The difference here is that Jim, not Jerry, Buss is in charge now :( Hiring Mike Brown over Brian Shaw may very well have been the first sign of the apocalyse
Joe Dumars will be fired after this season. SheridanForHeisman'd it
I know it's popular and probably a little justified to bash Dwight Howard but make no mistake this is a big blow for the Lakers. I'm not trying to hand-wave off his underwhelming season with us but he was playing through a back injury all season and so was pretty much the rest of the roster. A more salient point was that while L.A. was okay defensively while D12 was on the court and even kinda good when he was on, the Lakers were 3rd worst in defensive efficiency when D12 was not on the court. And let's not forget that there simply isn't any adequate replacement for Howard who isn't locked down by another team. Even if he came off a down year any conceiveable replacement for him will almost assuredly by a HUGE downgrade from the decent-by-anyone-else's-standards numbers he put in.
According to Dan Feldman, the Rockets would have a little trouble giving Howard a max contract - HERE. This was written this morning, mind you, but it is an interesting financial exercise.
"Howard’s contract can start at $20,513,178 next season, regardless of which team signs him, and it wouldn’t be difficult for the Rockets to clear that much cap room. Waiving Greg Smith, Patrick Beverley,Tim Ohlbrecht and James Anderson and using the stretch provision on Royce White would do the trick. That seems less than ideal, but if it meant getting Howard, I’m sure Darryl Morey would do it in a heartbeat."
This piece talks about how the almost any deal that Howard ultimately makes with the Rockets means somehow that he takes less money. It mentions that even if the Rockets only waived Ohlbrecht and Anderson, Howard might be sacrificing about 4-5 million dollars over the life of any deal, but by virtue of not signing with the Lakers, it could be a lot more than that even.