This dumb ass nigga.......
Boogie Cousins to Golden State
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This dumb ass nigga.......
And proudly records and posts it like he made a savvy power move. Smh.I don't know on what planet this fool thinks.....i'm gonna sign a 1 year 5 million dollar deal this year.....and cash out next year when you the 5th option on a team.Him and Nerlens Noel must have the same agent.
He played himself .
No that's what YOU KEEP SAYING
I said he is trying to prove he is healthy and he can fit in everything else you adding on is your own shit your own hangups about all of this shit and his decision to go to the warriors
you niggas will talk about speaking objectively while hating everything to do with them like you're objective lol
fuck out of here.
you just went ahead and said all the negative shit in the world about him which proved my point of his supposed reasons.
Will it work who the fuck knows.
Keep playing dumb though.
I didn't spit anything as fact of will happen. Just supposed reasons for doing so.
You provided all of the negative shit I was saying that people were saying about him your own self lol
The problem is you can't even separate 2 things
1 is you can say whatever you want about cousins I'm not here to defend him from anybody said that from JUMP
2. the reasons he WOULD do that. doesn't mean it's fact. And the shit isn't MY OPINION it's things that have been reported as viable reasons I never said whether I believed it was exactly that or not
Who knows where he goes. What it LOOKS LIKE before anyone comes at me saying I'm saying the shit is FACT is that he's betting on himself to do really well and cash in.
Will the shit happen I have no clue I don't even know if he'll be healthy I've said repeatedly it's a gamble
BGol niggas can’t even watch nba game
To much hate for no reason.....
I'm concerned with how Boogie fits into the offense. KD already fucks up the flow a lot I can only imagine another cog out there
He retires a very wealthy NBA champion?
He retires a very wealthy NBA champion?
He turned down a guaranteed $40 million to play in a football oriented town where the pressure on the basketball team is low to make $5 million in a major market, where the expectations are sky high.
How long do you think that money is going to last when he's making decisions like that?
What a min huh
This article perfectly illustrates the problem that the NBA is in right now....
Even though back in the day teams were doing this.. smaller market teams could at least depend on getting Blue Chip talent through the draft. But now you really can’t depend on that anymore.
True but back then it really was organizationally issues..... the Bulls were jack shit and then they lucked up and got Jordan. Prior to that it was mainly Lakers and Celtics for years.. again great organizations..
But the difference is that it’s no longer up to the organization.. it’s a player run league and it’s a player run league during a time when the drafts have gotten weaker and weaker..
You can have the greatest front office in the world but if you are a small market squad.. you are going to be behind the 8 ball..
Even though you had only a few teams winning the championship... at least you had teams with bankable talent. Teams that competed..
There was a time when I could name at least two all star quality players on ever squad and now I can’t even think of the name of the best player on the orlando magic. Smaller market Teams end up having to over pay on BS talent because they don’t have a choice.. if they don’t.. that player could just go to a Big market super team for the mid level exemption (Mike Miller and Chris Anderson)..
And the drafts have been absolutely shitty..
Trae Young could have ended up the Next Step if he stayed to work on his shooting percentage but he didn’t.. now he got drafted in the top 10 but his shoot is all over the place.
The way the NBA is now.. Why would a fan of a small market team want to pay for a season ticket. That the problem that seems like every BGOL member is continuing to ignore... this shit is fucking Horrible for the league. Eventually people are going to get sick of this. Right now ratings are at a high but that’s not different then Trump saying the Economy is at a all time shit.. Shit is basically on the verge of collapsing.
That next collective bargaining agreement is going to be interesting as fuck. I can promise kats that shit is going to change and we will likely see a lockout.
Preach mother fucker preach...
I couldn’t have said it better...
I never said that I have any issues with Boogie taking the mid level exemption or other teams not offering him a contract...
The problem is that... there is the contract that you think Boogie is going to take to play for your team vs.. the money that your team has to pay him. Not everybody can handle a luxury tax and Boogie isn’t taking a 1 year mid-level deal to play for a non contender.
Without a doubt stern would have veto’d that deal easily
On the ground of the spirit of competition, integrity and Circumvention.
On the ground of the spirit of competition, integrity and Circumvention.
These GMs need to get creative and do their fucking jobs. Warriors/Lakers/Celtics are shitting on the rest of the league.
Perfect example my Sixers 30 million in Cap space second most available Multiple draft picks two budding Superstar and returning number 1 overall pick. As teams are stocking up the war chest getting ready for the season. Our big grab is J.J. Redick and Wilson Chandler this is some bullshit. We are putting all of hope that Fultz get over the Yips and Simmons gain enough confidence to take a fucking Jump shot. There are all types of available players currently disgruntled and want out of their current situation Kawhi/Butler/Love/Kemba get creative and figure out a way to get and sign these player.
We are holding on to Covington and Dario like they are going to make or break us instead of shipping their ass to San Antonio for Kawhi for a year and if he bolts so what you are not going to offer either of those players a max in the next couple of years.
Lies ^^^^^^
AD wore his fucking jersey
AD wore his fucking jersey
And AD could have been told to wear his jersey to keep up appearances
Hell this is the same organization that issued a top-down directive to all personnel and media to not respond to any of Eric Gordon's criticisms of the team.
So this nigga just flat out lyin now?I can't respect any of these new niggas.
The ink hadn't even dried on McGee, though...
So, you pick up two people at the same position and the organizatuon still doesn't have a scorer that can score along with LBJ?
And, just to play devil's advocate what if Magic and The King already knew, but are sticking to what they want for the Lakers to ne successful.
I have stopped looking at the warriors as an NBA franchise.
Names like New York Life, MetLife, and AllState come to mind, on how they currently conduct business.
I distinctly remember GS being down 3-2 in the WCF...maybe I am looking at it wrong.
The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap
By Neil Paine
Filed under NBA
The Warriors used the midlevel exception to ink bigman DeMarcus Cousins.
Just when you thought competitive balance in the NBA couldn’t be worse, the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors swooped in Monday night, stole the thunder from LeBron James’s coronation in Los Angeles and signed DeMarcus Cousins (the best big man still available in free agency) for well below market value. Now, what already felt like the biggest foregone conclusion in sports — yet another Warriors championship — seems even less in doubt, somehow.
Doesn’t the NBA have an incredibly complex set of salary-cap rules to prevent this kind of thing from happening? In theory, yes. But from Kevin Durant’s discount contract to Klay Thompson’s talkWhich his father, former NBA player Mychal Thompson, later downplayed.
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The Warriors were able to sign Cousins as a free agent despite being tens of millions of dollars over the cap thanks to one of the NBA’s many salary-cap loopholes: in this case, the mid-level exception, or MLE. The MLE comes in several different varieties depending on how far past the cap a team’s payroll is, but the Warriors used the so-called taxpayer MLE to give Cousins his $5.3 million next season. It’s all legal, at least according to the letter of the salary cap rules. (As for the spirit? Not so much.)
The MLE was introduced in the NBA’s 1999 collective bargaining agreement as a way for capped-out contenders to still be able to add quality role players in support of their stars. Perhaps the best examples of the MLE working as originally intended are Shane Battier, who joined the Miami Heat in 2011 and played a vital role on two title squads, and Shaun Livingston, who signed with the Warriors before the first of their three championship runs over the next four years. Those are the kind of guys who are supposed to be available via the mid-level exception — solid players, not stars.
Cousins, however, is much, much better than your typical MLE pickup. Sure, there are questions about how he’ll fit on Golden State’s roster. But he also made the All-NBA second team as recently as 2016, and has generated 11.2 points of value over replacement player (VORP) — worth roughly 30 wins — over the previous three seasons according to Basketball-Reference.com, a tally that ranks tied for 16th best in basketball during that span.
Using archives of Basketball-Reference’s database of contracts going back to the 2012-13 season, I identified 175 instances of the MLE (or one of its variants, including the taxpayer/“mini” mid-level and the so-called “room exception”) being used to sign a player in recent years, prior to the summer of 2018. In that group, the average MLE signee had generated 1.2 VORP in the three seasons leading up to his contract — meaning Cousins was worth about 27 more wins (!) than the typical MLE-worthy player in the years before signing his new contract. No other MLE pickup in our data set was even remotely close to as valuable going into his new deal as Cousins was:
It’s probably clear by now just what a steal Cousins is at $5.3 million, but here’s one more note: Our CARMELO projection system, which spits out fair dollar values for every player’s production, thinks Cousins should be worth about $46.1 million next season. The NBA’s maximum salary rules preclude him from getting quite so much, of course, but he still figures to be worth far more than the mid-level pittance Golden State is doling out for his services.
From Cousins’s perspective, it does make some sense to cut this particular deal. He’s coming off a major injury last season, and he may not be available to the Warriors until after the 2018-19 season begins. The Pelicans’ unexpected surge without him during the playoffs reinforced old questions about Cousins’ ability to win, and the market for bigs was looking cash-poor anyway this summer, with the repercussions of 2016’s wild spending spreecrashing down on teams’ cap and luxury-tax budgets. According to The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears, Cousins didn’t receive any “significant” contract offers when free agency opened up. So instead, Cousins is gambling that he can fit in with the Warriors’ legendarily unselfish group for a year, produce solid numbers, ease back into health, win a ring — and in the process, ditch his longtime label as a me-first malcontent. If all goes according to plan, he’ll be due for a much bigger payday next summer than he could’ve gotten had he played the normal free-agent game this summer.
But even if things work out well for Cousins, it will have meant dealing another blow to whatever competitive balance is left in the league. For a brief while, things seemed to be taking a turn toward increased excitement: The Rockets spent a season suggesting the Warriors weren’t as unbeatable as they seem — coming within a Chris Paul injury and some historically cold shooting of possibly proving it in the playoffs — and James is just starting to form his own Western Conference challenger in LA. But then, Golden State strengthened their grip on the NBA with another deal that turned the salary cap’s rules against their own underlying purpose. The Warriors proved once again that the most exciting time on the pro basketball calendar is during the summer free-agent frenzy — when no games are played, but the fate of the following season is sealed.
No. Hes a bitch for signing with the dubs for beans and rice. Hes stupid for leaving that $40million on the table and various trade partners.
The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap
By Neil Paine
Filed under NBA
The Warriors used the midlevel exception to ink bigman DeMarcus Cousins.
Just when you thought competitive balance in the NBA couldn’t be worse, the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors swooped in Monday night, stole the thunder from LeBron James’s coronation in Los Angeles and signed DeMarcus Cousins (the best big man still available in free agency) for well below market value. Now, what already felt like the biggest foregone conclusion in sports — yet another Warriors championship — seems even less in doubt, somehow.
Doesn’t the NBA have an incredibly complex set of salary-cap rules to prevent this kind of thing from happening? In theory, yes. But from Kevin Durant’s discount contract to Klay Thompson’s talkWhich his father, former NBA player Mychal Thompson, later downplayed.
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The Warriors were able to sign Cousins as a free agent despite being tens of millions of dollars over the cap thanks to one of the NBA’s many salary-cap loopholes: in this case, the mid-level exception, or MLE. The MLE comes in several different varieties depending on how far past the cap a team’s payroll is, but the Warriors used the so-called taxpayer MLE to give Cousins his $5.3 million next season. It’s all legal, at least according to the letter of the salary cap rules. (As for the spirit? Not so much.)
The MLE was introduced in the NBA’s 1999 collective bargaining agreement as a way for capped-out contenders to still be able to add quality role players in support of their stars. Perhaps the best examples of the MLE working as originally intended are Shane Battier, who joined the Miami Heat in 2011 and played a vital role on two title squads, and Shaun Livingston, who signed with the Warriors before the first of their three championship runs over the next four years. Those are the kind of guys who are supposed to be available via the mid-level exception — solid players, not stars.
Cousins, however, is much, much better than your typical MLE pickup. Sure, there are questions about how he’ll fit on Golden State’s roster. But he also made the All-NBA second team as recently as 2016, and has generated 11.2 points of value over replacement player (VORP) — worth roughly 30 wins — over the previous three seasons according to Basketball-Reference.com, a tally that ranks tied for 16th best in basketball during that span.
Using archives of Basketball-Reference’s database of contracts going back to the 2012-13 season, I identified 175 instances of the MLE (or one of its variants, including the taxpayer/“mini” mid-level and the so-called “room exception”) being used to sign a player in recent years, prior to the summer of 2018. In that group, the average MLE signee had generated 1.2 VORP in the three seasons leading up to his contract — meaning Cousins was worth about 27 more wins (!) than the typical MLE-worthy player in the years before signing his new contract. No other MLE pickup in our data set was even remotely close to as valuable going into his new deal as Cousins was:
It’s probably clear by now just what a steal Cousins is at $5.3 million, but here’s one more note: Our CARMELO projection system, which spits out fair dollar values for every player’s production, thinks Cousins should be worth about $46.1 million next season. The NBA’s maximum salary rules preclude him from getting quite so much, of course, but he still figures to be worth far more than the mid-level pittance Golden State is doling out for his services.
From Cousins’s perspective, it does make some sense to cut this particular deal. He’s coming off a major injury last season, and he may not be available to the Warriors until after the 2018-19 season begins. The Pelicans’ unexpected surge without him during the playoffs reinforced old questions about Cousins’ ability to win, and the market for bigs was looking cash-poor anyway this summer, with the repercussions of 2016’s wild spending spreecrashing down on teams’ cap and luxury-tax budgets. According to The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears, Cousins didn’t receive any “significant” contract offers when free agency opened up. So instead, Cousins is gambling that he can fit in with the Warriors’ legendarily unselfish group for a year, produce solid numbers, ease back into health, win a ring — and in the process, ditch his longtime label as a me-first malcontent. If all goes according to plan, he’ll be due for a much bigger payday next summer than he could’ve gotten had he played the normal free-agent game this summer.
But even if things work out well for Cousins, it will have meant dealing another blow to whatever competitive balance is left in the league. For a brief while, things seemed to be taking a turn toward increased excitement: The Rockets spent a season suggesting the Warriors weren’t as unbeatable as they seem — coming within a Chris Paul injury and some historically cold shooting of possibly proving it in the playoffs — and James is just starting to form his own Western Conference challenger in LA. But then, Golden State strengthened their grip on the NBA with another deal that turned the salary cap’s rules against their own underlying purpose. The Warriors proved once again that the most exciting time on the pro basketball calendar is during the summer free-agent frenzy — when no games are played, but the fate of the following season is sealed.
i WISH m y Knicks would do this
ummm wasnt Lebron and Chris Paul the ones who REALLY help bring about these new contracts
and it was the PLAYERS that wanted that cap spike that ALLOWED KD to sign to the Monstars...
just saying.
Google them
YES AND YES!! knicks dont have infrastructure to do this
; GS did also planned for the spike, and they have a top notch run organization. Players want to play for them!
The Warriors Are Making A Mockery Of The NBA Salary Cap
By Neil Paine
Filed under NBA
The Warriors used the midlevel exception to ink bigman DeMarcus Cousins.
Just when you thought competitive balance in the NBA couldn’t be worse, the two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors swooped in Monday night, stole the thunder from LeBron James’s coronation in Los Angeles and signed DeMarcus Cousins (the best big man still available in free agency) for well below market value. Now, what already felt like the biggest foregone conclusion in sports — yet another Warriors championship — seems even less in doubt, somehow.
Doesn’t the NBA have an incredibly complex set of salary-cap rules to prevent this kind of thing from happening? In theory, yes. But from Kevin Durant’s discount contract to Klay Thompson’s talkWhich his father, former NBA player Mychal Thompson, later downplayed.
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The Warriors were able to sign Cousins as a free agent despite being tens of millions of dollars over the cap thanks to one of the NBA’s many salary-cap loopholes: in this case, the mid-level exception, or MLE. The MLE comes in several different varieties depending on how far past the cap a team’s payroll is, but the Warriors used the so-called taxpayer MLE to give Cousins his $5.3 million next season. It’s all legal, at least according to the letter of the salary cap rules. (As for the spirit? Not so much.)
The MLE was introduced in the NBA’s 1999 collective bargaining agreement as a way for capped-out contenders to still be able to add quality role players in support of their stars. Perhaps the best examples of the MLE working as originally intended are Shane Battier, who joined the Miami Heat in 2011 and played a vital role on two title squads, and Shaun Livingston, who signed with the Warriors before the first of their three championship runs over the next four years. Those are the kind of guys who are supposed to be available via the mid-level exception — solid players, not stars.
Cousins, however, is much, much better than your typical MLE pickup. Sure, there are questions about how he’ll fit on Golden State’s roster. But he also made the All-NBA second team as recently as 2016, and has generated 11.2 points of value over replacement player (VORP) — worth roughly 30 wins — over the previous three seasons according to Basketball-Reference.com, a tally that ranks tied for 16th best in basketball during that span.
Using archives of Basketball-Reference’s database of contracts going back to the 2012-13 season, I identified 175 instances of the MLE (or one of its variants, including the taxpayer/“mini” mid-level and the so-called “room exception”) being used to sign a player in recent years, prior to the summer of 2018. In that group, the average MLE signee had generated 1.2 VORP in the three seasons leading up to his contract — meaning Cousins was worth about 27 more wins (!) than the typical MLE-worthy player in the years before signing his new contract. No other MLE pickup in our data set was even remotely close to as valuable going into his new deal as Cousins was:
It’s probably clear by now just what a steal Cousins is at $5.3 million, but here’s one more note: Our CARMELO projection system, which spits out fair dollar values for every player’s production, thinks Cousins should be worth about $46.1 million next season. The NBA’s maximum salary rules preclude him from getting quite so much, of course, but he still figures to be worth far more than the mid-level pittance Golden State is doling out for his services.
From Cousins’s perspective, it does make some sense to cut this particular deal. He’s coming off a major injury last season, and he may not be available to the Warriors until after the 2018-19 season begins. The Pelicans’ unexpected surge without him during the playoffs reinforced old questions about Cousins’ ability to win, and the market for bigs was looking cash-poor anyway this summer, with the repercussions of 2016’s wild spending spreecrashing down on teams’ cap and luxury-tax budgets. According to The Undefeated’s Marc J. Spears, Cousins didn’t receive any “significant” contract offers when free agency opened up. So instead, Cousins is gambling that he can fit in with the Warriors’ legendarily unselfish group for a year, produce solid numbers, ease back into health, win a ring — and in the process, ditch his longtime label as a me-first malcontent. If all goes according to plan, he’ll be due for a much bigger payday next summer than he could’ve gotten had he played the normal free-agent game this summer.
But even if things work out well for Cousins, it will have meant dealing another blow to whatever competitive balance is left in the league. For a brief while, things seemed to be taking a turn toward increased excitement: The Rockets spent a season suggesting the Warriors weren’t as unbeatable as they seem — coming within a Chris Paul injury and some historically cold shooting of possibly proving it in the playoffs — and James is just starting to form his own Western Conference challenger in LA. But then, Golden State strengthened their grip on the NBA with another deal that turned the salary cap’s rules against their own underlying purpose. The Warriors proved once again that the most exciting time on the pro basketball calendar is during the summer free-agent frenzy — when no games are played, but the fate of the following season is sealed.
Yup
All the salary cap shit did was expose who wanted to win and who didnt
Riley had Wade bosh and LeBron all in their bestness and the owner ain't want to go over the luxury tax
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