Quincy Douby Signing "Conceivable but Not Likely"

Bring Mikki back!

knicks are going to make the playoffs…lottery here we come!

Get Douby! There’s no point in keeping Ager on the team, because he’s going to get paid sitting on the bench or sitting at home. Instead, let’s sign Douby for about 500k, making it a net loss of only 500k which isn’t crazy, and get the better player that will help us in anyway to make the playoffs. If the Nets were so worried about the economy, they would have saved millions of dollars and traded VC away, but they were more interested in making the playoffs. Since we’re geared towards the playoffs this year, why don’t we get Douby?

MIKKIIIIIIIIIIIII I LIKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! bring him back, we can use an energy guy to replce boone who can actually shoot

The only reason to sign Douby is to get his Bird Rights for next year, get a leg up on the competition…IF you believe he is going to be helpful to you.

We are at the two-thirds mark of the season, so cutting Ager would mean he would get one-third of his salary, which is $1.04 million, to go away. So he would get about $340,000. Douby could then be signed for the vets’ minimum, which is around $770,000. Pro-rated over a third of the season, would mean an additional cost of $255,000. All these numbers are rough.

Douby couldn’t be signed til after Ager is waived. Waivers take 48 hours. The Nets haven’t even begun that process. The Knicks are working him out early next week. They don’t have to waive anyone and if I am a New York City kid, and I know they can sign me without waiting and I know I would be going to a system that values my skills, I would see it as a no-brainer. If the Knicks want him, he will be a Knick.

Honestly, who cares if we sign Douby? What’s there to get excited about? His impact would be marginal.

If we can get Mikki at a reasonable price, just for his energy, I would do it. This teams someone with passion and energy. WE are lacking that hunger to compete on a nightly basis. That was apparent last night!

the nets are committed to saving money this season and thats it. they are not about making the playoffs or even presenting the illusion of trying anymore. i give them 2 more weeks to shake things up and by that time if they are still losing and playing the same tired players with the same tired coach there will be no point in watching further and i can enjoy my spring doing other things.

sign douby!

fire frank!

hire mark jackson!

I look at Mikki as a replacement for Swift, not Boone, since Swift doesn’t appear to be able to give the Nets any enthusiastic support for a possible playoff run. But of course Mikki would get minutes at both the 4 and 5 positions.

However, did the Nets choose not to swap Swift for Mikki or was it because Sacramento needed to cut a player anyway so they didn’t want Swift?

If the Nets aren’t interested in Mikki, I assume they aren’t serious enough about a playoff run ? – so why should I be interested in the Nets??

Obviously Mikki would make more of an impact this year than Douby or we wouldn’t be talking about Cleveland and Boston being the likely place for Mikki to sign.

I was wondering what be would the likely cost to get Mikki now that he was bought out. Also consider that Boston/Cleveland would probably cut Mikki after this year, whereas the Nets could bring him back for another year?

Mikki Moore is 33 years old. He is FAR more likely to sign with the Celts, Cavs or Suns, who will almost certainly pay him something beyond the vets minimum. He is not and would not be in the Nets future plans. They don’t need him.

Quincy Douby is 24 years old. He has value IF the Nets think he can play in the NBA. The only team with apparent interest is the Knicks. Nets sure could have used a three point shooter last night.

Yeah we don’t need him. Opie would play him at the 5 cuz we got Anderson and Yi at the 4. We’re set for the future.

knicks are gunna be ahead of us by like 10 games by seasons end..i always thaught the nets were so much better..and even though it kills me to say it but rod sitting on his ass doing nothing before the trade deadline..and watching them kill the raptors without even playing wilcox or hughes while we lost to a horrible washington team just shows what were in for..knicks making the playoffs while were sittin home..makes me wanna cry

Yes sign Mikki and douby.
fire frank .
Hire Michelle Beadle as coach.
Just Kidding maybe MUSE.

Swift and Ager just don’t have a future here, Knicks have 3 open spots so of course Douby will be going to the Knicks.

There is no way we cut Ager.

Sucks.I know.

Question – why would Mikki sign with NJ if he could sign with Cleveland or Boston in the hopes of getting a ring? No brainer if I’m Mikki

I get your point libigman. Anderson and Yi were magnificant yesterday (LOL).

Mikki has said he wants to be somewhere he is wanted. He probably initiated/exaggerated the story about the Nets being interested in him, but I doubt it was made up.

The bottom line, IMO, is that the Nets didn’t make any move at the trade deadline, and still won’t, now that they have another opportunity, because Ratner is not willing to spend any additional money to make the club better, even if it would be off the books for 2010-2011.

Douby would only take rare minutes away from CDR, who IS a future NBA player. The Nets have enough 3 pt. shooters at present. The problem is, on a night when none of them could shoot, they needed (other than Harris) to be able score in other ways. Carter waited until the end of the game to show some emotion and go to the basket. Mikki would have been all over Carter and the rest of the Nets if he saw his teammates so unmotivated.

Once again, I blame Ratner/Thorn more than LF for giving mixed signals about really wanting the Nets to make the playoffs. And if they aren’t devoted to a playoff run, why should I be interested in following the Nets?

That’s just silly re Ratner. Before the trade deadline, you guys argued that Ratner would force Thorn to dump salary.

So now that we know that wasn’t even close to being true, we see some backfilling: If Ratner didn’t force Thorn to dump salary, well, he’s now going to prohibit him from signing someone to a vets’ minimum deal…that would ensure they make the playoffs!!!

Thorn could have easily saved Ratner tens of millions of dollars on Thursday. It was all there on multiple fronts. Now, the new argument is that this cheap bastard is keeping Thorn from spending a couple of hundred thousand dollars??? There is no logic here.

The reality is that IF a team makes the playoffs, it makes about a $1 million profit for each round. IF Thorn thought there was a signing out there now that could guarantee a playoff spot—there isn’t—I am sure he could persuade Ratner to do it…from a pure financial position. Why would he with Moore and/or Douby, both of whom are marginal NBA players? Maybe there’s hope for Douby…but it has to be a small hope.

@Joanne
Exactly. Also now the Lakers are supposed to be interested. Mikki can pick and choose. And remember this, it’s not just about a ring. It’s about money. For every playoff round his team gets through, each player gets a “bonus” from the team. If his team wins it all, each player gets a “bonus” in the low six figures…on top of his salary. You can buy a lot of snakes with that.

Net Income: I’m glad for Mikki, he really helped the Nets the season he played for them. Isn’t this a wonderful world!!!

Yes, Ratner is to be commended for not throwing the club into the toilet by dumping Carter – but maybe he knew he needed to have some fan base left.

Regarding Mikki, there is conflicting dialogue – on the one hand he is so valuable, the Lakers, Celts and Cavs will be bidding for him (only 1 of which will probably get a ring) and on the other hand he is a marginal NBA player who wouldn’t even make a difference in a close playoff race (unlike in 2007) if the Nets could pick him up.

The facts are that KG will be out only 2-3 weeks and Bynum should be back for the playoffs, so Mikki might only be an insurance policy on those teams and receive little respect from his teammates and fans.

With the Nets, he is guaranteed a fan base and respect from the players, especially VC, and I suspect Harris would prefer him on the court over Boone. Mikki can bring out the Hulk in the laid back Mr. Carter.

Mikki already made his big $, thanks to JKidd and the Nets, but if he chooses to go for a ring, he has no more than a 30 – 40 % chance of choosing correctly.

Mikki maybe borderline, but does anyone doubt that right now he ranks higher than Boone, Swat and Swift, 3 of our so called Bigs who are below borderline – and that doesn’t count the intangibles Moore brings.

As far as this past week goes, I am still wondering if the rumored Swift for Moore deal was available, but Thorn waited too long in case Swift would be needed for another trade. By then, Sacramento had made its moves and had to make roster space.

Of course Moore will do whats best for him and $ will be his priority but to say we don’t need him….LOL

ok Mikki is needed!!!
the only actual big we have is Brook and he’s great and all, but the “look out b-lo!” needs some help in the post.

plus, anyone who was a fan in carter’s first season or second knows that he hustled, shot well, and gave us a crack-like high in the second half of the season. this deadbeat team needs him right now…losing to the wizards wire to wire while the knicks school the raptors and handle the spurs isn’t going to get it done.

btw i was talking about mikki in the second para. not vince

A few years ago, when Mikki was with the Nets, he gave a seminar to kids on financial planning, part of a program arranged by one of the Nets corporate sponsors.

In that seminar, he told the kids that he was basically broke, that he had wasted all the money he had been paid as a pro basketball player.

There is NO way Mikki Moore is going to pass up the best offer he can get…and part of his thinking, I am sure, will have to do with which team can go farthest, since the farther you go in the playoffs, the more you make in playoff bonuses.

Dear NI,

Ratner is cheap. Get that into your head. I can give you many examples, but lets take RT’s latest statement about the draft that you mentioned. I recall he was saying that if we get a pick outside the top-10, we would probably trade it. How about RT/Kiki pull our pants up, find a player we like and trade up for him? That would surely involve paying cash, but if we can get another piece, say Aminu or an Clark, that would not only fill a need for us, but give us another “piece”, no? You accurately mentioned that the last time we sold a pick, we left some talent on the table. Also, I remember, we sold someone named Korver for something like 500k? Also, RT can say all he wants about trying to move up and draft Monta Ellis in 2005…but we were 3 picks away…3!!!!!! In the second round!!!! (we picked Ilic with 43 and Monta went 40). You are telling me that we couldn’t pay 500k-700k and our 2nd rounder and move up to draft Monta? The draft is the single most important way to improve your team on the cheap, and we NEVER pay to move up in the draft or to get another pick. What does that signal to your fans if you are not willing to shell out a few million bucks to improve your franchise? Its incredibly dumb, because if you want to be cheap, the draft is the most cost-effective method of getting a star.

Just imagine if we had spent some cash, gotten another late 1st this year…we could have drafted Batum or Hill. There are also a few guys that we liked named Arthur, oh and that “raw” guy who grabbed 20 rb in a game for the clippers a few months ago (Jordan). We liked Arthur and Jordan enough to at least consider them at 10. In fact they were supposed to both go in the lottery for a long time, until really close to draft day.

We would have had a lot more flexibility in what we did at the deadline, or during next summer, having another “piece” to entice good trade offers…

But of course, we don’t do those types of things…spending money to “truly” improve the team.