Nets Get Ready To Court The King

We won already. We are in the conversation for every top free agent. We have arrived. The knicks are already spinning plan b.

bulls=lame of a team. they are just so desperate i hope their clearing of cap space all goes for naught.

I saw the NetsAllNew commercial on NBATV last night. It is on Nets home site for all to see.
http://www.netsallnew.com/

Main focus is on Prudential Center.
I think the timing has just as much to do with free agency as selling tickets, since free agents watch NBATV.
Nets task is to promote Prudential Center as a GOOD thing, but they also have to convince free agents of 2012 in Taj Mahal of stadiums in Brooklyn.

Also, please note that in Ad, they say $28 million to spend in free agency, not the $27 million everyone reports. I think we should all use the $28 million figure (and assume the $948,000 for 2 FA cap holds doesn’t need to be subtracted if Nets are calculating how much money there is to spend).

is a good read. Most of the stuff is ho-hum, but nested inside, check out misconception #8, about why Stoudamire is NOT a good fit for this team. Dave D makes a very good case for Lee or Scola. In my opinion, these are the best complementary players for LeBron, NOT Bosh and not Stoudamire. It also gives us more resources to fill in some other areas, and we don’t have to pay a King’s ransom (no pun intended) to get rid of Yi as a prerequisite to afford a second max player. I still think we should get rid of Yi, but from a position of strength…… not as part of a pre-Bosh fire sale.

Mike Golec is correctly saying that LeBron would always be compared to Jordan in Chicago and he is correct. If LeBron won only 3 championships, people would say, LeBron was okay, but Jordan was better.
But the fact that the owner refuses to pay Luxury tax is the real killer for Chicago.

And LeBron sharing the spotlight and championships with DWade in Miami (and vica verca) has its problems.

Only Nets makes sense, but that won’t be reported unless Nets dump Yi’s 4 million to become equal with Chicago and Miami in cap space.

Thorn has a predicament, because if he gets rid of Yi without signing LeBron, then Proky may be upset with loss of Chinese fans. Better to get rid of Yi later on or only if signing LeBron was contigent.
However, it may too late to court LeBron if he waits to dump Lee.

July 1 rosters will soon be set so Thorn should have more teams to deal with as far as dumping Yi.
Hope we hear some Tweets by the end of the day or tomorrow.

serious question…. what financial benefits have the Nets received from having Yi on the team? I hear he’s the 3rd most popular celebrity in China but how does that translate into $$$?

From a financial standpoint, Lindsay Lohan probably brings in more money for the US economy than Yi Jianlian does for China….. never mind the Nets.

Why isn’t anyone saying the Nets have just as good a chance to land Bron and Bosh?!?! Are the Bulls really that better? D-rose vs Harris =Slight advantage Rose, Devin Brown vs C.Lee=Advantage Lee, Deng vs T-Will=slight advantage Deng, Gibson vs Yi=No advantage, Noah & Miller Vs Lopez=advantage Lopez….And the Heat only have 3 players under contract, So how are the Nets not a favorite in Landing Bron and Bosh..smh! The whole time while watching Mike and Mike, i was waiting for Chris Broussard to say that NJ should be considered as a threat, but to no avail, i was pissed…Can NJ get any love?!

and everyone’s right, he’s going to milk this (feed his ego) for as long as possible. The billboards, the envoys and strategies, the media frenzy, if you were LBJ and focused on becoming an icon – instead of winning a championship – you’d be in no hurry. This is good theatre.

But we need to be realistic, and perhaps grateful, that someone that self-absorbed isn’t coming to the Nets. Forget the “king.” Lots of people here will feel like the Nets are losers when he chooses somewhere else. Well 29 teams will lose the LeBron Sweepstakes.

There’s still a load of talent out there, and we need to focus on them, not LBJ, Wade or Bosh. So which FA do we need to sign so we feel like we are winners this off-season?

I actually think its a 3 team race for Lebron between us, Chicago and Miami. And I really believe that we get Lebron. Honestly if we were in Brooklyn already – I think there would be no media circus – everyone would just admit he was heading to Brooklyn.

But aside from Lebron – the only other free agent I like signing is David Lee. The versatility of him and Favors to both play the 4,5 means the Nets can get away without having a backup 5. It also will create some very interesing lineups and transition points for that second unit.

And if Lebron doesn’t come – I am warming to the idea of Gay – depending on the size of the contract of course. No where near max money is what he should be getting – unfortunately this summer too many teams are going to be desperate to sell their fan base on a big FA signing the salaries will get out of whack.

Look at this! http://bit.ly/crxgMs
Al just reported Yi to the Wizards for JaVale McGee or Quinton Ross who both makes less than 1.1 million! YAY THORNY!

And for a non guaranteed 2nd rounder.
That would give us $31m…. $33 I think is the magic number for two true max FAs.

Keep this in mind…It’s obvious, the addition of Lebron and, say, Bosh most likely make us amazing and a championship team, no doubt. We will tear through so many teams and our starting lineup will clearly be the best. However, there is another point worth bringing up showing how important the signing of theses free agents will be.

Notice all but one (Clippers) of the teams in the Lebron sweepstakes are in the eastern conference. Now if the Heat/Bulls/Cavs/ (even the Knicks) were to land these guys, the nets would be destroyed. We would not have a chance at beating that team, and, due to the fact we’ve unloaded so many players, I would not see us getting any better than a 6th seed in the playoffs, and that might even be a strech. Everything we would have sacrificed in the last year or two would have gone in vain. Some believe continue to rebuild is a safer and better bet. but it is not, whoever gets lebron and bosh will be dominant for a while. we all need to push for lebron and co.!!