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Looks like offers will be sent out on Sunday for free agency...
This is the best free agency class ever seen, and probably the best in a while...

Top 5 Centers  
Rafael Araujo - easily best center available
Andris Biedrins - excellent young player still with potential
Pavel Podkolzine - massive shotblocking presence
Robert Swift - young player with loads of potential
Jason Collier - effective scorer this year

Top 5 PF's
Dirk Nowitzki - top offensive player in the game, great defender
Dwight Howard - great PF already, and still with tons of potential left to tap
Stromile Swift - Good scorer, excellent defender at the PF spot
Dan Gadzuric - also plays center, top notch defender and rebounder
Joe Smith - very good all around player

Top 5 SF's
Paul Pierce - one of the best all around players in the sim...
Josh Childress - young, very good scorer, good rebounder and defender
Luol Deng - also very young, decent scorer and defender, still has potential
Donta Smith - excellent scorer
Shane Battier - excellent defender, decent offensive player

Top 5 SG's
Vince Carter - one of the top 5 scorers in the league
Kirk Snyder - young all around talent who can light up a scoreboard
Brent Barry - getting older, but still an excellent defender and shooter
Juan Dixon - decent shooter, pretty good defender
Aaron McKie - decent shooter, pretty good defender

Top 5 PG's (actually, 6 they are all really good)
Shaun Livingston - already a top talent, and full of potential
Ben Gordon - incredible scorer, great defender, and still has potential
Devin Harris - looks to be an excellent scorer, has not gotten much burn
Sebastian Telfair - good all-around player, still with tons of potential
Chauncey Billups - excellent scorer, handles the ball well
Earl Watson - excellent scorer, decent defender, runs his team well

I'll send MLE to ALL of them!  :)

The real question is how many of them will actually hit the market....

Probably very few.

I bet only 1 or 2 from each position.

I hope so... and I hope none of mine do...  :D

My whole team is in there WTF. :lol:

25 mil to be spent. Let the games begin...

lols i still have him for 2 more years.... ahhhaha maybe you should add Mikel chamberlain...his good....

He must have meant Boykins.

You forgot PG Jason Williams and maybe even Joe Johnson.

I have over 20 mill to spend, hoping for a big offseason

Meant Boykins, obviously...  missed Jason Williams...  Truly a great group of PG's available this year..

With my big money, I look to get 1 top guy and 2 or 3 2nd tier players.  But it's hard to get people to come to the ATL, money is all I have to offer.

Pierce will probably take 2/3 of that money.

Who says I'll resign him  :)

great...dont resign him  :lol:

when are we getting the FA offers?

sometime today, hopefully.

Just got my FA offers, man I got some big decisions to make...

let me guess, PP wants a deal starting at 20 mil running for 7 years...

Warm..

Cap hell. :moon:

Who to re-sign, who to re-sign...? Hmm, no one?!  :P

Shit, hehe...even the players don't like me!! 2 years in a row no one wants to resign for the Kings! :)

Please don't make me explain this again... :roll:

Explain what? Resigns?

Nevermind...

None of your players are eligible for extensions, Kings.  We explained this to you last year.

Alright then...sorry.

I'm going to keep this message on record to be prepared again next year... :)

you're fired

Alright Cavs, alright, we get the point...

All is looking good in Memphis.

Then we wouldn't have been having this conversation, now would we?

 :lol:

Guys I have some breaking, earth shattering news.





You better be sitting when you here this.
















Alan Henderson is on the market.

Well, I hate to break this to all of you...

Howard Eisley is off, I repeat, off the market as of today.

You will have to wait for Deng's decision however.

But yes, Howard Eisley will return to the Sonics.  I hope you are all prepared for this IR dwelling individual.

nananana... kiss 'em goodbye. :D

this class seems to have dropped a lot.  With Hoffa, Smith, Livingston, Telfair and a lot of the big guys off the market this FA class isn't so appealing anymore, also there's nobody that i'm going to grossly overpay to get now because of my low win rating

Just waiting on Bulls to send in his decisions and we can update the free agent list and set the draft order

Sorry, I'll do that right now

Teams with caproom.
Team (win rating): Amt entering draft - draft picks = est amount entering fa
Hawks (25): $28,504,957 - $2,718,403  (#4 pick) = $25,786,554
Cavs (38.): $28,003,629 - $2,457,221 (#9 pick) - $2,888,256 (#1 pick) - $2,133,177 (#16 pick) - (3x$332,817) = $19,526,524
Nets (68.): $14,714,274 - $332,817 = $14,381,457
Nuggets (52): $10,977,642 - $1,928,223 (#21 pick) - $332,817 = $8,716,602
Heat (46): $10,197,194 - $1,967,571 (#20 pick) = $8,229,623
Lakers (33): $7,849,703 - $2,558,540 (#7 pick) - $332,817 = $4,958,346
Bulls (38.): $6,978,947 - $2,359,915 (#11 pick) = $4,619,032
Bucks (40): $4,223,256 - $2,830,491 (#2 pick) - $332,817 = $1,059,948
Blazers (34): $4,181,123 - $2,664,035 (#5 pick) - $332,817 = $1,184,271

Looking that over I have by far the best win rating.  The Nuggets have 2 free agents they have to re-sign, you figure one of them will be taken off the market and eat up thaht cap room.  that pretty much leaves me with 2 teams whose win ratings don't even add up to mine as the only ones with max room.

God, Gordon would look tremendous as my starting pg ;)

If i don't get him, i'll probably look to add maybe one or two other smaller guys, then just re-sign my own.

Last year you came very, very close to losing Battier, and did lose out on Chamberlain...  We shall see if your strategy finals pays off or finally bites you in the ass....

I think I actually made an offer to chamberlain.  a multi-year offer, that was lower than the MLE.  I just lowballed him, and he signed elsewhere.

You did make an offer, for about 3 million per year, if I remember correctly..  But since you lowballed him, you lost him...
The PG's available are just incredible....

that's because there seems to be about 30 incredible pg's in the league, lol

There are just a ton of available players. This is by far our best FA class.

Well didn't I pick a winner... :D
I'll be like a fat kid with his mouth open at a candy convention...

29 mil in cap space. Ooo yeah, this is gonna be good....

This will be the year that we find out if win rating actually means anything.

yea definitely, I don't know who the Cavs plan on going after, but I think that one of us will be in a good shape to re-build and the other will have to wait a year.  If Gordon signs with anyone but Clippers or Nets it will be shocking to me.  Obviously I will give him the max and if he signs with me I will be happy, but I don't expect him to.

I think we both can end up being very pleased with the outcome. There are plenty of good players out there, and very few other teams with significant cap space.

Which means that there will be alot of good MLE sigings.

Yea we could both, and yea I think a couple players will end up choosing the MLE over some of my offers, but I think that we might end up going after 1 or 2 of the same players, but o well, hopefully not too many guys take the MLE too early.

someone could easily sweep Billups out from under your feet Nets, and leave you without a point guard.
Some teams have enough cap space to offer him a large deal and offer the max to someone else.
I have to admit, that would make me happy  :)

Do not forget about Battier as well ;)
This is the year we see if the strategy pays off...
next year, when Pettit gets the max, no more cap room...

Billups sign and trade anyone...?  :lol:

You guys are assuming I won't offer billups a contract first day, i don't know why.

I'm gonna offer battier and billups day 1 contracts, and just hope gordon signs before them.

You say that...
But we all know you like to play everyone

We shall see...  Last year you really wanted Chamberlain...

I only wanted Chamberlain because I thought I could get him cheap.

Last year I had just over 10 million in cap room.  I offered Battier 7 million for 1 year (because I wanted room for this year), and chamberlain 3 mil a year starting for a multi-year contract.

But I did offer Battier a day 1 contract, he just didn't accept it until day 2.

Yikes, has anyone looked at next years potential FA class?

Jason Kidd
Kevin Garnett
Shawn Marion
Mike Bibby
Garrett Pettit
Baron Davis
Mason Mercer
Lamar Odom
Allen Iverson
Steve Nash
Elton Brand
Gilbert Arenas
Ron Artest
Troy Havlicek
Jamaal Tinsley
Trent Kundla
Quentin Richardson
Stephon Marbury
Steve Francis
Tyson Chandler
Rasheed Wallace
Kwame Brown
Emmanuel Griffin
Alvin Schenk
Oscar Ferry
Corey Maggette
Bob Diddle
Jamal Del Negro
Ethan Terpening
Tanner Houbregs

maybe I should continue to offer 1 year deals ;)

I've been looking at it for a while. If I don't win this year, I might be clearing house to get to it.

Please do :)
Maybe Pettit will become available then...  chuckle....

Make sure you trade Yao to me.

Haha.

Actually, I'll probably offer everyone multi-year deals this year, and bow out of free agency next year.

My heart couldn't take the draft next year knowing that 3 of my 5 starters, and cornerstone of my team, were all entering free agency.

Besides, the only way I could enter FA with money is if I turn down an offer to Pettit (or he doesn't offer me one).  And turning down one of Pettit's offers would be suicide.

I agree with this statement whole heartedly...  :D

Clearing house around Yao and Deng is what I mean ;)

After i've seen that class, i'll probably clean up my house as well.

I have been planning for next year's FA class ever since I had 8 draft picks in the first draft.    :D   Using my expirings to help others get cap space may pay off better than actually going into FA.


BTW Cavs 8 draft picks in one draft doesn't necessarily mean a lot....even if it is considered a deep draft like the first draft.

Hey, I doubt that mine will be bunched up into the 20's like yours. And the one good one, Kundla, you traded away... :?:

Actually that is the only trade I regret...especially since he kept improving.   :?    :oops:


However looking at the picks you have 6 or 7 of them could be playoff teams and then you will have a bunch of picks in the late teens/early twenties.

You never know what will happen in two years. Things could get mixed up, good teams aren't the good teams forever you know.