http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/26/the-future-isnt-so-bright-for-the-pistons/ Basketball - NBC Sports Sat, 18 May 2013 08:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/26/the-future-isnt-so-bright-for-the-pistons/comment-page-1/#comment-8357 Fri, 28 May 2010 10:26:42 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbcpbt/?p=2162#comment-8357 Thanks for clarifying, but since you read the article 2 hours after my posting, the writer went back and fixed it.
In his original posting there was no AND, Genius. “It was he that traded Chauncey Billups for Rasheed Iverson”
So, in fact “and” has no meaning in this context, unless he traded chauncey for Rasheed and Iverson. But, as any genius would know, it’s impossible to trade somebody on the same team.
Thanks for “trying” to be a dick though. I succeeded, and you failed.

]]> http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/26/the-future-isnt-so-bright-for-the-pistons/comment-page-1/#comment-8356 Wed, 26 May 2010 15:59:41 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbcpbt/?p=2162#comment-8356 the word “and” has meaning, genius.

]]> http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/26/the-future-isnt-so-bright-for-the-pistons/comment-page-1/#comment-8355 Wed, 26 May 2010 13:41:27 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbcpbt/?p=2162#comment-8355 OH SNAP, when did Rasheed Iverson come to Detroit?

]]> http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/26/the-future-isnt-so-bright-for-the-pistons/comment-page-1/#comment-8354 Wed, 26 May 2010 13:33:28 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbcpbt/?p=2162#comment-8354 hey rob. not to try to discredit your authority here, but a player coming off the books in a situation where team payroll is somewhere between the salary cap and tax line doesn’t necessarily put the team in a position to improve. for instance, if the pistons were to relinquish their rights to tayshaun and let him expire (something you seem to be alluding to, and something that is 100% certain not to happen), they won’t have enough cap space to do much; i won’t go do the math, but it probably leaves them with less than the midlevel exception to spend on a free agent. money simply coming off the books only really helps a team when it’s a LOT of money or they’re near or around the cap as it is. before rasheed and iverson came off the books, we were just shy of the tax line, and their combined $35 million salaries gave us something like $21 million in cap space. tayshaun’s $11 million isn’t going to give us that much to spend on a free agent. i shouldn’t have to explain this to rob mahoney, but here we are. aside from the fact that joe dumars would never allow prince’s contract to expire (he’ll either trade him before the deadline or work out a sign-and-trade. there’s a less-than-minute chance that joe extends him at the right price, but he won’t let the contract expire). the fact that we have $45 million on the books without including bynum, stuckey, jerebko, summers or any big men says it all. bottom line: salary coming off the books does nothing for us right now.

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