Mo Williams stays in mil

[=LarryLegend=]

Williams' six-year deal reportedly worth $52 million

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Mo Williams will be returning to the Milwaukee Bucks after agreeing in principle to a six-year, $52 million contract, ESPN.com's Chris Sheridan has learned.
The breakthrough in negotiations came when the Bucks increased their original offer as Williams was being heavily courted by the Miami Heat. Williams will have a player opt-out clause after the fourth and fifth year of the deal, which has an average annual salary of $8.67 million.

Williams was seeking a deal that would earn him similar money to what other starting point guards were making, but with money tight on this summer's free agent market, his leverage was limited. Miami and other teams could only offer Williams, who averaged career-bests of 17.3 points and 6.1 assists with the Bucks this past season, the mid-level exception of $5.3 million.
Signing Williams had been a priority for the Heat largely because the Heat have concerns about the health of incumbent starter Jason Williams -- who has battled several injuries during his two seasons in Miami and is rehabbing this summer at his home in Central Florida.

 

[Bricklayer]

You've got to appreciate the efficiency on captitalistic systems based around the universaility and rationality of greed -- you can offer everything, weatehr, locale,, preferred destination, better team, teammates, coach, title shot etc. etc. etc., but in the end the thing that keeps the league balanced and somewhat predictable is that players are predictable greedy 90% of the time. Money always talks loudest, no mater how crappy your team, city or whatever. Tis a thing of beauty.

 

[imabored]

so does this basically kill the chance of Yi to the Kings?

 

[fnordius]

so does this basically kill the chance of Yi to the Kings?

I guess that depends on whether you thought such a thing was alive to begin with.

I believe this leaves Chucky Atkins as the best FA PG left, so if we trade Bibby, we either need a starting-quality PG in return (unlikely), or we will be relying on some portion of Brad/Salmons/Price for most of our assists.

So the good news is that Bibby's stock just went up with the few teams still desperate for a PG. The bad news is that one of those teams is the Kings.

 

[kingsfan916]

i think chucky sighned w/ some team cant remember who though

 

[imabored]

i think chucky sighned w/ some team cant remember who though

yeah he signed with the nuggets.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2936394

 

[LPKingsFan]

This means, along with the Blake signing in Portland, that the Heat almost HAVE to go after Bibby now, right?

 

[fnordius]

Or have JWill starting, and re-sign Travis Diener at minimum to be his backup. Or Boykins, Smush Parker, Ronnie Price... there are a number of bench PGs still available.

 

[Bricklayer]

Or have JWill starting, and re-sign Travis Diener at minimum to be his backup. Or Boykins, Smush Parker, Ronnie Price... there are a number of bench PGs still available.

I doubt this scenario -- the Heat have been actively (very actively) tryign to find somebody to replace JWill this summer. Jason's knees are just shot, and there is little chance he can log big minutes for them while playing every game, and almost no shot at all at a title run without a major upgrade.

 

[venom_7]

this means geoff will be in charge of the miami trade... see ya Kenny.

 

[imabored]

I doubt this scenario -- the Heat have been actively (very actively) tryign to find somebody to replace JWill this summer. Jason's knees are just shot, and there is little chance he can log big minutes for them while playing every game, and almost no shot at all at a title run without a major upgrade.

then what's with this talk about bibby for williams? i know it's to clear more cap space for later but i rather have bibby than williams.

 

[VF21]

then what's with this talk about bibby for williams? i know it's to clear more cap space for later but i rather have bibby than williams.

Most people talking about a Bibby-Williams trade aren't planning on having Jason play major minutes. They're looking at his ending contract.

 

[Bricklayer]

then what's with this talk about bibby for williams? i know it's to clear more cap space for later but i rather have bibby than williams.

Purely a contract move...well actually not entirely true. Bibby for Williams isn't the point. Its the other stuff that would come back wiht Mike that would make or break such a deal. But JWill is an ending contract. Those things are very useful to a rebuilding team, while a contending team like the Heat wants/needs guys to win now. Different places, and you have to play the game different. In our place, we want young guys and capspace in a couple of years, and we want to clear the vets out of the way to let the young kids grow/develop. In the Heat's place they want experienced guys who can help them win now.

 

[cfechter]

You've got to appreciate the efficiency on captitalistic systems based around the universaility and rationality of greed -- you can offer everything, weatehr, locale,, preferred destination, better team, teammates, coach, title shot etc. etc. etc., but in the end the thing that keeps the league balanced and somewhat predictable is that players are predictable greedy 90% of the time. Money always talks loudest, no mater how crappy your team, city or whatever. Tis a thing of beauty.

Amen to that quote - occassionally you will see a player take slightly less to play for a team, but never significantly less. The max Miami could have offered is the MLE, which is just a bit more than 50% of what he got from Milwaukee. Miami was never a serious player in this, if only for the reasons Brick mentioned above.

I always laugh when I see teams that are capped out are "interested" in expensive free agents. The first thought is, "how in the world would they get any free agent being capped out". Miami's position is even worse than our own, in some respects, to a S&T - they have one young player of semi-interest (Wright - definitely nothing special) but their first round picks will probably be from 20 and higher for the next couple of years - which potentially negates interest in them as well. So what in the world could Miami offer to ever pull off a successful S&T?