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Originally Posted by Bryan_Wilson
Why is he as good as gone, I'm confused? We said we would match any offer. Not 1 team made a respectable offer for us to match. So there are 29 teams out there giving him 0 offers and one team that liked him enough to trade for him and has said he is their priority, their only priority. But because we won't make a bad deal that is above market value he will leave to join a team that didn't make an offer for him? Or are you saying he will be so good that teams will be lining up 1 year from now to make him a day 1 priority like some of the names listed above by UD? Edit- in which case, in that unlikely event nobody could offer more than we could.
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Originally Posted by Thebo
Yes, it does make a lot of sense to throw max or near max at a guy who is barely able to give you 25 minute a night is justified... It is also justified to pay him that money when no other team will even contact his agent to discuss possible contract. Thirdly, it is justified to pay for hopes and potential and end up with Chandler Parsons of Memphis Grizzlies.
Mavs FO was unwilling to even contact Parsons after his contract was up last summer. This decision had a lot to do with his hobby of getting injuries. If Mavs are unwilling to throw money at Noel, they may have a reason other than to drive the price down.
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Free agency is the time of logic and big decisions that affect your franchise over the course of several seasons ... whether you sign someone to a max contract or if you let them walk. Everyone saying "pay the man what he wants" is thinking off emotion which is what you need come playoff time. Bryan_Wilson and Thebo above are making logical arguments for the good of the team.
I'm not going to say that Noel should be like Dirk and take less, but it is a little insulting to demand a max contract after having done nothing except having lots of injuries with flashes of potential vs a HoF player taking SIGNIFICANTLY less than he could in order to help improve his team. Notel needs to find that middle ground and then prove himself for when he enters his prime for a mega-max contract.