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Thunder get No. 18 pick, Cook from Heat

Chad Feldheimer

Chad Feldheimer

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"Working to clear as much salary-cap space as possible for free agency, the Miami Heat have agreed in principle to trade Daequan Cook(notes) and the 18th overall pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder for the No. 32 selection in the draft, sources told Yahoo! Sports.

Miami had been working hard to trade out of the first round and attached Cook’s $2.1 million salary for next season in the deal. With the trade, the Heat won’t have to guarantee a first-round contract this summer.

Oklahoma City could be targeting Virginia Commonwealth power forward Larry Sanders with the 18th pick, a league executive said."
 
Let me guess this right...the Thunder get a higher pick AND a decent player in exchange for a lower pick? Gotta love the NBA. <yawn>
 
I really like how they are running the team in OKC. Its hard not to cheer for them. They continuely use their salary cap to acquire assetts. They allready had two extra picks from salary dumps, and they had Eric Maynor from the Jazz dump, now another pick. I wish the Jazz would follow a similar model.

It will be interesting to see if they can hold it together as all the rookie contracts expire, whether they trade away real players for more picks or do they pull a Jazz and become emotionally attached to roll players and over pay?

If the new CBA limits years and amounts on contracts and they can be strong for the next 5-6 years.
 
mellow said:
I really like how they are running the team in OKC. Its hard not to cheer for them. They continuely use their salary cap to acquire assetts. They allready had two extra picks from salary dumps, and they had Eric Maynor from the Jazz dump, now another pick. I wish the Jazz would follow a similar model.

It will be interesting to see if they can hold it together as all the rookie contracts expire, whether they trade away real players for more picks or do they pull a Jazz and become emotionally attached to roll players and over pay?

If the new CBA limits years and amounts on contracts and they can be strong for the next 5-6 years.
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all it takes it getting a bunch of good rookies still on their rookie deals via the lottery like Durant, Westbrook, Green, Harden

So the Jazz need to either trade into the lottery or start sucking really bad for about 7 years in a row.
 
mellow said:
If the new CBA limits years and amounts on contracts and they can be strong for the next 5-6 years.
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....the new CBA will not only limit amounts on contracts and years they can sign....it will drive most NBA players back into the "private sector" working for McDonald's and Burger King!
 
I like what the thunder are doing. If the Jazz blow monkey chunks tomorrow and draft Hayward with the #9 I won't be too disappointed since I can easily shift my loyalties to a franchise that cares about winning the big one.
 
mellow said:
I really like how they are running the team in OKC. Its hard not to cheer for them. They continuely use their salary cap to acquire assetts. They allready had two extra picks from salary dumps, and they had Eric Maynor from the Jazz dump, now another pick. I wish the Jazz would follow a similar model.

It will be interesting to see if they can hold it together as all the rookie contracts expire, whether they trade away real players for more picks or do they pull a Jazz and become emotionally attached to roll players and over pay?
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Very similar to what Portland did.

OKC and Portland are two model franchises right now. I have to admit I'm a fan of both those teams. And if all Greg and Kevin do this off-season is draft at #9 and let Boozer walk for nothing in return, Greg can have my shorts, shirts and everything else I own that's Jazz-related. I'll jump ship. I'm tired of every other team making moves to build a contender. Sure, a lot of them fail. But at least most franchises TRY. The Millers are content to do just enough to keep season ticket and merchandise sales high. Profit is their #1 goal.

If that's the case, sell the bloody team. I'm sure Checketts would love to own the Jazz. And he wants to WIN!!!
 
Jazz Punk Rocker said:
yeah that was what i was wondering...guessing Cook has a bad contract but still...that is a nice pick there at 18
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Yeah, $2.1M for one year is absolutely horrible.
The going price to buy a 1st-round pick is $3M. So OKC SAVED $900K by "Cooking" their books. KOC and Greg Miller outmanuevered again. Man this sucks!
 
The Thriller said:
I like what the thunder are doing. If the Jazz blow monkey chunks tomorrow and draft Hayward with the #9 I won't be too disappointed since I can easily shift my loyalties to a franchise that cares about winning the big one.
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So….this already happened. Thus begs the question:

Why are you still here?
 
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