Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat finals is on the horizon, and at the moment Dirk Nowitzki is a one man wrecking crew. On other hand, the Heat are still the favs and stopping the big 3 seems almost impossible but I think the Mavs can take them to game 7, and the pressure will be on Miami.
Dallas versus Miami - NBA Finals
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Sorry Queen but no, Dallas is a good challenge for Miami, but the HEAT is taking this one down!Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat finals is on the horizon, and at the moment Dirk Nowitzki is a one man wrecking crew. On other hand, the Heat are still the favs and stopping the big 3 seems almost impossible but I think the Mavs can take them to game 7, and the pressure will be on Miami.
Dwyane Wade is playing with a weak shoulder and that could be the Dallas key to get physical and go after him like Miami did it against Rondo from Boston. Look out for Jason Kidd!! Did you see Lebron faking that he got hit in the face by Rose..What a joke from an MVP... you would't see Michael Jordan do that in his high school days.
It will be a great a Finals can't wait !!
It will be a great a Finals can't wait !!
There is no big "3" to stop. I'm not a fan of Miami since the summer, but have to give Lebron and DWade props for the way they came back and closed out the 4th quarter tonight. Those two were beasts down the stretch and were the reason why Miami was able to close it out tonight. I know Bosh nailed a couple of free throws in the end but he was not the reason why Miami came back from down 13 at one point and end up winning the game.
This could be the start of a 3+ year dynasty, they're only going to get more chemistry playing together over the years, and they'll be able to add a mid-level exception quality veteran who wants a ring every year. Celtics, Lakers are fading, Oklahoma isn't that good due to the inconsistency of everyone not named Durant, ditto for Chicago with Rose except with great team defense. Dirk is also getting up there as are his teammates, this could be their last shot.
Nope, not in this case... the high performing Raptors courtesy of Brian Colangelo started with a higher payroll than the Heat this year.yippee, Miami in 5. Damn shame money buys yah a champion.
1. Los Angeles Lakers
$91,645,878
2. Dallas Mavericks
$90,764,633
3. Orlando Magic
$89,139,596
4. Boston Celtics
$83,330,756
5. Utah Jazz
$74,109,205
6. Houston Rockets
$72,758,481
7. Atlanta Hawks
$70,927,923
8. Portland Trail Blazers
$70,523,987
9. Memphis Grizzlies
$70,008,317
10. Milwaukee Bucks
$69,757,069
11. San Antonio Spurs
$69,704,628
12. Philadelphia 76ers
$69,585,609
13. Toronto Raptors
$69,504,845
14. New Orleans Hornets
$68,551,075
15. Golden State Warriors
$68,040,204
16. New York Knicks
$67,327,114
17. Miami Heat
$66,949,192
Source http://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm#ixzz1NlqNlq9E
To sign free agents outright over the approximately $5.5M MLE level (you are allowed to sign up to $5.5M a year on free agents if you are over the cap) you have to clear cap space below the salary cap level $58 million. Basically the Heat got rid of everybody, cleared $30M + in cap space, allowing them to sign James and Bosh to max contracts (they took like 10% discounts to get Miller as well). They then got over by $58M, was signing Anthony who they were to able to get a cheap cap hold on, and signing veterans to league minimum contracts about a $1M each. You can sign players to vet minimums if you are over the cap.
The luxury tax threshold is about $72M. That has no impact on who you can sign with the MLE (but can't go abovethat because you over the salary cap), but every dollar above the tax thresholdyou have to repay to the pool, which gets distributed evenly amongst teams below the tax.
BC had no ability to sign anybody this offseason other then MLE, because he blew it on Hedo Turkoglu last offseason, who he turned into a somewhat overpaid Barbosa. Add in the fact that he overpaid Bargnani, Calderon, and wasted the MLE on Kapono which he had turn into another bad contract in Evans (as solid as he was). He was also stuck with Marcus Banks who he "had" to take on from Miami in the brutal series on O'Neal deals which he lost two first rounders in. (Basically getting rid of Banks was key for Miami being able to clear cap space for signing Bosh and James).
Basically just an awful GM job -- but he has done fairly well since Bosh left,
The luxury tax threshold is about $72M. That has no impact on who you can sign with the MLE (but can't go abovethat because you over the salary cap), but every dollar above the tax thresholdyou have to repay to the pool, which gets distributed evenly amongst teams below the tax.
BC had no ability to sign anybody this offseason other then MLE, because he blew it on Hedo Turkoglu last offseason, who he turned into a somewhat overpaid Barbosa. Add in the fact that he overpaid Bargnani, Calderon, and wasted the MLE on Kapono which he had turn into another bad contract in Evans (as solid as he was). He was also stuck with Marcus Banks who he "had" to take on from Miami in the brutal series on O'Neal deals which he lost two first rounders in. (Basically getting rid of Banks was key for Miami being able to clear cap space for signing Bosh and James).
Basically just an awful GM job -- but he has done fairly well since Bosh left,
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Well his FA signing right after Bosh left is 18.8 million to Linus Kleiza.. What an awful record of free agent SF signings he's had in Toronto.. Krapono, Turkeyglue and Kleiza. Almost $100 million of FAIL.Basically just an awful GM job -- but he has done fairly well since Bosh left,
Ugh what about baseball?basketball is the easiest sport to buy a franchise in, still don`t respect james for needing another superstar to help him win. in bball you have to lead the team by yourself, like jordan and bryant did.
If it is so easy to buy a title why has no one else been able to buy a big 3 as young and talented as Riley? He made a lot of trades and short term deals to clear cap space.
Kobe wouldn't have won without Pau or Shaq , and MJ had his sidekick in Pippen.
No - its easily baseball - no salary cap.basketball is the easiest sport to buy a franchise in, still don`t respect james for needing another superstar to help him win. in bball you have to lead the team by yourself, like jordan and bryant did.
The Heat essentially cleared their entire roster and had to be clever to get rid of all their contracts by summer of 2010 (it was not easy) -- trading away first round pick in 2009 to get rid of a few mediocore contracts, taking on the final year of Jermaine Oneal in 2009 in order to dump Marcus Banks bad 2010 contract onto the Raps, trading Beasley basically for nothing because they refused to take salary in return.
They will no longer be able to add large FA's. While the Yanks and Red Sox can keep adding stars every year via FA if they want.
the heat has an unbeatable Home record in the play offs and a pretty damn good away record.. and they play 4 games at home this series..
they have played way tougher teams too during the playoffs.
too bad the heat havent beat the mavs since 06..
but do u know what happend the last time they beat the maverics?
they won the championship
heat in 5
they have played way tougher teams too during the playoffs.
too bad the heat havent beat the mavs since 06..
but do u know what happend the last time they beat the maverics?
they won the championship
heat in 5
I like the Mavs in 6 or 7 games.
I think they have too many options for the Heat to defend. Great outside shooting and weapons. If the Mavs shoot the ball well and Dirk can be Dirk, I think the Mavs win. It will be interesting to see how they defend Dirk. Double teaming will result in him passing the ball off to their shooters: I think they will be too deep for Miami - if Berea can do what he has done in previous series and give them double digits off the bench they will be tough to beat.
Also love the addition of Chandler for them. He has been awesome.
I think they have too many options for the Heat to defend. Great outside shooting and weapons. If the Mavs shoot the ball well and Dirk can be Dirk, I think the Mavs win. It will be interesting to see how they defend Dirk. Double teaming will result in him passing the ball off to their shooters: I think they will be too deep for Miami - if Berea can do what he has done in previous series and give them double digits off the bench they will be tough to beat.
Also love the addition of Chandler for them. He has been awesome.
