I would tell them what I tell my kids
Who cares what other people think.
Your kids, like mine, are not getting skewered on ESPN and in the court of very public opinion however. Your kids arenât trying to re-sign dogs and cats in free agency that will be affected by public opinion. Your kids wonât have to pay more for those pets because a degraded opinion of their management. So thereâs that.
The good thing would be that my kids wouldnât have to be stuck with a horrendous 5 year overpay because they didnât want to be embarrassed either. So I guess thatâs good
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Should have paid him last year. But noooo, people (including people on this board) wanted him to âprove itâ. He proved it and now those same people donât want to pay up. SMH
This is why I said all last summer that we cannot afford PJ and Miles. I love Gordo but we should be trying to dump him on ANY dummy out there. But that is Not likely because Mitch thinks that Gordo is our best player. (If Terry was a bad deal, then Mitch should get some of that blame too.)
You can find the money: dump Kelly, Mason, Bouk, Nick, Scottie and Kubolka. And there you have it - Miles money. I can tell you this, we sure as heck canât afford to move in the draft.
You guys who say no way would I pay - you are not taking in consideration market conditions this year. This is a down free agent year and that means that the few good players will get a BIG contract. The front office gets paid to think about these things YEARS ahead of time so that makes this whole balking at 25 million all the more ridiculous!
I agree that they shouldâve negotiated with him last year and offered him 4/80 or around there. I am sure he wouldâve taken that.
FWIW that Shams leak is likely Klutch trying to drive up Milesâ market value.
Detriot would be the one team I could see trying to outright sign Miles away from the Hornets and, agreeing with ncborn, the FA market is going to be a largely weak one this year in terms of teams with money.
Iâm a big Miles fan, but max would be overpay. If another team, like Detroit, does offer him that, then the Hornets need to let him walk.
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Who says they werenât trying last year? And Miles and his agents were pushing for things to get to this point. It makes sense for Miles to wait to the end of this season to command a max contract as a RFAâŠyou canât try to put everything on the FO.
Cmon.
Every time I read the headline about being hesitant to pay, I want to beat my iPad w a stick! This was entirely predictable:
JB told Miles that we were going to run more of the offense through him last summer. Yet we didnât want to pay him BEFORE elevating his status on offense. Again its the front officeâs job to see this stuff BEFORE it happens.
So with Plumlee, Oubre, and Bouk youâre at around 25 million. And the others are small fry cap figures.
But what youâre also saying is that we should decimate our depth for one overpaid player.
Watch the video in that Ringer article. This was predicted in November! Again people in the building get paid to think through this stuff.
Dog, it makes sense from Milesâs camp that they press to wait until this off season to push the max contract RFA pressure. Why would Miles sign a year early for potentially under the max he could potentially earn?
It would be STUPID for him to sign a deal last off season, and then blow up this season and make an All Star team for example, which wouldâve driven up his RFA valueâŠ
The team should have shown him more respect and offered him bigger money last year. That is all that I am saying. We told him to prove it - he did - and now you balk? That can give the organization a bad name among players. If we are not already there.
Thatâs what Iâm saying. The lack of negotiations after declining the 4/60 contract was a very clear signal that Milesâs camp decided to wait until this present offseason to work towards a potential max extension.
Unless the Hornets were to make some offer close to the max last off season, it didnât make sense for Miles to sign it. Also, what IF the Hornets did go ahead and extend Miles last year on a max or near max level contractâŠand then he went on to have terrible season this season? Weâd all be railing the FO for how stupid it was to sign Miles to a big deal.
This doesnât have anything to do with respect or competency. This was always how the situation was going to play out.
In terms of last offseason, why in the world would Miles sign anything less than a max level deal? Because heâs eligible for up to a 5/173 contract. He could have potentially cost himself a ton of money. It sounds like Miles and his camp decided to bet on himself having a great season so that he can try to command as big of a contract as he wants this offseason.
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Off season something
That last line kind of kills the mood
Thereâs also apparently a 50/50 chance heâs on lean
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Trade Bridges for Beal!
shady clickbait twitter âjournalismâ from a 4/11 Miles interview.