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Lewis agrees to sign with Magic
Topic Started: Jul 2 2007, 11:51 PM (2,178 Views)
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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2924228

HAHAHAHHA YES!!! Exactly what we need.
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TheFalcon
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WOOOO HOOOO! Howard took Lewis out on the town? They probably went and saw Ratatoullie.

I'm a little worried about the max contract, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. I think he will improve our team way more than losing Darko will hurt it.
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i dont like the max contract and the fact that we are probably going to lose out on darko, losing darko is going to be a big blow because i think he could have really thrived with SVG's style of play and all of a sudden our bigs are s**t behind dwight

if lewis starts dropping 27 ppg next season i wont complain as much about the max deal he got but right now i think we really overpaid for him, and we really need to think about getting fran over here to have a big guy w/ some talent with dwight so we dont get murdered on the front lines
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I am guessing we are not going to lose Darko, we may use him for sign-and-trade. I have faith in Otis, I think he will put a very good team on the floor next season!

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I like the idea of having Rashard here. I hate the idea of paying him 15 millions/year. I hate even more the idea of having to lose Darko to the free agency to get Rashard.

I sincerely hope that Otis has something on his sleeve, or else this signing will leave us with barely 4 millions of capspace, and that's only enough to sign another average role player. If our frontline was already thin, now it's even more. Howard+Battie is not nearly enough to make half the season.

If offering a guy 15 millions for 5 years and letting a skilled 22 yo 7 footer walk away because of that is what Otis was talking about "creative financing", I'd be very upset with him.
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HELL FUKKING YEAH!!!!! You guys need to stop crying about Darko. s**t, more then half the time he was out there he looked lost, SHARD IS A PERRENIAL ALL-STAR!!
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Turk + Garrity's expiring contract, and Battie should be traded. I don't think we can keep Darko without getting rid of those contracts.

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Jul. 3 2007 05:55 AM
WOOOO HOOOO! Howard took Lewis out on the town? They probably went and saw Ratatoullie.


Now that right there is funny as hell
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Maybe I'm missing something, but why does this deal have to be a sign-and-trade with the Sonics? Lewis is an UNRESTRICTED free agent. He can come to us without the Sonics getting anything in return.
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Jul. 3 2007 03:23 PM
Maybe I'm missing something, but why does this deal have to be a sign-and-trade with the Sonics? Lewis is an UNRESTRICTED free agent. He can come to us without the Sonics getting anything in return.

Yes, we can just sign him. But that'd mean that we only have +/- 3 millions to spend in another player and we'd lose Darko in exchange of a big, terrific, absolutely monstrous ZERO.
Lewis is a SF, and unless SVG wants to play small ball, he won't be playing PF. He's just not that good. And by having Lewis at the SF position we'd have Lewis+Turk+Ariza at the 3 and nobody besides Battie and the almighty Garrity at the 4. And with under 3 millions to spend I doubt we can find another 7 footer, 22yo, skilled guy.
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Ok, when does Rashard decide he's not gonig to play for the Magic? ;)

Great move to put us back in contention but I really really hope we can find a way to keep Darko. I think the kid has a ton of potential and is only going to improve on this team. As someone else said, we gotta dump some contracts to get him back.

But props to Otis and Howard for getting Rashard here!
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Jul. 3 2007 10:35 AM
Yes, we can just sign him. But that'd mean that we only have +/- 3 millions to spend in another player and we'd lose Darko in exchange of a big, terrific, absolutely monstrous ZERO.
Lewis is a SF, and unless SVG wants to play small ball, he won't be playing PF. He's just not that good. And by having Lewis at the SF position we'd have Lewis+Turk+Ariza at the 3 and nobody besides Battie and the almighty Garrity at the 4. And with under 3 millions to spend I doubt we can find another 7 footer, 22yo, skilled guy.

But we can match any offer made to Darko. Sure it will put us over the cap, but if we really want to keep Darko, we can. I think we should trade Turk now anyway for another big man.
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Lewis will be a big bolster to our team and I am quite certain Otis isn't done in regards to moves this offseason. I think we should be very optomistic about this move, and the big man situation will undoubtedly be addressed.
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ec23456
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Well you do have a point lose 1 so so Basketball Player to add 1 allstar to your list of players thats a fair deal I'd say 8-)
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I sure hope he address it!
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