Bishop45 wrote:RexBoyWonder wrote:Bosh >>>>> CP3 dor what Wade and LBJ needed next to them.
Lalety I've found myself wondering - with free agency practically dead for star players (they all extend now and demand trades later) combined with our no tanking philosophy that prevents us from ever picking at the high lottery -
How the hell are we getting the next superstar to come here?
Stay ready, keep playing good basketball and be an attractive destination when that time comes.
Its gonna take a bit more than that to be honest. Being a good organization and having a winning culture is part of what you need. What were seeing now is Big time players no longer hit free agency, they will get traded if they don't sign that extension on their team. FO do not want to lose a big time player for nothing. So they get traded to a location of what's best for the team. As we saw from Portland, they'll do what's best for their interest and ship a big time superstar somewhere away from where they want. They set a precedence now look around did they get backlash, nothing I've seen says they will. As long as there are teams willing to take on a disgruntled player, like when Toronto took Kawai from San Antonio knowing well he wanted to be in LA. Its not going to as easy as it once was where if you were the destination, and a player demanded to go there you got there.
Our FO will have to have the cap space and player salaries available to make those kind of trades when the time comes. They will need the assets, ie young players, First Round picks. Miami is behind the curb on those things outside of JJJ, Jovic at the moment, but they gave up another First rounder for Rozier. So were now back to where we were 2 years ago with limited pick availability. I think they understand that for the next 2-3 years were not going to be making a big splash until Jimmy Retires. Outside of Bam, Herro & Rozier are the only big salaries you have to throw around for a big whale like we like to call them. From an Assets standpoint we would get outbidded by the majority of teams outside of the teams that have gone all in and are short on picks.