Brook Lopez Reportedly Close to Max Deal from Brooklyn Nets

In the land of the blind…
one eye is king.

and he averages 7.5 for his career.. Ppl act like he’s terrible.

ALD – If I was Brooklyn, I would pay whatever it takes to keep him. Assuming I can’t get Dwight in a trade.

ALD
I would pay him the max to keep him in Brooklyn because otherwise they suck.
But he still rebounds like trash. 7.5 is not acceptable for your starting center. It’s just not.

Whatever. They just need to get their roster set so they can reveal their jerseys. I’ve already picked my side in the NBA’s New York rivalry. I wanna see what my boys’ threads look like.

If Then Nets team is what we see here: Deron, JJ, Wallace, Lopez *some other guy*.
AND
The Knick’s are what we see: Kidd/Lin, Smith, Melo, Amare, Tyson/Camby.
Who ya’ll think is the better team?
They seem pretty even to me. Should be a fun Eastern Conference this year also.
Can’t wait to see these teams next year:
T-Wolves
Lakers
Clippers
Heat
Celtics
Nets
Cavs
Wizards
Warriors
Sac-Town
Good stuff this next year.

so if rebounded at 8.6 like he did his second year, does he deserve the max deal without the the nets situation?

BL and Hibbert r both worth max money as of rite now. If either franchise let their respective player walk there would be no way to justify it (unless howard came strollin thru the doors). And didnt BL avg 8.6 boards as a soph? Ya I dont think that even half of these negative commenters have really watched this dude play. BL 58 mil 7.5 rpg or Amare 100 mil 8.8 rpg, which would u rather have? Tough call, I think I’d go with BL just cuz for what he does, Amare is not worth 100 mil in my mind.

Also, the Bulls will be without Rose for most of the year, so I predict them to be a 7th or 8th seed. And I woudn’t be surprised if they stay out of the Playoffs.

Man, the Nets also have Marshon Brooks and Gerald Wallace lurking. And they got Reggie Evans.
They are already better than the Knicks simply because three or four of their starting five is committed to playing serious defense.
Deron, Gerald, Joe Johnson and REggie Evans play defense. Brook is passable. The Knicks have more talent, but they have non-defenders playing 1-4.

Yes, the starting line up will be
Williams
Johnson
Wallace
Evans
Lopez
Thats a beasting lineup and can easily challenge any team in the nba. Man Evans is the most underrated signing of this postseason. Can’t believe he was available. If miami had only pursued him, they couldve secured their dynasty for real. Now the’ve gone all in on offense but will remain defensively challenged in the paint.
Anyways evans game complements lopez nicely, as he plays a bit further away from the basket. Evans makes humpries expendable at probably 1/6 the price. The Teletovic guy sounds like an ideal sixt man, no nba experience, looking to score and not much else.

Nbk, Unless you have a direct line with avery johnson, i will disagree with you. TeleTovic is by all accounts a shoot first not looking to pass offensive player without nba experience. Not a good fit alongside weak rebounding and offensive oriented lopez i would think. But great as a sixt men, scoring of the bench for the second unit. Evans is the perfect complement for lopez. Post banger rebounder, hustle, defense.
Now if dwight comes over i agree with you.
Humpries is expendable because his offense is easily replaced by all the new additions. His real value lies in hustle and rebounding, which is something evans does better. …. I think.

But Evans has been working on his 3pt shot and playmaking abilities, so..
Lol..
But seriously, if the reports and assumptions you mention all become true, teletovic will be the guy

Kris humpries should stay with the nets and start an affair with Beyonce

Ain’t no way. I cannot recall not one Brook Lopez outstanding game.

He is an outstanding offensive center, but ryan anderson gets 9 mil a year so lopez wants max.

Really high^
No problem Huey.

Ya’ll hear Kobe saying today’s USA team would beat the Dream Team. Shot’s fired by Bean.

Kobe said what?! I didn’t see this. Oh lord, he’s going down in flakes

@NBK. If Teletovic starts at the the 4 we will get killed on the boards. That doesn’t make any sense at all. He practically lives on the perimeter. Career average 4.7 boards per 28 min or so, .405 from three. He should back up Crash at the three spot. Slashing for shooting. We need Hump and Wedgie at the 4. No way Brooklyn can afford running an experiment with an unproven European playing out of position. Stakes are very high.

@lake I looked it up, LOL I love how in turn Ibaka said Spain matches up talent wise with USA.

Have you watched him jump off 2 feet. He will get abused in the post by a long list of very athletic PF’s.
Use him to his strengths, keep his confidence up. He’s like a carbon copy of Linas Kleiza with accurate aim, slightly less athleticism.

You keep hearing well hear this!!!!!!

Can you name a precedent… coming from the Balkan region, that was 6’10 or less and dominated the PF position. I bet you can’t! Because Croatia basketball doesn’t bother with producing dominant Power Forwards, they produce shooters. You would know that if you had played against 15/16 year old Croatian kids who at 6’8, 6’9, 6’10 and would do nothing but shoot long range despite their height advantage.
Trust me!

So here we drafted a SF/PF who possibly is a liability on D and a mediocre defensive rebounder, but can create his own shot and shoots the lights out. We know we have 2 proven beasts on the boards which is all we need since we have scoring covered at the 1,2,3 and 5 spots.

So we go after Mirza but it’s a hard sell cause he’s the man in Europe and might want to stay. We just signed Wallace to a contract who is a definite starter at SF, so the PF spot is dangled since we don’t have a household name there and told him we’ll pay you X amount and plus you’ll have the starting spot.
Next day they propose him a reduced contract change(monetary) for the greater good. It seems he’s still on board.

But according to NBK mysterious sources he’s got the PF locked down and Hump who was the heartbeat of the Franchise these past 2 yrs is getting shipped because the minority owners rhyme buddy who lives in the Chi is humpin his ex.

Where do you pull this info out off… Mad Magazine. Then you point out that Kleiza is 1 inch shorter than Mirza and therefore not at all the same and dare question my logic.

I’m not suprised, we’ve been here before.
Whether your sources are right or wrong the scenario doesn’t make sense.
What makes sense is him coming of the bench in his first year as a 6th man, behind Wallace since he’s the oldest on the roster (I assume). Lopez needs help down low and Teletovic is not the one who will give it to him. If used as a PF his career in the NBA will be a dud.

Free gift

He’s not playing the 3. He is not a carbon copy of Kleiza. He’s a less athletic Power Forward who has similar strengths. If Humphries stays (which I am constantly hearing likely won’t happen) then he will not start. But other than that he will. Just because YOU call him a 3 (with whatever dumb logic comes with taking an unathletic player and putting him against the most athletic guys in the league) doesn’t mean anybody else does. Nobody has projected him to play the 3 at the NBA level. Not one person. If he doesn’t start then that’s fine with me. Not saying I think he should, just that I’m hearing he will. And I know he’s not playing the 3, because he’s not athletic enough. Or should I say, he’s not close enough to a Carbon Copy of Linas Kleiza?
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(Popular NBA comparisons, Al Harrington, Brian Cardinal, Ryan Anderson, Brian Scalabrine) – none of which being a small forward. Or Linas Kleiza.

Nbk v dutchrich. Your both giving 110%.