Suns get chance to woo Finley - Wasn't he going to Miami? ;)

[Yuma]

Suns get chance to woo Finley
Miami can offer him more cash

Paul Coro
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 23, 2005 12:00 AM

Miami has more money to offer Michael Finley, but the Suns get the same amount of face time today as the Heat had Monday to recruit the NBA's most popular free agent.

Suns Managing Partner Robert Sarver, President Bryan Colangelo and All-Star Amaré Stoudemire will fly to Chicago today to meet with the former Suns swingman in his hometown. Finley and his agent, Henry Thomas, also met there Monday with Miami President Pat Riley and coach Stan Van Gundy, who coached Finley at Wisconsin in 1994-95.

San Antonio may meet Finley on Thursday. Some deemed Detroit to be Miami's stiffest competition in the Finley chase, but the Pistons agreed to a two-year, $7 million deal Monday with Dale Davis. That takes take up most of the $5 million midlevel exception Detroit would have offered Finley.

Miami is the front-runner with all of its midlevel exception available. The Suns can offer only a $1.1 million veteran's minimum while the Spurs have about $2.5 million of its exception remaining.

A salary offset lessens the differences between offers for Finley, who wants to play for a contender. He stands to collect the remaining $51.8 million on his deal with the Mavericks.

Finley, 32, averaged 15.7 points last season on 43 percent shooting, including 41 percent three-point accuracy.

The Suns also are considering a sign-and-trade deal for Indiana swingman James Jones, but Joe Johnson's physical must be completed in Atlanta before the Suns' $6 million trade exception can be used.

According to all the "experts," I thought Finley was a done deal to Miami yesterday?

Like how JJ is STILL holding us up on acquiring players this off season!

 

[Azlen]

He is still going to sign with Miami, but he wants to get a copy of his Suns book before he does.

 

[SactownSunsFan]

Hopefully they're taking the crate full of e-mails from us Suns fans with them.

 

[coloradosun]

He met with Riley and Van Gundy in Chicago yesterday, not sure why he did not go to Miami to visit. It was reported that they had banners outside the arena down there with him in a Heat uniform.

The Suns are doing the same and using their player/executive Amare to do the negotiating.

Joe Johnson still has to take a physical for Atlanta, that's interesting. There were some reporters that had noted that because Eddy Curry was the only guy the Hawks actually brought in to look at.

 

[ActingWild]

Nash isn't among those going to try and sway Michael to come here???

 

[Yuma]

Wouldn't it be really funny if JJ couldn't pass his physical after all the drama that's gone on since the trade? Especially if we could resign him for $50 million at this late date if Atlanta would actually void the trade if he failed his physical!

I know the above is a pipe dream, but I would LMAO, if it actually happened! How bad would JJ and Atlanta look after all that?

 

[mribnik]

Wouldn't it be really funny if JJ couldn't pass his physical after all the drama that's gone on since the trade? Especially if we could resign him for $50 million at this late date if Atlanta would actually void the trade if he failed his physical!

I know the above is a pipe dream, but I would LMAO, if it actually happened! How bad would JJ and Atlanta look after all that?

Even though the chances of him failing his physical are very slim, if I were the Atlanta Hawks, I'd wait until he passed to introduce him, no?

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

Even though the chances of him failing his physical are very slim, if I were the Atlanta Hawks, I'd wait until he passed to introduce him, no?

Miami didn't with Walker and the deal almost fell through.

 

[sunsfn]

Also, the Nets had Rahim locked up and it did not fly because of the physical, and was cancelled.

 

[mribnik]

Also, the Nets had Rahim locked up and it did not fly because of the physical, and was cancelled.

Did they have a press conference for him?

 

[sunsfn]

Did they have a press conference for him?

Not sure about that, but they announced it was going to happen in the papers.

 

[DrBennettPMR]

Can we use the trade exemption to get Finley?

Can we use a 2nd team to help secure Finley? If some team is below the cap and wants to secure draft picks, couldn't they sign Finley to a $5,000,000/year contract and trade him to us for these picks which would of course use up the exemption we received from Atlanta and cost us a 1st-round pick.

Maybe some team like the Bucks(if they are under the cap) could sign him and get these picks for essentially nothing out of their pocket. Is there a restriction to this kind of a trade. I'd love to get Finley for the mere minimum we are offering. But, I think we need to up the offer to 5 million using this trade exemption if I haven't overlooked some rule.

 

[devilalum]

Did they have a press conference?

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[elindholm]

If some team is below the cap and wants to secure draft picks, couldn't they sign Finley to a $5,000,000/year contract and trade him to us for these picks

I would have expected thegrahamcrackr to respond to this, but I guess he slit his own throat instead.

No, you can't sign-and-trade another team's free agent.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

Did they have a press conference?

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Someone photoshop this one, stat!!!


/seriously
//do it now, please
///slashidy slash slash

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

If some team is below the cap and wants to secure draft picks, couldn't they sign Finley to a $5,000,000/year contract and trade him to us for these picks

I would have expected thegrahamcrackr to respond to this, but I guess he slit his own throat instead.

No, you can't sign-and-trade another team's free agent.

Unbelieveable

 

[fordronken]

Okay, but what if another team signed him and then traded him to us so we could use the trade exception we got from the JJ trade? Can you do that?

 

[nothin' but net]

Okay, but what if another team signed him and then traded him to us so we could use the trade exception we got from the JJ trade? Can you do that?

I was kind of thinking the same thing. What if the real reason he is supposedly "favoring" Miami is so he could go there then demand a trade so we could use the trade exception on him.

Can we do that? I mean is it legal? What would prevent it, Grahamcracker?

Huh?

 

[thegrahamcrackr]

I was kind of thinking the same thing. What if the real reason he is supposedly "favoring" Miami is so he could go there then demand a trade so we could use the trade exception on him.

Can we do that? I mean is it legal? What would prevent it, Grahamcracker?

Huh?

Didn't somebody say a toaster in the bathtub was a good way to go out?

 

[fordronken]

Didn't somebody say a toaster in the bathtub was a good way to go out?

I'll leave it plugged in for you.

 

[PetryJr]

Okay, but what if another team signed him and then traded him to us so we could use the trade exception we got from the JJ trade? Can you do that?

It never gets old.