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Yes but given his "banishment" from the league for multiple years, his low ceiling, the waiver order, and roster composition of other teams, it was pretty likely no one before Dallas would claim him.

Not saying Dallas WANTED Liggins no matter what, but I'd be shocked if this wasn't part of the back channel conversations that took place just before Williams and Bogut were bought out/waived.

Also:

Ahahaha holy shit. Since Liggins was never going to play anyway, this is hilarious.
 
yeah I am still not buying into that being the move,if it is whatever I guess we are just giving up on playing Defense this season in the hopes to outscore everyone.
This supposed rumor still not confirmed besides Haynes quoting Reichert. There are no "welcome to Cleveland Dahntay Jones" poppers on Cavs official site.
No real legitimate sources inside the organization have come out of the woodwork and said anything to confirm this. Why not? because it just aint true.
 
yeah I am still not buying into that being the move,if it is whatever I guess we are just giving up on playing Defense this season in the hopes to outscore everyone.
This supposed rumor still not confirmed besides Haynes quoting Reichert. There are no "welcome to Cleveland Dahntay Jones" poppers on Cavs official site.
No real legitimate sources inside the organization have come out of the woodwork and said anything to confirm this. Why not? because it just aint true.
Err, no. It’s been verified by multiple independent sources.

Is the Associated Press legit enough for you?
View: https://twitter.com/twithersAP/status/851915309145616384
 
Yes but given his "banishment" from the league for multiple years, his low ceiling, the waiver order, and roster composition of other teams, it was pretty likely no one before Dallas would claim him.

Not saying Dallas WANTED Liggins no matter what, but I'd be shocked if this wasn't part of the back channel conversations that took place just before Williams and Bogut were bought out/waived.

Also:
No, Dallas could actually really utilize a defensive guard like Liggins next season with their small guard lineups,If it were not for his lackluster ball handling ability, his defense alone would be enough to keep him in a rotation on 85% of the nba's active rosters.Not including Offensive powerhouses,or teams that have coaches that live and die on Offense on most nights. Liggins is undervalued by fans just like every other defensive specialist in this league,but every team covets players like this when they don't have one, and Dallas didn't.
 
No, Dallas could actually really utilize a defensive guard like Liggins next season with their small guard lineups,If it were not for his lackluster ball handling ability, his defense alone would be enough to keep him in a rotation on 85% of the nba's active rosters.Not including Offensive powerhouses,or teams that have coaches that live and die on Offense on most nights. Liggins is undervalued by fans just like every other defensive specialist in this league,but every team covets players like this when they don't have one, and Dallas didn't.

I was riffing of the College recruiting concept of an offer vs an OFFER. Wasn't trying to suggest that Dallas didn't want to grab Liggins. I think they did and I think this was planned out months ago. However, it wasn't so important of a WANT that the lack of 100% guarantee that they could get him through waivers would stop them from generously putting both Bogut and Willams on the market for us back at the end of Feb
 
Yes but given his "banishment" from the league for multiple years, his low ceiling, the waiver order, and roster composition of other teams, it was pretty likely no one before Dallas would claim him.

Not saying Dallas WANTED Liggins no matter what, but I'd be shocked if this wasn't part of the back channel conversations that took place just before Williams and Bogut were bought out/waived.

Also:

But how does this all affect Tony Romo's spot on the Mavs?
 
It wasnt repayment to Dallas.

It was Cuban and Gilbert helping each other out again.

Cuban got control of Liggins.

Gilbert saved 2.5 million in tax money on a guy that wasn't gonna play.

I'm totally buying that as the conspiracy. The Cavs definitely did this for the monetary savings. 100%. They knew he was getting claimed.
 
If we had held onto Liggins, re-signed Korver and traded Shumpert for somebody like Delly our guard rotation going into next season would be formidable.

Now we have a washed-up never-was for one playoff push. Reprehensible.
 
It wasnt repayment to Dallas.

It was Cuban and Gilbert helping each other out again.

Cuban got control of Liggins.

Gilbert saved 2.5 million in tax money on a guy that wasn't gonna play.

I'm totally buying that as the conspiracy. The Cavs definitely did this for the monetary savings. 100%. They knew he was getting claimed.

I assume Gilbert will get Cuban an extra nice "birthday present" this year.
 
He's the most credible Cleveland sports writer outside of McMenamin, Lloyd and Windhorst.
Yeah but the fact remains the person who supposedly spoke to the AP did so on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the team hasn't announced any deal.
Well, I guess that's a done deal then because ANONYMOUS said so?No, because whenever any player is signed by this organization it is released immediately.
He may very well be who we are signing unfortunately, but he has not been signed yet or it would have been released they we did so.
Regardless of what reputation any writer has,you have to take it with a grain of salt. No one is right 100% of the time,and Anonymous is wrong more than they are right.
I get the waiving of Liggins assuming that Griffin had a pretty good feel for Dallas having interest, monetarily anyway. But trying to wrap my head around signing Dahntay Jones when there are plenty of bigger holes to fill.
Liggins definitely could have helped us in the post season,not sure Jones would do much more than get a couple of hoops.
 
Yeah but the fact remains the person who supposedly spoke to the AP did so on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the team hasn't announced any deal.
Well, I guess that's a done deal then because ANONYMOUS said so?No, because whenever any player is signed by this organization it is released immediately.
He may very well be who we are signing unfortunately, but he has not been signed yet or it would have been released they we did so.
Regardless of what reputation any writer has,you have to take it with a grain of salt. No one is right 100% of the time,and Anonymous is wrong more than they are right.
I get the waiving of Liggins assuming that Griffin had a pretty good feel for Dallas having interest, monetarily anyway. But trying to wrap my head around signing Dahntay Jones when there are plenty of bigger holes to fill.
Liggins definitely could have helped us in the post season,not sure Jones would do much more than get a couple of hoops.

You really don't understand how this all works....

So, Woj is wrong and not credible? Because this is what you are getting at.
 
You really don't understand how this all works....

So, Woj is wrong and not credible? Because this is what you are getting at.
when it is official it is official , before that it is garbage.
 

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