Wolves, Sessions Near Offer Sheet

[ncf135]

Re: Wolves, Session Near Offer Sheet

Are you pissed right now to be a bucks fan? That is a fantastic deal for a player of sessions abiliity. Poor management and poor ownership never mix well.

Actually, I am in "don't re-sign Sessions" camp among Bucks fans. And I am very happy with this offseason. I expect playoff if healthy. I can't remember when I was excited as much as I am now. Next season is goiing to be great for the Bucks

 

[ncf135]

If the Bucks don't match they may win only a single-digit amount of games.

:chuckles:

If healthy we will win between 40 and 45 games no metter what hapens with Sessions. If we do match he will be our 3rd string behind Jennings and Ridnour (that's why we will probably not match). Our team is Bogut, Redd, Jennings and Skiles. Everybody else are role players. We will go as far as Bogut is healthy.

 

[Blue Magic]

So you think Jennings is gonna get the start over Ridnour? I hope so, cause I hated Skiles starting him over Sessions last year. That boy Jenneings can be an ast/atls BEAST next year if given the minutes!

 

[ncf135]

So you think Jennings is gonna get the start over Ridnour?

Exactly. It can change if Jennings has terrible camp and Ridnour has great camp but as of right now Skiles will start BJ

 

[Jon]

Starting a raw rookie PG like Jennings is pretty much a guaranteed sub.500 record ... not that Ridnour or Sessions raise the odds all that much.

 

[ChicagoCavFan]

Certainties in life:

Death

Taxes

Optimistic Milwaukee fans, only to be bitterly disappointed.

 

[ncf135]

Certainties in life:

Death

Taxes

Optimistic Milwaukee fans, only to be bitterly disappointed because their 2 best players missed most of the season

Fixed. But I hope this time we will be healthy

 

[King J]

Bucks wont match offer sheet to Sessions

In accordance with statements Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond made to ESPN.com early Friday, the team has not matched the four-year, $16.4 million offer sheet restricted free agent Ramon Sessions received earlier this month from the Minnesota Timberwolves.



"We are not going to match the Ramon Sessions offer sheet," Hammond told ESPN.com on Friday. "As always we will be diligent in looking to improve our roster. We wish Ramon the very best."





Sessions


The Bucks had until 5 p.m. Friday to decide whether to match the offer, but their attempts over the past few days to find a salary-shedding trade to create sufficient wiggle room beneath the $69.9 million luxury-tax line to keep Sessions proved unsuccessful.



Matching on Sessions was always considered highly unlikely without Milwaukee trading away someone else first, because the cost-conscious Bucks are less than $2 million beneath the luxury-tax line.



Although the Bucks did not want to lose Sessions after the free-agent departure earlier this summer of Charlie Villanueva to Detroit, they were not prepared to go into tax territory with Brandon Jennings drafted as Milwaukee's point guard of the future in June and two more lead guards (Luke Ridnour and Roko Ukic) on the payroll.



The Wolves quickly targeted Sessions to help fill the void created by No. 5 overall pick Ricky Rubio's decision to play at least the next two seasons in his native Spain. Signing Sessions also ensures the presence of a veteran point guard to ease the transition to the NBA for No. 6 overall pick Jonny Flynn.



Yet it remains to be seen whether all three of those guards have a long-term future with the club.



The Wolves have been adamant that they will wait two years for Rubio if necessary. But Rubio's decision to sign with Barcelona when the perennial Spanish powerhouse offered to pay his entire $5 million buyout with DJK Joventut, coupled with Sessions' arrival, only figures to encourage teams interested in Rubio -- such as the New York Knicks -- to try to pry him away from Minnesota via trade.



Sessions was courted for much of the summer by the Knicks and Los Angeles Clippers. But both teams were reluctant to commit long-term deals to the 23-year-old.



The Knicks remain hesitant to burn salary-cap space for the summer of 2010 and the Clippers saw Sessions as no more than a third guard behind Baron Davis and Eric Gordon.



Sessions averaged 12.4 points and 5.7 assists last season in 79 games, 39 of those as a starter. He spent most of the 2007-08 season in the D-League before joining Milwaukee in a March call-up and promptly setting a franchise single-game record with 24 assists in an April 2008 loss to the Chicago Bulls.



After the signing of Sessions and the trade earlier this week with the New Orleans Hornets in which the Wolves moved Darius Songaila's contract off the books to land another veteran combo guard in Antonio Daniels, Minnesota is projected to have up to $10 million to $13 million in salary-cap space in the summer of 2010.



Marc Stein is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4465626

 

[Man Called X]

What is it with Milwaukee not liking to keep good young point guards?

 

[Gimme Some Mo]

Re: Wolves, Session Near Offer Sheet

Actually, I am in "don't re-sign Sessions" camp among Bucks fans. And I am very happy with this offseason. I expect playoff if healthy. I can't remember when I was excited as much as I am now. Next season is goiing to be great for the Bucks

I am going to assume you are joking. How can you possibly be happy with losing 3 of your top 5 players that are all still young?

 

[Obawan12]

I can decide who will be the worst team in the east this season, the Nets or the Bucks. I think the Bucks, cause at least the Nets got something for VC. Harris/Lee is a decent backcourt and Lopez will be good. The Bucks have nothing. Hammond is definitely the worst GM in the league.

 

[*L-Train*]

I can decide who will be the worst team in the east this season, the Nets or the Bucks. I think the Bucks, cause at least the Nets got something for VC. Harris/Lee is a decent backcourt and Lopez will be good. The Bucks have nothing. Hammond is definitely the worst GM in the league.

hammond definitely is a bad gm but what should he do if the bucks are in financial trouble? that's why he gave up jefferson for nothing and didn't keep sessions and villanueva. i really feel sorry for michael redd he should have signed that contract with us back in the days when we had cap space...

 

[Randolphkeys]

If the Wolves play this one right, they will move an expiring contract with Rubio, bringing in a bonafide scoring swingman. Minny isn't terribly far away from making a run at the playoffs.

As for the Bucks, well, maybe someday they will hit paydirt with all those lottery picks.

 

[AMC]

How about this trade to solidify Minnesotas future and now:

Twolves trade:
Rights to Ricky Rubio
Mark Blount
Corey Brewer
2010 2nd Round Pick
cash

Kings trade:
Kevin Martin

This trade helps both teams since the Wolves don't need Rubio and the Kings do.
Kings lineup:
Rubio/Evans/Greene/Thompson/Hawes

Twolves lineup:
Sessions or Flynn/K-Mart/Gomes/Love/Al Jefferson

 

[Thunder]

Wolves need a scorer on the wing badly, best case scenario is move Rubio to the Knicks for Wilson Chandler.

And Bucks are going to suck, letting go of their 2 best young players in Villanueva and Sessions in the same offseason. Bogut's barely at all-star level, Warrick will prob. be starting at PF, Redd is declining IMO, and their two best young players are Luc Mbah a Moute and Jennings. And we'll see if Jennings can back up all the shit he talks...