[外電] Riley: Beasley not being shopped, triple-max a longshot

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MIAMI — In the wake of a bold move by the Chicago Bulls at Thursday's NBA Draft to create enough salary-cap space to add two top-tier free agents, Miami Heat President Pat Riley downplayed the notion of his team plotting to sign three maximum-level free agents. "I want to build a team, and it takes five guys to build a team, and whatever kind of room we created, it's to build a team," Riley stressed early Friday morning, after selecting three players in the second round, the team's lone draft choices. With the Heat already having cleared enough salary-cap space to re-sign star guard Dwyane Wade and another maximum-level free agent, Riley then created additional cap space by trading guard Daequan Cook and a first-round draft pick Wednesday to the Oklahoma City Thunder. That presented the opportunity for the Heat to potentially open a third maximum -salary slot with a trade of 2008 No. 2 overall draft pick Michael Beasley. Riley, however, denied numerous reports that his team spent Thursday trying to move Beasley during the draft. "That's not going to happen," Riley insisted of potentially selling Beasley off for additional cap space. "We are not that desperate for room, to trade the second pick in the draft. "We want to build around him." Riley insisted the Beasley rumors took on a life of their own. "As soon as that story got out," he said, "I must have got 25 calls from people ." By agreeing to a trade that will send guard Kirk Hinrich and Thursday's No. 17 draft choice to the Washington Wizards, the Bulls are in position to add the likes of LeBron James and Chris Bosh to a core that already includes Derrick Rose, Joakim Noah and Luol Deng. In the wake of those moves, it revived talk of Riley trying to come up with his own big three, pairing Wade with a power player such as Bosh or Amare Stoudemire and then also adding a perimeter player such as James, Joe Johnson or Rudy Gay, with all impending free agents. Riley, however, downplayed the notion of such a grouping of premier talent. "I want to build a team and it takes five guys to build a team," he said, "and whatever kind of room we created, it's to build a team, and we have the ability to do that. "There's going to be a core foundation and then there's going to be whatever that foundation will support. So I don't care what anybody else does." Riley said it is important not to react to the approaches of other teams. "I've been at this for two years now," he said of his work with lead associate Andy Elisburg and owner Micky Arison, "and Andy and Micky and all of us have been at this for two years. We've stayed with the plan, and in another two weeks we'll go out there and see what the market's all about and where the pieces end up landing." The free-agent recruiting period opens July 1, with the signing period beginning July 8. One additional housekeeping task fell into place earlier in the day, with backup center Joel Anthony bypassing his contract option for 2010-11. Anthony had until midnight Thursday to invoke that option. That deadline passed without a move by Anthony. With the Heat moving toward a buyout with forward James Jones, one that will be completed by his June 30 deadline unless the 3-point specialist is traded in the interim, it would leave Beasley and point guard Mario Chalmers as the team's only players under contract heading into the July 1 start of free agency The Heat last week invoked Chalmers' 2010-11 option. Wednesday, it dealt Cook and the $2.2 million final year on his contract to the Thunder. That trade also sent the Heat's No. 18 overall selection to the Thunder, which eliminated that $1.2 million salary obligation. Kentucky guard Eric Bledsoe was selected with that No. 18 pick by Oklahoma City and later traded to the Los Angeles Clippers. "Based on the draft tonight and what we did yesterday in moving our pick and also trading Daequan, we have continued to do the things we have to do to be a room team," Riley said. Although the Heat added three players from the second round of Thursday's draft , those picks do not receive guaranteed contracts and therefore do not automatically count against the salary cap. As for Beasley, the buzz from the draft continued to offer indications mixed signals. Personnel sources from several teams said Beasley was in play Thursday, with many of the permutations offering the Heat little more than cap space in return . Among the possibilities mentioned was a deal for Minnesota Timberwolves forward Ryan Gomes, who can be bought out for $1 million prior to June 30. Gomes later was dealt to the Portland Trail Blazers for forward Martell Webster. The contracts of Beasley and Chalmers as well as the buyout fee for Jones would run about $8 million against next season's projected $56 million salary cap. That would leave the Heat as the league leader in cap space, even with Chicago's pending trade, one that cannot be completed, by cap rules, before July 8. While Beasley is due $4.96 million next season and Chalmers $854,000, there will be additional limitations on the Heat's salary cap space. Jones' buyout will cost the Heat $1.86 million against the salary cap. Should the Heat, as expected, make a qualifying offer to Anthony, and therefore retain the right to match outside offers for the restricted free agent, that would require a $1.7 million cap hold. In addition to those figures, Wade, another member of this summer's free-agent class, is expected to re-sign at a contract starting at roughly $16.6 million. Wade has a June 30 deadline for a 2010-11 option year that he is expected to allow to expire. The decision to bypass the opt-in makes Anthony more expensive to the Heat. Anthony had an opt-in for $885,120 next season, after earning $825,497 this past season, his third in the league. However, the Heat now has to extend a qualifying offer of roughly $1 million for 2010-11 in order to match outside offers. In addition, until such a qualifying offer is accepted, Anthony would count at double his 2009-10 salary against the 2010-11 salary cap. While maximizing cap space has been the Heat's ultimate goal, Anthony is cheap enough labor that the Heat might be willing to pay the $1 million qualifying offer. However, it is possible that Anthony receives an outside offer at the NBA's $2.08 million Bi-Annual exception. ============================================================================== 有點落落長，就是Riley在說官話提到不一定會簽三個頂級合約因為要為未來保留空間洨畢很多人尬意，但我們不會亂交易我們的榜眼俊傑將在7/1前被買斷，屆時我們薪資空間可以再稍大一些 Riley想在今年打造火火五虎，用這五人來打造球隊 (我是GM) JA跳出了合約，目前熱火提出了一年將近百萬的延長合約預料，JA可能會希望有份雙倍的年薪(去年85萬) 但不管怎樣，他還是很便宜 (笑) -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.228.28.168