Delonte Resigned by Cavs

[Frontierboy]

Wow, they paid a little over 4 million a year for 3 years for Delonte. Don't get me wrong, Delonte is good, but not worth that much.

Wow, he's making more money than House and TA, and both of them have championship rings.

No justice in the NBA I tell you......

But good for Delonte for ripping the Cavs off..... the less money they have to get difference makers, the better for the Celtics

[zerophase]

Wow, they paid a little over 4 million a year for 3 years for Delonte. Don't get me wrong, Delonte is good, but not worth that much.

Wow, he's making more money than House and TA, and both of them have championship rings.

No justice in the NBA I tell you......

But good for Delonte for ripping the Cavs off..... the less money they have to get difference makers, the better for the Celtics

uhh... no. that deal is very reasonable and you cannot even begin to compare his deal to one for house and tony allen. allen is comming back from injury and house is 32 now? so what if they have rings? if delonte were still here, he would have a ring too. a ton of role players have rings but unless they're like a robert horry with too many rings, a ring for a role player doesn't mean too much. delonte is starter material.

[2008CELTICS17]

The Cavs have all these small parts to a championship team,but no championship team. 3 point guards that could maybe start? Why would they do that? I don't know. They have only one difference maker that's the
BIG Z! Big Ben is over the hill. Wally is a good 6th or 7th man on a title contender,but no starter or second option. We saw that happen for the C's and it did'nt work! This team has taken steps back,and poor moves. Thats fine for me,and Lebron will leave and go to a New York team. Maybe even out West.Bottom line they need a solid wing with lebron. A Shawn Marion type or Ricahrd Jefferson,and maybe a ageing Vince Carter could help for a short term fix. This makes me happy for the Celtics.

[liam]

Wow, they paid a little over 4 million a year for 3 years for Delonte. Don't get me wrong, Delonte is good, but not worth that much.

Wow, he's making more money than House and TA, and both of them have championship rings.

No justice in the NBA I tell you......

But good for Delonte for ripping the Cavs off..... the less money they have to get difference makers, the better for the Celtics

uhh... no. that deal is very reasonable and you cannot even begin to compare his deal to one for house and tony allen. allen is comming back from injury and house is 32 now? so what if they have rings? if delonte were still here, he would have a ring too. a ton of role players have rings but unless they're like a robert horry with too many rings, a ring for a role player doesn't mean too much. delonte is starter material.

I love Delonte, but he's a combo guard off the bench. So are all the other guards on the Cavs.

[kenmaine]

Glad to see Delonte get the deal. He should be set for life financially.
He played really well for the Cavs, but I agree with others that he's only a borderline starter, and definitely not a "difference maker".
Maybe we can make a deal with the Cavs- Pruitt, Scal, TA, and a couple of second round picks in exchange for Z and Delonte

[cdif911]

good deal for West, good for the Cavs - he's the perfect 6th/7th man for that squad - he can spell Mo Williams, Wally (Bron slides to the 3) or even Lebron if there's foul trouble - its a versatile team now - I still think Lebron needs his 2nd in command like Jordan had Pippen, but the role players are shaping up nicely

[Bulldog33]

ESPN reports that Delonte signed with Cleveland for $12.5M for 3 years with the third year Cleveland's option. ( http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3584268 ). I think he got mildly screwed by holding out for a better offer from someone else so long. Assuming that they gave him the standard 8% increases for each of the three years, this would mean he got $3.85M for the first, $4.17M for the second and $4.47M for the third-CLE option).

Cleveland gave Boobie 5 years guarnateed (no option) at about this level. Delonte clearly is better than Boobie. His offensive PER at PG is 15 vs. 13 for Boobie and he holds his opponents PER to 15 (vs. 19 for Boobie). Cleveland obviously agrees he's better than Boobie - they started him over Boobie at PG at the end of the seaon and the playoffs. The third year team option for Delonte really sucks - I surprised he agreed to it. I could see him taking these numbers if the third year was his option. Also, Delonte has to worry about playing time with Mo Williams now at the point. If I was Delonte, I would have signed the one year restricted FA offer and played it out and looked elsewhere next year.

[Mr October]

compared to boobie, looks like delonte got low balled...

Although I think $4 per year makes sense for Delonte. He should be a 6th, 7th or 8th man combo guard on a championship team.

Gibson on the other hand, is way over paid. Heck i think i'd rather have Eddie House over Gibson.

[Frontierboy]

Don't get me wrong, I wish we could have signed Delonte if we couldn't get House signed.  He would have been an excellent backup to Rondo and Ray.

I'd say he's a 3 mil/year player. 

[Edgar]

every dime spend on Delonte is a dime well spent

Did I told u hes my Boy?