Owners that cheap out when their team is a title contender drives me nuts. Wouldn't winning a title be the best part of owning a team? Pro sports teams don't lose money, you may lose some money in a given year but you have an insanely valuable asset that only increases in value. If you want to be cheap when you're bad, fine do that, collect the revenue sharing check and make money then. When you have a limited window and you're winning 55+ games and getting to the conference finals and selling first round draft picks every year like the mid 00's Suns, or amnestying Mike Miller to save a few million as a two time defending champ or flipping a guy like Harden a year early after making the Finals just to avoid paying the tax, it drives me nuts.
I think the Wizards, shockingly enough, had a great offseason. They got Gortat back at a fair value that might not look great in the back end but if the cap goes up as expected won't be too much of an issue, they avoided overpaying Ariza, they got a great temporary replacement in Paul Pierce, Otto Porter and Glen Rice Jr looked like legit NBA players in the summer league. The worst thing that they could do is take a big step back before 2016, as long as they stay somewhere in the 3-6 range in the East they will be able to sell themselves as title contenders with the addition of Durant. The next logical move is to upgrade from Randy Whitman, but maybe you try to get two more years out of him then let Durant have a say in the next coach if he signs there.
