As I said, would anyone in the world consider Rashard Lewis a “bad fit” in Orlando? No. Would anyone consider Kenyon Martin a “bad fit” in Denver? No. How about Michael Redd in Milwaukee? Peja in NO? Kirilenko in Utah?

All crippling contracts, all overpaid, all holding back their team from doing what they want to do in free agency. But you will never hear anyone use the term “bad fit” to describe any of them, and if you did, it would refer to their on court or locker room impact, not their financial impact.

Clearly your choice of words was just not the best, but your initial defense of “mostly because I hate him!” did not address the questions I asked about him being a bad fit. Therefore, my assumption was that bias was driving your statement that he would be a bad fit. I don’t think that’s an unfair assumption to make.

If your intent in saying that Marion and Ariza were better fits was actually to acknowledge the salary differences, then I apologize for criticizing your writing, but you have to understand that A) anyone reading the term “better fit for our team” with no indication that you were talking about salary would assume you were talking about actual impact in terms of basketball, and B) defending yourself with “I hate him, I’m biased, I admit to using bias in my writing” doesn’t strengthen your case in the slightest.

And regardless, a $10 million difference over 5 years doesn’t really afford us with that much flexibility (in regards to Ariza) With Marion, I agree, because the shorter term is attractive in my opinion.

And I would LOVE Kleiza coming off the bench.

@ Earth Juice: I like Kleiza signing if it happens because he has 3pt range that Marion lack if he comes back.

You took my statement to only mean he was a bad fit on the court. Saying he is a bad fit for the team implies more than just on the court ability but reflects all aspects of Hedo coming to Toronto, which you didn’t seem to understand. I stand by my statement that Hedo is a worse fit despite my bias against him. I can be objective (and mostly was in this article) the only real bias I showed was in the comments.

I still think Hedo will be a decent starter in the NBA at 35 though.

If we’re going after Lee, that signals to me that either Bosh or Bargnani is going to be moved (most likely Bosh, of course) I like Lee, but he doesn’t bring anything near what Bosh does. I don’t see how a Lee/Bosh/Bargs rotation would work, as none of them can play the 3, and there aren’t enough minutes for three guys that talented.

The offseason has taken a very interesting turn for Toronto in the past couple of days. I’m excited to see how this all pans out.

But…I still don’t like Hedo’s age. I really do think that Bosh will leave at the end his contract because I doubt Hedo would be enough to convice him to stay. So, having a 30+ year old with a huge salary while your trying to rebuild probably won’t help.