I'll admit I was wrong... the Warriors are not the only stupid franchise, and the Blazers would be bidding against them. Aldridge's contract looks much better to me now and I was wrong to think that we could get him more cheaply. Ed O.
Cool of you to man up and admit you were wrong and repped. I try and do that too. Unfortunately some on this forum would clearly rather do a stint in Gitmo then admit they were wrong about ANYTHING.
The S2 server doesn't have the memory capacity to store all the incidents where I've been wrong about this team.
I too was wrong about Aldridge's contract. Based on what occured this summer, his contract now looks average. Still not a bargain, but acceptable. It is the market that matters. And this year's market is much frothier than last year. We are one more year removed from the crash. A bunch of teams cleared space for the best free agent class in history. The salary cap came in significantly higher than expected/predicted. I still think however, that he was overpaid last year as the market was different. That still made it a risk, and something of a mistake in my mind. What's done is done, and the Blazers gamble in extending Aldridge has gone their way a bit. Now, in this "new" market Aldridge has a movable contract. And, the extra money they pay him is Allen's.
