How so. Because of insurance reasons with roy signing a contract means he's not disabled so now were on the hook for part of his contract that we amnestied. We also knew that Martell had a bad back when we traded him but didn't say anything so now there sueing us for compensation. What did i get wrong.
We? This is funny. But I'll go ahead and humor you. 1. By amnestying Roy and him getting picked up by another team, the new contract offsets part of his old contract, which reduces some of the liability for the original team, secondly the Blazers were going to be staring down the barrell of the luxury tax if they had kept him so that removes whatever penalty the would have had to pay, so while they'll still take a little bit of a hit it won't be full freight. 2. On the Webster trade the Wolves team physician signed off on the trade physical, so that should be on them. Tough titties for not doing due diligence.
I really don't see how we owe them any compensation for that. If their doctors had caught anything in his physical they could have reneged the trade.
Sources: Teams in grudge match Updated: July 14, 2012, 9:00 PM ET By Ric Bucher | ESPN The Magazine 163 92 1K Email Print The Minnesota Timberwolves' attempt to acquire restricted free agent Nicolas Batum from the Portland Trail Blazers apparently has devolved into a grudge match -- at least for the Blazers -- that involves far more than the talented young small forward. The Timberwolves, league sources say, are prepared to sign Batum to a four-year, $46.4 million offer sheet Sunday after repeatedly trying to trade for him. They have offered as many as three future first-round draft picks and even have dangled small forward Derrick Williams, the No. 2 pick in the 2011 draft. NBA Free Agency NBA NBA free agency is under way, and ESPN.com has you covered with all the latest deals, trades and potential moves. Free agents | Trade Targets | RC Insider • Insider: Free-agent PER rankings Insider • More: TrueHoop | Trade Machine The Blazers have resisted every overture even though multiple sources say Portland management believes $46.4 million is vastly more than Batum is worth. Batum's desire to leave Portland began last winter when the Blazers offered him an extension that averaged $5 million per year, a source said. That is less than half of what Minnesota is prepared to offer now. The Timberwolves also tried to orchestrate a deal that would have sent small forward Kyle Korver to the Blazers, along with the future first-round picks, in a three-way deal involving the Chicago Bulls. That, too, was rejected by Portland. The Bulls agreed to trade Korver to the Atlanta Hawks as part of a three-team deal involving the Timberwolves on Friday night. This, of course, is not the first time the Blazers and Timberwolves have had trade talks -- and that's part of the problem. Even before the battle for Batum began, the teams were working to resolve a dispute, a league source said. The Blazers traded swingman Martell Webster to the Timberwolves in a 2010 draft-night trade for Ryan Gomes and the rights to Minnesota's No. 16 pick, Luke Babbitt. The following fall, Webster had back surgery because of a bulging disk. The Blazers were aware of the injury but did not disclose it before the trade, a league source said. The two teams since have been quietly negotiating compensatory terms but have not been able to reach an agreement. The Timberwolves released Webster on Friday as part of a cost-cutting measure to open salary-cap room for Batum's offer sheet. Nicolas Batum Batum That former Blazers guard Brandon Roy has agreed to a two-year, $10 million deal with the Timberwolves also has Portland owner Paul Allen thinking Minnesota is trying to make life difficult for him, a source said. Roy retired before last season because of degenerative knees. The Blazers still owed him $49 million over three years at the time, but an insurance policy was expected to cover a significant chunk of that. If he returns to play, however, that policy no longer can be invoked and the Blazers are back on the hook for what they owe him, minus the $10 million Minnesota will pay him, sources say. The balance due from the Blazers could be as much as $17 million, one source said. Timberwolves president David Kahn is from Portland and once covered the team as a sportswriter for The Oregonian, but a team source insists there is no personal element coloring the Timberwolves' interest in Batum or Roy or pursuing damages for Webster. The team even offered to relax its position on Webster in exchange for dealing them Batum. As for Roy, "He chose Minnesota, and if he weren't playing for them, he'd be playing somewhere else and Paul would still be out that money," a source said. Why are we negotiating with them then? Plus in this article it says were going to pay as much as 17 million.
This guy needs to be banned. He just violated the TOS by cutting and pasting a whole article without citing his source and failing to quote words that are not his own. #itsjusttherightthingtodo
Well i figured since it said espn the magizine and ric bucher at the top you could have figured it out. Apparently I'm not dealing with smart people here. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/8...a-timberwolves-odds-nicolas-batum-sources-say here's the link.
