The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

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Should the Blazers puruse Carmelo Anthony?

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  1. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Maybe. It still doesn't give Houston anything any other team would want.
     
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  2. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Not at all.
     
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    Now we know what Leonard hasn't been working on.
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    If he wants to go to Houston, I'm fine with that. It just seems like it's short sighted though.

    But that's fine, I never believed Portland had a chance anyways. This is just more AAU influence.
     
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  5. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I don't see how the NBA doesn't recognize that this is bad for the future of the league. These super teams.
     
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    Scalma Well-Known Member

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    If you could go play with your best friends wouldn't you?
     
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  7. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    And that is the fault of the league. The rules allow it.
     
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    What rules? The rules give players every incentive to stay with their current teams. This isn't a league problem. When players take paycuts to team up whose fault is it?
     
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    This is good. Gives Neil more firepower. "Keep your 8 million and come to Portland."
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    My best friends suck at basketball.
     
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    While this current warriors team exists, I encourage all super stars to band together like the fuckin super friends if it'll take these golden jerks out.
     
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    I don't mean at all to be combative in asking, but what do you propose? Eliminating free agency? Making guys take the most money?
     
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    The NFL lets teams put a franchise tag on a player. At least it forces a team to give up assets if they pillage a marquee player.
     
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    RipCityDSCPL Could be worse, at least it's not Lonzo.

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    That's no way to talk about the 3 on 3 team.:ghoti:
     
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    The NFL draft has 7 rounds though. It's easier to give up compensation. Same with MLB. Asking a team to give up pretty much 100% of their draft picks to sign someone whose contract expired seems bad, for both sides.
     
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    The NBA doesn't understand how you don't recognize that the supermax contracts that are given out now (like Blake Griffin's) will ultimately rid the NBA of super teams. :)
     
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    And that's why the compensation for the player should be so high that teams only use it on the very best players.
     
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    The unguaranteed contracts in the NFL, although bad for the player, are great for major sports leagues. Could you imagine if we could just cut Meyers, ET and regain all that money to spend in free agency? Guaranteed contracts are great for the players but make team decisions so crucial that if you fuck it up you could be screwed for 3-4 years.

    The NBA would be so much more fun to watch if all contracts weren't fully guaranteed or just more incentive based.
     
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    What money? the full MLE? Cause Portland wouldn't have 28ish mil to spend this summer.
     
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    Well they wouldn't have the full amount but if the guaranteed portion was given in the signing bonus (as most of them are in the NFL) and all guaranteed money was given to those players, once they're cut you don't owe them a dime. If Meyers contract was 4 yrs 40 mil but with only 15 mil guaranteed and given to him in his first year then cutting him would essentially free up that cap space. So, no we wouldn't have the full 28 mil but we would have a lot of it.
     
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