Re-signing Nurkic should be #1 on Blazers agenda

He's young, developing, maturing, and has huge potential moving forward. His offensive game improved through the season, and the 4th quarter of the game 4 playoff game showed the improvement. Dame and Nurk have developed into a terrific tandem on the court. I can see the awesome possibilities moving forward.

 

This one is a no brainer. So is bringing back Ed, but Portland doesn’t completely control that situation. But from everything I’ve read Davis wants to be back so it shouldn’t be an issue. Napier and Connaughton can stay or go I don’t care. I know I wouldn’t give either one much more than the minimum though.

 

https://hoopshype.com/2018/05/22/jusuf-nurkic-portland-trail-blazers-free-agency/

 

I do think the big guy can help make us a contender. If he like the town and he has other reason to stay (lady, ladies) the Blazers will have a decent shot at keeping him. If The Zack Attack developed closer to the hoop, it will only make Nurkule's much more effective.
Also, I would tie some objective measurable performance/goals for pay incentives.

 

agree. I'd probably have to flip a coin as to weather I keep Shabazz or Patty fastball.

 

Other than the WAS offer (Full MLE), the author is just tossing around random numbers, but IF Nurk gets comparable offers, I see POR matching.

They would LOVE for him to sign a 4-year $34.4 million offer sheet with WAS and would jump all over matching that. That only comes to an average of $8.6 million/year.

The other (strictly hypothetical) offers are higher per season, but shorter in length (all with a total dollar amount less than Meyers Leonard's contract).

DAL: 2 years $32 million ($16 million/year)

ATL: 3 years $39 million ($13 million/year)

The hypothetical DAL offer is interesting. $16 million/year seems high in today's market (seems insane that two years ago Timofey Mozgov got 4 years at $16 million/year), but the 2-year contract length would give POR a LOT of flexibility in the summer of 2020. That's also the summer Turner, Leonard and Harkless all come off the books.

If you were GM, which of those offers would/wouldn't you match?

I'd definitely match the WAS offer. It's ridiculously below market value and would lock up Nurk at that below market rate for four seasons. I think Neil would wet himself with excitement if Nurk actually gave him the chance to match such a low ball offer.

I'd definitely match the DAL offer, due to the 2-year contract length and the flexibility it would give us in the summer of 2020. The per year salary is a bit above what I perceive as current market value, but the 2-year contract length is what makes it appealing. It will give us two more years to gauge Nurk's improvement and a chance to resign him longer term when we have more cap flexibility.

The ATL offer would give me the most pause, but to me it seems to be about right for current market value. So, I'd end up matching it rather than lose a valuable asset for nothing.

BNM

 

I'd match all 3 of those offers. Nurk at 13 per? That's a great Deal IMHO.

 

Game. Set. Match!

 

I think 4/52 is probably the max I would give Nurk... anything more I’d probably let him walk... For Ed I would go 2/18or 3/24 max... Shabazz I wouldn’t resign at any price, he needs to go to open minutes for Baldwin... Pat I would give 4/20 max

 

My biggest fear is some shit team like the Lakers (the same organization that gave Timofey Mozgov 4-years/$64 million) will clear a shit ton of cap space to try to sign LeBron and PG13, get rebuffed, and then in desperation to use all that cap space will throw something ridiculous like 4-years/$80 million at Nurk.

BNM

 

I'm certainly preparing for the worst (this). Question: can a RFA decline an offer sheet? Or are they automatic once furnished.

 

An offer sheet means nothing until the RFA signs it. At this point, the team that holds his rights has several days (3?) to match.

 

7 now I believe. But I think it would be tough for a young guy to turn down 20 mil even if he didn't like the new team as much as his current one.

 

That's the Wilson Pickett list!

 

Big companies fire CEOs and give them half a billion dollars to leave …..sports money ain't squat compared to that....an ace pitcher in baseball gets way more than the highest paid NBA player and only has to throw for part of a game every 3 games or so. Some closers only pitch one inning

 

The Dallas scenario would be a perfect situation for Portland as we would gladly match a 2 year deal starting at 12 mil and the Wiz with just the mle would be worthless to offer as Blazers would easily match that as well.

 

The Lakers won't do that, they actually have a plan that would give them even more cap space in 2019 if they fail this off season. I know you meant other teams too though.

BTW that exact scenario is why I want to get their unprotected 1st round pick in 2019 by taking Deng from them for expiring contracts this season.

 

lol, are we going to have a 20 player roster?