Kevin Love AGAIN (with poll)

No, he specifically says those two would've matched Kevin's salary. It's not even close. The guy is full of shit.

 

You think his injury history is the reason no one is willing to give up legit assets for him? I think that's part of it, but he's also getting older, his contract and production don't really match either at this point. You might be right, I'm not sure but I guess I could see 2-3 years from now the Blazers wanting to move on and teams being like that's a heck of a contract we have to match.

 

Nope, according to him that was the offer the Cavs turned down.

 

I’ll take whatever he said over an assumption. He’s not some nobody and has no reason to make shit up.

 

I guess...?

 

Yes, I believe if Love was durable and putting up the stats he's put up over the last few years he'd be a valuable player still. It's not the full reason for his value being nothing. He's too small to be a full time center and not quick enough to be a full time power forward.

Besides, 2-3 years from now CJ would only have 1-2 years left on his deal not 3.5 like Love does.

 

It was most likely Whiteside and Baze for Love and Thompson.

 

So my assumptions are wrong and then you post this. The Blazers were trying to save salary, remember? This isn't it.

 

I'd love for this rumor to be true because it means yet another lie Olshey was caught in (he never even considered trading Whiteside), but what he's saying doesn't make sense.

 

Mine was a guess. You just assume your opinion is a fact. Fuck outta here, not interested in your shit.

 

Didn't Olshey say that he never considered trading Whiteside this year. Somebody is not telling the truth.

 

It's not my opinion, the guy flat out said that Whiteside and Bazemore matched Love's salary. It doesn't. This is a fact.

 

Yes that’s a fact, but you also jumped to the conclusion that he must be lying rather than maybe misspeaking in an informal chat. It’s not that big of a deal.

 

There’s no way he didn’t at least consider trading Whiteside. But at the same time the real fool is the person hanging on every word a GM says in public. They lie, it’s part of their job. Coming out and admitting he considered trading Whiteside accomplishes nothing positive.

 

There's enough grey area in something like this that you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
Whiteside for Love works straight across.
Whiteside + Baze for Love + Delledova (or TT) works.
Just because the one specific item mentioned doesn't work - does not mean there's no truth to it.

Most definitely. I think we might already be there.

 

Oh I see, you just assume that I haven't seen other stuff from this guy on Twitter or from sports radio.

I do my homework:

Blazers wanted to reduce tax.

Cavs were too close to the tax line to provide tax relief.

Bazemore and Whiteside is too much for Love straight up.

Whiteside for Love does actually work but this guy implies that once Bazemore was traded elsewhere it ended the trade talks and it would've added significant salary for Portland, which they weren't willing to do.

Adding salary for Cleveland to make it work either puts Cleveland in the tax which I doubt they were willing to do without compensation or doesn't save Portland money, like in your Thompson/Love example.

It's not just some baseless assumption.

 

What if it was Bazemore OR Whiteside? Just because they offered both doesn’t necessarily mean in the same deal. A lot of possibilities that you immediately shut down, or didn’t even consider because well, Olshey sucks and Jody only cares about saving money, or whatever biases you have. But thats just my GUESS.

 

Kevin Love will be a Blazers next season after Cavs buys him out... I can smell it lol

 

I mean, you know for a fact that Portland has been trying to save money.

Love and TT doesn't do that.

Love and Dellavedova would put Cleveland deep into the tax without any compensation for doing so?

C'mon, you're a smart poster when it comes to cap stuff. Does this really make sense to you?

 

No team would ever buy out a player still owed over $90 million for 3 seasons.