Interesting note from KOC on the Simmons pod yesterday where he reiterated the noise about Portland's involvement in some of these rumors: the noise is coming FROM Portland. After a decade of secrecy, it appears some of our new people in the FO have loose lips. Whether the leaks deliberate or otherwise is unclear. But there's definitely more fodder for those of us who hang onto every rumor.
As with seemingly EVERYTHING ELSE around the Cronin era, this could be purposeful to try to drive bidding wars, communicate to players that they're wanted here, etc., OR, a harbinger of an effectively rudderless ship... Feels like between the deadline and this offseason, we'll know pretty quickly what kind of GM Cronin is...
i think i already have an idea what kind of GM he is, and it aint good. Think you might have more faith in him than me. I need to see more.
correct. WM simply insists on framing the deadline deal in the most negative fashion in order to have an excuse to constantly dump his doom & gloom into the forum besides that, if Portland gave up 3 starters, they got back one in Hart, who is a better starting SG than Powell is a starting SF or RoCo is a starting PF. And, Winslow has started a higher percentage of his NBA games than Nance has. So, if Portland gave up 4 starters, they got back 2
Scouring some other teams' forums, these ideas were brought up: - ATL : Collins + 16 for 7 + Winslow. (can we actually do this on draft day?) - NYK: Three team with Sac - POR gets Randle + 11. - NYK gets 4 + Bledsoe - Sac gets 7 + future first(s) from NY.
with respect to Cronin...has anybody seen or heard what kind of salary was involved in his 4 year contract? I'm wondering if the deal might be low enough that a buyer for the team wouldn't see it as enough of an obstacle to use it for leverage. I mean, if the average GM salary is 7M and Cronin is working for 1.5M, firing him with 2-3 years left on his deal is no thang
Cronin might have been cheap and they're also saving $ by not having a PoBO above him. But I can almost guarantee you Schmitz and possibly Oliva were not cheap. They were fairly big names in the industry who left high-profile roles to join Cronin's team. That can't have been easy to achieve without opening up the wallet.
maybe then Cronin has limits to his decision making power with the other two guys having nearly as much influence as Cronin?
Atlanta trade doesn't work without Bledsoe's contract going out as well. The Sac/NY trade feels too good for NYK. But I could see it. I'd love to get Burks from NYK as well.
not really...he's only guaranteed 5M. So, sending out Bledsoe means the Blazers would have increased their cap by just 1.1M
