As an aside, I flipped the radio on yesterday and heard Dan Marang predict that the Blazers were going to re-sign Ingles to a contract in the 12-15M range. Am I wrong that that's one of the most ridiculous Blazers-related takes ever postulated by a local purported media member?
Basically punt the Bledsoe expiring down the road to keep that salary slot. I guess it depends if they can flip Bledsoe for a significant salary piece before that happens.
No. Think about it, we dont have many "mid level" (10-15M) contracts that we could potentially use in a deadline trade. The only one is Hart. Fischer says multiple teams are interested in Ingles. If hes already jogging in June, I like the odds of him being ready sometime before the new year. We dont have anyone with his skill set. He knows how to play with a score first guard. I've said all along that I want him to come back.
Take Eubanks everyday , and twice on Sunday, over Bobby Bouche. Harkless motor. Like Harkless, he will have a wow game, then go missing for a week. PASS!
I want him to come back too, but at a greater-than-full-MLE salary, coming off an ACL, at age 35, when we're likely to be in the tax already? Doesn't seem to make sense to me.
If those expectations for Nurk/Simons are correct, we might have our full MLE to work with. But i'm wonder if those contracts will be contingent on the cap number, so they might go up as well.
Walking 1-yr salary filler. You should be happy if Jody is willing to pay that much for a trade asset to improve the team.
would that contract be tradeable if only 1 yr? wouldn't they have to at least do a partial guarantee or an option for the second year?
Yeah, give him a similar deal we gave to Hood. If he can come back and play and give us good minutes, excellent. If not, good salary filler.
2 year deal with the second year TO. Ingles would have to agree to a trade (like Hood did), but I imagine those details are worked out before the deal is signed. Ingles basically gets 10+M to rehab. This is the benefit of building relationships with guys.
