The cost of Gary Payton II is what I would call a tremendous mistake. He played in 15 of 54 games which is 31%. At 8.3 mil being on the roster for 54 of 82 games cost $5,465,853 of his 8.3 mil contract. He scored a total of 61 points during that 54 game span. That works out to $89,604 dollars for every point scored. Such a deal GM
Tremendous mistakes have far reaching consequences, this doesn't. It was a headscratcher from the beginning because we were already stocked with talented guards including one that does all of the things GP2 does but is bigger and taller and I don't think slower in Josh. That being said, we weren't going into the tax this season so the hard cap didn't matter and so we picked up 5 second rounders and have no residual penalties going forward. I think using the miniMLE on a big would have been the right move and most of us thought that at the time, so it was a mistake but that mistake now has no consequences.
Massive disaster if somehow the trade gets voided. Returning to the team after all that was said. We would need to pay to dump him after.... Also if this gets voided I think we are in the luxury tax aren't we?
I don't know what I've posted about this trade (which HOPEFULLY happens), but: The Blazers needed to get size in the off-season, and instead we signed Payton Payton is not a very good player. He's been on the verge of bouncing out of the NBA many times, and he's almost never healthy. He had a good stretch on Golden State, who has a pretty good team with or without him I never saw a situation where Payton was going to help the Blazers much I had no idea he was having interpersonal issues--I don't pay attention to body language of professional basketball players and/or try to read minds, which means that sometimes I miss that sort of thing I don't know how much value the second rounders we will (hopefully!) receive have, but it's more than keeping Payton on the roster I would rather have taken a chance on Wiseman than take those picks I don't know what big guy we could have added instead of Payton in the offseason, but I strongly suspect the team would be better now if we had signed someone decent with that money Hopefully the trade goes through and we can root against him as a Warrior
Had Cronin made this trade a week or two before the deadline, like he did last year, he'd have more time to work around this. Guess waiting until the last minute isn't always the best move!
Or Golden St has us by the balls and are looking to extract extra compenstation knowing a voided trade puts Jody into the tax. The Warriors have all the power.
What even are the rules for this? It's past the deadline, can they amend the trade? Conspiracy theory would say Payton is the cause of this. Reports are he had issues with the doctors that cleared him and he thought he wasn't ready. But he was clearly playing games anyways, maybe he's taking a different "approach" with the Warriors training staff?
They do? If this trade fails, they get an extra how many $ on their tax because Wiseman goes back there, no?
Blazers would be in the tax as well. Meaning if they made a big move this summer, they'd be in repeater tax territory. The Warriors ownereship group have shown a willingness to pay the tax. Portland has not.
