Buyout

Are we going to be players here? We currently sit about 6.2 mil below the tax line. Probably no one of significance left on the waiver wires but we shouldn't dismiss that we are just 2.5 games behind the #5 seed and an easier schedule coming up.

Wouldn't hurt to get another big who can rebound.

 

get a FA big, then jack him up with so much Toradol he'll become Thor, the god of thunder.

 

That's Thoradol. You can get it over the counter in some Caribbean countries.

 

This joke is never going to get old.

 

They'll need to waive Archi, which they might, but I think Joe was actually being truthful when he said they have been looking for one more true point guard on the roster. Unless someone they've been targeting like Noel hits the buyout market, I don't expect them to sign anyone that's currently available.

 

If Winslow is out for the rest of the season couldn't we get some sort of injury exception?

 

I am not sure how much they really care abut Knox. Would not surprise me if they the backup PG on the roster.

 

Call me crazy, but they may keep Knox after this year. He's on a 3M team option next year and we need cost controlled players, plus he's a long wing. He's shown some 3&D chops this year.

 

I don't know much about this guy other than he was a fairly high draft pick. Is it possible he could develop into a great all around player or is he unlikely to get better offensively?

 

1. You are crazy (only because you asked me to do that, I don't really think that, but I am here to oblige).

2. Maybe. I have not been impressed with what I have seen so far, but maybe. If it happens, that's good news, I guess.

 

Players talk around the league and it seems a lot of the Blazers players had issues with GP2. I suspect that this is not going to be an actual issue

 

Dedmon has already gone to the sixers

 

If I was Archi I wouldn't be buying any real estate in Portland just yet.

 

I kinda like the idea of adding Ibaka.

 

If we go after someone, it would likely be to take a flyer on a young big or PG to see if they may have a role next year. As for helping this year, I don't think there's any interest on our end.

 

Blazers are already hard-capped so using the BAE wouldn't matter; and it's 4.1M exception. Pretty sure it would be up to the Blazers if the exception was pro-rated or the full BAE...so they'd have some leverage with that

not sure any player will come on the buyout/waiver market that would be worth using the BAE at the same time the Blazers waive Keon or Archie