Reid's off the board... https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37914752/timberwolves-center-naz-reid-agree-3-year-42m-deal
I think KAT would be a very good get. At this rate, I'm all on board with Keeping Scoot. I'm still not 100 percent convinced we do but i'm getting closer.
Replace Brooks with Brown. Someone like Brooks might not be so bad when he is on your own team, but he won't stop shooting when he is laying enough bricks to rebuild Veteran's Memorial Coliseum.
why hasn't anyone made an offer to Eubanks? I thought for sure teams would go crazy for Drew this summer. He even shot a few 3's in the last month. RAAAAAAAANGE
You lost me. Free agency has not started .........how could teams make offers to anyone except their own players?
He's an 'in case of emergency, break glass' type of center. Not big enough to be out there for extended minutes on a contending team, but with hustle, hard work and constant energy, can be a nice extra bench player.
By whom? Non star role players are going to get squeezed by this CBA. Especially when they're RFAs. I don't see him getting too far nother 18 mil per if that. Same with Hart btw.
The one difference, though, is the Nuggets could afford to play him at 3 at the end of games considering what they had at 4 and 5. The Blazer experiment with Norm Powell playing 3 didn't work because of the composition of the rest of the lineup.
Yeah Brooks has to stop shooting so much. Needs to realize his strengths. I would be ok with him though for the right price.
It didn't work with Norman Powell mostly because he was a terrible defender at the position he was playing. Brown is by far the best FA available. Oh how I long for last year's class because this year's just isn't very good. If not Brown last year, I would have gladly gone with Hartenstein. I don't even really have a second option. Go all in with Brown and figure the rest out.
I understand Drew's role, but I don't understand why he started basically half the games for the Blazers last season? Did Cronin simply forget to hire a legit backup Center? Did Joe think his tiny roster would be fine if Drew played his tail off? Last season was confusing, I'm glad we got Scoot. No point in chirping about the team being so helpless on defense, the draft gods tossed down a lightning rod rookie.
there's about 479,000 Blazer fan trade concepts that just got put into the shredder. What a waste of ink.
sam amick thinks unless we can land either Draymond/ Siakam / OG, dame most likely asks out. https://theathletic.com/4640012/202...llard-james-harden?source=user-shared-article
I don't subscribe to The Athletic. Who is Amick and does he have any actual quotes or sources or is this just his opinion like we had a year or two years ago where one guy said he had a source saying Dame was requesting a trade and all the national and opposing cities' media jumped on it assuming it was true and then Dame ended up not traded? The other thing is why exactly is this being put in this thread? We have a bunch of threads about Dame's future. Wouldn't it be better in any of them? Why do some posters have to make every stinking thread about "Dame's leaving! Dame's leaving! Dame's leaving! This totally unconnected writer says Dame's leaving! Panic! Panic! Panic!" Can we just keep this thread about the free agent options and who would fit and who we might be able to afford?
Sigh. You felt the need to be the forum police this morning? The article is literally titled "Free agency notes." Here, i will be nice and paste it for you even if you want to act like a jackass. The Atlhetic is currently running a promotion for $1/month. Get it and stop complaining. +++++++++ Is this the offseason, at long last, in which Damian Lillard pushes his way out of Portland? This next week or so looms extremely large on that front. For all the focus on the Trail Blazers’ draft on Thursday, with the widely held belief that he wanted them to trade the No. 3 pick in exchange for a star-level veteran as a way of dissuading him from asking for a trade, it’s clear now that it was never quite that simple. A path remains — however narrow it might be — for him to be content with the Trail Blazers’ state of affairs heading into next season. There is some time left, albeit not much, and some patience too. But the Blazers’ dire need to add elite talent remains. Without it, these may be Lillard’s last days in the City of Roses. As Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin shared with the local media on Saturday, Lillard is expected to meet with Blazers officials after he returns from his recent trip to Paris. According to a source briefed on the situation, the meeting to discuss the next steps of the roster-building process will likely be early this week. After all, free agency (officially) begins on June 30 at 6 p.m. ET and there is much to ponder on that front. Yet while there are all sorts of shared enthusiasm about the additions of Scoot Henderson (with the No. 3 pick), Kris Murray (at No. 23) and Rayan Rupert (at No. 43), the source said nothing has changed about Lillard’s strong desire to play with the kind of high-level players that would make the Blazers contenders again. The youth movement, impressive though it might be, isn’t enough. So, what would it take to convince Lillard that Portland is still the place to be for the rest of his NBA days? Here’s one solution that is known to be a dream scenario from Lillard’s vantage point: Re-sign forward Jerami Grant and add four-time All-Star/four-time champion Draymond Green in free agency. While Golden State is known to be extremely confident about Green re-signing, the price of his return is likely to be a point of contention. Enter the Blazers, who could make Green the unofficial savior in this sensitive Lillard situation while giving him a chance to add to his legacy in a different jersey after 11 seasons with the Warriors. Except for one (massive) problem: As is the case with so many of these scenarios, it would take some serious salary cap wizardry by Cronin to make this happen. While the Blazers have Grant’s Bird rights and can thus re-sign him despite being over the salary cap, they currently have no room to sign someone of Green’s ilk. Especially considering he’s likely looking for a deal in the mid-$20 million range annually. There are sign-and-trade pathways to be explored, and likely with a third team needing to be involved, but it’s an implausible prospect to say the least. And again, all signs point to Green wanting to stay put. There are other (unlikely) possibilities that would suffice, too, among them the addition of either Pascal Siakam or OG Anunoby from the Toronto Raptors. While league-wide interest remains high on both players, Raptors president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri has continued to rebuff the many suitors. The farther you go down this list of potential ways to calm the Lillard waters, the more likely it seems that he’ll be forced to face this stay-or-go fork in the road soon. In a holistic sense, the meeting between Lillard and the Blazers this week will have everything to do with what comes next between these two parties. If Cronin and his staff are truly trying to scour the league for another star, following through on the messaging that sources say Lillard has received from both Cronin and owner Jody Allen, then Lillard likely won’t make a final decision on how to play this until the early stages of the free agency period have passed. But if they’re not, as a recent ESPN report seemed to suggest, then the prospect of Lillard asking out might be around the corner. Key questions like these will surely be at the heart of their meeting. But if there isn’t a meeting of the Trail Blazers minds in Portland this week, and if the roster upgrades that are proving so difficult to pull off don’t come to fruition when the calendar turns to July and the crucial week that follows, it’s all eyes on Miami from there. Lillard indeed has serious interest in joining the Heat, who would surely love to pair him with Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo. If it reaches this point — and there’s still an “if” here considering all the times Lillard chose not to ask out before — Lillard’s wishes would matter a great deal because of the enormity of his contract. With four seasons and a combined $216 million left on his deal (including a player option worth $63 million in the 2026-27 season), the prospect of a team trading for Lillard against his wishes is hard to fathom. So while he doesn’t have the kind of no-trade clause that played such a pivotal part in the recent Bradley Beal trade from Washington to Phoenix, his leverage in the situation is similar.
