Notice 2023 Blazers Free Agency

I read the MLE being lost to 2nd apron teams was the one part in effect in a few days but all the other restrictions are summer of 2024. Not sure if that was accurate, if I get a minute maybe I read some of those 600 pages.

 

Yeah we trade Ant for a poor return, get stuck with Grant overpaid for 5 years, and Dame demands out is by far the worst scenario possible and sadly I don't trust the Blazers management to avoid that situation. Hope I'm wrong.

 

I haven't been able to find a rollout schedule. I have been coming through the document but it's not easy lol

 

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Completely disagree.
I'd much rather keep Ant over Kuzma.

 

So you're good with 9 minutes a game for Scoot then?

 

Its as difficult to read as the US tax code. Theres a reason we have companies translate all of that stuff to simple basic English. NBA teams must have someone who does this, I've never seen that publicly available though. Larry Coon always had his website/FAQ that was pretty good but I imagine it will take him or someone else awhile to get this up.

 

Scoot is 19 years old and we have control over him for 9 years. There's no reason to sell potentially exceedingly low on a potentially much higher-value asset like Ant just to immediately open minutes for Scoot.

It's certainly a situation that will need to resolve itself eventually, but taking cents on the dollar is probably not the right approach...

 

https://www.si.com/nba/hornets/nba-...oncerted-effort-to-force-portland-to-trade-up

Fuck the hornets

 

Yeah you would think the Blazers are going to run this by Dame. It seems like the deadline is probably tomorrow or Saturday though. If we see an announcement of Grant elsewhere then we know the result is Dame asking out.

If Grant is resigned I'd hope the Blazers have a commitment from Dame. Now if its a good value deal I guess it could be fine either way, but I certainly don't want Grant for $30+ million if Dame is gone.

No Grant announcement either means the team is moving on and Grant is evaluating what other spot to pick - or the Blazers are trying to get the other requests from Dame done and everyone is awaiting on that being complete before the Blazers/Grant/Dame to all commit.

 

Dame and Ant 35. 26 for Scoot, Sharpe is a fulltime SF.

Yeah probably not ideal but its better than dumping Ant for Maurice Morris or something.

 

Totally agree. The odds all 4 players are healthy at the same time might not even be that high, Sharpe can swing to the SF some. Scoot and Sharpe don't need 30+ mpg in their first big seasons, its fine for a few months or longer of having this quad group.

Yeah I agree eventually the team needs to make a move, but its more important the move nets a key rotational level player in the front court, or picks that could one day lead to that, than just doing "addition by subtraction" to have it resolved immediately.

 

I am not seeing any POR rumors at all for FA signings. I don't like that. Should at least be some rumblings?? I just am getting super concerned Billups runs back the same starting 5 as last season.

 

Makes sense. I wonder if the Blazers prefer Miller to Scoot? Or maybe not, maybe they have Miller a much lower tier. It definitely would have a depth chart that makes more sense running back if we had drafted Miller.

 

Yeah he hasn't updated his site yet.

 

I'm not sure how we can have the same starting 5 since Josh Hart is now gone? After that it was a shit show of tanking lineups.

I'd be fine with Dame Ant Sharpe Grant Nurk and Scoot off the bench. Ideally Barnes or something off the bench too for the MLE. It would be way more exciting than 10 years of no changes Olshey trotted out.

If there wasn't all this Dame uncertainty, management end of season comments, and draft day wet dreams of Bridges/Brown/Siakam etc addition I think most fans would be very excited to see 2nd year Sharpe and Rookie Scoot join the team.

 

Nope.

Ant needs to be traded. Just I'd rather keep him over a S&T for Kuzma.

 

That's what they should've done. I would hope Portland would try to do something like that if they were in the same position.

 

Not only will you lose Scoot in 9 years, you'll lose Damian before next season. I wouldn't call trading Ant for Kuzma selling for cents on the dollar. They're pretty comparable values imo.