What's the highest you'd resign Frye for?

$6.00

 

I would give him $6 million for as many years as possible. LaMarcus, Oden and Joel all have injury histories. Having Frye to fill in for them if injured would be vital.

 

4 years 26 million, player option on the 4th year. he is a great backup, and he deserves great backup money.

 

I'd offer him a contract starting at $5 million a year, for 4 years. Something like 4 years 23 million

 

MLE would be the max I would go. You don't pay 7 mil for a player who will never be your starter at their position. LA has the PF position locked up for as long as he is. We soon will be in a position where some of the servicible big men nearing retirement will come here cheap looking for a ring, no need to tie big money up in a backup. I mean this with no disrespect to CF, I like him, but don't want to overpay on backups. We are modeling our team after the Spurs and they ussually don't tie big money up in backups.

 

I'd go 6 to 7 million for Frye. 7 to 8 million for Webster (assuming he looks good this year).

and a hearty kick in the butt for Diogu on his way out of town!

 

4.75 for 3
he probably can get more, but the team is going to have a lot of shaking out to do, and i think players that want to stay will do so for a little less money if they know there could be rings in the near future.

couple that with a relatively short contract and their league value will remain high due to second contract possibilities while still young

the last thing we need is a ton of 8-16m players, the office has struggled to get rid of these guys... i hope they don't fall right back into that.

 

http://www.columbian.com/article/20081016/SPORTS01/710169949/-1/sports

Another Frye story from Brian Hendrickson (a much better beat writer than the Oregonian's Jason Quick IMO).

This really jumped out at me:

And more ...

After reading that it sounds like he might be shooting for that MLE type of contract and wants some longevity or continuity in his career ... now I just hope he's actually able to go out there and be that "glue" guy this team is going to need.

 

I really like Frye as one of our good role players when we make a run and go deep in the playoffs. I still would only go 4-5 million for 3-5 years with some team option for the last couple years if we go 5 years. I wouldn't want to pay MLE but that would be the absolute max if we have traded some of our other good bench players.

 

Frye has a good attitude and some interesting offensive skills. I loved watching him play at Arizona. The problem is, he's a lot like Outlaw...some useful offensive skills and little else. He doesn't rebound well for his position, nor is he a particularly good defender or passer. I'd be happy to keep Frye, if he doesn't get in the way of signing a better, more expensive player (which, granted, is unlikely).But then I'd say that Outlaw is even more expendable.

 

4 yrs 16 million..no more than that. He's definitely the backup PF I want on this team, but anymore than 4 million for 15-20 minutes a game is a high price to pay. With Miles about to be cut and re-signing Raef is not an option, I think we let Ike walk as well. I really don't know what KP is going to do with Blake or Martell? Re-up them, or package either with Raef's expiring deal? If they do the latter, than our cap space essentially goes to waste.