miles plays 2 more games, and it stands as this. imo, if a trade is not made, who we should renounce. we let channing, ike, and blake go, and play with 14.5 million in cap room. if we really want blake back, we can always resign him after the fact.
that gives us bayless/sergio/koponen roy/rudy martell/batum lma/outlaw/freeland oden/pryz basically we would still need a pg, but would have 14.5 million in cap room to do so.
Peronally I'd probably try to retain Blake and waive Outlaw which leaves roughly the same amount of cap room. My vote is for signing a wing defender (like Josh Childress, Trevor Ariza, Ron Artest for example), a quality backup 4 (Brandon Bass, Chris Wilcox), bring Freeland over and roll with that. All in all, the FA class of 2009 is pretty lean at positions of need, and there are far more quality wings than quality 1s -- the only two point guards that would be worth pursuing are Mike Bibby and Ramon Sessions. This list is worth a look: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=ford_chad&page=09FreeAgents-081113
We don't need to waive Outlaw we have a team option for Outlaw next year and we don't have to pick it up if we don't want to. I would guess we would pickup both Blake and Outlaw's team option unless something really changes with a trade at the dealine this year.
Man, that's bleak for point guards: AI - UFA Kidd - UFA Miller - UFA Bibby - UFA Marbury - UFA B. Jackson - UFA Felton - RFA Sessions - RFA Jack - RFA N. Robinson - RFA Head - RFA No Player option or Early Termin. option guys. All the decent guys are dinosaurs, and the young guys aren't any better than Blake. Blech. I'd rather be over the cap and use my MLE on the older ones than be under the cap and have their agents threatening to sign with true contender for less.
