No. of Trades: Traded Sergio + $ for Cap Space Calendar: List of Free Agents July 10-19: LVSL (Summer League) Offseason Resources: Assumptions: We let Raef, Frye, Ruffin, Randolph walk. We keep LMA, Roy, Oden, Rudy, Pryz, Batum Resources: ~$7-8 Mil Cap Space (Cap is set to $57.7 Mil, Lux Tax is $69.9 Mil, Midlevel Ex $5.85 Mil) Current Roster (Especially Blake, Webster, Outlaw, Bayless) $2.9 Mil Trade Exemption Cash (and we're not afraid to use it!) Overseas players: PK, Joel Freeland Future Draft Picks Needs: Starting PG Starting SF? Backup PF ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think we have the rights to a couple of other players overseas. I think Batum, Rudy, and Joel are worth more to us than to other teams, hence I didn't include them in the trade list. I'll update this as the info comes in!
The draft is less than a month away, so I thought I'd bump this. Sticky? Calendar Created, Summer League and Draft added.
i would add rudy to our available resources. Love to keep him but he could be more valuable to another team, considering we have roy
I agree. Technically, I'd say anyone is available for the right price, but I can't see getting an offer for Roy, Aldridge or Oden that would tempt me to move any of them. Batum is the next most important player to me, but he's not so valuable as to be explicitly off the table.
And Raef is still an asset, though one with no value associated to him yet. When free agency starts, he can be sign & traded. We know that we do not have high priced assets, so Raef could get some free money by allowing himself to be included in a trade. That is as long as another team was open to a sign and trade.
I don't think we're going to hold on to Raef and his major cap hold in hopes of signing and trading him. Our cap space is larger than the amount we could sign and trade him for.
The cap hold means nothing, really, in the case of Raef. If Portland finds a deal where they do not need Raef for salary filler, then they just renounce him and then have their cap space. Now if we were talking about the cap hold of a player we want to keep, say Roy, then yes, the cap hold is very important. raef can be jettisoned at any time.
