...??? According to Wheels at work, they will be extending an offer to someone. Guesses? I think it might just be to Roy. They would do this to show potential free agents that they have their key player(s) locked up for the entire time they'll be here. The safe guess is Hedo...
It depends on the wording of Wheels staement. Was it player, or FA? The salary cap won't be announced for another week, so how could KP offer any money to someone? Unless it's his own player on an extension, or some minor scrub player that will make far below the cap space Portland has.
I believe he said, "Sources inside the Blazers are telling us Kevin Pritchard will be extending an offer to a player at 9:01pm, tonight." I don't know if they can extend an offer without knowing the exact salary cap figure.
It's Roy at a max extension. There's no way Pritchard would tell Wheeler about any potential FA signings. This is a "tease" that will turn out to be a formality.
The moratorium is for figuring how how much the cap is, what MLE figures are, etc. So the things that can be agreed to right now is a) signing an MLE-level free agent, b) signing a max contract, c) signing a max-contract extension. We don't have an MLE. We don't have the space to sign a max contract. We have a guy who we're all sure is going to get a max extension. I vote Roy.
It wasn't KP directly to Wheels. In was a Blazer employee (who was nameless) telling Wheels. I agree with you though, it's probably Roy. Any chance we offer him less than the max? Not as an insult, but just to keep the books as light as possible to remain flexible in the future? LMA already said he would be willing to take less than Roy.
Roy is the franchise, and Paul Allen will want to make him feel like the franchise and treat him as such IMO. A few million/per can be found be keeping the roster light, which is going to happen in the future anyhow once the veteran deals of LMA, Oden, Roy, and Player X are counting against the cap.
Yes, they do it all the time. Lots of FA contracts are agreed to before the end of the moratorium, and even get announced as Player X agrees to sign with Team Y, sources say it's for approximately this and that. And then when the salary cap is set, the actual contract can be signed. Usually they can have a pretty good idea where the cap will be, altough I remember some surprise years when the cap didn't grow as much as expected, then the FA have to make do with less.
You're completely wrong, sorry. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2513416 LBJ was offered his extension July 1, and waited a week to agree to it. Bosh and Melo agreed to it quickly.
I would like to give a preemptive middle finger to the POR organization if they make an offer to Ariza
Order of operations. You can go over the cap to sign your own free agents. You can't go over the cap to sign other free agents. So if you sign your player before you sign a free agent on the open market, you don't have any cap room to sign the free agent you wanted to bring in from the outside. But if you sign the outside free agent first with your cap room, then you can bring your players home with as big as paycheck as you want and go over the cap to retain them.
