REPORT: Millsap offer official now. Sent to Utah.

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Once Millsap signs the offer sheet, I don't think it can be rescinded.

 

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They wouldn't want him, but they could facilitate a trade for a third team to pick up another asset.

 

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Higher than Darius Miles? I mean higher salary-wise, not higher weed-wise. NOBODY gets higher than The Punisher! Stinko de Mayo lives!

 

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This argues that this (still just rumored) signing makes a Boozer trade v. unlikely.

 

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That's a really, really good team there. Fantastic offense, defense and rebounding. The lone weakness is backup SF, and you just give Roy some of those minutes and let Rudy play SG, so even that's not really that bad.

We could probably make Millsap work for a single season, but there'd always be trade talk circling around him and Joel. That's ok, though. A starting-quality center making $6 mil is always tradable. A $9 mil Millsap (assuming his salary does scale down next year) is also easily tradable.

Maximum flexibility. Maximum value. The exact opposite of the Hedo acquisition. I love it.

 

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Why would Millsap agree (and he has to)? Presumably the offer the Jazz would give him would be less. And if he agreed to sign, he has to know he's screwing the Jazz.

 

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I'd be ok with THIS too, even though I feel we need a PG more than anything.

Blake/Bayless/Roy
Roy/Rudy/Webster
Wallace/Batum/Webster
LMA/Millsap/Pendergraph
Oden/LMA/Millsap

I'd feel pretty comfortable with that.

 

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Apparently it can be rescinded. My bad.

But yeah, that article shows that Portland is playing for keeps with Millsap.

 

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We can't get any of our exceptions back. None. We renounced our rights to them. That's why we have $7.7M in cap space currently.

 

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The article states that if the offer sheet is sent to Utah first, then the deal could be likely, because it lets them figure out a trade and let's them know of our intentions. If it goes to Millsap first, then we'd be playing for keeps, since that would be signed once it gets arms length of him.

So really we just know the offer sheet was sent, unless there has been other stuff put out on who it actually went to.

 

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Hmm, I'm not sure about that. Toronto was able to get their MLE by involving Orlando in the S/T. I think something similar can be done here.

 

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I STILL can't find a corroborating source that an offer has in fact been signed by, or even offered to, Milsap.

 

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Quick said it was being sent to Millsap in Louisiana right now.

But, ITS QUICK OMFG LIAR LULZ!

 

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I thought so, but I hadn't had time today to get out my scientific calculator to see the damage done.

 

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From the CBA bible:

 

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none have been renounced yet... its all theory right now &7.7 mil cap space with Kopo and Freeland and Claver

show us a NBA transaction report where we renounced anything yet? not even LeFrentz or Frye

technically we are over the cap and still have the MLE and other exceptions

 

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Just saw this on ESPN...

Updated: July 9, 2009, 6:37 PM ET
Sources: Boozer could go to Chicago
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By Marc Stein and Chad Ford
ESPN.com

Another major multiteam trade might be looming in the NBA with the Portland Trail Blazers, Utah Jazz and Chicago Bulls having discussed a deal that would be headlined by Carlos Boozer and Kirk Hinrich, according to NBA front-office sources.

Sources stressed to ESPN.com that no deal was imminent Thursday and that both Portland and Utah are still evaluating multiple trade scenarios. But two sources with knowledge of the three-team proposal confirmed that there have been substantive talks regarding a trade that would land Boozer in Chicago, Hinrich in Portland and Tyrus Thomas in Utah.

A deal featuring those main components would deliver the elite low-post scorer that the Bulls have been chasing for years in Boozer and furnish Portland with a lead guard in Hinrich that the Blazers are known to rate highly as a potential backcourt mate for Brandon Roy. It's possible that other players would be added to balance out the transaction from a salary-cap perspective if the three teams elect to take these talks further.

Yet even if this deal collapses, sources say it is clear that the Jazz are becoming increasingly open to the possibility of moving Boozer now to increase their financial flexibility to re-sign restricted free agent Paul Millsap.

Despite fresh reports Thursday about the Blazers weighing whether to sign Millsap to an offer sheet, Hinrich is the player Portland prefers, according to one source close to the process, after the Blazers came so close last week to landing the versatile Hedo Turkoglu.

Boozer has only one season left at $12.7 million after declining the option in his contract to become an unrestricted free agent July 1. It's believed that the Jazz are determined to keep Millsap but are concerned about the luxury-tax consequences of signing him to a long-term deal.

Marc Stein and Chad Ford are senior NBA writers for ESPN.com.

 

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In this case, the player has signed a deal. Now it's just a question where he ends up fulfilling that contract.

 

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You could make it happen in a trade by sending Blake and Outlaw to Chicago straight up for Hinrich, although the poster you were questioning had Blake in his depth chart, so I'm not sure what his response would be.