Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! This deserves a . Now I wonder what LMA is going to buy for his next house, it better be HUGE.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! Really man?? lol wow I am sure you know more then Paul Allen on fiscal responsibility.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! Because the cap is going DOWN, and the escalating contracts of Roy and now Aldridge means the payroll is shooting back UP, which means..... paying this amount of money to Aldridge (ie, 13 to 15mil per instead of 10 or 11mil per) will pretty likely cost us a decent role player down the road. In other words, though it won't be explicit in the connection to the big contracts, the team will swap one of our decent players who has a market rate of, say, $7mil per, for a lesser player who they can get for $3 or $4mil per. Or, they will pass on signing a nice player who is going for the full MLE, and instead sign some vet who well accept a partial MLE deal. I like LaMarcus, but I am not all that happy with this deal. David West who is: An All-Star, something LaMarcus is not. And who signed his contract under the old economic climate where everyone in the NBA assumed the cap would keep going up every year Signed a 5 year, $45mil deal. Yep, less than $10mil per.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! There would be no way we'd be under the cap...no matter how much money we invested in Aldridge. Roy, Oden, & Aldridge would basically take up the entire cap anyhow. That's why everybody was freaking out about Raef's contract not getting traded, and the lack of FA signings this last summer because everybody knows that the summer of '09 would be the final time we'd be under the cap as long as we are contending.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! LMA was an 18/8 PF last year. What would he put up in NY or even Golden State? Nate's system and pace make Jeff Van Gundy's system look like D'Antoni's.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! Depending on the cap next year (and the actual values) this might be a max contract. The league put out two projected cap numbers for 2010 (call them High and Low). High is 53.3M, which allows (using the 23.04% BRI max number) a max starting salary of 12.28M, with max 10.5% raises, for a total of 5/72.9M. Low Cap is 50.5M, which allows a max starting salary to be 11.63M, with 10.5% raises for a total of 5/69.7M. Basically, LMA just got the max.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! If the Blazers didn't give him that somebody else would have. I'd put money on that.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! Wow we are complaining about signing LMA? Good fucking Christ! And who fucking cares if he was an allstar or not? All Star voting is a popularity contests! Not a skill contests!
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! I didn't get to say it in my last post, but here it is...Congrats LMA & Blazer fans! This is a good day. We've got 2 of our cornerstones locked up for the next 6 years or so. Lots of good times and winning ahead for all of us.
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! David West was a reserve, voted on by the coaches. I'm pretty sure it had something to do with skill as well as team success.
LA is my favorite Blazer but I sure do hope that there are a lot of incentives built in here as 14M per is too rich for me. As others have indicated, this would seem to hurt their chances of signing other key players down the line. STOMP
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! If HCP's right, that comes to: 2010-11: 10.75 2011-12: 11.87 2012-13: 13 2013-14: 14.13 2014-15: 15.25
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! A little higher than I was expecting, but we are going to be over the cap anyway so whats another 1 or 2 million. It's Paul allen's money
Re: ALDRIDGE SIGNED! Assume this is true. David West = $9mil per (under the old economic system) LaMarcus = $11mil per (under the new declining revenues) = WAAAAY more $$$.
