Canzano: whispers about 4 years, 40 mil extn. for Oden?

Ahhhhh, I try to avoid clownzano stuff, but you got me to read it..

I think if the clown has anything, its a bargin at four and fourty.

Who knows what the new CBA will bring, I have to think that non guaranteed contracts and more pay for play type of structured deals will be the rage, but that is beside the point.

sets head back on the desk and dreams of Oden stuffing over a crying Dirk......

 

If there is ever a hard cap, there would be some arrangements for contracts already made. You can't go back to a player and say "oops just kidding, we can't pay you 10 mil, it's 4 mil. Just doesn't work like that. Maybe the best time to sign Oden is before the CBa expires.

 

Great move IMO. Assuming Greg becomes a servicable center (12/9/2) that can play 60+ games a year, 10 million is a good number.

 

I sincerely doubt that anyone thinks that Oden is going to settle in as a consistently healthy mediocre center and therefore trying to put a value on that. The two likeliest scenarios are probably completely lost seasons and healthy, dominant seasons. One is worth $0 per year and the other is worth closer to $20 million per year, so the two parties would come to an agreement somewhere in between.

 

Likeliest in your mind. Got it.

 

Likeliest by the evidence provided so far.

 

Signing Greg semi-long term and hoping he gets and stays healthy is the Blazers only opportunity to seriously compete in the next 5-7 years. No brainer for me.

 

Here are most of the centers around the league:

-Darko- 4 years, $20mil
-Gortat- 5 years, $34mil--- steal of the bunch
-Blatche- 5 years, $36mil
-Haywood- 5 years, 40mil
-Varejao- 6 years, 48 mil
-Perkins- 4 years, $35mil
-Camby- 2 years, $18mil
-Bargnani- 5 years, $50mil
-Nene- 6 years, $60mil
-Chandler- 6 years, $63mil
-Kaman- 5 years, $53mil
-Dalembert- 6 years, $64mil
-Bogut- 5 years, $60mil
-Horford- 5 years, $60mil
-Noah- 5 years, $60mil
-Okafor- 6 years, $72mi
-Okafor- 6 years, $72mil
-Jefferson- 5 years, $65mil
-Bynum- 4 years, $58 mil
-David Lee- 6 years, $80mil--- damn

And for good measure: Aldridge- 5 years, $63 mil.

Yao and Dwight both got max deals.

Looking through these numbers, even if GO plays only around 60 games a season with the sort of production he was putting up last year, that 4 year, $40 mil deal seems very reasonable.

 

Me either. I wouldn't be able to handle that. It would possibly kill my interest in basketball.

 

this!

 

Nene's 20.4 PER and solid D at 10M is a pretty sugar sweet deal as well. Since his cancer scare 4 years ago he's averaged 78 games a season so his durability is also a plus

and to add one to your list, Amare- 5 years 97.5M

STOMP

 

He gives us exactly what we're lacking.

[video=youtube;IE2G4E16L3Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2G4E16L3Y[/video]

 

Nah, but like on a few of those plays, he could get offensive rebounds off threes and bang on fools down low.

 

I just wish I had Oden's career. He's going to make $40 million for sitting on the bench another 4 years. And he'll get to watch every Blazer game from courtside for free!!!

 

I am just hoping for Oden to come back healthy, or even 80% healthy with Miller running point. I just couldn't imagine the amount of lops we would have.

 

Which is how Crapzano gets 95% of his stuff.
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Thanks yuyuza. Now I won't be able to sleep.

 

Any player you express derision for tends to do very well so, in a funny way, you're giving me greater optimism about Oden's future.

(Of course, a couple of those players--like Rasheed Wallace and Zach Randolph--went on to greater glories with other teams. Hopefully that isn't what your magical powers of being very wrong are going to cause.)

 

I don't see how you can not attempt to keep him. We don't have capspace to go sign a good center nor do we have the pics and the pieces we can afford to lose to try and get one. Were in a win now mode because Roy's contract pretty much screws us from rebuilding effectively and we have the talent (but maybe not the toughness) to win now. Oden would add some huge toughness and a big body at a position were lacking. Of course if he gets injured again. Signing him to a contract doesn't effect our capspace because well... we don't have any capspace and will not have any for the next few years.
A hard cap I don't think is going to happen in the NBA. To many top teams (the teams that bring in the majority of the money) have HUGE HUGE payrolls. Only way a hardcap makes sense is if you bring down how much a max contract is and have a way to transition it into place so it really isnt' into full effect until 5 years from now when all the contracts signed under the old CBA have run there course.