The Warriors have no draft picks in either round and yet have had a few workouts with a few second-round prospects. Neil & co. haven't had any workouts scheduled or planned. Yet we hear from numerous sources (SI and Alex Kennedy) that the Blazers are very active in trying to trade into the draft. Seems that they ought to do their due diligence like what the Warriors are doing. Things are extremely quiet and Dario won't schedule any workouts. Hmmm.. Is there smoke or am I reaching?
Maybe we don't want to tip our hand on who we're looking at. I don't think workouts really matter much honestly.
Olshey's more of a scout, a talent evaluator, than a trader, a wheeler and dealer. He's been very uncreative in our trades. He's only traded #2s, and he's fresh out. So he may be asking around, but I doubt he's offering anything that gets GMs' interest.
They talked about it a bit on Courtside last night. Teams are going elsewhere to watch guys workout rather than have them come in. I think even the lottery teams are having fewer guys come in to their facilities than usual.
Completely disagree. You can buy 2nds with cash all the time. But why the Hell do we want to? We have two roster spots (one of which might be filled by resigning Mo) and the mle and biannual exception. We don't want to fill one of those spots with an end of the bench guy
Teams are limited to $3mill in cash considerations per season which runs from July 1 through the end of June. Portland used cash as part of t he Lopez and Robinson deals. Not sure how much they have left to spend.
Can they still draft a guy for us and have the trade go through July 1st? Either way, talk of second rounders is dumb unless it's for an overseas guy we don't plan on bringing over this year
Will Barton, Meyers Leonard, CJ McCollum and Allen Crabbe returned to Portland on Monday to participate in offseason conditioning and basketball workouts at the Blazers' practice facility in Tualatin. It was the first in a series of workouts that will stretch off and on through June. I think this is the Blazers pre-draft workout. Really the Blazers have so many young guys . . . unless a trade goes down packaging the young players, I don't see why they would be eyeing the draft.
You seem to be answering Post #1, not me. I don't know what you're talking about because you didn't say which part of my post you completely disagree with: 1) Olshey's more of a talent evaluator than wheeler dealer, 2) thus he's been uncreative in our trades, just trading #2s, or 3) he has little to offer unless he suddenly becomes a wheeler dealer whiz.
The only workouts I care about is hooking any prospects up with our new training and conditioning guys to test out their physical mechanics, movement, strength, make sure their legs are the same length and they have an equal stride, their backs are good, stuff like that. The rest we should know already.
Stefan Bondy: Nets are trying to get in the draft in the late first round. Not sure if it's possible. They have $2 million to buy one. Can the Blazers do this (buy a pick for 2 mil) . . . do they have a roster spot to do it, assuming they use their MLE
Don't know where to put this: Alex Kennedy: Source: The Bulls may trade both of their first-rounders (#16 and #19) for future firsts, to free up cap space for Carmelo Anthony pursuit. Don't think the Blazers need more young players, but there are probably draft picks to be had out there
