Rule # 7 from the Forum rules: "Everyone is here to offer their opinions, so be prepared to have people disagree with your opinions. There is a difference between attacking someone's post (their opinion) and attacking the poster with the latter not allowed. The staff is here to monitor for such occurrences." Might want to rethink that strategy.
Just like any other roster, it would take a couple injuries and a bad playoff series for half the board to blow up and demand trades and deem half of them unworthy of their contract.....don't kid yourself.
LaMarcus clearly has value around the league on a max contract so no matter how much you hate the guy just purely from an asset accumulation perspective its worth it.
A healthy LA with thumbs is the best PF in the world in my jaded view so if anyone deserves a max contract it's him. As to the poster wars...just saying...I love my ignore function here. It works!
He's worth a max deal for sure, I'd definitely take Anthony Davis over him now though. Who also deserves a max deal.
Anthony Davis and Blake Griffin. I'd put LaMarcus 4th among all big men behind those two and Marc Gasol. Duncan might have actually outplayed him this last season as well but I'd expect he regresses next year when he turns 40.
Eh, Griffin is debatable imo. When Griffin and Aldridge played this year in the rose garden, healthy Aldridge took him to school. It was pretty sad.
My guess is there are very few GM's in the league who would take him over either Blake Griffin or Anthony Davis though. It's not about him getting the max. There are many players who have received the Max who are not Superstar players. I'm not sure he was even as good as almost 40-year old Tim Duncan in the playoffs and he is no where near getting the Max. Max contracts to players on the downside of their career rarely works out well. I'm a Yankees fan and have watched it over and over put them in a mess. He has been very good while he has been here so far but not great. 1 playoff series win on a miracle in 9 seasons are not the results I'm looking for in a SuperMax player no matter how many stats he has accumulated. Some posters will think it's that I don't like Aldridge which is far from the case. I'm merely looking at it from a results/value standpoint and don't quite see how that contract would be worth it.
Because there is room under the luxury tax for four of those contracts? I'm not saying Aldridge hands down makes you a contender; the team needs to put talent around him. But he provides far more value to his contract than the alternative options the Blazers will have so that makes signing him a no brainer. Saying Griffin or Davis provide even more value relative to their contract is irrelevant since neither is available to sign.
You think that's why? I never saw it that way. He put off surgery in his contract year to keep up his value for summer negotiations.
Even If he'd gotten the surgery right away, he'd have been back in time for the playoffs. He probably should have, honestly.
