All Things Whiteside

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  1. Blazer509

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    He's meeting with only Dallas and Portland out of all interested teams and y'all are already down. C'mon man.
     
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    We all might not be agreeing about Whiteside atm but i think we can agree with this :

    Let's all have a laugh at the Lakers who at the moment have been left out in the cold for Whiteside -- ROFL -- LOL
     
    Ripcity4life77, Jun 30, 2016
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    That Portland is in the discussion with Miami and Dallas would have been unheard of a couple of years ago for a FA ranked as high as Whiteside. Certainly trending in the right direction. Now it just takes one to open the floodgates.
     
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    Well so far Olshey is 0/2 when it comes to #1 targets so I'm hoping for the best but expecting nothing.

    I kinda hope Dame and CJ will be there too. ​
     
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    Don't forget Durrant
     
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    Wonder why it's in NYC
     
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    Are you talking about Kanter from last season? Because I don't quite consider that as a miss by us, we reached a deal (max at that), but OKC chose to match it. Nothing we could have done. Is there someone else Im forgetting last year?
     
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    I don't count RFA like Kanter and Hibbert cuz like you said, nothing Portland could've done.
     
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    Ok gotchya. Forgot about Monroe.
     
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    Which part of Alex Kennedy's tweet do you like better?

    A: That Portland is one of the 3 teams Whiteside is meeting with?
    B: That Whiteside won't be meeting with the Lakers?
     
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    Because were simultaneously recruiting Durant and told hassan to meet us there
     
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    Monroe probably made the better decision for Monroe at the time.
     
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    There is one thing about this whole Whiteside thing that keeps coming into my head. Correct me if i am wrong but he was quoted as saying he is a business man and look what he has done. He has 2 max offers incoming from Dallas and the Blazers and i believe the Heat were hesitant to give him a max deal but now they might be more willing cause the idea of losing him is more real. He very well could be using both teams to force Miami to go max and if they don't he has 2 good options to fall back too. IF i am right you cannot be upset at him cause he is only doing what anyone in his position should do and that's to get what they feel they are worth.

    While i am still hoping the Blazers can get Whiteside it would not shock me at all if all this is for nothing and he goes back to the Heat.
     
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    Meh. He can be a resident of texas even if he played in portland.

    If the players were smart, they would have their residence in florida or texas. That way, if they play for the blazers, oregon can only tax games played inside the state of oregon.

    Its not as big of a difference as you would suspect. Texas sales tax is 6.25% and cities can add up to 2% more.

    Oregon is 9 to 9.9% income tax, which would again only be on the games played in oregon.
     
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    If the Heat cave and pay Whiteside max then Wade is going to finally leave. He isn't taking a big cut in pay again according to reports.
     
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    i saw a report the heat are trying to free up space by trading McRoberts so not sure Wade factors too much into him re-signing.
     
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    I imagine that if he signed here he'd still maintain a Florida residence (also no income tax) for the very reason you specified. However, if he were to play 41 games in Oregon, the state income tax difference is still a million bucks, which...well, is still a million bucks.
     
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    Last I ran the numbers, they have to do more than trade McRoberts to make it work and give Wade what he is asking for. They don't have full bird rights to go over the cap to sign Whiteside. Which means they have to have about 42 MIL minimum in cap space to sign both him and DWade. They are still short of that number even if they waive their rights to Deng, Green, Haslem, Joe Johnson, etc.

    Basically to get it done they have to have only Bosh, Dragic, Winslow, Josh Ridcharson and Tyler Johnson left on their team before signing those two big guys that they want. Down to 5 players on the whole team before the signings! Crazy to think.
     
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    Just gotta push that no sales tax thing and hope he's a big spender.
     
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