Lillard / McCollum McCollum / Crabbe Turner / Harkless Millsap / Vonleh Plumlee / Leonard Or then we could try to work out some sort of double sign and trade around Leonard and Gasol, but Leonard would have to get a big number and Gasol would have to come cheap ($12M-ish)
I actually think the Jazz are going to be kind of good next year. I could see them as a 6 seed honestly.
Hill / Exum Hood / Burks Hayward / Johnson Favors / Lyles Gobert / Withey Besides frontcourt depth, that's a solid squad that SHOULD be in that 6-8 range.
Yep. I would have to reexamine everything when it comes time to predict the western conference order, but I feel pretty safe putting them at 6th or 7th.
With all these deals, the NBA should just eliminate the salary cap. I mean, look at LA they had a HUGE amount of cap space going into this summer and not even they can get a big name, maybe "big markets" are a dying breed and the almighty dollar rules... We'd probably get better players if there was no salary cap because of Paul Allen alone.
Remove the salary cap. Remove the restrictions on trades. Remove the crap about buying draft picks. Teams should be able to sell or trade the rights to players. They should be able to trade bird rights and RFA rights. Open up the market Silver!
What gets overlooked in this frenzy is that it's not just the total cap going to $90M but mainly that all teams across the league got $20M extra money at the exact same time and they are all feeling the same pressure to spend this money, with not that many free agents available. There are not even 30 players on the market currently who are worthwhile so you are not going to get a good deal because someone else will offer max or near max to the player you want. Last year you would have got Turner for around $10M because no one else would have had money to top that, but this year there will be at least 5 teams who will give him $15M if they cannot find anyone better because they NEED to spend that money. Parsons is not worth $24M either and he would not be getting this contract in 2017 or 2018 because the jump in cap will not be as significant as in 2016 but right now with all the franchises swimming in money, there was no other way to get him than to max him out.
I don't get why 4th tier/bottom 3rd tier teams' GMs are so convinced that a overpaying mediocre players is a better decision than not signing anyone.
Here's to a much more positive FA day for the Blazers and this forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
