Notice Neil Olshey explains Plumlee trade, talks approach to upcoming trade deadline

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Sounded a lot like shedding salary is a focus.
 
Boston is playing well. Cleveland's 1st may be better than Boston's 1st.
 
He said a whole lot of nothing. When you spend the money you spend this last off season. You spend it thinking you are on to something. Not behind the idea that is a roster that is a work in progress. They are in the TOP 3 in payroll. It's a roster at that rate that should be a lot better.
 
Well he said he would trade the picks if the right guy was available and focus on the draft if the player is not. I wonder who he wants.

I would take Butler if Chicago really wanted to get rid of him, but I think they will ask for too much. I would love to get Serge, but I don't think he would re-sign with us. But he and Nurkic would compliment one another.

PF is a bigger need IMO than SF. But any draft pick would take 2-3 years to develop. Who else is out there? And who has cap space that could offer a max deal to Serge if we did roll the dice on him?
 
OneLifeToLive said:
He said a whole lot of nothing. When you spend the money you spend this last off season. You spend it thinking you are on to something. Not behind the idea that is a roster that is a work in progress. They are in the TOP 3 in payroll. It's a roster at that rate that should be a lot better.
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Actually he said a lot. He pretty much said they kept everyone knowing eventually they would break it up.
 
Drttimmy said:
"Okay, Neil, I've memorized the questions you want me to ask you and I think we're to roll film, whenever you're ready." I think he had a standing heart rate under 80 for that interview, slowest I've ever seen on him.
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Ha there is no question that is exactly what happened. She was fed on what to ask. Which is fine, I don't really care to listen to any stupid questions. They got right to it.
 
Scalma said:
Just a guess, but one of our first rounders will be packaged with someone like Meyers.
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Agreeded. If he keeps up at this rate though, it may cost us two or three of our picks, to get rid of his ass....
 
Dougnsalem said:
Agreeded. If he keeps up at this rate though, it may cost us two or three of our picks, to get rid of his ass....
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Well in that case it'd be better to let his contract run. I don't see any logic in offering picks to get rid of someone in this situation, it's not like we'd use free cap space to sign big free agents in the Summer or add talent immediately. It'd literally be better to let his run down his $10M contract until the end and just work with the remaining cap space instead. By keeping your three picks you have 3 players who will not make more than $10M combined together and there's a good chance that at least one of them will be good.

Having three picks and paying Leonard the remainder of the contract is much better than having no picks and $10M of free cap space. It's not even close.
 
WillG said:
If we manage to trade them and those contracts of theirs - I may just literally shed tears of Joy!
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I think we will. Crabbe should be tradeable to a team that has lots of cap space and needs a shooter. Philadelphia fit the bill perfectly, so do Orlando to be honest but they'd have to offload salary, which won't be the issue as they have two high earners who are expiring (Jeff Green and Ibaka). That's why I was advocating the Okafor trade, the true benefit of that is that you are getting a cheaper player to work with and he's still going to be tradeable a year down the line if it doesn't work out. $19M we'll be paying to Crabbe next season is just not right to stick with.
 
Sarni said:
I think we will. Crabbe should be tradeable to a team that has lots of cap space and needs a shooter. Philadelphia fit the bill perfectly, so do Orlando to be honest but they'd have to offload salary, which won't be the issue as they have two high earners who are expiring (Jeff Green and Ibaka). That's why I was advocating the Okafor trade, the true benefit of that is that you are getting a cheaper player to work with and he's still going to be tradeable a year down the line if it doesn't work out. $19M we'll be paying to Crabbe next season is just not right to stick with.
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If you were a GM, would you trade for Crabbe knowing that his salary will be > 20mil ?
I wouldn't even consider it. You'd have to trade value to me to take it on. (unfortunately that's the case with Crabbe and Leonard IMO - negative Net value).

Okafor would have been a nice little roll of the dice IMO.
My gut feeling is he will be much better in new surroundings too. I think Neil missed the boat big time on Okafor. Could've tried his luck with an underused lottery pick and shed salary at the same time.
 
Sarni said:
Well in that case it'd be better to let his contract run. I don't see any logic in offering picks to get rid of someone in this situation, it's not like we'd use free cap space to sign big free agents in the Summer or add talent immediately. It'd literally be better to let his run down his $10M contract until the end and just work with the remaining cap space instead. By keeping your three picks you have 3 players who will not make more than $10M combined together and there's a good chance that at least one of them will be good.

Having three picks and paying Leonard the remainder of the contract is much better than having no picks and $10M of free cap space. It's not even close.
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Yeah, I was trying to be funny with the 3 pick thing. You do bring up an interesting point though. He's got well over 30 Mil left over the life of his contract. I wonder where the line is, if there is one, that would make most any team take him...
 
Dougnsalem said:
Yeah, I was trying to be funny with the 3 pick thing. You do bring up an interesting point though. He's got well over 30 Mil left over the life of his contract. I wonder where the line is, if there is one, that would make most any team take him...
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I'd not add anything to get rid of him. At some point someone might bite. I'd however trade him for anything at this point, a top 55 protected 2nd round pick is enough.
 
WillG said:
If you were a GM, would you trade for Crabbe knowing that his salary will be > 20mil ?
I wouldn't even consider it. You'd have to trade value to me to take it on. (unfortunately that's the case with Crabbe and Leonard IMO - negative Net value).

Okafor would have been a nice little roll of the dice IMO.
My gut feeling is he will be much better in new surroundings too. I think Neil missed the boat big time on Okafor. Could've tried his luck with an underused lottery pick and shed salary at the same time.
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He's got three years after this season so that's a long deal but a team like Philadelphia will probably not be able to get a better free agent during these 3 years anyway, and most of their key players are young assets who will stay on rookie contracts for a while. Embiid will be extended for a max deal next season and Noel might get a max this season but they won't keep both of them if they are both making $25M. Simmons will only be up for extension the same time Crabbe's deal expires, the rest of their contracts are low or expiring. Their guaranteed salaries for next season are $34M. They might not take a team option on Henderson if they get Crabbe, could even trade Bayless who is making $9M. They will likely have around $60M of cap space to work with and not many free agents who will be willing to sign. Even if they extend Noel for $20M, it still leaves $40M to play with.

Simmons and Embiid make $6M a year. Stauskas and Saric are sub-$3M. They are a perfect destination to take gamble on Crabbe if we can sell this idea to them.
 
Crabbe to philly for bayless and picks (multiple 2nds or a future 1st). Tank commence!
 
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