Literally all those guys would make our bench better. The only question is would it be worth the money for Paul, is the upgrade significant enough, or are there better players that’d also come cheaper in FA?
Yeah, if we're looking at it realistically adding Courtney Lee and Wayne Ellington to the bench while re-signing Nurk and Davis would make our 2nd unit Baldwin/Lee/Ellington/Collins (or Aminu)/Davis. That might be one of the best benches in the league.
Yeah Ellington is my number one target but I feel like most playoff teams could use him as well. He’s really tight with Ed though so maybe that would help. Hezonja seems like an Olshey target too. He’s also close with Nurkic. Usually these relationships wouldn’t matter as much, but when you’re the Blazers, any advantage counts lol.
I would contact the Clippers and see if they are interested in trading Tobias Harris for our TPE and ? If they aren't interested then maybe see if Denver gets Wilson Chandler to opt in and then trade the TPE and ? for him. Either team would get huge tax relief and an asset or two. I would also look to try and sign Gerald Henderson to a reasonable contract. Adding Harris/Chandler along with Henderson would definitely help our bench and give the team a lot of flexibility.
Dame and Cj combined 60 Million in 2020, add Nurkic's Contract 12-15 probably, add Ed's Contract 8 probably and 5 Million from collins and Swanigan means we probably have a payroll around 85 million for 6 Players, Yeah good luck Neil
Tobias makes too much for the TPE and you can't combine it with anything salary wise to make it work, therefore no player making over $13 million can be had with the TPE no matter how you work the trade.
I would try to trade it to a team that needs to clear space to try to sign some big free agent. Trade it for a guy who only has one year left on his contract. In return the club that benefits makes a second trade; someone good to us for someone like Layman. Or if they are really good we give them a draft pick also.
I like that you will have pointed out people not understanding the CBA. It was mostly me last year. And now you do it too me.. Honest question: Is there any part of the CBA you don't know?
then Chandler is the target. Makes more sense than taking Faried as he serves no real purpose and they supposedly have been trying to off load him for the past couple seasons
all you need to do is go to CBAFAQ and it's all there to be had. I use to spend a lot of time researching it but it became old after awhile and not that important to me.
How about this for super crazy using both TPE's: Portland gets Tobias Harris, Luol Deng, Austin Rivers (via TPE), Josh Hart (via TPE), 2018 Draft picks #12, 13, and a 2020 1st round pick from the Lakers (top-5 protected) LAC gets CJ McCollum, Caleb Swanigan, #25 pick (from Lakers via Cleveland), more cap space this summer LAL gets Boban Marjanovic, Jake Layman (who they'd decline the option on), tons more cap space Portland would then try and package picks to move up a few spots like 13 and 24 for 9 (whatever it takes to move up a few spots). One of the picks take Mikal Bridges. The other one take the best player available still on the board regardless of position (hopefully a big guard in this scenario). Dame, Rivers, Hart, Baldwin, Bridges, Turner, Harkless, Deng, Harris, Aminu, Collins, Nurkic, Leonard, PapaG, and whomever the other draft pick is. If you re-sign Davis you let PapaG go. We could probably trade Aminu easily too to create a roster spot since his contract is reasonable and only has one year left. I'm not sure how much better this lineup is next year but the following summer you'd have almost $60 million in contracts with one year left on their deal for teams that want expiring contracts, 3 players on their rookie deals who were lottery picks, all our own future 1st rounders, and the Lakers 2020 1st rounder. Instead of having very little to offer in trades all of a sudden in just one year we have just about anything other teams could possibly want. Worst case scenario in the summer of 2020 we'd only have Lillard, Nurkic, Collins, the two rookies from the 2018 draft, and our picks from the 2019 and 2020 draft under contract. That would still be a really good core with the rookies from this year going into their 3rd year and at least enough cap space for a max free agent in a 2020 free agency class that could include Anthony Davis, Draymond Green, Hassan Whiteside, Harrison Barnes, Kevin Love, Jimmy Butler, Khris Middleton, and many others. Even though signing a big time free agent is highly unlikely the cap situation would be back to completely favorable at the expense of paying a heavy tax for two years. If some of the draft picks and/or Collins pops then that could be a really good team.
I have read the previous CBA several times. Was pretty comfortable with my knowledge of it but some of it is super confusing the way it is worded. I haven't had an opportunity to read the CBA from last year yet other than the major changes but for the most part a lot of it remained the same. I've always wanted to be a GM so I study every teams cap situation as well. I'm really not a conceited know it all, I just like to inform people when they post trades that won't work.
Yeah so is Courtney Lee but none of them are even remotely close to making us competitive against the best teams.
I just have a feeling Philadelphia might offer Fultz, Bayless, Saric and picks for Kawhi. They still have close to if not enough space to SIGN LeBron. That team would be better than Golden State.
I really wish we figured out a way to send Nicholson somewhere else, maybe with a 2nd rounder attached. Our trade exception would've been worth $19.3M instead of $13M. That could've brought on the possibly of taking on someone like Joakim Noah or Luol Deng.. Knicks have the 9th pick, and they might attach it to Noah. Other assets like Tobias Harris would've come into play. There would've been many more possibilities.
Yeah, definitely have to be more creative this way. I'm sure if there was a team that wanted Nicholson it would've happened like that. It's still a huge trade exception though.
I mean, there were teams under the salary floor. Even if it took two 2nd round picks... we should've done it.
Teams aren't going to waste cap space in July though. Heck, we had to pay Chicago to take Vonleh who was an expiring contract and still has some potential. There's no way teams were taking Nicholson on without a 1st attached.
It was late July, the free agent market was barren. There were teams with cap space that knew they weren't going to make another signing..
