I'm not so sure that the Blazers lose the RFA status as a result of converting his contract to a standard minimum deal. From the NBA CBA: Since the 2-way contract contained the restricted free agency provision, my (admittedly uninformed reading of this) would be that only the salary changed when his contract was converted and that restricted free agency remains in play. I'd love it if someone knows how to get Larry Coon to comment on that. But, I agree that the Blazers will have his Early Bird rights and that gives them the option to pay him up to the average player salary plus five percent. Given all of the free agents that are going to hit the market in next summer's flood, that's probably more than enough to do the job, unless Baldwin simply wants to leave.
It would be a bit surprising if the Blazers backed themselves into a corner by change the contract when they did. I would hope they thought all fo this out to take into account his potential success. I wonder how grey areas in the CBA are handled. Surely there must be some scenarios that they did not foresee and have to arbitrate somehow.
You have to tie your question back to the Lakers for a response as he's got like 100 tweets about them in the last couple weeks.
I know you're just joking but he actually teaches a class on the CBA, he probably gets off on these types of questions.
While taking a break from the D&D and porn, I spent a couple of minutes here in the basement scouring the web for dirt....er...info on the HCP and ran across this old gem: https://www.google.com/amp/thesport...a-of-portland-trail-blazers-broadcasting/amp/ You know, for a tool you don’t seem like such a bad guy.
I mean honestly, all joking aside, how can you read that interview and NOT root for The HCP? How far I’ve come..... the grind..... the hustle.......It’s beyond me that anybody on here could throw shade my way. #ForumMVP
This one? Might I suggest getting it on your ass. Plenty of real estate there and it won't look quite so stupid when LeBron has long since retired and your skin starts to sag.