Okay, now that I've taken a breath I can think of one positive from this trade: It creates an over $7 million trade exception if we absorb Caleb with the Hood DPE and Gabriel with one of our other small trade exceptions. The bad part is if this trade was just to save money then that exception will go unused.
What are you talking about... $21 mil in expiring contracts of Bazemore and Tolliver was traded for $14 mil of an extra year from Ariza and Gabrial
What’s funny is Ariza actually isn’t that much worse than Covington. His rebound percentage is identical, his assist percentage is superior, his steal percentage is in the same ballpark (2.2 vs 2.8) as is his dbpm (1.1 vs 1.7.) And those are his numbers this season, because if you look at their cumulative numbers, Ariza is actually superior. Put him with Dame and CJ and I’d bet his shooting percentages go up. For the price, I don’t understand the anger.
Seriously, I didn’t think there was a worse scenario than letting Whiteside and Bazemore walk... Neil proved me wrong... we will lose both players now AND have no cap space.
Portland will also create a $7.2M and $1.7M trade exception as part of the deal. Both exceptions will expire next January.
We certainly didn't get worse, but we could have done better because this is not a guy that has a future really. This year we are done anyway so we count on Ariza helping us next season when he will be near 36 at 2021 playoffs (if we are there). Yeah i don't think he will be any good, he is already on severe decline.
Is anyone still defending Neil?! He got us into this mess with a league high $148 mil payroll and now the fans will pay for it with his salary dumps
Do you think this is part of something bigger? Or simply tax relief? Or maybe he disliked Bazemore as much as I did?
Ariza has a non-guaranteed contract next year. If waived this summer he gets $1.8 million to go away. Gabriel is a restricted free agent so we could let him walk for nothing if it's that big of a deal.
