Free Agent Next Up: The Buy-Out Market

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We've already heard names like Tim Frazier and Alex Burk. Who else could end up on that list and is there someone that the Blazers could get a buy-out bump from like they did with Kanter?

Will the Blazers even add someone when they just PAID to have someone take Skal to save tax money?
 
Kyle O'Quinn
 
Scalma said:


Not saying I’m interested
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I would be more interested in Thomas than I would be Burke. Both are small point guards but Thomas can be an explosive scorer off the bench and could replace Simons in the rotation for the rest of the year.
 
Trey Burke ranks 24th among point guards in RPM, sandwiched between Kyrie and Russ lol. He can’t be worse than Simons at this stage. Thomas is a liability defensively and Frazier isn’t much better than Simons, if at all.

My guess is Portland will ride it out with Simons though and hope he improves in the second half.
 
The savings from a minimum contract off of Skal's contract are still considerable. It is still possible we grab someone but guess it would have to be a slam dunk to do it. Do not think we grab a marginal player.
 
With Nurk and hopefully Collins coming back, I'm not too interested in getting another big as I am a point guard to take minutes from Simons this season. Rose, Burke, R. Jackson, I. Thomas would all be decent acquisitions.
 
I think we wait until closer to the playoff deadline. The contract are prorated by games so its huge tax savings from min contract over 20 games vs Skal 82 game contract.

Then if we lose and are out of the playoff race in a few weeks we sign nobody.

This is if the player is a 12th man level as many of these names.... Now if it's a Kanter level 6th man great value we probably sign anytime.
 
Olshey not going bring another guard due to he wants Simons to get that playing guard but the problem is Trent has jump over him for playing time.
 
James lamphear said:
Olshey not going bring another guard due to he wants Simons to get that playing guard but the problem is Trent has jump over him for playing time.
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True....but Ant needs to expand his PG game even if that isn't going to be his position long term. He's morphing into MeJ far too often it seems.
 
TBpup said:
I like him but would Portland add him after just paying to move Skal?
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There's a slight difference too.

Skal was being paid more than the min. His remaining salary + tax cost was about $4.5m ($1m salary & $3.5m in tax).... for a player that might not play again this season.

If Portland signed someone else on a partial pro-rated min contract, it will cost Portland ~$1.4m total (including tax). They save money & they get an open roster spot to find someone to help
 
tester551 said:
There's a slight difference too.

Skal was being paid more than the min. His remaining salary + tax cost was about $4.5m ($1m salary & $3.5m in tax).... for a player that might not play again this season.

If Portland signed someone else on a partial pro-rated min contract, it will cost Portland ~$1.4m total (including tax). They save money & they get an open roster spot to find someone to help
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Of course there is a bit of a difference.....but they also forked out ~$2M to lower their Lux Tax. If they add a player (for less) it will end up being about a wash. Hopefully the player is that much better than Skal.
 
TBpup said:
I like him but would Portland add him after just paying to move Skal?
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I think that is why they traded Skal. They figured they could pick up somebody better with their TPE.
Personally I like Skal, but if they didn't think they would re-sign him this summer then they might as well dump him now since he is not playing. Then outbid other teams who do not have a TPE?
 
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Just doesn't make sense at all to me? I just did not see them dumping Skal at this point? Even more so for the limited amount of money saved? Were they just looking for a roster spot? Or will they go back further into the tax to fill that spot again?
It's an absolute mystery to me what is going on at this point?
 
Scalma said:
Rather than dump it in the trade thread

So far the ones that have hit the market that interest me are

Trey Burke
Kyle O’Quinn
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We could use both right now
 
BonesJones said:
Why would we dump Skal to save $1.5M just to spend it on him? That makes no sense.

I highly doubt we use our roster spot.
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Not saying we should, but because he can actually walk out onto the court during a game?
 
Rose off the waiver wire would be fun.
 
Pinwheel1 said:
I think that is why they traded Skal. They figured they could pick up somebody better with their TPE.
Personally I like Skal, but if they didn't think they would re-sign him this summer then they might as well dump him now since he is not playing. Then outbid other teams who do not have a TPE?
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Good point. IIRC the TPE also counts against team salary, so if they had kept Skal they would have been paying tax on both.
 
Read that waiters was potentially being bought out, any interest? Could be the punch off the bench.
 
Trey Burke
Kyle O’Quinn
Tim Frazier
Tristan Thompson
Derrek Rose

Copy/paste and add as other names come up.
 
BBert said:
Rose off the waiver wire would be fun.
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Yes it would. Rose was near All Star this year. Then we can sign his buddy Joakim. Olshey isn’t done. We learned that last year.
 
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