you know, a backup PG and PF would be nice. It would be nice if there was a player who could do both of those roles, and was on the trade block. Oh well, I hear there's some undersized mediocre SGs still available.
It seems like most everyone sees Zeller as an upgrade over Kanter. I'm not convinced. It appears to me that folks are so focused on his poor play-off performance they are missing the big contribution he made in the regular season. I can't see Zeller making a significant contribution in either the regular season or the play-offs. Given that Nurk is not the most durable guy in the league, having no one but Zeller behind him is a head shaker.
I agree. Kanter is being underrated because of the Denver series and Zeller is being overrated because we haven't seen all his warts yet. Grass is greener
Here's the Blazers' numbers per Spotac: Lillard $39,344,900 McCollum $30,864,198 Powell $15,517,241 Covington $12,975,471 Nurkic $12,000,000 Jones Jr $9,731,707 Simons $3,938,818 Little $2,316,240 Zeller $1,669,178 Snell $1,669,178 McLemore $1,669,178 Elleby $1,517,981 Brown III $898,313 (assume he will sign for rookie minimum) TOTAL: $136,956,830 Apron: $143,000,000 The Blazers are $6,043,170 under the apron. The tax-MLE is $5,890,000 Any trade the Blazers do must not add salary, or that will eat into what the Blazers can offer towards the tax-MLE.
Not true. We can go over the apron as long as we don't dip into the full-MLE, ie. use more than 5.89M of our MLE.
Forget how realistic the possibility is or isn’t, how do we make Kawhi work financially? the roster is so not balanced right now I will refuse to believe it’s a finished product until training camp starts. And that’s when I’ll lose my shit.
yeah...seems like some don't understand the gard cap, what triggers it, and the difference between being hard-capped and over the tax-line/apron.
