Free Agent Gary Payton II to the Blazers

it is, but not to the extent that some people are thinking. bledsoe contract is essentially worthless now. i bet he gets waived and we eat the 3.9 mil.

but we can ship out hart + stuff for a better positional fit and still stay below the hard cap.

while this removes us from the running for KD or any 30+ mil player, moves are still possible.

 

Can kinda see how he's gonna fit in playing next to Winslow/Hart etc.

 

And I really think Ayton's drama was because he wasn't given a contract extension to start the season like other Suns on the same contract as him. I'd be a little peeved all season too.

 

I took a look at reasonable wing targets given the salaries we have to offer.

Don't think anything is happening lol.

 

What are you talking about? A S&T? We have Nurk’s bird rights and go way past cap and into LT to resign him. It can be the last thing we do for the summer….

 

Here's GPII's defense in the playoffs alone:

 

the GP2 deal triggered the hard cap. we can't exceed 157 mil. we're about 20 mil from that now and have no centers signed.

order of operations is irrelevant.

 

I didn't know that GP2 is more than 2 years older than Josh Hart. Dec '92 vs March '95

 

hart + winslow + keon for Barnes works. but ya, i think we're pretty much done til the deadline.

 

You need to also account for the empty salary slots, so it will add a bit of salary.

But IDK why you would do that, Hart by himself is better than Barnes.

http://www.espn.com/nba/hollinger/statistics/_/position/sf

Look at the small forwards in this league. How many of them could GP2/Hart not guard? LeBron? That's probably it? And Bron plays PF mostly now anyways. I get you want length/big wings, but GP2 is legitimately one of the best perimeter defenders in the league. He plays like a PF.

 

i think they're equal talents, but barnes is taller. really the only reason, but i'm torn.

 

I'd be shocked if Ant doesn't start. I think it's more likely we start Hart at the 3.

 

think you're higher on ayton than i am. but fair opinion.

trading hart + double S&T nurk for ayton is also not an easy feat now either.

 

The thing I don't really get, so many people wanted Thybulle. GP2 is basically Thybulle. Are those two inches really all that? Thybulle is even a much worse rebounder than GP2.

 

None of these deals are official…OOO does matter since moratorium isn’t over.

 

How the hell Golden State isn't hard capped at 300 Mil. Is beyond me. I doubt the Blazers will be Hard capped, when all is said and done.

 

Getting Thybulle would not have hard capped us. And his salary this yr is half of GP2's

 

So you think these reported agreements will be ammended? I hope so too.

 

if we could have gotten thybulle for a few seconds it would have happened already. This is the next best thing. We're short on rotation minutes as it is.