Exclusive 2022-23 Portland Trail Blazers Roster

I see a two-way relative, I mean player, missing.

 

If we include Ant's new contract (assuming 5% raises), I calculate that the Blazers can give Nurk a max of $16,555,500 if they want to maintain the flexibility of still having the full MLE. That would take the Blazers right up to the Apron.

 

$143 under the apron? That is cutting it awefullyclose.

 

Interesting if Nurk is going out in a sign and trade, and combined with the ~$10million MLE dollars, how much could the Blazers take back?

Probably not quite enough to get a max player in here such as Ayton. Might need to send out EBEC or Little/Winslow.

That would make sense as to why the Blazers haven't announced Nurk nor agreed to an MLE deal, they might end up hard capped after a trade and have no room to use any of it.

 

Yeah you want at least some money during the season to give out 10 day contracts, sign guys to cover injuries, buy out market, etc.

 

Updated roster with the latest news of signing Gary Payton II -



8 SG/SFs on the roster. 1 Point Guard (not counting Bledsoe), and 0 Centers (Nurkic is still unsigned). This does not look like a balanced team at the moment...

Here's my CAP estimate -



I previously assumed we would sign Jabari Walker to a full contract, but that would put the Blazers at 16 guaranteed contracts (15 max).

I also assumed the Blazers would sign a vet minimum (to fill in as a backup center?), but that also puts the Blazers over the max number of contracts.

Since Bledsoe hasn't been cut yet (latest 7/10), we have to use his full $19M number.

Since the Blazers haven't renounced the rights to Nurkic (so we retain his Bird rights), we have to use the $18M Cap hold figure.

My current numbers put the Blazers $15M over the Apron. That would mean that we could not use more than the tax-MLE, but it appears that we used a portion of the standard-MLE on Gary Payton II.

Something has to change before these signings become official....

 

Ya Bledsoe is going to be waived. That will bring us to something like 20 mil under the apron. And with Nurk signed we'll get right up to that threshold.

 

I'd just list Bledsoe for his guarantee. Blazers literally can't have amounts you list as you say it's over apron. Look forward to your next update

 

@42N8Bounce ....looking forward to your chart update.

Still need another athletic wing/big. This team is so small.

 

Didn't you hear? We're joining the Big 10. We will be fine.

 

Man, things move fast around here. Here's the update with the signing of Nurkic -



CAP summary -

Since Bledsoe's full contract puts the Blazers over the apron, I'll assume he is waived and only $3.9M apply to the CAP.



Unofficial / Assumed:
- A Simons signing
- J Nurkic signing
- G Payton II signing
- Jabari Walker Signing
- E Bledsoe waived
- Signing of a vet minimum

That puts the Blazers $1.65M under the Apron.

 

Looks like 5-8 seed team.

 

That's why they play the games.

 

Right back into our comfortable spot.

 

Eubanks coming back!

 

Yeah if after the deadline we were told the next years team is adding Grant, Payton, and a rookie from high school I'm not sure I'd bet on us to make the playin.

 

I don't think anyone expected the Blazers to make their big moves through free agency. We might want to give Cronin a few more weeks to see what he does in the way of a trade. I'm pretty sure that there will be one.