Notice 2023 Blazers Free Agency

Landscape is really changing with this new CBA. Josh Hart is super happy on the East Coast. But it definitely shows the money, potentially going to role players ,might be topping out.

 

I'm just rolling my eyes at all those folks who said Hart would have never re-signed here. I was listening to Amick (or someone else I don't remember) a few days ago and he said Hart never asked to go to New York. His wife wanted to go to New York but above all they just wanted a place to settle and not have to worry about their future because Hart was on a 1-year deal. Said Hart just wanted to be wanted and would have been fine if an organization just committed to him long term.

My read was always that the Blazers FO never valued him at what his asking price would have been, which was ~18M AAV. At least not with Ant on the roster. They made a choice not go commit to him long term which is why he had to go, not because they had no chance of re-signing him.

Now he works with New York to opt into his 12.9M. Go figure. What a load of crap.

 

When Cronin said committed to building a team around Dame a few days ago did he clarify if that was Portland?

 

Porzingis just did

 

Lol. Keep believing this is the only thing that mattered.

 

I can't remember who I was listening to, but they said it wasn't so much that he wanted to go New York, but that he wanted a solid deal so he could move his family out here. Not sure if that's true or not.

 

So much for our genius GM and cap guru foreseeing how the new CBA could impact FA dealings

 

Yeah I prefer the 23 to Hart if we're rebuilding. But Hart is clearly much superior if we're trying to win now with Dame. I don't understand how people even debate this but welcome to RC2.

 

He wanted to know he was wanted, and to have a long term contract. Portland CHOSE not to be that team.

 

Only thing? No. BIG thing? Yes. You discounting it is worse.

 

No they just want to believe we "never had a shot" because his wife wanted to be in New York.

Josh Hart sang praises about the organization and the FO while he was here and even after he left. You don't think he could have been convinced to stay if our FO made an effort to keep him? Bullshit.

 

He still get the bag, don't worry

 

The dude wasn't shooting here though. It was so weird.

 

There were people in the know literally refuting that as the only driver. But sure, keep believing that if it will make you feel better!

 

Of course he will get it. 5/93 is roughly 18M AAV, which is what he's worth, and what we didn't think he was worth.

The 12.9M for next season sure helps them make other moves though.

 

Blazers could've easily tanked with Hart - they did it literally the year prior and got Sharpe.

These butterfly effect justifications of bad moves is ludicrous, I swear some people here would argue drafting Bowie over Jordan was good because otherwise we wouldn't have gone to the finals or gotten Sheed or something.

 

Our genius GM has done exactly what he needed to. He upgraded the talent for this team in a very short time. It's a shame that it is not likely to get Dame an opportunity to lose again in the 2nd round, but that's the game of chance.

Loved Hart as a role player, would have been great if the rest of the team was good enough to be a contending team. It was not so the right decision was made. Ship him to NYK, tank, get a chance on another all-world talent + nice role player in #23.

If the alternatives are see Dame going super-nova to tap out at the 2nd round or suck for a couple of years at a chance of building something special, you would have to be a special kind of genius to choose option 1.

 

Didn't you know? The Hart trade is why we got lottery luck. The universe had deemed it so.

 

About as ludicrous as anticipating what the new CBA would be.