Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn Damian Lillard’s trade request doesn’t change Portland’s intention to sign Jerami Grant to the 5-year, $160 million contract agreed upon Friday, sources tell ESPN. Free agent deals can’t be formalized and signed until July 6.
Oooh! Save us! Backing out of deals is in general a bad idea, although it worked for Carlos Boozer. But we can turn it into a sign and trade if we find somebody stupid enough to want Grant at that sum, right? The dream of acquiring Ben Simmons lives on!
Old data. Those comments were all before the bigger contracts were given out. Grant's contract seems more reasonable now.
This isn’t technically final, right? It technically cannot be final until FA begins or am I wrong and you can finalize re-signing UFA’s previously under contract before the actual start of FA? Could we go back on this? Would we go back on this? Edit: I read other responses
"Teams can start negotiating contracts with players on June 30 at 6 p.m. ET, officially kicking off the start of free agency. However, while those verbal agreements may be in place, contracts won't actually become official until the moratorium period is lifted on July 6." (1 day ago)
Law doesn't matter when discretion with agents and trust of GMs keeping their word are needed to get moves done. The law only matter when there is no working relationship, and parties are trying to back out.
In retrospect, it actually isn't that bad, compared to the crap we've seen yesterday and today. I think it could be a tradable deal at some point.
Was it John Nash that gave Miles and Theo Ratliff the massive contracts? Are least Cronin is much better at the draft than John Nash.
At this point if we don’t trade with Brooklyn I would see if we could do Grant for Simmons and a couple picks before the trade deadline.
