how? keep in mind that in 2028-29, the max salary for a player with Deni's experience would be around 60M
I think all this Deni contract back and forth is kinda pointless. When he becomes a UFA one team can offer him more money over more years. If he turns that down that means he doesn’t wanna be here, at that point why would anyone care if he leaves. I’m also pretty confident Joe would figure this out before and trade him if Deni didn't plan on staying. I don’t see Deni lying to Joe about wanting to be in PDX just to leave for less money when he’s free.
so again...it was the final year of his contract, right? And the remaining years were an escalation of the raise based upon cap-space in other words, if the Blazers miraculously have 30M in cap-space in 2027-28, they could give Deni a 42M salary that season and then have an extension based upon 30M in cap-space. by the way, that Turner bump was under the previous CBA. Is the new CBA the same in that regard? this discussion is kind of pointless anyway. Portland won't have significant cap-space at any point over the next 3 seasons
Yes - the CBA provision is the same in that regard. A slight correction though... IF Portland could get $30M under the Cap in the '27-'28 season, they can bump Deni's '27-'28 salary up to $42M. The extension would be based on the $42M/yr number. The $30M in cap space is no longer relevant since it was used to bump Deni up from $12M to $42M. In this scenario, an extension for Deni could start at ~$59M/yr (and the total additional years could be 4-yrs / $263M)
Indiana was in a unique situation. They had cap space that was going to go to 'waste' if they did not use it. They utilized the renegotiation to give Turner an advance on his money so that the cap hit would be lower in 23/24 & 24/25. Because Turner wasn't worth more than that on the open market, they didn't need to give Turner more money in those seasons. But Indiana COULD have extended him based on that $35M number if they wanted to.
The Blazers haven't been making the right moves for me to believe they are building for a deep playoff run for quite a while now. Since at least the All-Star break.
Basically, if a player is unhappy somewhere, you will get him moved sooner or later if he has an extension as well, so the only issue with Deni's ufa status is potential loss of asset. So the FO needs to figure out in advance if Deni might do a LMA and trade him beforehand.
no word yet but there's gotta be, maybe they waiting on tou extension to yalk about jrue dame and tou
Well, I went away in October. Haven't even checked in. It was the overwhelming hate for the gm. Today, I figured that there would be enough love because of Dame returning...that I would stop in to say hi. Because of the overwhelming task Joe had of repairing and retooling this roster, I knew Dame's salary had to go somewhere else. There were zero pain free options in my viewscreen. Now that fate has brought him back to stumptown, I will say this...this is bigger than salaries, or playing time, or development. All those things will work themselves out. This.....is about winning in our hearts. NO player, ever, has cared about this jersey on their back like Dame. He has Rip City blood pumping in his veins. Welcome home. May you ride off into the sunset as a winner, wearing the black and red, pointing at your wrist. In the mean time....I have no predictions. I have no demands, and no benchmarks. I am going to watch this beautiful thing play itself out to whatever end. Even the best fiction writers can't make this shit up. This action/adventure inspirational drama, has it all.
Cronin new Dame was gonna get injured, waived, and stretched (pause) by Milwaukee? How could he know? He didn't. Lillard being waived is unprecedented. But props to Cronin for swallowing his pride and capitalizing on the situation. So yeah, he lucked into the situation. We all did.
We have the best package to give Milwaukee. Scoot and Shaeden would be gone. If I was Milwaukie I would demand both. But we can make a deal keeping Toumani and Deni and it would still be attractive. Young players and picks. If Cronin could pull this off I'll do a complete 180 on him.
I'm honestly not sure that getting Giannis is the right move. Athletic guys have a rapid decline in their 30s. He's paid a supermax. Scoot Sharpe will improve. We own 3 years of Bucks picks. Might end up where Giannis is the least valuable of all these assets sooner than people realize.
How are they getting to this 70M number? Lillard was waived and stretched. 113/5 = 22.6 42/3 = 14 22.6+14 = 36.3 What am I missing?
I love Giannis but I'd look elsewhere unless we can get him for a deal that is obviously very advantageous to us (we won't).
