Around the NBA - Dec. 2016

We can trade them all anywhere come July.

 

Im glad youre that optimistic....but by july 2017 we wont have plumlee or one of those 1st rounders so we gotta make a decision before then dont we? And with the way these scrubs are playing we couldnt consolidate them into 2nd rounders let alone a difference maker. I am wholly disillusioned with this roster and NO and I resent how reactionary they are making me look about the whole thing. It's like finding out you got into your dream school only to have them call you a week before you show up for classes to tell you it was a mistake, you didnt get in, dont show up.

 

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/12/12...-trade/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Let's be honest. I am scared we might trade for him.

 

noooooooooooooooooooo

 

I spelled it all out in my The Great Who can be Traded When Thread, but it seems to bear repeating here:

OK, I finally found the definitive source for who can be traded when (along with a lot of other great info on team salaries, drafts pick - including swaps, pick we owe other teams and picks other teams owe us, dates contracts become guaranteed, qualifying offer dates, etc.).

It's the BasketballInsiders Salary Page for the Blazers.

Most relevant to this discussion:

• 12/15/16 — No-trade restrictions lift on Festus Ezeli, Tim Quarterman and Evan Turner.
• 1/10/17 — Tim Quarterman’s $543,471 guarantees for 2016-17.
• 1/15/17 — No-trade restrictions lift on Allen Crabbe, Mo Harkless and Meyers Leonard.
• 1/27/16 — No-trade restriction lifts on C.J. McCollum.

I'd pretty much figured out the trade restriction dates for Ezeli, Turner, Crabbe, Harkless and Leonard, but this is the first place I've seen the trade restriction date listed for C.J. Could be relative with all the C.J. for Cousins discussions flying around this board.

Here's some future dates of note:

• 6/30/17 — Qualifying offer deadline for Mason Plumlee.
• 6/30/17 — Festus Ezeli’s $7,733,000 guarantees for 2017/18.
• 7/25/17 — Pat Connaughton’s $1.0 million guarantees for 2017-18.
• 10/31/17 — Extension deadlines for Noah Vonleh and Shabazz Napier.
• 1/10/18 — Tim Quarterman’s $905,249 guarantees for 2017-18.
• 6/30/18 — Qualifying offer deadlines for Noah Vonleh, Shabazz Napier, Tim Quarterman and Pat Connaughton.
• 6/30/18 — Jake Layman’s $1,050,262 guarantees for 2018-19.
• 6/29/19 — Estimated player option deadline for Allen Crabbe.
• 6/30/19 — Qualifying offer deadline for Jake Layman.

And, here's all the info on our pending pick swaps:

Pick Swaps

• 2017 — Owe second-rounder to Houston Rockets (Thomas Robinson).
• 2018 — Owed first-rounder (top-10 protected through 2019, if not conveyed, converts to lower second-rounder of Los Angeles Lakers/Minnesota Timberwolves, and a 2021 Cleveland Cavaliers second-rounder) from Cavaliers (Anderson Varejao).
• 2018 — Sacramento Kings have the right to swap second rounders (Tyreke Evans/Robin Lopez).
• 2019 — Owed higher of Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Lakers second-rounders from Cleveland Cavaliers (Brendan Haywood).
• 2019 — Owe second-rounder to Orlando Magic (Jake Layman).
• 2020 — Owe second-rounder (top-55 protected) to Cleveland Cavaliers (Mo Harkless, Joe Harris).
• 2021 — Owed second-rounder from Miami HEAT (Brian Roberts).

BasketballInsiders has similar pages for all NBA teams. So, it makes it easy for all armchair GMs to check the availability dates of their favorite trade targets.

BNM

 

They should just swap him for Pekovic. I bet Thibs would be happy to see him again, and Pek has 2 fewer years on his deal.

 

Matthews has 23 points on 9/11 shooting through three quarters. Can we get him back?

 

Just for tonight, then we ship him back to DAL where he can continue to shoot .381 FG% for the season.

So, you want to start him in place of C.J., or bring him off the bench to take Crabbe's minutes? Do you think Wes would be cool with the demotion after he worked so hard to come back from his injury?

BNM

 

Anyone watching the bulls vs wolves game on TNT?

 

Wes is playing really well these days and I'll bet you could trade Crabbe for him...both about the same contracts..Crabbe is younger..it's possible but I doubt Wes or the Blazers would do it

 

CRabbe for Wes. Bring Wes off pine.

 

Chauncey said he wants to see CJ get his own team. I hear Sacramento is great this time of the year

 

lol. You didn't even answer his question... actually, you did, but comically.

 

I missed that. What did he say exactly?

 

I think there'd be a lot of SUPER smallball with Lillard, CJ, Wes playing together. If you had those three you could probably play two non-shooters in Ed and Plumlee.

But I dunno if Olshey and Wes could patch things up.

 

I didn't realize until today that LaVine is averaging 20 ppg. Wolves have 3 guys scoring over 20 a game... crazy.

 

I can't remember. Just that he wants to see him get his own team to run.

 

Oh... and they are all under 22 years old. May god have mercy on our souls.

 

And yet they still suck.

 

Their defense must be as bad as ours...