Exclusive Ayton is agreeing to buyout

I swear to god if I hear the word “stretch….”

 

the price you pay to get a guy like Toumani & get rid of Nurk

 

I think we trade Grant tomorrow.

 

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2022/02/hoops-rumors-glossary-buyouts-3.html

Based on this, the amount he gives up doesn't count against the cap.

So lets say Ayton gets a tax MLE offer (5.7M). If the buyout was also the 5.7M amount, that's capspace the Blazers get back to use.

 

The individual transactions largely making no sense and losing the majority of them.... are the reason we had to pay a guy with a 35 mil expiring contract to play on a different team. The ineptitude adds up.

 

I expect they’ll let Jabari walker and Banton walk now. I think they like Murray off the bench

 

Yes I know. Said the same above. Tax MLE is my projected ceiling for what he gets. Maybe it puts us under the first apron.

 

My assumption too. Note that if he does a 20 mil buyout and makes up the 15 mil on the table by taking a full MLE deal somewhere else, our cap number goes down by 15 million this year. We are currently 6 mil under the luxury tax w a payroll of 181 million before this ayton buyout.

 

Considering we got nothing for Ayton and we had to take on Jrues long ass contract, I don’t think Grant has any trade value.

 

Lol come on. You seriously dont believe this do you?

This is the same front office that passed on Toumani twice and took both Kris Murray and Rayan Rupert ahead of him in the draft just 2 months before the trade.

 

Just feels like teams make trades all the time for guys who “nobody wants” and get at least something out of it. I mean how much value does Porzingis have, being hurt all the time and making $30m? A couple second rounders and G Niang is better than nothing.

 

We are already way under the first apron.

 

Seriously. Thought had not occurred to me that our idiot GM in a likely lame duck year can possibly do this.

 

Isn't it triggered by the Holiday trade?

 

Porzingis is a way better player than Ayton. There's a reason a team is willing to gamble on him and not Ayton.

 

Oh I think we are gonna have to attach compensation for sure, but I think he’s gone.

 

Nope. 23M under the first apron before. 18-ish after.

 

Noted

 

I was fine with letting him walk next summer… but I thought maybe he had some value as an expiring. I guess not.

 

I believe we would have been hard capped if the jrue/ant deal goes as is, it probably hasn't because Portland is not ready for that yet