Exclusive Ayton is agreeing to buyout

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by MickZagger, Jun 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM.

  1. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Wow, what a huge transaction for US!
     
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    Hahaha fair enough... we've both been here long enough to see the same thing happen over and over; even if they try to point out how next time will be different.
     
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    Cling/RW3/Yang isn’t the worst C rotation imo.
     
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    I don't think they suck, so I agree with you there.
     
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    cap space (next year), a roster spot this year, and an opportunity to give his backup who made the team 6 and a half points better per 100 possessions.
    #notnuthin2me
     
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    We have Timelord, Duop, Yang and Walker as backups. Might still be our deepest position.
     
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    Cronin's hair stylist - dude sucks ass.
     
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    walker is gone.

     
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    I dont think we can rely on Timelord for anything.
     
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    Kind of surprising. Guess we don't want him as a small ball 5.
     
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    What was the max he could get from the team vs what they could offer him now?
     
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    If we wanted cap space next year we should have bought out Simons too if he wasn't a part of our future instead of trading for a 35 year old pg on the downswing.
     
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    None of that really impacts Jabari as his $30 million ish max or whatever are way over his market rate.

    This means the Blazers now won't make an effort to retain Jabari. Might mean there's a trade coming where we fill out our roster spots.
     
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    Ayton averaged 28 minutes over his last 20 games. And he fouled out once. Had less than 5 fouls in 15 of 20 games. So yeah, I think he can control his fouling
     
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    Or is he?

    He's a minimum contract level player, so why would we offer him more than that?
     
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    How HAS Joe been building this team? That’s the question nobody has an answer for, including Joe.
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Unless it's a 6 year contract, he is in no way worth a 30 million dollar contract
     
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    I know you're not asking me... and I've felt like a broken record about it (other than two drafts where I loved us taking Sharpe and Scoot) essentially since day one. I don't like this roster at all, I don't think the cap situation has been well managed, I don't think that he ever committed to a rebuild, and I don't think that the future of this team is very bright because we're going to be paying the players that emerge as being worth keeping a lot of money all as we try to slip into play-in position.

    Ugh.
     
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    Clingan fouled out of 2 games last season.

    Here's how many fouls he had in the games where he played 30 or more minutes during the season.
    He fouled out of none of these game.


    Minutes / fouls
    31 / 4
    30 / Zero
    33 / 4
    32 / 4
    30 / 2
    34 / 5
    32 / 3
    31 / 5
    31 / 3
     

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