Using our expiring contracts (Turner, Leonard, Harkless) i think those two could be the best possible upgrade we can make with our current salary cap situation. Both are pretty good passers who could make life easier for our guards come playoffs time.
Both have injury history, Love the better shooter, but Griffin the more complete player. I’d take Griffin.
What a depressing choice. 2 horrible contracts (Love is longer, Griffen is more per season); 2 bad injury histories. IMHO, Griffen is clearly the better player. No matter how cheap the acquisition price, I wouldn't want Love.
I don't think either really move the needle on this team. I don't think they fit what we do. I think they are guys who get a lot of empty stats. And starting either one makes us worse defensively.
Depends. DO you think we should play more half court offense, or get out and run more? If its the latter, then he is not who we need.
He'd actually bog down the half-court offense, too. If people think CJ dominates the ball when he has it, they'd hate Blake, backing down guys in the post while the shot clock runs down.
if Griffin accepted the role that would be available, he'd be an almost perfect PF for Portland but at 36M a year? Yikes!! Dame-BG-CJ-Nurk would be getting about 98M/year. That's only 34M less than the tax line next summer. I don't see how you could put a team around 4 players being paid that much
Not a ton different than what GS is paying their stars this year, you just have to have young cheap guys around them and hope you can get vets to take discounts to play with them.
the Warriors are 25M above the tax line this year. They will have a 65M tax bill but that's nothing compared to all the revenue streams the Warriors are generating and has access to. Those dwarf anything Portland can come up with. It's like a Mercedes vs a Moped
Realistically, these really are our only two options. Any other Max player that is playing up to their contract and doesn't have health issues will not be on the trade block. We don't have the cap space to sign any significant free agent. Even if we did, they wouldn't come here anyway. I'd be happy with either guys. We'd probably have to give up Collins and a 1st rounder. At this point, you have to make that move. If you're waiting for Collins to blow up, you might as well start the rebuild now.
I don't know how much money JA has. I doubt she inherited everything from PA. He had several trusts set up. She may be asset rich and cash poor...relatively but there's no frigging way the Blazers can ever generate as much revenue as the Warriors and they are moving into a new arena next season. You are overestimating JA's ability and willingness to spend, by a lot, IMO. Sitting on three championships with a 4th maybe on the way makes for a much fatter wallet. And being the 2nd most valuable NBA franchise with a local TV contract that pays millions and millions of dollars more than Portland's really tips the scales again, I can't see any way at all JA agrees to pay a 65M tax bill in one season
Its all just opinion though who knows what she’s willing to spend. If the Blazers actually won a bunch they’d generate more money too.
