DeAndre Jordan Might Be A Blazer Superthread

With so many really bad to marginally bad contracts, there are a lot of packages that make sense for POR. The question is, do any of them also make sense for LAC.

In the end, I think they will receive better offers elsewhere.

Someone mentioned C.J., earlier in the thread. If C.J. had been offered for DeAndre Jordan, we wouldn't be discussing a tweet from Marc Stein about a rumor. We'd be discussing a tweet from Woj about a trade.

BNM

 

We have a really imbalanced roster as is. Nearly all our talent is consolidated at guard and inside spots. We have guys like Vonleh/Leonard/Caleb all getting DNPs nightly not because they don't deserve minutes, but because there are no more minutes left to give them.

If we're gonna make moves to actually build this roster to win (rather than simply gain assets to make subsequent moves), we would be better served actually getting some wing talent.

 

Olshey has always had a hard on for DeAndre Jordan.

 

Sure, why not? You never know. It worked last year when we offered them Plumlee for Nurkic.

BNM

 

he got 3/41, he sucks... and people think Nurk gonna get like 4/15 or less
add one more year to the Plumlee contract and it woud be 4/56, so 4 mil less than Nurk

and Nurk is much better than Plumlee

 

Neither is a high flying center? For a guy with DJ's height and standing reach, a 30 inch vertical is pretty athletic.

Butters jumps outta the gym with a 32 inch vert.

 

You kind of made my point for me.

Plumlee is >> Mosgov

Mosgov = 4 years $64 million

If you extend Plumlee out to 4 years, you get 4/3*41 = $54.7 million

No way is Mosgov $9.3 million better than Plumlee. Plumlee is both better and cheaper than Mosgov.

And that was my original point, the market value for centers has declined since the summer of 2016. Based on the current market, DeAndre Jordan would be foolish to leave $24 million on the table and opt out of the final year of his current contract. The only was he does so, would be to re-sign with the team who holds his Bird rights for a deal starting at $24 million, but declining each year after that.

Declining contracts are fairly new, but they make sense for both parties. The player gets his huge payday while still in his prime, but the team sees his salary decline in parallel with his production. So, they aren't paying an over-the-hill 35 year old $30 million a year.

BNM

 

http://hoopshype.com/2018/01/22/dea...-portland-trail-blazers-los-angeles-clippers/



DeAndre Jordan makes sense for Blazers, but do they have the assets?

 

Olshey is probably just kicking the tires. If you could get Jordan for peanuts (which I don't think you can, but yaneverknow), it would be an insurance policy against Nurkic demanding (and maybe getting, from another team) an offer way out of step with his value and letting him depart (assuming Jordan was willing to stay).

Not that Olshey lets free agents depart, even if he has to massively overpay to keep them, so.

 

it doesnt make sense, good god...

 

They can give us 2018 pick if we give them a 2019 pick, I think.

 

I doubt there's anything to this. However, you certainly have to see what is out there. You never know when you can get a steal.

 

The only thing I see this rumor indicating is that we will indeed be very active come trade deadline. Feels like Neil knows if he doesn’t make something happen he may not be here by the draft.

 

Trade sloppy Nurkic!

 

Fixed.

 

We probably didn't make a substantial offer with good assets included or else Clippers would have been interested. Olshey might have tried to dump our bad contracts on them while attaching a 2018 or 2019 pick, or one of our younger players, and thought half a year of DeAndre might be worth it.

If we gave them Turner, Vonleh and a lottery protected 2019 pick I wouldn't be angry about it at all. It would have allowed Clippers to tank this season as long as they played Turner a lot and DeAndre would be good here. He's a very good defensive center.

We definitely did not offer them CJ, not a chance.