Blazers making offer to Kanter

OKC is great at acquring talent, but not so good at keeping it.

 

Why would Portland want to do that? They are still under the cap with Kanter and Kaman. Better keep him for a trade that brings another asset.

 

I guess to give OKC a reason/incentive not to match?

 

You mean Harrison Fucking Barnes or Matt Barnes? Why is McLemore on the block?

 

The reason to do it is if OKC says "we won't match if you deal us Kaman" OKC still holds all the cards. We still have a ton of space to absorb a contract

 

Harrison Fucking Barnes!

I was only jeasturing the possibility of McLemore because Sac tried getting 2 SGs during free agency. Possibly they don't believe he's part of their future

 

I certainly HOPE he means Harrison Fucking.

 

Trading Kaman would probably benefit us more because we would have more cap space to work with

 

True. And I doubt the market for Kaman is very robust. I'd wager the cap room is more valuable to more teams.

 

Funny I was running that same scenario though my head yesterday. Thinking OKC might try one last bluff if they don't want to match. I was thinking Kaman as well.

 

How could we get Barnes though? He's not making much this year, so it's not like they are needing to shed his salary. And I don't think we're allowed to trade another 1st rounder.

 

One good thing about Barnes, is that he'd come with a pre-nickname. Though I don't know if he'd understand what it means.

 

I think we would have to include young player(s) that show promise. Von would be what they would demand, but Plumlee maybe a decent second option.

 

We can't trade kaman for kanter, a s&t can't be worked out once an offer sheet had been signed. We can trade kaman for like, Novak, as "incentive"to not match, but you're not allowed to send incentive to a team to not match, so any deal between us would come under heavy scrutiny.

 

We should tell them if they let Kanter go, we'll trade them Kaman for nothing. Then after we get Kanter, we can be like "fuck you mother fucker we're keeping both"

 

According to the 1999 CBA, "A signed offer sheet can be rescinded within the waiting period if all three parties (the player and the two teams) agree."

 

I was wondering about that. Thanks for confirming it.

(Edit: OK so the offer can be rescinded, then a trade worked out. You guys and your CBA knowledge keep my head spinning.)

I do think Kaman will be traded though, and we need wing players. That's what we should be focusing on (if he isn't traded for Kanter).

Olshey has more moves pending in his bag of tricks, for sure.