Dwight Howard poll

ALl depends on what you mean by small salary, and star's salary, and waste of money. If he got $20 a year?

 

Both of your articles are over a year old.

 

As I said earlier.....he's not my first choice......but I would offer him if others aren't available.

Blazers cannot afford to miss NOT signing a prominent F.A. this summer! It's important to add talent to this team.

Durant, LJ, Drummond, Whiteside, DeRozen, Dwight, Horford, Barnes should all be considered.

 

I wouldn't consider DeRozan. The others, sure - even though Barnes is mightily overrated.

 

Absolutely hear him out.
That does not mean sign him. Just give him a hearing, see if it is workable.

I mean, unless someone is a total dud or a total headcase or has a rap sheet as long as Rasheed Wallace's arms, if they want to come to Portland, hear them out.

 

IF and a big if here, he just comes in and says, I want to be a part of what you guys are doing here, put me on what ever type of contract works best for the team now and for the future, let me prove myself then I suppose you give it a shot. maybe he needs every year to be a contract year to get him to play like he should again. The NBA needs non-guaranteed contracts lol.

 

I'm not sure what your question means. The smallest salary is the veteran's minimum, so presumably at least that is fine by me. I'd go above that, but probably not far above the MLE.

But if $20 were a valid salary in the CBA and he'd accept that, sure, I'd pay that for him. As mentioned, I'd pay a lot more than $20.

 

sorry didn't think it seemed necessary to put million in there. Guess I was wrong.

 

HELL NO!

 

In an environment where snark is fairly common, it's pretty hard to differentiate a typo from, "Would you even pay $20?"

 

I think if you would have left off the dollar sign, it would have been fine. If I say "give him 20 a year," you know what I'm talking about, but if I say, "give him $20" you could be making a point that you'd take him for 20 bucks- aka an exaggeration for "almost nothing."

 

I cant wait until the threads early july when he agrees to sign with us.

 

It's going to be fun it if goes like that.

 

There are literally going to be people with the thread sitting open so they can bump it as soon as the news breaks.

 

So... If the Blazers do sign Howard, how many of you will bail on supporting and trusting Olshey to make the decisions?

 

None will bail; they'll ALL stay and complain LOUDLY for the next four years. Remember the legendary Nate McScribbles era?

 

Fortunately it won't come to that.

 

Remember this? Fun times.

 

As I believe BlazerCaravan said there's a lot of run-away teens in Portland, so Dwight will be right at home.

 

I dunno, I thought cult of personality went out with "In KP I trust" and "Pritchslapped." I think Olshey is a good GM, that doesn't mean I, or anyone, should immediately assume any move he makes is correct. I think, on the balance, he'd do a lot better than any of us and better than most GMs.