teams with superstars will need those contracts to dump salary.....you should know this. I didn't say you're trading Meyers for a star...or ET...I said salary dump come Feb their contracts will have value.
all good ….but nowhere did I say you trade expirings for a star....don't know where you got that from
seems to me getting them off the books in Portland is really important to folks around here....in the grand scheme of things right now the west is brutal
That's not what teams are looking for for stars. Multiple picks+prospects. That has 10x more value than simply clearing salary.
we're the team looking for stars here....I don't know what your point or counters to my original post have to do with what I said ….it's a given the picks and prospects are valued in deals at the deadline....
Yes, we're looking for stars. And other teams who have stars would need to receive something of commensurate value in order to be willing to part with those stars. And what @BonesJones is saying is that expiring contracts don't rise to the level of commensurate value; any deal for an impact player (even if not a "star") would require us to be sending out picks/prospects, not just expirings/cap space. And that's even more the case this year than any other, as more than half of the free agent signings this summer have been one-year deals, so expiring contracts will be in abundance this coming trade deadline. Also, should be noted that we only have one significant expiring contract (Aminu)--every other Blazer contract of any size goes through 2020 at least.
of course trades including salary dumps would be two way deals....players who are unhappy with their team often get moved...or teams unhappy with the player...D Howard got traded for Mozgov......these things occur...at any point...these are players we would benefit from moving in deadline deals...sure there's competition....and possibility that said players raise their value early in the season
I will say I'm not a cap expert or deal wizard when it comes to GMs moves....seems dumping the Meyers and Turner contracts could be done which addresses somethings people seem to complain about...at this point in the west, they can just play out their contracts and become free agents...you guys follow the trade machines and realgm stats all the time...I really don't nor have much interest in the business side of basketball...just addressing addition by subtraction when it comes to guys everyone says are overpaid.
I must admit, I was there with Denny. Im starting to turn the corner, but will wait until the dust settles, so I can aim my gun at NO more accurately, than just blindly pull the trigger in the midst of the chaos.
Criticism is fine and part of the job. The whole twitter thing and some of the words people are using to describe their utter hatred for him is pathetic. It’s basketball.
Cry me a river bro... I’m sure he has more than enough money to get by... he is a clown and is failing at his job so he should be fired
Fine. Fire him. Don’t. I don’t care. But you see fans acting like they can say and do whatever. it’s a joke. No wonder KD told a fan to shut the fuck up and Patrick Beverly threw a ball at someone. Idiot fans think their tough like these are actually people.
