Possible that we only use part of it but it would mean no one left is worth spending the whole thing on imo.
so far: Blazers have re-signed Powell which is something they absolutely had to do and it looks like they have replaced Melo with McLemore and Kanter with Zeller....? and Portland's established wing rotation of actual wing-sized players is RoCo,,,then Little, Jones, and Elleby. And most expect Jones is trade bait there needs to be some good surprise(s) in the rest of free agency, or the run-it-back model is worse than last season. Of course, maybe there's a much bigger surprise on the trade front
The opposite. He couldn’t find a deal that needed Hills contract by the guarantee date, and he wasn’t about to pay 10m for Hill.
I'm glad we resigned Norm, thats great news to read. But as probably has been echoed by many already this has to be followed up with a CJ trade of some sort. Norm just doesn't fit at 3 at least not in the situation of it being Dame/CJ/Norm. But I'd rather have Norm as our starting 2.
I guess I’m gonna go with underwhelming as my feeling for day 1. I never expect to do anything in FA anyway. I really hope the rumor of OPJ turning down the MLE to play for NBA peanuts in GS is true, I also hope it was us that he turned down. That might be the slap in the face Neil needs to realize we have to gamble with a trade to get better. It’s really the only way with where we are now.
If we sign him I'm going to say it was a wink-wink outside the trade parameters part of a CJ etc. -- Simmons deal. That crazy fever dream will at least help me sleep tonight.
There were definitely deals made around this time last year. I think most of the guys are out in LA anyways.
