He's obviously aiming at losing some guards after his acquisitions... People act like he's done are simply being disingenuous.
I will say, being close to the tax line makes it easier to get out of the tax during the season. Dumping one of the mins gets us there. If that’s the directive, fuck this team.
If you take the numbers from spotrac we're just under 133.2M in salary right now... that's simple addition. That's with twelve players under contract. Brown hasn't been signed yet and you have to imagine his initial salary will 900k. That leaves us at 134.1. Still over 2.5M below the 136.06M tax line. So since Brown hasn't been signed yet it's not only mathematically possible that we're more than 3M under the tax... it's probable unless we gave one of our free agents a piece of the MLE instead of the vet min.
Damian Lillard $39,344,900 CJ McCollum $30,864,198 Robert Covington $12,975,471 Jusuf Nurkic $12,000,000 Norman Powell 16M est Derrick Jones $9,720,900 Anfernee Simons $3,938,818 Andrew Nicholson (W) $2,844,429 Nassir Little $2,316,240 CJ Elleby $1,517,981 Zeller 1.7M McLemore 1.7M Snell 1.7M Brown .9M my math says about 137M...so yeah...over the tax line
Hey don't worry about the cap. The Lakers have already blown it up. If they can do it, so can we. It's not like Jody is pennyless.
Just one thing is wrong with it the fucking dead money from Nichols. Which is another 2.9ish. So we're not into the tax at this minute but signing Brown to his deal and getting another vet would mean we'd be into the tax.
Pretty good. I'd rather throw in a first than give up Nassir. I'd even say that I'd give up a 1st and a 2nd to keep him. Remember, DJJ is trade fodder too.
Maybe they are trying to run the Blazers into the ground so bad, Portland turns its back on the team and they can move it to Seattle. It's crazy the state of the Blazers right now feels so apocalyptic. It's depressing to watch all the name brand players go elsewhere while the Blazers get the store brand players. It's disappointing because Neil was supposed to go all in to keep Dame. Maybe he has sold Dame on having more space for FA next season to bring in a third star. IDK. Not really liking what I am seeing. Trying to be patient though and hoping Neil isn't done. That we use our TLMLE and make a big trade. I look at these moves, and I can't help but wonder what the fuck is the plan here? It just feels like the same stuff Neil does every year. We are just a little in the tax this time.
The MLB has competitive balance picks with regard to the draft. There are a certain number of slots every year and qualifying small markets are chosen by lottery I believe and ordered by w/l record after the teams are picked.
I'd be all over that. He turned down Spurs money so don't think he's gonna take MLE. Josh Hart though?
And the apron is at 143, is that right? So in theory, we could trade DJJ in a S&T, and bring in someone making 14 or so and fit it under the apron with another minimum addition. Not that there's guys out there that fit that bill well.
