Freeland Staying in Europe until 2014

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  1. craigehlo

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    Javier Maestro: (Blazers draftee) Joel Freeland will re-sign with Unicaja till 2014 with a $4 million buyout for European teams and $1.3 million buyout to leave for the NBA
     
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    The buyout isn't too bad, but I'm not counting on seeing him in a Blazer uni for a long time.
     
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    Crap. He's no savior, but he'd probably be an improvement, and one of our few opportunities to help fill that void. Still, $1.3 mil buyout, once he's no longer subject to the rookie scale, shouldn't be too hard for Uncle Paul, considering the way he used to throw $3 mil around to buy late draft picks?
     
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    Translation: "It rains how much in Portland?"
     
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    He's from England, he's familiar with rain.
     
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    Does he have to pay his own buyout? IOW: Does it come out of whatever salary the Blazers pay him, or do the Blazers pay it?

    As far as our off-season rebuilding project, and cap room, signing Nico, etc, would signing him this summer muck that up? Do we need to wait another year? Sorry, I'm not a numbers guy.
     
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    Exactly. Which is why the English love to vacation in Spain, Portugal, Southern France, Italy....
     
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    It used to be $500K was the maximum a team could contribute to a player's buyout. Not sure if that changed in the new CBA.
     
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    well if that is the case we REALLY need to get some bigs for nest year!
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    But he's living it up in Spain.
     
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    I'll be honest. That's a blow that we did not need. I wanted to see him in the NBA next season.
     
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    Has he done it yet? Maybe this is just a move to get Portland to commit to him and tell his agent how much they'll pay for his services. (Or to get them to trade his rights to a team he'd prefer to go to...)
     
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    I only follow the team on a recreational basis, so this might not be correct. Is Nicolas Batum the last Blazers first round pick to work out, or am I missing someone? If that's the case, it is a little depressing.
     
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    Well ... if by "work out," you mean help the team win, then yes (probably) but Luke Babbitt has worked out pretty well from a comic relief standpoint and that can't be overlooked.
     
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