Grantland's "Summer Winners and Losers"

Jamal Crawford, Wesley Matthews and Andre Miller were acquired in the last four years. Obviously Crawford didn't work out as expected but he was in high demand. Wesley worked out better than expected. I’d say Miller worked at least as well as expected, wish we never let him go.

How many big name free agents have the Lakers, Clippers, Bulls, Mavs, Nets, signed in that period?

I agree all else being equal other markets should have an advantage over Portland in acquiring a stud free agent. But how many teams have first the cap room for a max level free agent, secondly already have players signed on the roster to be a contender, and thirdly are in a significantly more desirable city than Portland?

It is an extremely difficult combo to attain all of those criteria. That is why stud all-stars rarely leave their teams in free agency and that is why I’m not overly concerned with Aldridge or any of our players bolting town in free agency.

 

Bored and randomly looking at forums I posted at a couple of times. The reason it does not count is that most teams do it. Love re-signed with the Wolves. LeBron with Cleveland. Paul with New Orleans. Melo with Denver. So on and so on.

It is almost an unwritten rule amongst the top players. They probably feel that they need to show some loyalty. At least signing one extension and seeing if the team can improve while they are there.

 

Makes total sense.

 

Good work! It's nice to have a good outlook on the team from a different fans perspective

 

24 post soon to be dick posting guy gets "good outlook" and 21k post cancer patient guy gets "cranky"


Ya that's right, I played the C patient card

 

Dude wtf? U always have my respect. Get that shit outta here!

Edit: I hate auto correct

 

Ain't nobody got time for that... Well... I guess I have all the time in the world to do that. But I won't.

 

Wasn't Andre Miller Tier 2? Plus, Millsap signed, and Utah matched.

 

The reason players coming off rookie contracts resign has nothing to do with loyalty, its that their team can offer them an extension and if one isn't agreed to then their team holds their restricted free agency rights. The player would have to be willing to take a big pay cut by playing on a small qualifying offer and risk playing two full years without a long term contract to leave the team that drafted them. It never happens because this is the first chance these players have of getting a huge contract and no sane person would take that kind of gamble for $80 million.

Now the signing of the second big contract is a different matter, players can have options written into their first big deal to test free agency and that is when players can leave for another team without potentially losing tons of money.

 

Actually, Philly offered him the MLE ( $5.8 million). The Knicks also wanted him, but again only had the MLE to offer.

BNM

 

I thought a few more teams wanted him but they all wanted him on 1 year deals. We were the only team to offer him a mutli-year deal.

 

Olshey continues to impress.