Not really a good analogy. If we let AC go, we don't have his 17-18 mil to throw at another replacement -- that number comes down to like 2-3.
If we let Crabbe go but retain our other RFAs we will have the Mini-MLE (room exception some call it?) for 2.7 MIL to sign a replacement shooter. Admittedly there are not a lot of exciting names out there but here are the top remaining swingmen (not saying they would all take that low of a price): Gerald Green Chase Budinger Alan Anderson Troy Daniels, restricted Jason Terry Wayne Ellington Kevin Martin
Gotcha. Still, THE thing that I would like most is if the offer sheet could somehow get torn up & then we got a S&T for him that involved RHJ & whatever; sadly... I've a bad feeling this won't happen
Is now a good time to try and get Sabonis from OKC in a trade while their heads are spinning? Somebody mentioned that Marcus Smart might be available. Maybe a 3 way that lands us both would be nice. Crabbe to OKC and Ed / Leonard to Boston with fillers..????? Just not sure I can watch him in a jersey other than ours. Especially if he develops like I think he will.
If we match Crabbe, we can't trade him until December. OKC isn't dealing Sabonis. Trading for Smart would be great, if we have anything Boston wants. Plumlee, perhaps?
If I was the GM, I'd probably try to find a home for Plums until Sunday. If I can't get at least a 1st for him, I keep him, and don't match Crabbe. If we can trade Plums, you keep Crabbe
This has probably been answered about 10 times in this thread, but I'm feeling lazy: if we match Brooklyn's offer, can we immediately trade Crabbe to (say) Philly? Or is that prohibited?
Nope--can't trade him until 12/15, and can't trade him to NJ, or anywhere else without his permission, for the entire first year.
We can trade him anywhere after the season, and before the LT calculations are made for the following season.
Match Crabbe and let him start next to Dame. Trade Lennard and CJ for Cousins. Be sure to sign Hark Done
Here's a great summary of the Blazers cap situation if we match Crabbe - that to "Wiz" at another board "I just wanted to take a little more detailed look at what Portland's cap situation could be next season Damian Lillard $26,153,057 Evan Turner $17,131,148 Al-Farouq Aminu $7,319,035 Ed Davis $6,352,531 C.J. McCollum $25,000,000 (guess) Anderson Varejao (stretched) $1,984,005 Jake Layman $905,249 Festus Ezeli $7,400,000 2017 1st round pick $1,500,000 Allen Crabbe $19,000,000 Mo Harkless $13,000,000 (guess) 126.5 million with a projected luxury tax threshold somewhere below 122 million. And that's only for 9 actual players. Notice that there are only 2 bigs there, with a 3rd being Aminu as a stretch-4. (Plumlee, Meyers, Vonleh, & Connaughton are not there) Even filling out the rest of the roster with veteran minimum types would still add 6-10 million more in salary and twice that (or more) in tax and that team there is not anything close to a contender. Depending on who else they add, it might barely be a playoff team and could be lottery even if you delete Crabbe's contract, the Blazers are still going to be tight against the luxury tax. Maybe tighter if Harkless gets a bigger offer. Just because the cap jumped dramatically doesn't mean mathematical correlations have changed. At the base of the problem here is that Portland will very likely be paying Dame-CJ-Turner 70 million a year. Forget about that being close to 70% of the cap, the more important ratio is that it will be 57-60% of the room between 0 and the tax threshold. Those guys will be Portland's 'big-3' and I just don't think the rest of the league will be scared of that big-3 I don't know if Olshey will match Crabbe's offer or not. I can't come up with any logical reason why he should but we know logic might not control this decision I know it's Paul Allen's money. If he's ok paying gagillions in luxury tax, then oh well. I think another potential problem, and it could be huge, is if there's a lockout or a strike next July 1. If/when that's resolved it's very likely the luxury tax will be even more punitive then it is now. So teams carrying a high payroll may be in even deeper doodoo. There will probably be some kind of amnesty provision but that's not certain personally, I think people know where I stand on this: don't match Crabbe's deal and let Meyers walk. I'd even set a limit on how much to match a Harkless offer and it would probably be in the 14-15 million range."
