Ifeaanyi Festus Ezeli is in town and preparing to interview w Blazers

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    If meyers is gonna take the qualifying offer, i dont see them renouncing him.
     
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    Yes but isn't it painfully obvious by now that POR Brass likes Leonard more than apparently many fans do? And Mo probably gets offer higher than that from another team that we have to decide whether to match on.
     
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    Yes, no doubt a big deal. Three guys on that team now, last season averaged 58 shots a game between them. The Warriors average 87 as a team and that is high,
    only two teams shoot more, Boston 3 and Chicago 1. So 12 guys get to divie up 29 more shots. This is going to be a fun team to watch and see how they work this out. I don't think they will all that successfully, especially if they have no bigs. The only other they have stays out on the perimeter to chuck threes. Ha! just what they need.
     
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    I mean FUCK nards man at this point ive seen more outta harkless in 2/3 of a season than no D in 4 years. WHEN WILL WE LEARN WE CANT TEACH INSTINCS. fuck.

    Anyways...
    I mean he MIGHT get a better offer idk if anyone's giving him more than 9-10 per which we could easily match make it a 3-yr deal with a player option on the last year or something. thats in the best interest of all parties. I think crabbe might be to much to match from brooklyn and that would be a shrewd move which neil has been known to do
     
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    If fuckin bazemore can get 70 million I could see crabbe getting that kind of offer.
     
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    I'm okay if they renounce the rights to Harkless or Leonard, but if we have to renounce both of them, that would suck. I'm guessing Neil has a pretty good idea what those guys (including Crabbe) will be offered by other teams. That will be a big factor in determining who to renounce and how much cap space we have to make an offer to Ezeli. Also keep in mind the minimum roster charge for up to 13 players. We only have 10 guys under contract at this time.
     
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    17 mi for that schlub?

    I would be hesitant to give him 10. That's even pushing it.
     
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    If we sign Ezeli, it means his knees passed the exam and we have a guy who should break out given 30+ minutes.

    I like Mo a lot, but it is probably an improvement to have Ezeli over him.

    The starting lineup looks to be improved quite a bit:

    Dame, CJ, Ezeli, Turner, Aminu

    Bench:

    Crabbe, Plums, Davis, Leonard, Connaughton, Vonleh

    Aminu and Turner and Crabbe cover the SF minutes, so I think we're balanced enough.
     
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    Gotta move a big. Probably plumlee. He's going to get overpaid next summer anyway.
     
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    $70M. That would be in the range of releasing Leonard. That would get us to about $15.7M first year, $67M over 4 years. To get more than that, we'll need to cut Harkless, Crabbe, Montero, and/or Alexander.
     
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    He has no leverage. Not many if any teams who need a Center can pay him that. 4 x 10 for 40 is more than fair with his injury history.
     
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    No way we get Ezeli for anything less than 15. If we do I will cry immediately no questions asked.
     
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    Fuck that. Pass.
     
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    Blazers have been playing hard to get on this one from the getgo.
     
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