We're using the rest of the league as our farm league by collecting picks for our championship window from teams who don't understand that every pick is valuable equally, no matter how far in the future...?
If we straight up waive him we eat his ~9 million hit. If we stretch waive him we eat 9/5 each year for 5 years (I believe). Not sure which way they are going but either way we lose some space.
Yes. It's too bad people bash the trade... the way it went down was beautiful... you can't control all that other stuff.
Seriously though, Neil might be the best GM we've ever had. Not only is he capable of finding quality buys in free agency (Aminu/Davis) and trades (Harkless/Plumlee), but he's savvy with the draft (Dame/CJ/Crabbe). Bob Whitsitt was pretty good at free agency, and he seemed to be savvy with trades, but he was HORRIBLE with the draft. I actually think Neil is the best GM we've ever had, overall, and I'm confident that he will put together a team that could compete for a championship. He has put his stamp on this team, and so far it's a damn fine stamp. How many other teams could have lost their star power forward, 4/5 of their starting lineup, and still find themselves in playoff contention? How many teams could throw together a motley crew of relatively unknowns and still be competitive?
I don't "bash" the trade, but it wasn't optimal. It was an all-in move when I think he was already drawing dead (with LMA already going to be gone). Yeah, the inside straight card didn't pop up (Wes' injury, etc), but even if it did the Spurs had the nut flush. Obv others disagree.
He should be frontrunner for executive of the year. No one has done a better job with the hand they were dealt.
Bull Dada. The trade was a failure because Affalo was an arrogant, unprofessional dick who didn't want to be here. Somebody didn't do their homework.
He wasn't horrible at the draft. Keep in mind that the Blazers only had 1 top 15 pick in his 9 years as GM. The Blazers never sucked bad enough, and also he liked to trade draft picks for players. But he Aaron McKie, Jermaine O'Neal, Alvin Williams, Zach Randolph, traded of Gary Trent on draft day. The worst drafting GM in Blazer history was John Nash.
I don't think Afflalo was crazy about the trade, but I haven't heard anywhere that he was unprofessional during his short time with the blazers. Afflalo got injured as well. The trade didn't work out, but it was a good move imo.
