Turner or Crabbe for 22 makes all the sense. Try to package picks and salary for a high level starter. If not, move a pick and Fabio to NY. Do over started
I thought you said you we're done defending him? This is why we get made fun of as a fan base across the league: we pay mediocre players stupid money then defend them to the death like our own children. AC is a bullshit player to be paying 19 mil per. He cant defend worth shit. Doesnt rebound. Doesnt create for others. are we supposed to sit here and swoon over a guy who scored 20+ like twice all year when that is all he does? should have let him walk for nothing last summer. Stupid fucking blazers
Nets get: Allen Crabbe Meyers Leonard Festus Ezeli 15th pick 26th pick Blazers get: Jeremy Lin Trevor Booker Justin Hamilton 22nd pick
But Paul Allen appears (from the various reports suggesting that the Blazers want to cut costs) to value his money sufficiently not to go into luxury tax territory. That's a problem, if you want the Blazers to retain Nurkic. They're right around the tax line right now and Nurkic is due for a huge salary increase next off-season. Clearing space, assuming Allen continues not to want to go into the luxury tax, means opening up space to re-sign Nurkic.
To get rid of Meyers Leonard. But, if the nets would take less, maybe just one pick, then all the better
And just when I thought Turner, Leonard and Crabbe were dancing by the trade table punch bowl in solo dance mode.... a ray of light appears.
Well bottom line is that Crabbe is over paid simple. I said that at the beginning last year and still saying it. Just because we alot of money it doesn't mean you have spend it all. All you got to do is reach the salary cap and not go out to reach the LT. That want Olshey did last year it just not sound business. So yes we do have to trade Crabbe and more likely find suitor for Turner too.
So why'd he sign off on all last Summer's big signings? If he's having buyer's remorse, why does Olshey still have a job?
Because last season, there wasn't a max contract for Nurkic looming. Olshey clearly sold him on "retaining assets" and was careful to stay just under the luxury tax line. As for why he hasn't been fired--I imagine the acquisition of Nurkic is a significant feather in his cap (as it should be). But I think the "overpay guys because we're over the cap anyway" was a flawed premise in an environment where Allen wasn't willing to go into luxury tax territory, because it tightly constrains your ability to adjust to "finding" a star (as they did with Nurkic) or retaining even other non-star but useful players. If Vonleh, for example, breaks out like some on this forum hope--it'll be a challenge to re-sign him if Allen stays averse to the luxury tax, even in the absence of Nurkic.
LMA's play in the playoffs stank like a rotten fish - and NO could not persuade him to live on very wet land.
This is the worst possible argument you could make for NO's competency as a GM. Dude falls ass backwards into a decent acquisition because he put himself into such a bind cap wise he was forced to make a move for a guy who at the time had MAJOR attitude and work ethic problems. There is only one way to spell that Nurkic deal L-U-C-K-Y.
What is there to believe? This is all factual. Had to trade plums cause we had no cap space to resign him. Nurk was pouting and out of shape when we got him. If you could just pull your head out of neil's lap for a second you could see what is right in front of you I swear.