Best Olshey move in a while, good thing the last year is a partial guarantee in case we need to rebuild.
Yippee, hurray, out of sight. He's young, and when he finishes this deal, he will get a max deal after helping Portland win it's 1st Championship since '77. Super happy baby.
Love the deal. Really interested to see how his role in the offense evolves. I feel like if he can continue to improve his patience and IQ as a pnr finisher/passer and trade out those post touches for more elbow handoffs (similar to what SVG did w/ Drummond last year) and a couple trail 3 attempts a game, he's a guy that can be just a slight minus on O and top 5 positive on D. That would make him a steal at this number.
POR Gets: Love, Arthur*, Abrines*, CLE Gets: Turner, Layman, 2019 POR 1st, 2022 POR 1st, 2022 OKC 1st OKC Gets: 2021 POR 2nd, 2022 POR 2nd DEN Gets: Singler Then I'll be happy. OKC saves a ton of money and gets 2nds back for their 1st, DEN saves a little bit of salary by trading Arthur (who's like their 5th PF) for Singler. CLE get's 3 picks for Love, and we get a good balanced lineup. Release PapaG and resign him to a two-way contract (if possible) and call it good. Lillard / Baldwin / Simons McCollum / Curry / Abrines Harkless / Trent / Stauskas Love / Aminu / Swanigan Nurkic / Collins / Leonard / Papagiannis Lillard (36) / McCollum (12) / Simons McCollum (23) / Curry (25) / Abrines Harkless (28) / Aminu (17) / Curry (3) / Trent / Stauskas Love (33) / Aminu (11) / Collins (4) Swanigan Nurkic (28) / Collins (20) / Leonard / Papagiannis Lillard 36min McCollum 35min Love 33min Nurkic + Aminu + Harkless + Curry 28min Collins 24min
Now that we got Nurkic so cheaply, we can stop the "letdown" propaganda. I thought he was outstanding last season. There was no disappointment. But we had to create doubts about his worth to hold down the price.
There's 5 picks bruh. There's 2 picks needed to land Love, 3 minimum. So.... What do you propose instead? Turner and Layman straight up for Love?
No, I just think it would be much more realistic with just two picks going to the Cavs. I don't think OKC deserves 2nds and I don't think Love's value is that high.