Nurkic is a Blazer!!

Yeah that's how I took it as well.

 

I think the Blazers could use three (good) selections. The question is whether they can dump enough existing players to roster three rookies. And dumping players may require packaging with first-round picks, so...

 

Let's see...Ezeli, Pat C, and Quarterman. Easy. Switch out Shabazz for any of those and I wouldn't lose any sleep.

 

They're not worth $7M..

 

Well, I should have qualified that with dump enough existing players to open up salary room for three first-round rookies. Unless Allen's okay with going into the luxury tax to sign them. Ezeli is a start.

 

It seems pretty clear that at some point, between now and the end of the regular season next year, Olshey is going to have to find a lopsided trade to dump somewhere around $17 million or so off of team salary. Spotrac shows the Blazers are committed to $139,190,400 next season. The Luxury Tax threshold is expected to be around $122 million. There are any number of ways to go about it and a bunch of high-priced assets that could be moved. It's going to be interesting to see when and how it's done. Dumping Crabbe, Turner or a combination of Leonard and Aminu for a pick or a rookie scale guy would be options. Dame and CJ are salary hogs, but you'd think that if one of them were to be moved we'd have to get back a proven stud, most likely with a similar big price tag.

 

Quarterman and Pat C are not guaranteed next yr so they can be gone and roster spots open up

 

Yeah, I meant the salary space to roster them. I wasn't clear enough. I believe each first-rounder will cost somewhere between $5-7M and they're already over the luxury tax threshold.

 

Depends upon where we pick. Top pick in the draft is around $6M. Picking at 7 or 8 is $3M. Picks in the 20's are about $1.5M each.
http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/info/rookie_scale/2018

 

nope, its more than last yr with but not ridiculous at all, here's the link

http://www.spotrac.com/nba/rookie-scale/

 

That's because Varejao was an expiring. Getting another team to take on a long term bad contract will likely require a first-round pick.

 

"We'll post him up more than... we haven't really posted anybody up this year".

 

We got a 1st for varejao. That's why we currently have their pick.

 

I feel for Stotts...he had to burn a season and probably didn't want to have to do that

 

I swear I think the only guy I've seen post up this year is Harkless.

 

Layman actually did it a few times and Vonleh on a few mismatches

 

And ET here and there. I wish Stotts would take advantage of mismatches a bit more across the board.