Forum Game Official Blazers Offseason Trade/Free Agency Prediction Thread

Yes after all this time, he can't defend anyone and once teams learned to take away his backdoor cut he disappeared on offense.

 

I really like Jalen Brown from Boston if we could acquire him some way that would be super.

 

Nando De Colo will hit free agency this summer as he looks to return to the NBA. He’s going to get more than the minimum, but if we were able to dump someone like Harkless, we could offer him part of the non tax MLE or the BAE (but if it came down to it I would give him the entire tax MLE, assuming it wouldnt be enough to keep Hood)

A refresher of what he can do:





Would be a great replacement for Turner (much better shooter) and profiles well with our backcourt because of his size (6’5)

 

how did rasta hack scalma's account?

 

Why did Nando leave the NBA in the first place?

 

Technically a restricted free agent. Toronto holds his rights since he played for them last before leaving.

 

We just drafted him in Nassir Little. Probably a cheaper cost then trading for him again.

 

Because someone cashed checks of up to $100m doesn't mean he has the money. Maybe h lost it on Vegas. Maybe he had bad business advisers . Maybe he had gold digger girlfriends. Maybe he gave it all to charity ...Maybe he wants to own 3 private jets when he retires or an NBA franchise or buy a team in Switzerland ... who knows what he needs/ doesn't need?... Hope you get my point.
Until we see what his demands are .... we wouldn't know.

 

They will most likely rescind his rights.

 

Kanter resigning for a year on taxpayers MLE isn’t unthinkable. He probably won’t get much higher offers in the market and he knows what he’s getting here.

Same goes for Hood though the market for him might be slightly better.

We will have to choose one or the other though, can’t have both (can we give Hood 150% of his current salary though?).

 

We can give Hood 120% which without looking it up I believe is about $4.1 million. If he was willing to take the Tax-MLE would he take that being somewhat close so we could retain both? It's pretty much the only way to keep them.

 

I think we will somehow retain Hood and Kanter definitely not Curry.

 

in order to actually play!

 

We'll retain Hood.

Curry and Kanter will sign elsewhere.

Aminu will hold out. His agent will finally figure out that no one wants him to start for them. Then, he'll take $6 mil/year from us.

Simons starts the season in the rotation, Little does not.

Collins starts.

Jake will be kept for another year, and Olshey will regret it midseason.

Neil will try to make a trade, but it won't work out.... until the deadline when bad teams figure out they need to rebuild (eg Detroit).

 

I don't know how we will retain anyone who we don't have Bird rights on. I predict that Olshey will re-sign both Chief and Layman. I think Seth, Hood and Kanter will leave because all of them can get way more than we can pay them. We'll sign a player or two, with tpmle, that will contribute. I don't know if it will happen this Summer or in February but I also think we'll trade Evan, Meyers and a first rounder to either Detroit for Blake Griffin or Cleveland for Kevin Love.

 

Call me crazy, but I'd be VERRRY okay (disclaimer: at bargain basement prices, mind you) with Olshey doing his thing and replacing our outgoing guys by doing what he does best and going dumpster diving...

Trey Lyles, Stanley Johnson, Emmanuel Mudiay are all 23-year old RFAs with several years of experience under their belt and the only one who'd even potentially get matched would be Lyles. Tyus Jones, Hezonja, Vonleh also available... If we were able to land 2 or 3 of these guys on super team-friendly deals, I'd take that to the bank laughing all the way.

That said, no reason to take on any reclamation projects at anything BUT essentially the vet's min., so I'd also be VERRRRY price sensitive on this idea too. I just think we've got enough core components, experience and veteran leadership to take some chances on some screwballs, and if you miss you still retain at least some amount of cap flexibility into next offseason -- 2 grabs at the brass ring, as they say.

 

The Hornets will sign Seth.

 

Hes probably asking for more than triple that...

 

I believe they consider him a building block. He'd be tough to pry away