Why not? Lux Tax line is set at $119.2M (link). Blazer's current payroll is $122.2M (link). They just need to dump $3M. Ed makes $6.3M, so they can trade Ed for anyone who makes less than $3.3M and still be able to get under the tax. Even if their contract extends beyond 2018, it's ok if they are a contributor.
Well, yeah, sure we could. But if I were calling the shots I wouldn't want to take back any future salary. The way I see it, Ed/Vonleh are making about $9M this year and next year Vonleh alone will make about $9M - so that's a wash and doesn't impact our salary in either direction. We still need to find some savings, but at least with Ed/Vonleh, we can stay salary neutral by letting Ed's contract come off the books.
Only playoff teams would be interested in Davis imo, and most of those teams don't have cap space, so we'd probably have to take some salary back. I don't see that happening though. I think a more likely scenario would be adding Davis to Harkless and trading them to someone like Chicago. Harkless and Davis for Mirotic? Mirotic wants out, and Harkless probably needs a change as well and he's young and fits Chicagos rebuild and plays a position they don't really have anybody at. Mirotic gives us a shooter/scorer for the second unit, and if we don't like him he's got a team option we could just decline.
It means, have a sense of realism about Olshey's talent to undo his own mistakes. Yep. Vonleh will never be half the player Davis is.
Vonleh is a stationary brick wall on defense. Remember when Westbrook hurt his head by bumping into Vonleh's shoulder? Davis is the active guy who builds the wall.
So trade him to BOS where they can absorb him with their player exception, send us their late first, and help them at a position of need (PF).
Find me a losing team in the depths of Russia with a former Blazer, which I can't ever find a free stream to watch, so I can check the boxscore once a week and pretend to know all about it on this board.
Ed Davis is much more fun to watch than Vonleh. We are overstocked at 6-9 forwards, but not at 7-0 centers.
Neil's tone carry's a certain hint of "You better ask me the right questions." That's for sure. Probably the best interview I have heard him do and I listened to most of it. Didn't know that he was a disciple of Tim Grgurich, Mr. Amoeba Defense himself. I thought the best part was when he described their methods for scouting and drafting players. Fascinating.
I seriously respect you as a poster...but really Vonleh isn't better than Ed? Noah may be one of the best defensive PF's in the league and growing. He can guard multiple positions and is being used to match up with one of the greatest players in the league right now. Just the fact that he is being considered for that task is a compliment to what he has accomplished over the summer. Offensively he has work to do for sure, but so does Ed. I still respect your opinion. To me watching a really good defensive player is almost more fun than an offensive player...almost. Side note....Go Cowboys!!
