Should the Blazers re-sign Jusuf Nurkic this summer?

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  1. Schilly

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    Simple answer Nurk is the best Center we have had since Sabonis, he still has room to become a smarter player and would be really hard to replace. He’s not going to get a max deal I suspect around $18mil to start.

    If we supposedly building a team then trading away assets to ditch albatross contracts does absolutely nothing going forward. We wouldn’t create enough cap space to matter and regardless let’s not rehash how we do at attracting FA’s. Harkless and Leonard are our new future RLEC just waiting to happen.
     
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    There are 3 ways forward, assuming that the Blazers are not willing to just let him walk:

    1. Trade Nurk for another Center

    2. Trade Nurk for something else and designate ZC as the CoftF

    3. Sign Nurk.

    My guess is that unless an opportunity happens with #1 (like Boogie becoming available, LAC willing to take a large bad contract with Nurk for DJ), given Dame's timeline, #3 happens.
     
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    Nurk's future with the Blazers was decided during Lillard's secret meeting with Paul Allen.
     
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    I started making a reply here but it was apparently so blasphemous that my computer crashed as I was writing it!
    Nurk is definitely not helping the offense. Can he be coached and become better? I hope so but it's not a definite. On defense it looks as if he is a big benefit a lot of the time, others not.
    My thinking is that Olshey (and Allen) are a little gunshy right now about taking on another big contract for an unproven guy. I understand their reluctance and personally, if I could get a good return, I would trade him now.
     
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    Andre Drummond is another guy the Blazers have targeted in the past that is pretty consistent. He is locked up for 4 years.
     
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    yes...the New Jersey Nets did just that before they moved to Brooklyn
     
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    Everything should be an option. Likelihood or advisability is another matter.
     
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    Blazers MUST re-sign Nurkic. Has too high a ceiling to give up on his development. It would be the biggest mistake since not drafting Durant.
     
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    Of course we should re-sign him, unless some team comes along and offers some ridiculous number like 16m+ a season.

    I really hope we can get him for 4/48
     
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    We can't afford not to. Shit, we can't even afford to lose Harkless.
     
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    I mean... if by the grace of god some team offered us a 2nd for Harkless...
     
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    I think him cooling down from the season he had last year plus the salary cap not jumping as expected is going to help us. I do not think anyone throws a crazt offer at him.

    The guy is still young and has room for improvement. As is, he is still the best center we have had in awhile. Not a max contract guy but definitely a keeper.
     
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    Hell yes
     
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    That many? Maybe not, but the two contracts the Lakers signed (Deng and Mozgov) that same off-season were worse than the four signed by the Blazers.
     
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    The only way we can get rid of Turner would be like how the Lakers got rid of Mozgov, which means packaging Collins with Turner for a Lopez brother.
     
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    I may want to dislike Olshey, but he is decent at putting together lineups together of mostly second level talent. Nurk, Collins and Harkless arent a terrible lineup for the future. I just think Olshey's ego gets in the way regarding his valuation skills and the players he drafts. But a lot of his methods are fine. Like the Nurkic contract was a perfect one to trade for. He was looking for a team and we were looking for a center. It's just when it comes to identifying free agents, man Neil really blows.
     
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    It’s easier to unload or work around 2 than 4(5 actually but 1 never played a game for us) 2 years after the lakers and blazers signed all those bad contracts the lakers now have the best cap situation in the league heading into next year, where we still have the 5th highest payroll.
     
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    Yeah People said that last year about Crabbe.
    Huge difference between Mozgov and ET. Teams did not want Mozgov regardless of his contract. ET on the other hand can help teams. He may or may not fit in a Stotts system, and his contract is an issue, but at least he can play.
     
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    Yeah but you also have to factor in that Russell can really play and Zach can only kinda play so it evens out
     
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    Well the Lakers haven't made the playoffs since 2013. I don't know how you can applaud them for wasting a #2 pick in the draft just to dump a contract that was signed just one year prior. That is the type of move that would devastate a franchise like the Blazers. Who cares about where the two teams are at payroll wise, the Blazers can't attract big free agents anyway. Neither can the Lakers lately either.

    The Blazers unloaded a bad one for a smaller bad contract. The Lakers had to trade Russell to get rid of theirs.

    Deng's contract is worse than Turner's contract because he can't even play anymore.

    The Harkless and Leonard contracts wouldn't even look that bad without Turner's contract.

    You can't count a one year deal as a bad contract. It didn't work out but it didn't saddle the team either.
     
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