Notice Should the Portland Trail Blazers trade for Tyreke Evans?

Discussion in 'Portland Trail Blazers' started by BigGameDamian, Jan 30, 2018.

  1. BrianFromWA

    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    There's a difference between what you're referencing and the Evans situation. First, if he were severely overpaid, you might have a shot. For instance, if he was making 30M, MEM might say "give us 20M back in contracts (say, Meyers and Mo) and we'll call it good, b/c we'd rather pay those dudes 20M than one guy who kinda sucks now 30M". PA didn't care when there wasn't a punative luxury tax. We could trade a 10M expiring contract for a 12M long term one, reducing the amount another team might owe an overpaid player from, say, 48M over 4 years to 10M over 1 (RLEC?). Luxury tax hurts, but you can still do stuff like that, if you find the right partners and the team's willing to buy off on huge luxury tax implications.

    In this case, he's becoming a free agent, so we're limited by the amount the league will even let us offer him (the options above...likely the Taxpayer MLE of around 5.8M or so). The non-taxpayer MLE that almost every other team will have is going to be about 8.8M. So just by being in the tax, we're at a 3M disadvantage to every other team's "Free Exception". AND we're nowhere near close enough that we can offer "cap space" salary without drastically slashing payroll (like, 40M or so worth of it).
     
  2. DaLincolnJones

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    okay....got it, thanks. so there is no way we can entice someone to take CJ and some junk to clear cap ..damn, I am uninformed
     

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