I don’t think any contract is good for him. He’s not a winner. He doesn’t do the little things our team needs to win
Ok... but you don't want this team to attempt to win right now, do you? Don't you want the team to rebuild? How would letting a player--who (as you said) does good things--walk without getting anything for him be better than signing him to a reasonable (read: tradeable) deal?
Don’t want to win now? 618 games 265 wins 353 losses How do I not want to win now. He’s not a guy you win because of
definitely kind of a high wire act to not only anticipate what is the optimum 'tradable' contract but anticipate what will be tradable 2 or 3 years down the line. As you pointed out, when people hear 5-year/150M they tend to go bonkers. But the starting salary would be 26M; and that's only 19% of the cap and 16% of the tax margin. The 3rd year of the deal, when it would b 30M, is the first year of the new media contracts and I'm already seeing salary cap projections of 175-180M for that year. Grant's salary would be less than 17% of the cap. Ant's salary was 18% of the cap this season and about 17.8% next season. Grant was better than Ant this season. I keep hoping that just once, the Blazers will sign one of their free agents to a bargain contract. They never did it with CJ; didn't with Powell, didn't with Nurk and Ant. I guess too much to hope they do with Grant
I'm not disputing that. I'm asking why you think it's better for the team to let him walk for nothing than to sign him to a deal they can later trade for an asset.
Which brings me back to my original question--given the parameters we've already agreed upon (that Grant won't help the team win, and the re-signing him would solely be for the purpose of converting him into a usable asset down the road), what level of contract do you think would be reasonable for Grant? That is to say, if 30+ million makes him "virtually worthless", is he worth something (to other teams) at 20 million? 24 million?
I say 4/100 is team friendly > 4/120 overplay Somewhere in between is what will likely happen. Hopefully, 4th yr is team option His allergy for rebounds bothers me but I'm for keeping him w/o overpaying, if Dame stays
There are really good players in the league that don’t really help teams win (Russ, Melo, LaVine) He’s one of those guys. He might be a decent player on a team where he’s the 3rd or 4th option. Some teams out there will like him anyway (look at Portland) So while I wouldn’t sign him at all, the $ amount doesn’t really matter, I guess because some team might think they are a player away and trade for him regardless of salary
Grant played 8 games after Hart was traded and averaged about 5 a game, so (considerably) might be an overstatement. Our Lillardputian pg however averaged 7
Saying Grant can play SF may or may not be correct, it depends who the PF is. It needs to be a very mobile guy, a defensive guy and ideally a good rebounder. That's not a common archetype of player.
