Whiteside: trade or keep?

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What should we do with Whiteside?

  • Trade him before the deadline

    Votes: 31 43.7%

  • Keep him, but let him leave in free agency to free up cap space

    Votes: 5 7.0%

  • Keep him with the plan of giving him a new contract

    Votes: 35 49.3%
  • Total voters
    71
CupWizier said:
No, because it could be the Blazers not wanting what's being offered. It's a very limited market for a 28 mil contract.
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Nobody going to offer that again to him but he might be happy here playing for us. He already had his big contract so maybe he will he sign team friendly contract.
 
James lamphear said:
Nobody going to offer that again to him but he might be happy here playing for us. He already had his big contract so maybe he will he sign team friendly contract.
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Oh, i definitely agree he's going to take a big pay cut. Problem is that he isn't a high priority for the team, but it's always a possibility.
 
James lamphear said:
Nobody going to offer that again to him but he might be happy here playing for us. He already had his big contract so maybe he will he sign team friendly contract.
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He would only sign a team friendly contract if he could start.
 
Hey said:
He would only sign a team friendly contract if he could start.
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You know no one knows goes behind close doors maybe they already talk to both players and they have agree to make it work with both on the same team. Everyone wants to assume that neither would like to play behind each other. Maybe they both talk to each other saying we could be monster with each other.
 
James lamphear said:
You know no one knows goes behind close doors maybe they already talk to both players and they have agree to make it work with both on the same team. Everyone wants to assume that neither would like to play behind each other. Maybe they both talk to each other saying we could be monster with each other.
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Could be. Whiteside is a goof off and so is Nurkic. Maybe it's not the problem we think it is.
 
Keep him and resign if he has more value to the Blazers than the cost of his new contract. If not then;

Keep him and let him walk if he will become overpaid.

But; Trade him if the value a team offers in return is greater than the prior two options.
 
blazerfan11 said:
Could be. Whiteside is a goof off and so is Nurkic. Maybe it's not the problem we think it is.
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Except both players became huge problems on their previous team in similar circumstances. Maybe they've matured?
 
hoopsjock said:
Except both players became huge problems on their previous team in similar circumstances. Maybe they've matured?
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maybe

here's the thing: you would like Whiteside traded for a contract that stretched at least into next season; hopefully, for an attractive contract on a desirable player. That would make for a good trade asset, but of course, that is speculative value

but what if Whiteside was signed this summer for an 8-12M/year deal, 1+1 or two or three years? wouldn't that hit the mark of the speculative value you want Portland to have on their roster of trade assets? And that would also serve the purpose of maintaining the best roster for Portland this season
 
wizenheimer said:
maybe

here's the thing: you would like Whiteside traded for a contract that stretched at least into next season; hopefully, for an attractive contract on a desirable player. That would make for a good trade asset, but of course, that is speculative value

but what if Whiteside was signed this summer for an 8-12M/year deal, 1+1 or two or three years? wouldn't that hit the mark of the speculative value you want Portland to have on their roster of trade assets? And that would also serve the purpose of maintaining the best roster for Portland this season
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No on the 1+1, because then he'd have a no-trade clause like Hood has this year. Plus I don't think Whiteside is going to be happy going from $27 million to $8-$12 million and splitting time.

My main problem is having two players that can only play center forces Zach to only be able to play PF, which may or may not be his best position, but I'd prefer not to pigeon hole him into only playing one or the other. It ruins a lot of lineup flexibility too.

Edit: I just don't think other teams value Whiteside in a trade so the only value lies in his expiring contract and possible bird rights this year. I could be wrong on this of course.
 
James lamphear said:
You know no one knows goes behind close doors maybe they already talk to both players and they have agree to make it work with both on the same team. Everyone wants to assume that neither would like to play behind each other. Maybe they both talk to each other saying we could be monster with each other.
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I like your optimism.
 
I’m not understanding why so many people think Hassan has no/little value around the league. Like no one knows what he’s done this year?
 
calvin natt said:
I’m not understanding why so many people think Hassan has no/little value around the league. Like no one knows what he’s done this year?
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Executives over the summer were saying the same things Heat fans were about empty stats and laziness. The GM Survery had Portland predicted to finish 7th with Whiteside replacing Nurk as the only injured player at the time. It's also a contract year. He's 30 years old which isn't a big deal but there are centers like Drummond available who is 4 years younger. On top of that some teams that could actually use Whiteside this year either would have to part with a core player or don't have an easy way to match his salary. Would a rebuilding team be interested in him as a player? Maybe? Probably not, so it goes back to his expiring being the only value of his contract.
 
Some of the people wanting to keep Whiteside will be leading the pitchfork assault on Olshey when it blows up and he has to attach assets just to get rid of him.
 
hoopsjock said:
Some of the people wanting to keep Whiteside will be leading the pitchfork assault on Olshey when it blows up and he has to attach assets just to get rid of him.
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The people who want to keep Whiteside I assume do not mean unconditionally.
And isn't any contract you want for future use possibly a pitchfork situation too?
There are lots of variables here.
 
blazerfan11 said:
The people who want to keep Whiteside I assume do not mean unconditionally.
And isn't any contract you want for future use possibly a pitchfork situation too?
There are lots of variables here.
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Yeah, I mentioned all the variables in the post prior.
 
Last time we had a pending free agent center playing the best ball of his career, we traded him for future assets. Portland was 23-31 at the time of that trade. Just sayin..
 
calvin natt said:
I’m not understanding why so many people think Hassan has no/little value around the league. Like no one knows what he’s done this year?
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Centers don't have much value around the league, generally. Nurk is actually one of the higher paid ones at just 12 mil as of late. As well as he's playing, He'll be lucky if he gets into the double digits per year in my opinion.
 
BigGameDamian said:
That's always been the goal and the only goal! It screams mediocre.
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I guess you paid no attention to what the organization and players were saying going into this season. But that would've ruined your narrative.
 
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