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.
Except both players became huge problems on their previous team in similar circumstances. Maybe they've matured?
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
