Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA Doc Rivers trying to work sign-and-trade w/ Cavs for Hawes, preserving Clippers exception to still target Paul Pierce, sources tell Y.
@WojYahooNBA: Hawes passed on Blazers MLE offer Thursday, sources say. Chose between Clippers MLE and Suns space. Blazers moved on, signing Chris Kaman. Ouch.
Well, it is called Free Agency for a reason. Just because you're from somewhere doesn't necessarily mean you want to go back there.
I think it had to do with the length of the contract. 2 years or 4 years? I think it was an easy choice.
Keep in mind both offered more money than the MLE. Not much more but still more. In the clippers case 2 million more. Phoenix.......we are not sure what they offered with their cap space.
Your right, but it does upsets me because I did think Ptd would be an attractive place for players to play right now with Aldridge and Lillard and Batum
You sir were right. If I gave you shit for mocking us believers . . Well I don't apologize because after all You are MM and who else can I give shit to. But right you were Happy 4th
Hawes got the MLE with the requisite 4.5% annual raises that equal out to the total contract amount. 5.305 - 1st year 5.544 - 2nd year 5.793 - 3rd year 6.326 - 4th year = $23 Million
Still don't like the Kaman signing, but at least we tried to offer Hawes the MLE. Can't make players sign here. But this is why cap space in 2015 means nothing. When's the last big FA to sign in Portland? Strick in 92?
Bollocks. They made a bigger offer than we did. You can are that we should have offered more, but to conclude that free agents wouldn't sign here if our offer was the highest is just silly.
Could have been a variety of things. The Clippers are trying to do a sign and trade to get him more money. Could be NO didn't want to part with what the Cavaliers would have wanted. Maybe we wanted to preserve our cap space and didn't want to offer him a 4 year deal. Maybe Hawes liked the idea of playing for Doc or with Chris Paul. Or maybe Hawes lied when he said he was very interested in playing here. Whatever. Time to move along.
Re: WTF? Kamam to Clips for 4 yrs/23 mil? I agree with you that it's not a big deal. People just need to bitch for reasons that are probably not blazer related.
So hawes passed on us. Those of you bitching about the blazers missing can now stop. Unless you're delusional.. then carry on and party hardy.
bush's pep-bitch or the wannabe kraut? I'll take the one I have to put up with for the shortest period of time . . .
