All these other teams are pursuing players to get better, but Portland just sits there. Let's go after Kevin Love or someone who can help us win. If not, we will just repeat last season. The west is too tough to just sit on our hands.
We won 21 more games than we did the previous season. If we can repeat that, I would be more than happy winning 75 games next year.
Which starters do you want to give up to get Love and do you think we should cut off one of his fingers or just break one leg to convince him to sign here when his contract is up?
I'm sure he's willing to take the minimum to return to Oregon, right? Right? I quite liked last season... Well, the Rockets probably WISH they'd sat on their hands.
Wow. Your post obviously has no earthly clue how to run a team. If your post were any dumber, it'd answer a jeopardy question in an answer.
We have a billionaire owner. As long as we are winning, I don't think that's ever a problem. What would be a problem is spending luxury tax on mediocre players like we did when Whitsett was running the team.
Im glad we didn't have a lot of money this off season. Some of these contracts were rediculous and we would have had to massively overpay for the top stars.
I don't know how many years PA would be willing to feed money into the league under the new CBA with its graduated tax rates and, especially, the repeater penalties. http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q21 The Blazers presently have a team salary for cap purposes of $68,937,824 and the luxury tax threshold for the coming season is $76.8M. Signing LA to a max contract would put him at around $18.7M next season. Lopez is going to get at least $10M and you'd have to figure Wes at around the same. Add in Batum at $11.7M and Dame at $3.5M and the starting five would combine for around $54M. Assuming the luxury tax remains about the same, that leaves only about $22M to fill out the rest of the roster before you push into luxury tax territory. And once Lillard's rookie contract is up...yikes! Of course, the league will negotiate a much larger TV deal in a couple of years, so that will bump the threshold up a bunch. Bottom line, my guess is that the Blazers won't hesitate to spend if the team continues to nudge into contention, but they may try to hedge their bets with some of the lower-tier players by using guys on rookie deals and players who will take the vet's minimum rather than paying big bucks for second stringers.
Maybe we can go dumpster diving like the Rockets are doing with Jeff Adrien and Joey Dorsey? Baron Davis, here we come!
