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wizenheimer said:
there are also going to be other free agent C's, many of whom may be willing to sign for cheap (some did this season):

Serge Ibaka
Tristan Thompson
Montrezl Harrell
Mo Bamba
Chris Boucher
Kevon Looney
JaVale McGee
Robin Lopez
Gorgui Dieng
Dwight Howard
Enes Freedom
LaMarcus Aldridge
Ed Davis
Hassan Whiteside
Andre Drummond
Cody Zeller
Bol Bol
Frank Kaminsky
Nemanja Bjelica
Drew Eubanks
Isaiah Hartenstein
Moses Brown
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It can't be a good sign that half that list has Blazer ties. We specialize in value contracts and late career retreads, I guess?
 
blazerkor said:
15M is an overpay. I expect us to bid against ourselves and pay him more than the full MLE which is what I think anyone else would pay him because his last deal was right around that and he did not outplay that contract not while he was on the floor and definitely by only playing 173 out of 310 regular season games and missed over half our playoff games having missed our only successful playoff run during his contract completely. So yeah, we'll overpay Nurk because no one else would give him north of 12M and we'll give him 15M next year and probably more than that the next two seasons but like I just said, I'm just hoping we don't guarantee those years. Who knows though, maybe our front office will manage to pay him like you're suggesting and we can all be furious.
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4 year $50 million. $12.5 million a year sounds perfect to me. If he wants more than that it absolutely NEEDS to be on a Team Option.
I really don't even want them to keep Nurk but they will.
 
handiman said:
It can't be a good sign that half that list has Blazer ties. We specialize in value contracts and late career retreads, I guess?
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in the last decade or so, a very real discount market for C's has developed; enough so that I think teams know they can fill their big man rotation cheaply and spend money elsewhere. There is still a market for elite big men, especially those that are comfortable on the perimeter. But elite big men are not key to contending any more
 
Fairly-Hard said:
4 year $50 million. $12.5 million a year sounds perfect to me. If he wants more than that it absolutely NEEDS to be on a Team Option.
I really don't even want them to keep Nurk but they will.
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I am not the biggest Nurk fan on this board, but who can we get that is better?
I agree that we should not overpay for him, but again who can we get that is better. If he can play the way he did before they sat him, I want him back.
 
Cugel said:
have to let Ant and or Nurk go to give Miles a payday. I dont think any team in the league will pay Nurk more than 12 a year given his health issues and lack of altheticism. Teams want Bams and Aytons and Mobleys. I like Nurk a lot but if it means getting really better, then yoy let him walk.

I think you also look hard at sign and trade for Ant if that is possible. His value is the highest on the team behind Dame, easily. I like a Dame Hart starting at 1 and 2. Can the team afford to pay Ant 20 plus a year for no defense?
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Hart is a dog no question. But gun to my head I'd choose Ant's shooting and play-making. I feel like he's still underrated on this board.
 
https://www.blazersedge.com/2022/5/...ed-free-agency-miles-bridges-wing-cody-martin

So this story isn't just going away. If we could trade back in the draft from 7 to 13 & 15 and in the process told the Hornets that we were getting ready to make Bridges a max offer and we would include Nas for a scrub in the draft pick deal if they would just agree that they would immediately not match the offer sheet if Bridges accepted one from us, it would that make sense. We would have to let Hart and Nurk walk. The depth that the team looks like they'll have next season would no longer be there.

I would really only entertain the idea if we could get Mark Williams and any one of Sochan, Eason or Dieng with 13 & 15.

Dame, Ant, Bridges, Sochan, Williams, Justise and then a really young bench that we would have to hope will grow up quickly: pick 36, Trendon, Keon, Greg, pick 57, Didi and one min player because if we use cap room to sign Bridges we will have no exceptions.

I don't think that's the plan though because it's more of the way we would go if we were trading Dame not if we were building around him. If that is what happens I think everyone is playing a game where we will feature how great Dame still is early in the season and then trade him well before the trade deadline for a couple of good young players with high upsides and future picks (see James Harden to the Nets).
 
I would gladly trade the 7th pick for Miles Bridges, if Charlotte is willing to S&T him for 7 and EB. I wouldn't be surprised if that happens, if the Blazers draft Duren. Hornets need a big man in the worst way. Duren could be a great fit with Melo.
 
Fitz303 said:
I would gladly trade the 7th pick for Miles Bridges, if Charlotte is willing to S&T him for 7 and EB. I wouldn't be surprised if that happens, if the Blazers draft Duren. Hornets need a big man in the worst way. Duren could be a great fit with Melo.
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I would not give up the seventh pick in a sign and trade, that's too much and Bridges is going to get a lot more than the just under 25M that Bledsoe's contract can match. I do however think that Nas's salary would make it work. That would be like 23M so that would make it feasible to sign Bridges to a contract that starts at up to ~29M. We would be hard capped at that point and I still wouldn't give them the 7th pick straight up but I would give them the rights to whoever we draft at 7, Bledsoe and Nas for the rights to whoever they draft at 15 and Bridges.

That would hard cap us though. So our maximum total salaries would be about 155M. If we made that trade and signed Ant and Nurk to a total of ~40M, we'd be at like 153M. We'd still have to sign three more players two of which would presumably be our second rounders but we couldn't sign them to multi year deals because we wouldn't have any exception to do it with so we could only sign them to a rookie minimum deal.

Dame, Ant, Bridges, pick 15, Nurk, Hart, Justise, pick 36, Trendon, Keon, Greg, Didi, pick 57 and a vet min player wouldn't be a bad roster. Depending on how good Ant, Bridges and whoever we get with 15 are it could be one of the best teams Dame has played with.
 
blazerkor said:
I would not give up the seventh pick in a sign and trade, that's too much and Bridges is going to get a lot more than the just under 25M that Bledsoe's contract can match. I do however think that Nas's salary would make it work. That would be like 23M so that would make it feasible to sign Bridges to a contract that starts at up to ~29M. We would be hard capped at that point and I still wouldn't give them the 7th pick straight up but I would give them the rights to whoever we draft at 7, Bledsoe and Nas for the rights to whoever they draft at 15 and Bridges.

That would hard cap us though. So our maximum total salaries would be about 155M. If we made that trade and signed Ant and Nurk to a total of ~40M, we'd be at like 153M. We'd still have to sign three more players two of which would presumably be our second rounders but we couldn't sign them to multi year deals because we wouldn't have any exception to do it with so we could only sign them to a rookie minimum deal.

Dame, Ant, Bridges, pick 15, Nurk, Hart, Justise, pick 36, Trendon, Keon, Greg, Didi, pick 57 and a vet min player wouldn't be a bad roster. Depending on how good Ant, Bridges and whoever we get with 15 are it could be one of the best teams Dame has played with.
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$29M to start is WAY too much for Bridges. He's a ~$18-20M player.
I'd much rather have John Collins for $23M/yr over Bridges at almost $30M
 
I'm fine with Nurk going out and trying to get a massive contract. Because either it'll show he's not worth it OR some other team will be dumb enough to over pay him and Portland can walk away.
 
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