BNM:
How many? The same number that make $10 mil/year.
My guess is that Cliff would play with a broken leg for $2 mil/year.
Yeah, well so would I, but like Cliff, no NBA GM is willing to give it to me. Do I get to blame Meyers for the fact I'm not on an NBA roster, too? It would make just as much sense as it would be to blame Meyers for Cliff not being on an NBA roster. More actually, Cliff had a NBA roster spot and lost it of his own accord. I didn't. So, fuck you Meyers, you're the reason I'm not on an NBA team right now. It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm undersized and lack talent. It's all your fault, not mine, not mine at all.
I understand the impulse to be nice, but you're not being nice - you're dogging on a CBA player who isn't getting shit, because some guy was lucky enough to be drafted (and then extended) by Neil Olshey on a long shot bet that didn't pay off. If you care about merit at all, then you should be rooting for a DLeague player (Cliff or other) who deserves a shot based on their skill and hard work over Butters.
I didn't dog anybody. OK, I did, but it was the posters in this forum that are constantly shitting all over one of the players on our team. I certainly didn't dog Cliff Alexander. I never mentioned him until you somehow managed to work his name into this conversation.
We did not cut Cliff to re-sign Meyers. Meyers didn't take his roster spot, or his salary. Both payers had roster spots going into last summer. Cliff's contract had a team option at $874,636 for the 2016-17 season. Meyers was a restricted free agent. The Blazers could have easily exercised Cliff's paltry option and then used Bird Rights to sign Meyer for any amount of their choosing up to the maximum salary.
Declining Cliff's option had ZERO to do with Meyers Leonard or his contract.
Cliff's option was declined on July 8 to free up cap space to sign Festus Ezeli. So, if you want to blame someone for taking Cliff's roster spot, and his salary, blame Festus. Meyers was signed two days later using his Bird Rights.
Or better yet, blame Cliff. He had a year to convince the Blazers coaches and front office that we was worth his $874,636 team option and failed to do so. And, after being set free by the Blazers, during the biggest spending spree in league history, not one of the other 29 NBA teams deemed Cliff worthy of a minimum contract. ORL briefly picked him up, gave him a look and then cut him. And, if you're not good enough to make that roster...
So, now he's tearing it up in the D League, and while dozens of other D Leaguers have been called up, some even earning long term contracts, not Cliff. He's still stuck in the minors, with no one to blame but himself. He can't blame Neil, Terry, or Paul and he sure as hell can't blame Meyers Leonard.
So, if Cliff deserves a shot, why hasn't any other team given it to him, and what does that have to do with Meyers Leonard? There are 29 other teams in this league, and apparently none of them want Cliff, either. But he's still very young. He can still turn it around, and if he does I'll be happy for him. In spite of your bizarre implication, I have nothing against Cliff Alexander. I wish him well, but to be honest I care more about how the players actually on our roster are performing than players who aren't. If Meyers has a good game. It helps my team. If Cliff has a good game. It doesn't.
BNM