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illmatic99 said:
tbh, i don't think we'll really focus much on getting our target today. I think the focus is still to trade Bledsoe for someone.
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Yep. Joe justified his lopsided trades by saying it brought us flexibility. If he just sits on his hands while many teams and agents are aggressive it will be very disappointing.
 
MickZagger said:
Yep. Joe justified his lopsided trades by saying it brought us flexibility. If he just sits on his hands while many teams and agents are aggressive it will be very disappointing.
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In that case Joe will probably sell it as we got the flexibility to trade Duren for Grant.

One of the problems with the Clippers trade was this Bledsoe contract. It doesn't have much if any value. The Blazers could just sign and trade Ingles if they need to match some salary that is an expiring. With the $4 million guarantee it could have less than zero value, since the Blazers could have to attach an asset to get rid of it. Lets say the Blazers need some of that $4 million space under the luxury tax/hard cap. Would've been much better just letting Roco walk, which was the worst case return of value for him.

Joe's moves were basically all fine except the Clippers trade. It was horrible at the time, horrible a week later at the deadline, and is still horrible today. The people arguing for its benefit are the Neil pitchfork crowd and the blind Blazer homers.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
By my count, if they re-sign Nurk to 68/4 and Ant to 80/4 as speculated, and waive Bledsoe and just eat the 3.9M, they'll have 12 players under contract and about 19M space under the apron. If they want to go full MLE, I see no reason why they can't.
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if they re-sign Ingles for much and reserve the ability to use that 6.6M TPE at the deadline, it's pretty tight
 
TBpup said:
Just don't use the full MLE, yes? Or are we hard capped if we use a large portion of it?
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technically, teams only have one MLE with an allowable max. Tax teams are limited to the tax-line of the MLE. Non -tax teams can exceed that but get hard-capped. I'm not sure what the exact level of the tax-MLE is...I think a little over 6M

I'd be a little surprised if the Blazers use the full-MLE, but it's entirely possible
 
MickZagger said:
Yep. Joe justified his lopsided trades by saying it brought us flexibility. If he just sits on his hands while many teams and agents are aggressive it will be very disappointing.
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the trades did bring flexibility. Absorbing Grant into a TPE is about as flexible as you can get

every year, some teams have cap-space; and every year, most teams without cap-space could use the full-MLE but don't because they don't want their flexibility restricted by a hard cap. That does not mean the teams are just sitting on their hands

edit. I just checked and I count a grand total of 11 players in the league signed to full-MLE contracts and that is over the last 3 seasons. Using the full-MLE is actually kind of rare:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/players.html
 
wizenheimer said:
the trades did bring flexibility. Absorbing Grant into a TPE is about as flexible as you can get

every year, some teams have cap-space; and every year, most teams without cap-space could use the full-MLE but don't because they don't want their flexibility restricted by a hard cap. That does not mean the teams are just sitting on their hands

edit. I just checked and I count a grand total of 11 players in the league signed to full-MLE contracts and that is over the last 3 seasons. Using the full-MLE is actually kind of rare:

https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/players.html
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They really should change the rules on it, such as teams are only hard capped for 30 days, must renounce cap holds, etc. Still would prevent the big money spending tax teams from using it, but would allow nontax teams to use it without such strict restrictions for an entire year.

Similar with sign and trades.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
They really should change the rules on it, such as teams are only hard capped for 30 days, must renounce cap holds, etc. Still would prevent the big money spending tax teams from using it, but would allow nontax teams to use it without such strict restrictions for an entire year.

Similar with sign and trades.
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either that or go the other direction and expand the hard cap rules. Of course the player's union would never agree
 
I don't want Kyle Anderson. He did have some decent games later in the playoffs but early he was terrible. turnovers, bad shot selection and poor defense. Want somebody better.
 
Now that Danilo Gallinari is available would we be interested in him for the MLE?

Ideally I'd want a better defending forward. But he at least has proven starter level talent.
 
WesleyMatthews said:
Now that Danilo Gallinari is available would we be interested in him for the MLE?

Ideally I'd want a better defending forward. But he at least has proven starter level talent.
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Maybe for the BAE. I think there are better players for the MLE.

He's already going to be paid $12M this season from the Spurs.
 
TBpup said:
KD is coming for you with his multiple burner accounts.
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Bring it on. He's soft.

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