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Lamarcus Aldridge has agreed to a five year extension worth approximately $70 million with Portland, a league source tells Y! Sports.
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:ghoti:
 
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Too much money in my opinion...that could be max money next year
 
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Nice!

One less thing to bitch/worry about.
 
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Wait a second, I thought we had agreed that KP hated PF's.
 
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Investing that much money (almost max money) into a non-all star, yet, is fiscally irresponsible

But here is some clearing information that makes me feel better

YahooSportsNBA Lamarcus Aldridge extension could reach $70 million with incentives, but assures him between $65-$68 million over five seasons with Portland
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I'm curious to those who say "too much money" how does that affect us? Its not like this team was gonna be under the cap after this year...
 
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It's a good thing we saved 400k from keeping Mills instead of Udoka, if we hadn't done that LMA wouldn't be signed!
 
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if oden has a great season we could be over the cap with 3 players in 2012


weeeeee :ghoti:
 
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we have roy and la signed... if they wanna save $$$$ by cutting ime or collins...

who the fuck cares
 
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Wheels said:
I'm curious to those who say "too much money" how does that affect us? Its not like this team was gonna be under the cap after this year...
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I dont think Paul Allen has UNLIMITED money....

Just think, Oden will get his if he performs, i want them to keep batum, webs, bayless (if hes good), maybe rudy, etc.

All those players make nothing right now, you cant have three max players and three other players that make 10mil+, too much money in the end, too much luxury tax, just my opinion

I dont think its the time to be fiscally irresponsible :confused:
 
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That's more than I thought he would get, but since he's my favorite Blazer, I'm not complaining.

Gratz to LA and management. FINALLY.
 
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OSUBlazerfan said:
I dont think Paul Allen has UNLIMITED money....

Just think, Oden will get his if he performs, i want them to keep batum, webs, bayless (if hes good), maybe rudy, etc.

All those players make nothing right now, you cant have three max players and three other players that make 10mil+, too much money in the end, too much luxury tax, just my opinion

I dont think its the time to be fiscally irresponsible :confused:
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fair enough.. I was just curious to others thought process on this.
 
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This deserves a :cheers:.

Now I wonder what LMA is going to buy for his next house, it better be HUGE.
 
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Terrific news! Hopefully the team can focus now.
 
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OSUBlazerfan said:
Investing that much money (almost max money) into a non-all star, yet, is fiscally irresponsible

But here is some clearing information that makes me feel better
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Really man?? lol wow

I am sure you know more then Paul Allen on fiscal responsibility.
 
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Wheels said:
I'm curious to those who say "too much money" how does that affect us? Its not like this team was gonna be under the cap after this year...
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Because the cap is going DOWN, and the escalating contracts of Roy and now Aldridge means the payroll is shooting back UP, which means.....

paying this amount of money to Aldridge (ie, 13 to 15mil per instead of 10 or 11mil per) will pretty likely cost us a decent role player down the road.

In other words, though it won't be explicit in the connection to the big contracts, the team will swap one of our decent players who has a market rate of, say, $7mil per, for a lesser player who they can get for $3 or $4mil per.

Or, they will pass on signing a nice player who is going for the full MLE, and instead sign some vet who well accept a partial MLE deal.

I like LaMarcus, but I am not all that happy with this deal.

David West who is:

An All-Star, something LaMarcus is not.
And who signed his contract under the old economic climate where everyone in the NBA assumed the cap would keep going up every year

Signed a 5 year, $45mil deal. Yep, less than $10mil per.
 
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Masbee said:
Because the cap is going DOWN, and the escalating contracts of Roy and now Aldridge means the payroll is shooting back UP, which means.....

paying this amount of money to Aldridge (ie, 13 to 15mil per instead of 10 or 11mil per) will pretty likely cost us a decent role player down the road.

In other words, though it won't be explicit in the connection to the big contracts, the team will swap one of our decent players who has a market rate of, say, $7mil per, for a lesser player who they can get for $3 or $4mil per.

Or, they will pass on signing a nice player who is going for the full MLE, and instead sign some vet who well accept a partial MLE deal.

I like LaMarcus, but I am not all that happy with this deal.

David West who is:

An All-Star, something LaMarcus is not.
And who signed his contract under the old economic climate where everyone in the NBA assumed the cap would keep going up every year

Signed a 5 year, $45mil deal. Yep, less than $10mil per.
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LMA > David West
 
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Masbee said:
Because the cap is going DOWN, and the escalating contracts of Roy and now Aldridge means the payroll is shooting back UP, which means.....

paying this amount of money to Aldridge (ie, 13 to 15mil per instead of 10 or 11mil per) will pretty likely cost us a decent role player down the road.

In other words, though it won't be explicit in the connection to the big contracts, the team will swap one of our decent players who has a market rate of, say, $7mil per, for a lesser player who they can get for $3 or $4mil per.

Or, they will pass on signing a nice player who is going for the full MLE, and instead sign some vet who well accept a partial MLE deal.

I like LaMarcus, but I am not all that happy with this deal.

David West who is:

An All-Star, something LaMarcus is not.
And who signed his contract under the old economic climate where everyone in the NBA assumed the cap would keep going up every year

Signed a 5 year, $45mil deal. Yep, less than $10mil per.
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There would be no way we'd be under the cap...no matter how much money we invested in Aldridge. Roy, Oden, & Aldridge would basically take up the entire cap anyhow. That's why everybody was freaking out about Raef's contract not getting traded, and the lack of FA signings this last summer because everybody knows that the summer of '09 would be the final time we'd be under the cap as long as we are contending.
 
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LMA was an 18/8 PF last year.

What would he put up in NY or even Golden State?

Nate's system and pace make Jeff Van Gundy's system look like D'Antoni's.
 
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Depending on the cap next year (and the actual values) this might be a max contract.

The league put out two projected cap numbers for 2010 (call them High and Low). High is 53.3M, which allows (using the 23.04% BRI max number) a max starting salary of 12.28M, with max 10.5% raises, for a total of 5/72.9M. Low Cap is 50.5M, which allows a max starting salary to be 11.63M, with 10.5% raises for a total of 5/69.7M.

Basically, LMA just got the max.
 
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If the Blazers didn't give him that somebody else would have. I'd put money on that.
 
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