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hope springs eternal....now it's Gabriel springing hope. It's debatable if Gabriel is as good as Jaylen Hoard. My guess is his career path is a lot more likely to track Cliff Alexander or Luis Montero, than Duncan Robinson or Kendrick Nunn
 
I don't get why we had to give up 2nds to get rid of expiring contract. I though those actually had value ?

Unless that Gabriel guy is any good...
 
wizenheimer said:
forget Gabriel. Portland had to give up 2nds because the Kings were taking on more salary
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tester551 said:
Because Portland dumped ~$6M in salary, saving an additional ~$12M in taxes.

2 seconds to save ~$15M in real cash... seems like a deal to me
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Those are expiring. It doesn't save anything on the cap. The only money it saves is from Jody's pocket which I frankly give 0 fuck about
 
And just as a note, these players are the ones that would provide Portland the largest salary dump that with players that neither team cared about
 
SIeepwalker said:
Those are expiring. It doesn't save anything on the cap. The only money it saves is from Jody's pocket which I frankly give 0 fuck about
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Doesn't matter what you care about. The Blazers are a buisness first & foremost... this move was 100% financial
 
I think Ariza is going to be an upgrade from Baze at the 3. He's a longer rangier defender on the perimeter, he's shooting the three better and doesn't have a propensity for going 1 on 5 on offense at weird times. We got another young prospect. We shed salary from the leagues highest payroll. I think this trade was fine.
 
SIeepwalker said:
Then fuck this move.
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Look at it this way, if that allows a small follow up deal that can be done it could now keep us at the same or less tax cost where as using the dpe from Hood would've added an additional tax cost.
 
This also could mean more minutes for Trent as Ariza is more suited to guard forwards while Bazemore was more suited to defend guards.
 
tester551 said:
Because Portland dumped ~$6M in salary, saving an additional ~$12M in taxes.

2 seconds to save ~$15M in real cash... seems like a deal to me
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Plus consider at least one of the picks as the cost to get Gabriel as there is a decent chance he would be as good or better than what might be drafted with one of the picks. 2nd round picks are a crap shoot anyway.
 
The most exciting part of this trade is hearing the spin narrative Neil will direct his minions in the media to pump out to fans about how good Ariza is
 
GhostOfPGA said:
My gut says he is gonna be dealt for Aldridge.
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Portland just made an obvious money savings trade, that one again, traded expiring contracts for expiring contracts. I don't think there's much hance at all they would go the opposite direction and add 26 million to next year's payroll all for the sake of a 35 year old big whose skills have declined significantly leaving him only suitable to play C. He'd be a 24M backup to Nurkic....that would be some major mismanagement piled on top of all the miscalculations Olshey has made in the last 7 months
 
Seems to me that Olshey did this to have Ariza as Hood insurance for next year. Neither Bazemore or Tolliver we’re going to be on the roster after this year. One year left on Ariza’s contract so no big commitment there. The rest of the pieces are likely a whole bunch of nothing. Saves a bit of money. Solid conservative move.
 
e_blazer said:
Seems to me that Olshey did this to have Ariza as Hood insurance for next year. Neither Bazemore or Tolliver we’re going to be on the roster after this year. One year left on Ariza’s contract so no big commitment there. The rest of the pieces are likely a whole bunch of nothing. Saves a bit of money. Solid conservative move.
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Hood insurance? First of all, Hood may never be the same again... and for sure not next season. So if Neil thinks 36 year old Ariza is a good replacement at starting SF then he is about to waste another year of Dames prime... terrible use of an expiring contact.
 
I want to believe that Jodie did not tell Neil to save money. I want to believe that Neil wants to trade for a really good player with a fairly big contract. I want to believe it won't be Kevin Love.
 
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