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Which Free Agent would you most like to see in a Blazer uniform?

  • Dwight Howard

  • Hassan Whiteside

  • Al Forford

  • Kevin Durant

  • Harrison Barnes

  • Bismack Biyombo

  • Bring back Nic Batum

  • Other

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Pinwheel1 said:
Is he really larger though. Standing reach is basically the same and Biyombo has a slightly longer wingspan.
Their latest weights seem to be around 245. Cole does seem bigger though.
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Aldrich has more of a traditional low post bangers body, Biyombo is like a really poor man's Ben Wallace. Honestly, I'd be fine with either as long as we added another quality player, preferably a backcourt defender that can play with either Dame or CJ.
 
An under the radar move that would fit Olsheys prior targets: Sign and Trading Meyers Leonard and a Future 1st for Brook Lopez.

New Jersey needs all the young pieces and draft picks they can get right now.. I assume they'll look to trade Lopez.

As long as we kept Meyers $7M cap hold and signed him for $13M, we could make a straight across trade for Lopez ($20M). This means we could sign $26M in free agents of we kept all 3 of our RFAs cap holds. If we renounced Harkless we could get $33M in cap space, while still being able to make the trade for Lopez.

If we did that we could theoretically sign one of: Parsons, Whiteside, Howard

And one of: Biyombo, Marvin Williams, Aldrich etc.

So

Let's say we trade Plumlee for a future pick and renounce Harkless, that leaved us with $36M to get Parsons and Howard.

We could then Sign and Trade Meyers along with a future pick to Brooklyn for Lopez.

Lillard (36) / McCollum (12)
McCollum (24) / Crabbe (24)
Parsons (32) / Aminu (16)
Aminu (14) / Davis (22) / Lopez (12)
Howard (30) / Lopez (18)

A Crabbe/Davis/Lopez bench would be the best 6/7/8 man group in the NBA.
 
BonesJones said:
An under the radar move that would fit Olsheys prior targets: Sign and Trading Meyers Leonard and a Future 1st for Brook Lopez.

New Jersey needs all the young pieces and draft picks they can get right now.. I assume they'll look to trade Lopez.

As long as we kept Meyers $7M cap hold and signed him for $13M, we could make a straight across trade for Lopez ($20M). This means we could sign $26M in free agents of we kept all 3 of our RFAs cap holds. If we renounced Harkless we could get $33M in cap space, while still being able to make the trade for Lopez.

If we did that we could theoretically sign one of: Parsons, Whiteside, Howard

And one of: Biyombo, Marvin Williams, Aldrich etc.

So

Let's say we trade Plumlee for a future pick and renounce Harkless, that leaved us with $36M to get Parsons and Howard.

We could then Sign and Trade Meyers along with a future pick to Brooklyn for Lopez.

Lillard (36) / McCollum (12)
McCollum (24) / Crabbe (24)
Parsons (32) / Aminu (16)
Aminu (14) / Davis (22) / Lopez (12)
Howard (30) / Lopez (18)

A Crabbe/Davis/Lopez bench would be the best 6/7/8 man group in the NBA.
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No way Lopez accepts a bench role here
 
BonesJones said:
An under the radar move that would fit Olsheys prior targets: Sign and Trading Meyers Leonard and a Future 1st for Brook Lopez.

New Jersey needs all the young pieces and draft picks they can get right now.. I assume they'll look to trade Lopez.

As long as we kept Meyers $7M cap hold and signed him for $13M, we could make a straight across trade for Lopez ($20M). This means we could sign $26M in free agents of we kept all 3 of our RFAs cap holds. If we renounced Harkless we could get $33M in cap space, while still being able to make the trade for Lopez.

If we did that we could theoretically sign one of: Parsons, Whiteside, Howard

And one of: Biyombo, Marvin Williams, Aldrich etc.

So

Let's say we trade Plumlee for a future pick and renounce Harkless, that leaved us with $36M to get Parsons and Howard.

We could then Sign and Trade Meyers along with a future pick to Brooklyn for Lopez.

Lillard (36) / McCollum (12)
McCollum (24) / Crabbe (24)
Parsons (32) / Aminu (16)
Aminu (14) / Davis (22) / Lopez (12)
Howard (30) / Lopez (18)

A Crabbe/Davis/Lopez bench would be the best 6/7/8 man group in the NBA.
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And you think just signing cole Aldrich is dumb? Lol
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I fully expect to see Durant starting at SF for the 2016-17 Portland Trail Blazers.
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If he only talks about basketball, it could be a nice option for him. But there is sexier options basketballwise (GSW or SAS) and maybe more appealing in term of attractivity. But this last thing is more personnal. What if the year in Seattle was the best time of his life and want to go back to NW... I am just dreaming but guy is so secret nobody really knows what he thinks.
 
BonesJones said:
If it's really THAT big of a deal for him start him at PF. Either way he'll get his 30 minutes.
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If you get a center like Lopez...you just plain don't need Dwight Howard...waste of big money that could get us a stretch three and D guy instead. We already have two guys that are good at Lopez's weakness.
 
Another option for a really solid defensive center is Ian Mahinmi from Indy, not a sexy pick but he anchored one of the better defenses in the league. he's 29 now, probably has another 3-4 good yrs left
 
riverman said:
If you get a center like Lopez...you just plain don't need Dwight Howard...waste of big money that could get us a stretch three and D guy instead. We already have two guys that are good at Lopez's weakness.
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Brook is a great center, if we could get him that would be a huge coup. Nets will be willing to move him as they're not winning anytime soon and need a rebuild badly, however there are teams across the league who could offer them a better package than we will. Boston for example will be able to give them their pick back + a player which will be much more valuable than Leonard and Cleveland's pick. Maybe you could tempt them by giving them back Plumlee plus pick plus one of our younger players but I still doubt it.

We just don't have enough assets to do any serious trading.
 
Blazinaway said:
Another option for a really solid defensive center is Ian Mahinmi from Indy, not a sexy pick but he anchored one of the better defenses in the league. he's 29 now, probably has another 3-4 good yrs left
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Downside is that he hasn't really been that good in the league before last season and as you say, at 29 he is not getting better. He's going to get paid too, won't come for less than $11M IMO. Won't be the end of the world if we get him.
 
Blazinaway said:
Another option for a really solid defensive center is Ian Mahinmi from Indy, not a sexy pick but he anchored one of the better defenses in the league. he's 29 now, probably has another 3-4 good yrs left
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I like this guy and I think he would be good addition to this team.
 
Sarni said:
Downside is that he hasn't really been that good in the league before last season and as you say, at 29 he is not getting better. He's going to get paid too, won't come for less than $11M IMO. Won't be the end of the world if we get him.
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He just haven't had the opportunity until last year.
 
1) If I'm Durant, I want to go to a team that is championship caliber WITHOUT me - that's not PDX, sorry to dreamcrush. Our only path to get KD was to trade for Boogie first, and that never happened.

2) We need to swing as big as possible:
  • top tier player: $21 Mil.
  • mediocre player: $16 Mil.
there's just not a big enough salary gap to not go all in for the top tier player. In fact, getting a mediocre player for $16 Mil might just be the worst possible thing we could do.
 
Wizard Mentor said:
1) If I'm Durant, I want to go to a team that is championship caliber WITHOUT me - that's not PDX, sorry to dreamcrush. Our only path to get KD was to trade for Boogie first, and that never happened.

2) We need to swing as big as possible:
  • top tier player: $21 Mil.
  • mediocre player: $16 Mil.
there's just not a big enough salary gap to not go all in for the top tier player. In fact, getting a mediocre player for $16 Mil might just be the worst possible thing we could do.
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I agree. Better use the cap space to absorb terrible contracts across the league from teams willing to throw a pick at us like Cleveland did with Varejao, than use it on a player we don't need who will not improve us at all.
 
Blazinaway said:
Another option for a really solid defensive center is Ian Mahinmi from Indy, not a sexy pick but he anchored one of the better defenses in the league. he's 29 now, probably has another 3-4 good yrs left
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Yuck... Not only will he be 30 to start the season but he is not a clear upgrade over what we have now. Would rather sit this offseason out. Why in the world would you give 10+ mil of your cap room to Ian Mihinmi?! He is the definition of mediocre, non-needle mover...
 
If the Blazers renounce Henderson ($9,000,000), Kaman ($6,520,800) and Robers ($3,711,422) that will put give them $24.6 million to go after a FA. Unless Dwight were going to take less than the max, that almost eliminates him unless you renounce Harkless or Leonard. Let's say you did both, you would have right at $40 million to perhaps go after someone like Whiteside at $22 million and then another $18 million to ad another FA or make an unbalanced trade.

Would it be worth it to renounce everyone of a big salary and take a shot at 2 big time free-agents? Who would you want at the $16-18 million mark? Let's say Ryan Anderson fit into that slot just for example.

Whiteside/Davis/Kaman (re-sgined at a vet min)
Anderson/Vonleh/Alexander
Amimu/Montero/Layman
CJ/Montero/Connaughton
Dame/CJ/FA PG - vet min

Is that roster worth letting Meyers, Crabbe and Harkless go?
 
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