Blazers to meet with Chandler Parsons

[Ripcity4life77]

There is a report out there that Conley and Parsons have talked about being on the same team and while that should give us a little to worry about i do not think that is a huge deal. I believe a lot of these type of things happen between players and most of the time leads to nothing. Heck CP3 , Melo and James talk all the time about a big 3 but it's never going to happen so let's hope for the best and maybe in a few hours turn this into a : Welcome to Portland thread for Parsons

 

[Orion Bailey]

How much less do you think? Unless he's dropping down to the neighborhood of $15M/year, I don't see how we bring him in without completely gutting the team.

$20 mill.

I heard on the radio if he signs for $20 mill and we release Meyers, Kaman and Crabbe. Henderson and Harkless signs a value contract, we should be able to keep everyone else?

Dame/CJ/Connaughton
CJ/Hendo/Connaughton
Parsons/Hendo/Harkless
Aminu/Harkless/Davis
Howard/Davis/Plums

Too many. we can still get rid of either Davis or Plums, and that/s pretty solid I think? Have no clue how the money wrks out and what Hark/Hendo would have to re-sign for in order to fit within the cap.
Overall I think that is real close to contending

 

[Rastapopoulos]

GO MEMPHIS!!!!

 

[JDC]

Howard and Parsons would give us, what, a top 3-4 starting unit?

It would be up there. There's risk involved certainly but if healthy it has a chance to be really good.

Dwight is tough to fit in if its more than 16 mil or so.

Here's the plan I think.
-Match Crabbe offer
-Sign Parsons to just short of the max (Bataum contract helps the chance of this)
-Sign Dwight to short term deal at 16-17 mil a year (Means no Harkless, or Leanoard plus cutting Montero & Alxander)
-Sign John Leuer with the room exception as a Meyers replacement
-Sign vet min PG

 

[BBert]

Dame, CJ, Parsons, Aminu, Leonard. Guard that, assholes!

I just got a woody.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Marc SteinESPN Senior Writer

The Blazers not only get a top-shelf small forward if they beat out Memphis for Chandler Parsons but also a proven Dwight Howard recruiter.

I dispute the first and abhor the second.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Back to the cap calculator:

If we remove Henderson/Kaman/Roberts and cut Alexander/Montero, then add Parsons at 22.2M (his max based on the cap the calculator used for calculating Dame's starting salary at 24,420,000), and then renounce Harkless and Leonard, and trade Davis for a draft pick...we can basically get to about $24M in space to sign Howard, if that's what we want to do, before re-signing Crabbe. That would leave us with:
Dame/CJ/Parsons/Aminu/Howard backed by Crabbe/Connaughton/Layman/Vonleh/Plumlee. Leaves us with the room exception and minimum salary exceptions to fill out the roster.

Edit: I guess that because of the roster charges, there's really not much benefit to cutting Alexander/Montero (about 300K each). So, we could keep them and still give Howard 23.5M. And of course all of that is dependent on the actual cap figure that has yet to be calculated.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

I just got a woody.

Just from the word "assholes"?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I just got a woody.

For a few plays a game, that lineup is stupid hard to guard.

 

[blue9]

How? If nobody could figure out a (reasonable) way to clear enough space for Whiteside, how are we going to get Howard? You expect him to take a discount?

I believe that we can renegotiate Parson's contract up to the point where pen is put to paper. So it's conceivable - if unlikely - that the MAX contract was a show of good faith on our part, with the understanding that he would take less if we are also able to get Howard on board. At that point we sit down with Parsons and Howard and figure out an equitable split of our available cap space. Again, I don't think this is a likely scenario, but it's the only way I know of for us to get both players.

 

[Ripcity4life77]

Rasta -- you are not very clear with your last post are you saying you do not want Parsons in Portland. -- LOL

 

[KeepOnRollin]

Back to the cap calculator:

If we remove Henderson/Kaman/Roberts and cut Alexander/Montero, then add Parsons at 22.2M (his max based on the cap the calculator used for calculating Dame's starting salary at 24,420,000), and then renounce Harkless and Leonard, and trade Davis for a draft pick...we can basically get to about $24M in space to sign Howard, if that's what we want to do, before re-signing Crabbe. That would leave us with:
Dame/CJ/Parsons/Aminu/Howard backed by Crabbe/Connaughton/Layman/Vonleh/Plumlee. Leaves us with the room exception and minimum salary exceptions to fill out the roster.

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I not sure how I feel about the team gutted that much. Tough call.

 

[illmatic99]

I just got a woody.

So did 29 other offenses in the league.

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

I would hate losing Davis...would rather trade aminu

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Back to the cap calculator:

If we remove Henderson/Kaman/Roberts and cut Alexander/Montero, then add Parsons at 22.2M (his max based on the cap the calculator used for calculating Dame's starting salary at 24,420,000), and then renounce Harkless and Leonard, and trade Davis for a draft pick...we can basically get to about $24M in space to sign Howard, if that's what we want to do, before re-signing Crabbe. That would leave us with:
Dame/CJ/Parsons/Aminu/Howard backed by Crabbe/Connaughton/Layman/Vonleh/Plumlee. Leaves us with the room exception and minimum salary exceptions to fill out the roster.

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Trading Davis is painful as fuck; he's so much better at his job than Plumlee would be at Davis's job.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

So did 29 other offenses in the league.

Remember, you win by scoring more than the other team... I wouldn't play that lineup extended minutes, but in a defense-for-offense situation at the end of games where timeouts are flying? Yeah, that's tough to guard.

 

[HailBlazers]

I not sure how I feel about the team gutted that much. Tough call.

This new cap sucks in many ways.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

I would hate losing Davis...would rather trade aminu

I understand, but unless you think Crabbe is also going to play 36 mpg (24 at SG, 8 at SF), or Connaughton/Layman can contribute, then Aminu's role on that gutted squad is probably more important than Davis', especially since Aminu can play some 4 as well.

Trading Davis is painful as fuck; he's so much better at his job than Plumlee would be at Davis's job.

And if Howard is willing to take just $20M instead of requiring $24M, then that might be feasible. Plumlee could probably return a better draft pick in trade too.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

I understand, but unless you think Crabbe is also going to play 36 mpg (24 at SG, 8 at SF), or Connaughton/Layman can contribute, then Aminu's role on that gutted squad is probably more important than Davis', especially since Aminu can play some 4 as well.


And if Howard is willing to take just $20M instead of requiring $24M, then that might be feasible. Plumlee could probably return a better draft pick in trade too.

If he wants a little more, after trading plums, trade vonleh and connaughton too. With howard the team is obviously in win now mode the next 2 to 3 years

 

[JDC]

I would hate losing Davis...would rather trade aminu

Would be nice, but moving Davis is really our only chance to get up to a respectable salary for Howard. If he accepts 17 or so that'd be awesome, but the Mozgov signing makes that unlikely.

Match Crabbe Offer and sign Leuer with the room and here's what we're looking at:

Dame (36) / CJ (12)
CJ (24) / Crabbe (24)
Parsons (36) / Aminu (6)/ Crabbe (6)
Aminu (28) / Leuer (10)/ Vonleh (10)
Howard (34) / Plumlee (14)

Id be happy with that.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

If he wants a little more, after trading plums, trade vonleh and connaughton too. With howard the team is obviously in win now mode the next 2 to 3 years

Connaughton's in the same boat as Montero and Alexander, in that removing him from the roster only nets $300K in cap space, so there's probably no benefit to trading him. Vonleh, however...there's a case to be made, as long as we're getting a decent asset in return.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Would be nice but moving Davis is really our only chance to get up to a respectable salary for Howard. If he accepts 17 or so that's be awesome but the Mozgov signing makes that unlikely.

Match Crabbe Offer and sign Leuer with the room and here's what we're looking at:

Dame (36) / CJ (12)
CJ (24) / Crabbe (24)
Parsons (36) / Aminu (6)/ Crabbe (6)
Aminu (28) / Leuer (10)/ Vonleh (10)
Howard (34) / Plumlee (14)

Id be happy with that.

Jon Jeuer with the room exception? You really think he'll come that cheap? If so, home run. Dude's a perfect Stotts stretch 4.

 

[Natebishop3]

Connaughton's in the same boat as Montero and Alexander, in that removing him from the roster only nets $300K in cap space, so there's probably no benefit to trading him. Vonleh, however...there's a case to be made, as long as we're getting a decent asset in return.

Can't we just re-sign Montero/Alexander to similar contracts after we cut them?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Can't we just re-sign Montero/Alexander to similar contracts after we cut them?

If they're willing, I think so.

 

[Natebishop3]

If they're willing, I think so.

Does anyone think little Waterlito wants to leave his bestest bud Damian Lillard?

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Does anyone think little Waterlito wants to leave his bestest bud Damian Lillard?

Montero interests me greatly. I think he could play well next season in limited minutes at three positions.

 

[JDC]

Jon Jeuer with the room exception? You really think he'll come that cheap? If so, home run. Dude's a perfect Stotts stretch 4.

Oh it's extremely unlikely. Especially the amount of room teams will still have after major FA's are off the board. But i think he's under the radar enough that there is an outside chance.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

Connaughton's in the same boat as Montero and Alexander, in that removing him from the roster only nets $300K in cap space, so there's probably no benefit to trading him. Vonleh, however...there's a case to be made, as long as we're getting a decent asset in return.

Yeah, but in the aggregate, im willing to let monteto, alexander and connaughton go, to have that extra 900kish amount of cap space for dwight. Especially if it convinced him to sign, and we got to keep crabbe, aminu and davis.

 

[Natebishop3]

So we know he's meeting with Memphis this morning.... does he have any other meetings scheduled? I'm hoping he makes an announcement after the meeting with Memphis.

If the plan is to try to get Parsons AND Howard, then we need Parsons to commit quickly.

 

[JDC]

Montero interests me greatly. I think he could play well next season in limited minutes at three positions.

I'd really try to avoid cutting him at all costs as well. Much rather release Connaughton and eat his guaranteed salary, but not sure Portland is willing. We'll find out soon.