Canzano Is Probably Right - Trade The Expirings......Now

[Minstrel]

Really? I see other teams turn expiring contracts into valuable players all the time.

All the time, really? Can you come up with 10 significant ones over the past decade, despite hundreds of player contracts expiring over that time?

So explain to me how I am overvaluing expiring contracts when I see other teams make deals for expiring contracts and get good quality players in return

You don't see it very much. You see it rarely and those stick in your head and you assume it's happening constantly. The same year Portland had the RLEC, Cleveland had Wally Sczerbiak's expiring contract which was approximately the same size. And they were extremely motivated to make a deal, to put players around James. They didn't get anything for Sczerbiak either. The expiring-contract-for-valuable-player deal is quite rare.

 

[LittleAlex]

Really? I see other teams turn expiring contracts into valuable players all the time. So explain to me how I am overvaluing expiring contracts when I see other teams make deals for expiring contracts and get good quality players in return, and their expiring contracts are not as valuable as the one's that we have. An expiring contract is exactly that. Nobody is picking it up for the talent behind the contract. They are taking it to shed cap weight. So how is it other teams are picking up talented players for theirs, while Portland sits on their hands and does nothing with theirs?

This did happen a lot last year because teams were trying to get in on the rigged game that was the 2010 free agent bonanza.

I don't think next summer will be quite the same type of deal, so I don't think teams feel as strongly about getting under the cap next season.

Since both the salary cap and the tax limit went up, instead of down as predicted, expiring contracts became even less valuable.

The true tragedy here is that Portland's big expiring deals happened a year too early (RLEC) or a year too late (Joel and Miller).
Just bad timing all the way around.

 

[Nikolokolus]

This did happen a lot last year because teams were trying to get in on the rigged game that was the 2010 free agent bonanza.

I don't think next summer will be quite the same type of deal, so I don't think teams feel as strongly about getting under the cap next season.

Since both the salary cap and the tax limit went up, instead of down as predicted, expiring contracts became even less valuable.

The true tragedy here is that Portland's big expiring deals happened a year too early (RLEC) or a year too late (Joel and Miller).
Just bad timing all the way around.

Bad timing or bad planning? I'm not saying it's one or the other, but I have wondered about it.

 

[Ed O]

I think that Andre Miller might have more value as the starting PG of this team--one without a clear backup point guard--than as an expiring contract.

Ed O.

 

[oldmangrouch]

I think that Andre Miller might have more value as the starting PG of this team--one without a clear backup point guard--than as an expiring contract.

Ed O.

Oh hush. Having a PG just encourages all that nasty "ball movement" stuff. That way lies socialism and devil worship!

 

[LittleAlex]

Bad timing or bad planning? I'm not saying it's one or the other, but I have wondered about it.

I think their hands were tied by the Roy and LA extensions.



It doesn't matter anyway since the only teams with any chance at landing one of the impact free agents were Miami and New York.
Everyone else was just being played for fools by the guys who had already planned to play together in Miami 2 years ago.