ESPN Reports: POR MIN working on deal 2 1st and vet SF from another team?

[blazerboy30]

If Nic is fairly highly valued around the league and we are not getting value out of him in the current scenario, why not keep in as possible use in a future trade? It is not necessarily that we have to keep him indefinitely if we keep him.

Gramps...

I thought we had agreed, in these options anyway, that we'd be overpaying Nic. I wouldn't expect to execute very good trades if we all agree he is overpaid.

 

[Denny Crane]

Are those actually the options though?

Couldn't it be:
1) Nic overpaid
2) Let Nic walk for nothing but have cap room to use later this year or next summer
3) Get 2 draft picks, a SF and have cap room to use next summer (depending on who the SF is)

To me, option 3 looks the best if the price for Nic really is 11.5M / year.

I posted this exact same thing earlier...

And the Bulls are parting with Korver only because they don't want to pay the luxury tax. Their options are to let him walk or at least get a 2nd round pick.

 

[Blaze01]

The fact remains that this package of shit Minnesota is offering us for our 2nd best player, when we have leverage, is nowhere near good enough.

I agree that package is underwhelming....

The problem for POR is that the talent on this team is so weak that Batum is the 2nd best player, though on any championship contending team he would at best be thier 4th, 5th or 6th best player...and yet if MIN signs him to an offer sheet at $11-12mil\year and POR matches they will be paying him like he is a #2-#3 type player which he has clearly shown he is not...

and the new CBA really punishes teams for overpaying rotation\role players...and it screws a team like POR up from getting that player, they have to hope they get lucky in the draft (which I am unconvinced they did this year) or make a trade the likes of Babbit\Claver\Freeland\Nolan Smith\E-Will crowd for some teams all star caliber player....uh...unlikely...

Even with Batum, does this team win more than 30 games next year? I don't think they do, they didn't last year with vets like Crawford\Felton\Wallace & Camby...

This is exaclty the type of mediocrity Olshey kept repeating over and over again that he would not do, and yet, it certainly appears POR is going to do it...Does Batum move the needle of this team? He certainly didn't last year after mid season....Maybe this makes POR a 30 win team instead of a 20- 25 win team? Does that even matter?

Not trying to be negative on Batum here, I like him as a player, but 4 years into his NBA career he is still the frustratingly same inconsistent player and now they are on the verge of paying him huge money to suddenly play at basically all star caliber level...I just think that is a big mistake.

I really do think that when the realities of the new CBA luxury tax penalty kick in, teams with cap space will be able to reap some nice rewards from those teams who spent unwisely and are then suffering from it.

I listened on the radio last night about an example, where one team (I can't remember) under last CBA, paid $1 for $1, was $20mil over, paid $20mil...under new CBA would have to pay in excess of $85 mil\year and even more if they did it 3 consecutive years...