Freeland Staying in Europe until 2014

[craigehlo]

Javier Maestro: (Blazers draftee) Joel Freeland will re-sign with Unicaja till 2014 with a $4 million buyout for European teams and $1.3 million buyout to leave for the NBA

 

[craigehlo]

The buyout isn't too bad, but I'm not counting on seeing him in a Blazer uni for a long time.

 

[BBert]

Crap. He's no savior, but he'd probably be an improvement, and one of our few opportunities to help fill that void. Still, $1.3 mil buyout, once he's no longer subject to the rookie scale, shouldn't be too hard for Uncle Paul, considering the way he used to throw $3 mil around to buy late draft picks?

 

[Nikolokolus]

Translation: "It rains how much in Portland?"

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Translation: "It rains how much in Portland?"

He's from England, he's familiar with rain.

 

[BBert]

Does he have to pay his own buyout? IOW: Does it come out of whatever salary the Blazers pay him, or do the Blazers pay it?

As far as our off-season rebuilding project, and cap room, signing Nico, etc, would signing him this summer muck that up? Do we need to wait another year? Sorry, I'm not a numbers guy.

 

[BBert]

He's from England, he's familiar with rain.

Exactly. Which is why the English love to vacation in Spain, Portugal, Southern France, Italy....

 

[craigehlo]

Does he have to pay his own buyout? IOW: Does it come out of whatever salary the Blazers pay him, or do the Blazers pay it?

As far as our off-season rebuilding project, and cap room, signing Nico, etc, would signing him this summer muck that up? Do we need to wait another year? Sorry, I'm not a numbers guy.

It used to be $500K was the maximum a team could contribute to a player's buyout. Not sure if that changed in the new CBA.

 

[Blazinaway]

well if that is the case we REALLY need to get some bigs for nest year!

 

[Nikolokolus]

He's from England, he's familiar with rain.

But he's living it up in Spain.

 

[illmatic99]

I'll be honest. That's a blow that we did not need. I wanted to see him in the NBA next season.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Has he done it yet? Maybe this is just a move to get Portland to commit to him and tell his agent how much they'll pay for his services. (Or to get them to trade his rights to a team he'd prefer to go to...)

 

[NOBODY]

I only follow the team on a recreational basis, so this might not be correct. Is Nicolas Batum the last Blazers first round pick to work out, or am I missing someone? If that's the case, it is a little depressing.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I only follow the team on a recreational basis, so this might not be correct. Is Nicolas Batum the last Blazers first round pick to work out, or am I missing someone? If that's the case, it is a little depressing.

Well ... if by "work out," you mean help the team win, then yes (probably) but Luke Babbitt has worked out pretty well from a comic relief standpoint and that can't be overlooked.