Haywood and Mike Miller to Portland

[Natebishop3]

I'm not against keeping Miller around.

 

[Chrionex]

Whew

 

[MAS RipCity]

I don't see any reason to keep Mike Miller. Reports say he wants to play and considering he's been in the league since 2000, he'll want to play for a serious title contender. Also, I'd rather give the minutes to Harkless to see if there's any untapped potential in his game.

 

[magnifier661]

They are giving us a free pass on a player. We helped them out big time.

 

[BonesJones]

If we could trade Miller for a 2nd round pick that'd be genius... we wouldve turned literally nothing into 3 second round picks

 

[Natebishop3]

If we could trade Miller for a 2nd round pick that'd be genius... we wouldve turned literally nothing into 3 second round picks

Cap space isn't necessarily nothing.

 

[magnifier661]

Cap space isn't necessarily nothing.

All are not guaranteed, so we can waive them without effecting our cap

 

[BonesJones]

Cap space isn't necessarily nothing.

We cut Haywood and trade Miller. Wed be right back where we started with 3 second rounders...

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

http://www.prosportstransactions.com/basketball/DraftTrades/Years/2019.htm

If you are wondering where the pick might be this site gives you an idea, kinda of.

 

[Blazer509]

Unless we trade Miller, he's getting released. We ain't keeping him.

 

[ripcityboy]

I don't see any reason for us giving up picks. We are basically doing them a favor by taking on extra salary. If they get anything from us it's money. And we should get a pick or two for our time. Hopefully we can get something for these two scrubs. Miller might go to Miami since they love his ass.

 

[Sinobas]

The Mike Miller of a couple years ago would have been awesome, great 3pt shooter and rebounder, but looking at his numbers from last year, it looks like he's officially "old" and has fallen off a cliff.

 

[TBpup]

We cut Haywood and trade Miller. Wed be right back where we started with 3 second rounders...

Exactly. That is what I'm hoping they can do very quickly.

 

[Sinobas]

I don't see any reason for us giving up cash. We are basically doing them a favor by taking on extra salary. If they get anything from us it's money. And we should get a pick or two for our time. Hopefully we can get something for these two scrubs. Miller might go to Miami since they love his ass.

They both had non-guaranteed contracts, so I don't know if we really saved them money. I think they did get some cap space and a trade exception.

 

[magnifier661]

I don't see any reason for us giving up pick. We are basically doing them a favor by taking on extra salary. If they get anything from us it's money. And we should get a pick or two for our time. Hopefully we can get something for these two scrubs. Miller might go to Miami since they love his ass.

If both players are cut, we owe them absolutely no money. It cost us nothing

 

[ripcityboy]

If both players are cut, we owe them absolutely no money. It cost us nothing

Even better.

 

[BonesJones]

maybe one of these teams are willing to give up a 2nd for him?

 

[magnifier661]

They both had non-guaranteed contracts, so I don't know if we really saved them money. I think they did get some cap space and a trade exception.

They want the flexibility of the TE for both players. They are so far over the cap, they can't offer shit to anyone. But a TE could be used to obtain a 9 mil and 2.8 mil player (separetly)

 

[Red Rooster]

I don't think we'll buy him out, I think theres a trade coming.

 

[TBpup]

maybe one of these teams are willing to give up a 2nd for him?

I think there is still interest from playoff teams. You trade him right away if you can but if teams want to just wait until you waive him, you keep him at a low salary and then trade him later.

 

[BonesJones]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

 

[ripcityboy]

Yeah, we might keep one of them. You never know if they might have trade value later on.

 

[BigGameDamian]

Remember Olshsey is trying to get fired.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

Thank you.

I have an autographed photo of Mean Mike Miller.

 

[santeesioux]

I like how Mike Rice acts like an insider on Twitter as if he isn't just reading the same guys we do.

 

[Natebishop3]

So someone explain to me why Cleveland didn't just cut them.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

So someone explain to me why Cleveland didn't just cut them.

They wanted to create trade exceptions.

 

[Scalma]

I like how Mike Rice acts like an insider on Twitter as if he isn't just reading the same guys we do.

Give him a break, I give him props for knowing how to send out a tweet.

 

[KeepOnRollin]

So someone explain to me why Cleveland didn't just cut them.

They get trade exceptions for them this way. So they can trade for another player (without sending anyone out) up to a year from now even though they are over the cap.