How much will Shabazz get?

[BonesJones]

Is there really a market for PGs? Especially a guy who would probably be the 25th or so best starting PG?

Just going through the teams:

ATL- Schroeder
BOS- Irving
BKN- Russel/Dinwiddie
CHA- Walker
CHI- Dunn is developing
CLE- Thomas
DAL- Drafted Dennis Smith
DEN- Murray is developing
DET- Jackson is paid
GSW- Curry
HOU- Paul
IND- Collison is pretty average, which is where is see Napier slotting. This might be a target
LAC- Beverley and Williams
LAL- Ball
MEM- Conley
MIA- Dragic
MIL- Bledsoe
MIN- Teague
NOP- Rondo, clearly another target team
NYK- Drafted Ntilikina
OKC- Westbrook
ORL- Payton, but Napier is possibly better than him, but they gave him up to us for nothing. No way they take him back
PHI- Simmons, drafted Fultz
PHX- ??? They need a PG
SAC- Drafted Fox
SAS- Mills/Parker, developing Murray
TOR- Lowry
UTA- Rubio
WAS- Wall

So teams who might actually want Napier to be more than a quality backup are IND/NOP/PHX. And they'd probably throw money at him this summer, but nothing exorbitant. Is there anything we can extract from these teams in exchange for Napier in a trade?

NYK, Ntilikina won't be ready for a couple years and once he is he and Napier can start together in the backcourt.

 

[jlprk]

Can you show me where we offered him that much money?

Straw man. Olshey caused him, and several others to get vastly overpaid. When you add Blazer contracts plus the high contracts paid by other teams that were forced by Olshey, I bet they equal the other super-high ones, which were themselves offered only because Olshey drove up expectations around the league.

I leave it to you, Nate, to verify this, because you're smarter than me at it. So get started.

 

[dviss1]

Not sure if this helps/hurts the debate.

Chandler Parsons offered max deal by Blazers; Memphis meeting set

The Portland Trail Blazers and Memphis Grizzlies have emerged as the primary competitors for free-agent forward Chandler Parsons, sources told ESPN.

The Blazers offered Parsons a maximum contract worth $94.8 million over four years during a meeting in Los Angeles in the opening hours of free agency, sources said. The Grizzlies are also expected to make a max offer in a meeting with Parsons scheduled for Friday, sources told ESPN's Marc Stein.

 

[KingSpeed]

Just what the team needs, another moody, insecure and inconsistent player.

he doesn't have to average 25 ppg but the fact that he CAN go off for 25 on any given night would really help our team.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

He must be kept. He's exactly what this bench has besn missing: scoring and a guard who can move the ball.