That sort of says the wink nod deal is done just like with Nurk last season
Lin was never in the ASG.
Tbf he was one in the Chinese league(Power of Google haha).
When you google it it says..."YES"....which is what I did, I remember the controversy over him getting so many Chinese votes but his allstar nod was with the CBA, not the NBA..by all accounts the Knicks were sure he'd get voted in the year after Linsanity but he was a Rocket by then I think.....Melo didn't like him. My Taiwanese relatives were thrilled when Linsanity happened and he was front page news all over asia during that stretch. My point is the allstar game is a popularity contest where older stars rest on their past achievements and still get voted in or players from large population areas get more votes than small market players, etc...you can see by Jerami Grant's lack of votes and he's one of the best PFs in the league right now.
Watford.
Are the Blazers really THAT much different than his situation in Detroit?
yeah...they're not in Detroit...notice how many NBA players choose to retire in Detroit..probably zero. It's a slum surrounded by the Rust Belt ...yuck. NBA players buy houses in Portland ..Nance, Powell, CJ, Dame, on and on...much nicer place to raise a family than Detroit
Quoting you but this for anyone. Can we sign and trade Grant with our cap situation? I know we can go over cap to sign him so I assume we can? And then second question, who (about) would we want in return?
Awful back up plan. Watford is not the answer if you are asking the right questions
Yes - S&T would not impact Portland. The team receiving Grant would have to be below the hard-cap line (~$6M above the tax line). Since Portland has full-Bird rights, Portland can go into the tax to re-sign him.
Yes - Portland could frontload the contract. The stipulation is that because an exception is being used, there is only an 8% variation allowed. IE - if Grant's year 1 salary was $30M, year 2 could not be less than $27.6M (or 8% reduction).
What’s a Detroit situation?
To me it's living in a less than appealing city than Portland ..granted I haven't been there in a long time but man that's one of the last NBA cities I would want to live in . In Detroit he was the number one option ..in Portland he doesn't have that pressure and can be a second or third option
Problem is a team would only need us to assist in a sign and trade if they didn't have cap room, but they can't be in the luxury tax for the entire 2023-24 season to receive a player in a sign and trade either. As you say they need to give the Blazers compensation we are interested in too. So it becomes a very small list of maybe only a couple teams that can do all of those things, so probably more likely that Grant just resigns, or if not that he walks.
Again - I'm not seeing much of a difference in situation.
They can be a little into the luxury tax, they're just hard capped which is like 9M above the lux tax... if I remember correctly.
It was his neighbor...that city ..you can live in a million dollar condo in Calcutta but you still live in Calcutta...in the words of Henry Miller...you can look at the trash in the ditch or the flowers on the hill....choices. I sure would put Detroit on the bottom of NBA cities I'd live in or raise a family in.
