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So the first four years of the Moda contract will pay for Roy being on the Twolves 122 minutes.
 
I'm surprised it was only $17 million of insurance. Pritchard talked about it on Canzanos radio show after he was fired as if the bulk of the contract was insured. Those were very misleading comments on his part. $17 million of an $82 million deal means it is about 80% uninsured. Just another reason to add to the list of why KP was fired.
 
Draco said:
I'm surprised it was only $17 million of insurance. Pritchard talked about it on Canzanos radio show after he was fired as if the bulk of the contract was insured. Those were very misleading comments on his part. $17 million of an $82 million deal means it is about 80% uninsured. Just another reason to add to the list of why KP was fired.
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Not to defend KP or anything, but isn't it the pres (aka Slimy Larry Miller) involved in the $$ negotiations?
 
Just read Watson is giving up No. 25 so Williams can have it, thus preserving the devine No. 7 and saving humanity as we know it, in the bargain. Whew. That was a close one.
 
yuyuza1 said:
Not to defend KP or anything, but isn't it the pres (aka Slimy Larry Miller) involved in the $$ negotiations?
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I wouldn't think so, the GM is in charge of basketball operations which includes player contracts. The president oversees all business operations. With such a big contract I’m sure multiple people had involvement.

Regardless of who was at fault for handing out the deal it just struck me as slimy to say in interviews the contract was insured so the Blazers get relief when in fact it sounds as though only a small portion was ever insured. KP knew since he was fired the team isn't going to comment on this any more so he was free to paint whatever misleading image of himself he wanted.
 
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Draco said:
I'm surprised it was only $17 million of insurance. Pritchard talked about it on Canzanos radio show after he was fired as if the bulk of the contract was insured. Those were very misleading comments on his part. $17 million of an $82 million deal means it is about 80% uninsured. Just another reason to add to the list of why KP was fired.
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Allen has to pay $17m of the $82m. Doesn't that mean that ~80% of it was insured, since that's who is paying the rest of the contract?

Am I missing something here?
 
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PapaG said:
Allen has to pay $17m of the $82m. Doesn't that mean that ~80% of it was insured, since that is what it paying the rest of the contract?

Am I missing something here?
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I thought the same thing. If Paul Allen is paying $17 of $82 million than insurance is covering 79.2%
 
BBert said:
Just read Watson is giving up No. 25 so Williams can have it, thus preserving the devine No. 7 and saving humanity as we know it, in the bargain. Whew. That was a close one.
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Really? Watson is a gentlemen. Personally neither didn't need to give up anything and I'm a huge Roy homer.
 
In negotiations, Pritchard made himself Roy's advocate. He was supposed to play hardball and he did the opposite, raising pro-Roy talk from his Oregonian friends. The editorializing put fan pressure (including from many posters here) on the rest of management to hurry up and cave in. Immediately after Allen reluctantly signed, Roy announced that he couldn't play. He had been hiding it. (Just like what Oden's doing with Miami, till they find in a month that he can't play.)

That got Pritchard fired.
 
Nate4Prez said:
I thought the same thing. If Paul Allen is paying $17 of $82 million than insurance is covering 79.2%
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I'm guessing Draco read it wrong and got his numbers backward. I'm amazed that any of it was insured, so only $17m out of pocket seems reasonable. I'd have paid that for Roy's Game 4 performance against Dallas alone.

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I'm glad to hear Williams isn't wearing #7. For me it would be a little weird, but I think it might put more pressure on Williams to live up to that number too.

Let's leave Roy (and his number) out of this year's new look Blazers . . . new look for the third year in a row :)
 
Roy probably won't walk without pain for the rest of his life because of what he left on the court in Portland, and people are bitching because a multi-billionaire has to pay 20% of Roy's contract.

I really get embarrassed by Blazer fans sometimes. No wonder nobody with any elite talent wants to play in this city these days. We're seeing the same thing all over again with LMA, as the Chicken Littles try to run him out of town, too.
 
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Treaty_of_Batum said:
I'm glad to hear Williams isn't wearing #7. For me it would be a little weird, but I think it might put more pressure on Williams to live up to that number too.

Let's leave Roy (and his number) out of this year's new look Blazers . . . new look for the third year in a row :)
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Williams only picked 7 because 2, 5, and 25 weren't available. He probably didn't even think about it being Roy's number, so he gives Watson a bit of cash, and gets one of the numbers he has previously worn. I agree in that wearing 7 brings unnecessary baggage that is of now fault of whoever wears #7.
 
magnifier661 said:
Really? Watson is a gentlemen. Personally neither didn't need to give up anything and I'm a huge Roy homer.
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As someone else said, there is a good chance money changed hands. I've heard of that happening before. But maybe he just did it 'cause he's a good guy. Donno.
 
PapaG said:
Roy probably won't walk without pain for the rest of his life because of what he left on the court in Portland, and people are bitching because a multi-billionaire has to pay 20% of Roy's contract.

I really get embarrassed by Blazer fans sometimes. No wonder nobody with any elite talent wants to play in this city these days. We're seeing the same thing all over again with LMA, as the Chicken Littles try to run him out of town, too.
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Roy did not do any of that for you. He did it for the money.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
So Kahn shafted us like Memphis did with Darius Miles?
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Roy's playing for Minnesota had zero impact on cap space. That was why I was so pissed at Wallace, not because Darius Miles didn't want to give up playing in the NBA without knowing for sure he was done.
 
BBert said:
Roy did not do any of that for you. He did it for the money.
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Where did I say he did it for me? That I appreciated it, and still appreciate those memories, is on me, not Roy. If people hate Roy, that's on them, not Roy.

Stop putting words into my mouth.

EDIT - I'll also point out that you're assigning motives to Roy's actions, not me. I just respect and will always respect what he did on the court. If Paul Allen is pissed at Roy for the $17m, then that's between Allen and Roy. Somehow I don't think Paul cares a bit, though.
 
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Rastapopoulos said:
So Kahn shafted us like Memphis did with Darius Miles?
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That was only a tertiary shaft that couldn't have occurred without the primary and secondary shaft provided by Roy and Pritchard respectively.
 
blue9 said:
That was only a tertiary shaft that couldn't have occurred without the primary and secondary shaft provided by Roy and Pritchard respectively.
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The situations aren't at all similar, since Roy was amnestied and had zero impact on cap space when he signed with Minnesota, but whatever.

I expect very few anti-Roy people on this board will even care, and will continue to construct false criticisms, with this one being added to the list.
 
I'm sorry that Williams won't be #7. Fans could have gotten this bugaboo out of their systems.

If Roy's number is ever retired, it won't be for years. Meanwhile, are we supposed to go through this nonsense with every new player? Just give someone the number so people can get over it.
 
WOW!

Gilbert Arenas and Brandon Roy will make a combined $40,125,994, while Lebron and DWade will make a combined $37,603,500 (2013-2014 season)
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Anyone have any info if Roy is going to try to make another comeback or is he definitely done with the NBA?
 
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