Re-Sign Hickson to a long-term contract?

[Hobbesarable]

1. Yes

2. No

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Yes (trade LMA)

 

[KingSpeed]

I voted yes too. Why is there only one yes vote? Voter fraud!!

 

[Blazinaway]

ridiculous Poll without knowing cost and length

 

[Hobbesarable]

If I knew that, then I wouldn't be here creating a poll for you to bash.

Here's a suggestion. Perhaps you can think of your ideal cost and length, and go with that.

 

[KingSpeed]

ridiculous Poll without knowing cost and length

$500 a night and about 10 inches

 

[Hobbesarable]

LMAO!!!

 

[BrianFromWA]

the best we could do for JJ would be to offer him a 3 year, 13.8M extension (veteran extension can be for up to 4 years including any remaining years on the contract, starting at a max of 107.5% of current salary or Max, whichever is lower, and 7.5% annual raises). If he'd take that, I'd offer it tonight. But his cap hit is 7.6M, which means that unless there's some significant cap space added, we're not going to hang on to a huge cap hold. And I don't think his agent is holding out for a 4.6M annual deal.

 

[KingSpeed]

BrianFromWA dropping knowledge. Love it.

 

[Hobbesarable]

the best we could do for JJ would be to offer him a 3 year, 13.8M extension (veteran extension can be for up to 4 years including any remaining years on the contract, starting at a max of 107.5% of current salary or Max, whichever is lower, and 7.5% annual raises). If he'd take that, I'd offer it tonight. But his cap hit is 7.6M, which means that unless there's some significant cap space added, we're not going to hang on to a huge cap hold. And I don't think his agent is holding out for a 4.6M annual deal.

What do you think will happen in the end, Brian?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What do you think will happen in the end, Brian?

The Blazers will try and find a $400 8 inch option.

 

[Natebishop3]

I don't see us offering a near max deal this summer so I think we will end up putting out a couple of mid-level type contracts to some quality guys in the 4.5 to 5 million per year range. We could get two or three guys with that kind of contract.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

The Blazers will try and find a $400 8 inch option.

And then they'll cut him.


(Sorry.)

 

[Hobbesarable]

And then they'll cut him.


(Sorry.)

Ala John Wayne Bobbitt?

 

[KingSpeed]

Ala your parents most likely

 

[THE HCP]

ridiculous without knowing cost and length

Do you ask the same of your male prostitutes?

 

[THE HCP]

Damn you King..... you beat me to it!

 

[ABM]

Ala your parents most likely

Not a very nice thing to say to our newcomer.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Ala your parents most likely

And now begins the "parents" jokes.

 

[KingSpeed]

Not a very nice thing to say to our newcomer.

parents choose whether or not to "circumcise" (cut) you

Would've made more sense if he said Lorena Bobbitt.

 

[Hobbesarable]

If you're looking from the perspective of the action (or perpetrator in this case). Try looking at it from the victim's perspective.

:MARIS61:

 

[BrianFromWA]

What do you think will happen in the end, Brian?

Personally, I think he keeps playing in mini-Beast Mode until the trade deadline. I think the fact that all we can offer is 3/13.8M means he's not signing an extension with us, so when July 1 rolls around we either have a 7.6M cap hit on our books to retain his Bird rights, or we just cut him loose for absolutely nothing. That cap hit (assuming nothing else happens) means we'll have anywhere between about 3M and 6M left over, which doesn't get you a whole lot of "needle-moving" free agents.

But he has veto status b/c of his Bird Rights, right? Well, yeah...but Bird Rights aren't what they used to be.

JJ, no matter how great he plays, won't get a max deal. He's only 24, so it's not like taking a 4-year deal instead of a 5-year is going to cripple his career earning potential. At his level, the difference b/w 4.5% raises and 7.5% raises comes out to about 250k a year, or 1M over the course of a 4-year contract. I think that when trade deadline rolls around, we get his permission to trade him to a team that could use a bouncy big man for the playoffs in exchange for a couple of juicy assets (Euro rights, far-out draft picks, etc). If we end up with about 15M in cap space (if the cap goes up a couple of million) then I wouldn't be shocked if PLan B was to get a couple of guys like Hickson and Redick or Morrow or something to fill out a playoff-caliber rotation.

 

[Hobbesarable]

Makes sense. Thank you for providing your well informed opinion.

 

[WillG]

Trade Aldridge, sign Hickson, fill in SG, C & bench with the assets.

 

[Nikolokolus]

A fool and his money ...

 

[jlprk]

We should have traded Aldridge for Dwight Howard.

For those who are about to vote and have read Brian's explanation, the question becomes, "Pretending you haven't read that yet, should we re-sign Hickson?"