(tl;dr material) Team Situations Entering Draft/FA

[Denny Crane]

I'd look TOR, BOS, GSW and CHI, but for slightly different reasons. CHI's owners aren't known for being profligate spenders (Denny can correct me if I'm way off-base), and I think that they'd make a deal in order to stay below the apron and maintain flexibility while staying in the first tier (0-5M above the line) of tax increments. The flexibility aspect is similar for GSW and BOS, while TOR would be a great place to try to pluck a 2015 or 2017 first to give them some cap savings if our big FA plans didn't pan out.

I think they accidentally paid the tax this season. They had deals to dump Rip Hamilton's contract to get under the LT threshold but teams were asking for a draft pick and the Bulls decided to pay the tax instead.

Lots of talk about amnesty on Boozer. Fans don't like his defense much. He's been remarkably healthy, though, and I think he's a very good player if used right. I also think if they do use amnesty on him, they'll save money but have only the $5M trade exception to replace him, which I don't think can be done that easily. And if they use the TE, they'll pay the tax

 

[magnifier661]

That is not really a fair comparison. You compared Denver's city population to Portland's metro population.

If you did that backward the city of Portland has a population of 583k and Denver metro has a population of 2.88 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon
http://www.metrodenver.org/metro-denver-economy/forecasts

Sorry, but still Portland is a small market and Denver isn't much bigger. They are both small markets.

 

[Boise Blazer]

Honestly, that stuff comes at the end. I have some ideas that I've tossed around, but I'll have a thread at some point that summarizes what I think are the best options and what I'd take.

Quick take (and I reserve my right to change this stuff ): moving up in draft if required for a stud SG (probably Oladipo, but still looking) or Noel if you can pull it off keeping LMA and Lillard, bringing over Papanikolou, trying to get Maynor with the room exception, and either getting a needle-moving big or looking at what LMA would bring back in trade. It's not time to panic and give him away, but we are only 20 months away from the last time we can trade him for something without him walking away for nothing. I think it's worth exploring. But I haven't done the analysis to see what's even do-able, much less realistic or probable.

Thanks, look forward to those

 

[Nate4Prez]

Sorry, but still Portland is a small market and Denver isn't much bigger. They are both small markets.

I agree both are small markets. I don't understand how they can afford to have the Nuggets, Broncos, Rockies, and Avalanche. Meanwhile, the one team in Portland is barely profitable.

 

[THE HCP]

THESE are the kinda threads that piss me off! They bring NOTHING to this forum! Nice try Brian!

 

[magnifier661]

I agree both are small markets. I don't understand how they can afford to have the Nuggets, Broncos, Rockies, and Avalanche. Meanwhile, the one team in Portland is barely profitable.

If could be the surrounding states that maybe cheer Denver on?

 

[Denny Crane]

THESE are the kinda threads that piss me off! They bring NOTHING to this forum! Nice try Brian!

You are fired.

 

[illmatic99]

I was thinking of media markets. Always figured DEN was big. oops

They're ranked 18th in the country. We're 22nd.

http://www.stationindex.com/tv/tv-markets