2024 NBA Offseason Financial Previews: Portland Trail Blazers
April 16, 2024
2024 NBA Offseason Financial Previews: Portland Trail Blazers
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Who goes to keep two picks this year?
Brogdon’s $22.5M salary obviously needs to go.
However, it makes more sense to move Ant ($24M) than Grant ($27.5M) because Ant is not playing a needed position. I also think we’d get a lot more for Ant than Grant, who’d we’d probably have to essentially give away. The team can get by with Scoot/Banton.
Diving into this a bit, the tax will be on the radar, but it shouldn’t be too hard to duck. Moving into the 3rd lottery odds makes it complicated, I definitely think Portland will trade the GS pick ahead of the draft, and sell 1 or both seconds.
We’ll probably see Brogdon moved, maybe Thybulle or Rob, but we’ll definitely cut some salary with a trade to say under the tax and free up a roster spot.
Overall, the teams financials are decent, and Cronin will probably sort it all our around the draft.
JG gone.
Spotrac is the best at getting the numbers/contracts right, ASAP. They had Duop’s deal in like 2-3 days, while BBR still doesn’t have him on the books. I also like the way they visualize future draft picks over Real GM. But, we still have to get through the lottery, before you can actually project potential incoming FRP rookie contracts. #1 at the max 120% is about a full NTMLE. The end of the lottery that’s down to about a TPMLE. By the time you get into the 20’s that’s a BAE/VME level contract slot.
I do take exception to: “No one probably expected Portland to be quite this bad.”. 🙂 My pre-season prediction was .250 / 21.5 wins. The last time we went through this it was a 21 win season. The first six years had an 18 and 21 win season… There is precedent for that happening, even though 21 wins or less has only happened 4 times (now) in the history of the franchise. 21 wins was absolutely “expected”, by anyone who was going into this season objectively. 🙂
Are they are taking all 13 players under contract / with options, and adding a projected 1-3 FRP (at the 120% max for the position/slot?), to get to 14 players??? I want to see the math on that. 🙂 Yes, POR could get to 15 players, spending as much money as possible, to get as deep into the LT as possible in a single year – But, POR is clearly not going to start a repeater clock on one of the youngest teams in the league.
No, POR shouldn’t be attaching assets to get off contracts… However, attaching 2024 assets that you don’t have room for, with a player(s) – For future assets and an expiring – Can still happen on this years books up to and including draft day.
Let’s just get to the lottery first. 🙂 So that we can at least project the actual potential contract slots of X number of players, drafted at Y position, in terms of the books and the contract slots. 🙂
How do the Blazers have 13 players under contract lol.
Keep: Ayton, Sharpe, Scoot, Camara. Anyone else should be available for the right price. With Ayton’s great end to the season, I am confident he can step in as the veteran leader of the team.
Only guys I care about staying on the squad at this point- Sharpe, Scoot, Camara, Bari. The rest aren’t going to be part of any winning team, other than Brogdon, who’s injured so much it doesn’t matter.
7 comments
Who goes to keep two picks this year?
Brogdon’s $22.5M salary obviously needs to go.
However, it makes more sense to move Ant ($24M) than Grant ($27.5M) because Ant is not playing a needed position. I also think we’d get a lot more for Ant than Grant, who’d we’d probably have to essentially give away. The team can get by with Scoot/Banton.
Diving into this a bit, the tax will be on the radar, but it shouldn’t be too hard to duck. Moving into the 3rd lottery odds makes it complicated, I definitely think Portland will trade the GS pick ahead of the draft, and sell 1 or both seconds.
We’ll probably see Brogdon moved, maybe Thybulle or Rob, but we’ll definitely cut some salary with a trade to say under the tax and free up a roster spot.
Overall, the teams financials are decent, and Cronin will probably sort it all our around the draft.
JG gone.
Spotrac is the best at getting the numbers/contracts right, ASAP. They had Duop’s deal in like 2-3 days, while BBR still doesn’t have him on the books. I also like the way they visualize future draft picks over Real GM. But, we still have to get through the lottery, before you can actually project potential incoming FRP rookie contracts. #1 at the max 120% is about a full NTMLE. The end of the lottery that’s down to about a TPMLE. By the time you get into the 20’s that’s a BAE/VME level contract slot.
I do take exception to: “No one probably expected Portland to be quite this bad.”. 🙂 My pre-season prediction was .250 / 21.5 wins. The last time we went through this it was a 21 win season. The first six years had an 18 and 21 win season… There is precedent for that happening, even though 21 wins or less has only happened 4 times (now) in the history of the franchise. 21 wins was absolutely “expected”, by anyone who was going into this season objectively. 🙂
Are they are taking all 13 players under contract / with options, and adding a projected 1-3 FRP (at the 120% max for the position/slot?), to get to 14 players??? I want to see the math on that. 🙂 Yes, POR could get to 15 players, spending as much money as possible, to get as deep into the LT as possible in a single year – But, POR is clearly not going to start a repeater clock on one of the youngest teams in the league.
No, POR shouldn’t be attaching assets to get off contracts… However, attaching 2024 assets that you don’t have room for, with a player(s) – For future assets and an expiring – Can still happen on this years books up to and including draft day.
Let’s just get to the lottery first. 🙂 So that we can at least project the actual potential contract slots of X number of players, drafted at Y position, in terms of the books and the contract slots. 🙂
How do the Blazers have 13 players under contract lol.
Keep: Ayton, Sharpe, Scoot, Camara. Anyone else should be available for the right price. With Ayton’s great end to the season, I am confident he can step in as the veteran leader of the team.
Only guys I care about staying on the squad at this point- Sharpe, Scoot, Camara, Bari. The rest aren’t going to be part of any winning team, other than Brogdon, who’s injured so much it doesn’t matter.