If he leaves to another team I promise the entire Blazer Nation revenge for Brandon against KP. That is all.

Broy gets maximum no matter what-paul allen is our owner-there is no excuses.

I think we’re overreacting. The most likely thing is that KP wants to get any free agent stuff done right now before working on extensions for Roy and LMA. Those guys are signed for another year, they can wait until later this summer, whereas we can’t really afford to wait on any free agent stuff because otherwise anybody good will be gone.

There’s no way Roy doesn’t get the maximum. He’s too important to this team. KP would have to know that fans would call for him to be fired pretty much overnight if he somehow screwed that up and Roy left. He’ll get the 5y/$82m extension, don’t even worry about it.

Or whenever it was made possible to do so. The fact that he hasn’t makes me very surprised. It isn’t cool for them to be playing with my emotions like this.

why we haven’t signed Roy to an extension yet. I get if it was LMA, but Roy should be the easiest negotiation in the world. Should be wrapped up in like 30 seconds.

doesn’t sound like KP or Roy. I’m calling bologne on Quick on this one

I will assume its not true because it just seems insane.

What gets more readers? Roy signs standard 5 year max deal or negotiations with Roy have snagged.

or maybe KP said, “Hey Brandon, I’ve really got my hands full with this FA thing right now. Do you mind if we take care of this next week?”

Because basketball is a business built on Negotiation and KP wouldnt be a good manager if he didn’t even try to get a better deal whenever he could

major contracts.

That is all there is to say. Paul Allen needs to call Prichard and say,
“Hey KP, you must be tired. Why don’t you take a nap? Tomorrow you can wake up and get to work on what to do with the cap space, in the meantime I’ve got my hellicopter picking up Brandon, his family, and his agent. We are going to spend a week on the yaught in Fiji. When we get back Brandon will be locked in. Have a good night”

Oh and KP better lock in Aldridge this summer or else a team like the Knicks are going to be offering LMA a “toxic” contract next summer. And if that happens the Blazers will be forced to sign him to a max contract too, instead of something slightly more reasonable like 12 million a year.

And now. I mean right now KP. Drive over to his house wake up his kids, sit on the front porch, get on a guitar and sing a song, do a dance called the Roybot, stand in his driveway with a stereo over your head playing “In your eyes”, I don’t care get it done. And get it done now.

I’ll just say, not to worry and leave it at that. Geez, is that cryptic or what?

Stay tuned.

However, if Roy’s knees or ankles are done in 4 or 5 years both would be a minor to major disaster for the Blazers. Roy rightly feels he deserves the maximum, in terms of his importance for the team and compared to other major players. And giving him 5 years potentially even pays him LESS over his career. Other stars signed a shorter three year deal specifically because they wanted to get faster to that third contract that really puts the max to the max since the starting point of the new salary is determined by the experience until then (LeBron, Wade, I think Bosh, …). True, 5 years means more guaranteed years for Roy and more security to him in case something goes wrong.

As for the CBA, by all accounts while average salaries will likely get trimmed by eliminating some exceptions to bring the cost for the smaller teams down, and the cap situation then is completely unclear, it is expected that teams will be enabled to pay their proven superstars more than today – and their agents in turn demand that. So it could be again a sacrifice by Roy to not get quicker to that third contract.

In terms of a negotiation tactic, it might be that they want to somehow play the agent of Roy and LMA (the same agency) although that seems to make little sense. If Roy only gets 4 years max, LMA can’t get 5 or something like that. Or saying that if we give LMA the max, we can’t sign Roy to what we want. But it would be weird to potentially piss off both of your major stars by doing that. Easier to get Roy’s contract out of the way, and then try to convince LMA to take say 10% less.

KP is starting to really really really lose his edge… come on KP give keep our broy happy

if this was the case in late october i would be worried

But Aldridge and his negotiations? If we come right out of the chute with the max offer to Roy, the very first minute, how does that play to Aldridge if he doesn’t get an offer that he thinks is palpable. He of course will compare to the Roy negotiations. Probably a stretch, but maybe?

If KP did not try to negotiate as favorable a deal for his organization over Roy and LMA as he can, he would not be doing his job.

I would be surprised if Roy does not eventually gets the max, and LMA also, or close to it; however, player contracts in the NBA can get quite involved, and more and more these days are being laden with incentive clauses. All this takes time and energy to work out. Right now, KP’s energy is much more focused on Free Agents (as it should be, the time factor is much more important there than it is on re-signing our guys).

Once we’ve dealt with our capspace issues and trades, his attention will be free to turn to negotiating with Roy and LMA. Deals for both will then follow in short order. Quick is making a mountain out of a molehill here, and trying to generate controversy and readership at a time when everyone is getting tired of waiting to see what the team’s next big move will be.

A reminder to everyone; training camp does open for another 3 1/2 months. There’s no rush on anything right now other than Free Agency. If we’re still waiting on contract extensions for Roy and LMA by then, then maybe this is a legitimate concern. Right now, KP simply has bigger fish to fry.

Only in Portland where we pretend that our athletes are something more than commodities.

I’m actually thrilled that KP is trying to be financially prudent.

I’m not sure he’s worth that much, for sure you’d be paying that much for ‘potential’ and not what he’s produced so far.

Brandon Roy has an agent.

Broadly speaking agents are evil little weasels that lie constantly and are out to serve their clients (and therefore their own) best interests regardless of the detriment to the team. Roy’s agent is probably doing his job and playing hardball, trying to get every favorable outcome possible including signing bonuses, incentives, the max, etos, whatever. KP is a GM, GM’s are evil little weasels who lie constantly and are out to pay their players as little as possible while retaining their services and attracting more talent.

Roy is likely sitting back, riding his bike, relaxing, playing with his kids. His agent is likely the one holding things up. It’s just business. No big deal.

I think the readership of Blazersedge would personally go door-to-door to raise money for such a noble cause as Brandon’s fifth year.

Read the Quick article, and that’s pretty harsh.

Personally I’m thankful that the blazers have been thwarted so far. I think the trades mentioned (taken as a one move event and nothing complex) would have been poison to portland.

I could live with Milsap. it would mean Joel/Travis would be out the door somehow, but that could work for me.

I could live with Hinrich. I don’t know that it’s for the best, but it is an upgrade.

These other conversations just make me cringe and wonder what the front office knows that we don’t, or if they suddenly snagged some stupid water.

Who says Brandon didn’t say “don’t worry about me right now, you guys get the trade/free agent stuff done and then we’ll talk”? Kobe just did the same thing with the L*kers to give their GM time to work on their free agents.

yes, yes you do.

Reading stories like this make me want to swear off all Blazer talk from now until training camp. There is no freakin’ way that KP is going to give BRoy any less than what he wants (whether it is four years or five years).

I think that there are a lot of mouth breathers reporters out there that are talking out of their *sses right now. “It’s 9:01 am!!!! He hasn’t signed a max deal yet!!!!! Why is KP being so stupid!?!?! Doesn’t he realize that Roy is a perennial all-star!?!?!?”

Maybe Roy is on vacation. Maybe they are trying to figure out whether a four year deal or a five year deal makes more sense. Maybe they want to announce both signings at the same time, but they can’t because they haven’t nailed down LMA’s contract yet. Who knows? Certainly not us, and even though Quick has some good scoops, he has been wrong enough to make me think that he is speculating, and he doesn’t know what is really going on either.