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The Blazers have the pieces and expiring contracts

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/portland.htm

Look at all of the expiring contracts and try to tell me that there won't be significant change coming very soon. 9 Players have expiring contracts with the exception of Wallace and Crawford who have player exceptions, but's it's obvious they will want to back out of that to get a healthier contract.

The Blazers will have a payroll at $26 million after the season and they will have plenty to spend. I'm guessing that if Batum, Wallace and Crawford are still with the team baring a trade doesn't happen or at least it doesn't include them, they will be signed. Which would probably bring it up to about $50 million payroll with 9 players signed. (Those 9 players being LA, Wallace, Wesley, Crawford, Batum, Babbitt, Williams, Thomas and Smith)

I will also guess that the front office picks up Craig Smith for about $2 million. So that puts it at $52 million, 10 players. Players who I think will definitely be gone are the Johnson's (Chris and Armon). This leaves 5 roster spots available and I would say that the Blazers will not resign Oden, Camby or Felton. Oden for obvious reasons and Felton isn't showing us anything worthy of keeping. The hardest one to let go is Camby, but he is aging. I have a feeling he will be used in a trade.

So 5 roster spots remain, with cash to spend. What will happen?

Star-divide

10 players on the team: (Baring them not being used in trades)---------------------5 players gone:

LaMarcus Aldridge------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Marcus Camby

Gerald Wallace-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Raymond Felton

Jamal Crawford----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Greg Oden

Wesley Matthews--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Armon Johnson

Nicolas Batum-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Chris Johnson

Kurt Thomas

Craig Smith

Luke Babbitt

Elliot Williams

Nolan Smith

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Some teams have got to be interested

And hopefully they’ll sweeten the deal by giving Portland a future 1st round pick as well.

by Wei Xiao Bao on Feb 17, 2012 6:09 PM PST reply actions  

I have a feeling it would be the other way around...

We may have to give up picks to get a trade done.

I Bleed Red...

by blazers71252 on Feb 17, 2012 6:41 PM PST reply actions  

I think we won't keep both Crash and Batum

both players want/deserve to start and batum at the 2 isn’t a long-term option. plus, that’d be a lot of money to pay for one position when we have so much uncertainty at the guard and center.

"Wide, girthy. Just like a Rhino. Sometimes my horns are visible."

by YoniRap on Feb 17, 2012 7:35 PM PST reply actions  

according to the math, using your "HoopsHype" Blazers Salaries page and

The projected salary cap for 2012-2013 60-61 mill (my source http://www.iamagm.com/news/2011/11/01/nba.salary.cap.remain.virtually.unchanged.2011.12.and.2012.13) the Blazers should have around $35,754,560 million to spend with only 5 players on the roster.

by Daddygr33nJeans on Feb 17, 2012 9:04 PM PST reply actions  

Unfortunately

1) Hoopshype doesn’t have accurate numbers for the Blazers

and

2) There’s nearly no chance that the salary cap will go up at all next year

and

3) You’re not accounting for any cap holds

Therefore, trying to estimate cap space to the dollar using your presuppositions, IMO, is an exercise in futility.

by Storyteller on Feb 18, 2012 10:33 PM PST up reply actions   1 recs

Trying to be as accurate as I can

you have the number (on your website) for the eight players with contracts as being $41,283,381. If you remove the players options (Wallace and Crawford) it would be $26,558,381. Hoopshype differs from you as follows: Aldridge: ST: $14M HH: $13M, Wallace: ST:$9.5M PO HH:$11,437,500 QO, Crawford: ST: $5,225,000 PO HH $5M QO, You listed Kurt Thomas as $1,352,181 HH has no listing so it’s zero, Nolan Smith: ST: $1,365,720 HH: $1,404,960. The rest of the salaries are the same for you and Hoopshype. So their numbers would be $40,682,940 with options and 24,245,440 if you remove what they say is Qualifying Options. If you add Kurt Thomas to Hoopshype it becomes $42,035,121 with QO and 25,592,621 without. So just to be clear it is over $41M with options and over $26M without.
So if I were to assume that Batum signs and Craig Smith signs as suggested above, I would add about $6 to $9 million for Batum and about $1M for Craig Smith (generous as he makes less than that now. So if I added $42M (Salaries with Options) and $7.5M (Batum) and $1M (C. Smith) it would be about $50.5M. Numbers close to above but arrived at differently.
As is stated in the CBA contract: “Team training camps and the free agent period will open tomorrow with a Salary Cap of $58.044 million, a tax level of $70.307 million and a minimum team salary of $46.435 million.” Any numbers above or below that for next year is purely speculative.
The signing of Draft picks would add another 2M (approx) so that leaves the Blazers with only about $6M to the salary cap and about $18M to the Tax.
My question for you is what are the limitations on what can be offered for Free Agents this summer? For instance could they offer two or three players somewhere between $6M to $18M or could they offer just one Superstar say $18M? This is assuming the cps are similar to what they are now. Exactly what are the limitations in signings?

by XBlazerfan on Feb 19, 2012 2:02 PM PST up reply actions  

The limitation is essentially this

Assuming that the Blazers renounce free agents in order to actually get under the cap, Portland could then make offers, up to the amount of any cap space that they had, to a single player or to a combination of players. The caveat being that any single offer would have to be less than the maximum contract amount for that player (it differs from player to player).

Once the trade deadline passes, I’ll do my annual piece on “How much cap room (if any) will each team have in July?”

by Storyteller on Feb 19, 2012 3:15 PM PST up reply actions  

So, for example, if Portland had $6 million in cap room

they could offer a maximum of $6 million for a free agent signing. It doesn’t matter how far under the tax threshold they are, they’re limited in this instance by the amount of actual cap space.

by Storyteller on Feb 19, 2012 3:18 PM PST up reply actions  

Thanks

That’s kind of what I thought but I wasn’t sure and it seems to be a limit that is not understood by most of us.

by XBlazerfan on Feb 19, 2012 3:51 PM PST up reply actions  

Oden is not a sure drop

I think it is more than likely he will get one more year for about $5M.

by lee3022 on Feb 18, 2012 4:39 PM PST reply actions  

signings

Blazers are saying they will try to bring freeland over next year. he could be the back up pf or center. dipending on how polished he is of course.

by billyjoejack on Feb 19, 2012 10:18 PM PST reply actions  

Forgot bout Dre

Dre is a free agent next summer in case management wants push Cntl-Z on the Felton deal

by imlebronjames on Feb 20, 2012 3:53 PM PST reply actions   1 recs

We won't bring back Dre unless there is no other viable options

Because A) The team has already demonstrated that they want a younger point guard, their stated rationale for trading Dre in the first place. And B) I doubt Dre would sign here again as a Free Agent. Although I think he started to enjoy himself his second year, it seemed that he and Nate didn’t have the most chummy relationship, and more importantly Dre has a reputation for holding a chip on his shoulder for teams that trade him. It would just be too awkward of a situation overall for both teams.

by BassBall on Feb 27, 2012 11:12 PM PST up reply actions  

Simple trade

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=7k4zpk4
If we got a 1st out of this as well would anyone do it? We than move Felton and Wallace to la for Blake and 1st.

We end up with 3 first rounders this year and a team of
Lowry, Blake, smith
Matthews, Crawford, Elliot
Batum, ?
Scola, Patterson
Priz, camby

We use the 3 to move up and grab a big in a PF, center heavy draft. If we bring in freeman we could end up with a much better long term line up. Huge risk, but it’s the only way to rebuild on the fly.

We could end up with 2012 much better long term prospects.
Lowry, Blake, smith
Matthews, Elliot
Batum, rookie?
Patterson, scola, rookie?
Freeman, priz, rookie?

by Cabbol on Mar 3, 2012 12:05 PM PST reply actions  

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