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TRKO wrote:

bleedspeed177 wrote:I love what Thibs is doing in FA. Letting it play out

Yikes

Portland matched Brooklyn's four-year, $75 million offer sheet on Crabbe, and then Miami matched the Nets' four-year, $50 million offer sheet on Johnson, leaving Brooklyn empty-handed.

I think I would have let both players walk. We need to thank the Nets for hurting the Blazers and lesser extent the Heat.

Is there a worse team out there than Brooklyn?

No.

And they don't get to keep their draft pick...

TRKO wrote:Is there a worse team out there than Brooklyn?

Not likely, but throwing out those big contracts to over play role players and having other teams match them is a good thing for us. I hope if they do that next year to Dieng or Shabazz we let them walk. I think the NBA needs a system to give picks to teams that lose players to other teams like they do in NFL and MLB.

TRKO wrote:

bleedspeed177 wrote:I love what Thibs is doing in FA. Letting it play out

Yikes

Portland matched Brooklyn's four-year, $75 million offer sheet on Crabbe, and then Miami matched the Nets' four-year, $50 million offer sheet on Johnson, leaving Brooklyn empty-handed.

I think I would have let both players walk. We need to thank the Nets for hurting the Blazers and lesser extent the Heat.

Is there a worse team out there than Brooklyn?

Am I missing something, or will their starting lineup be Lopez, McCollough, Bogdonovic. Hollis-Jefferson, and Lin? Yikes, how are they going to win 10 games?

Wow, so Portland is paying Crabbe and Evan Turner about 18 million each for 4 years? (facepalm)

bleedspeed177 wrote:

TRKO wrote:Is there a worse team out there than Brooklyn?

Not likely, but throwing out those big contracts to over play role players and having other teams match them is a good thing for us. I hope if they do that next year to Dieng or Shabazz we let them walk. I think the NBA needs a system to give picks to teams that lose players to other teams like they do in NFL and MLB.

I agree. Boston will get another top 5 pick this year.

BizarroJerry wrote:Wow, so Portland is paying Crabbe and Evan Turner about 18 million each for 4 years? (facepalm)

Meanwhile both will be coming off the bench lol. Portland had a bad off season.

longstrangetrip wrote:

TRKO wrote:

bleedspeed177 wrote:I love what Thibs is doing in FA. Letting it play out

Yikes

Portland matched Brooklyn's four-year, $75 million offer sheet on Crabbe, and then Miami matched the Nets' four-year, $50 million offer sheet on Johnson, leaving Brooklyn empty-handed.

I think I would have let both players walk. We need to thank the Nets for hurting the Blazers and lesser extent the Heat.

Is there a worse team out there than Brooklyn?

Am I missing something, or will their starting lineup be Lopez, McCollough, Bogdonovic. Hollis-Jefferson, and Lin? Yikes, how are they going to win 10 games?

They got Grevis Vasquez so they are pretty much set. :) It will be interesting to see how they fill out their roster they still have a chunk of money and some spots open. They also got Trevor Booker.

I was kind of intrigued by Sullinger, at the very least he would have been an upgrade over Payne.

Adrian Wojnarowski?@WojVerticalNBA
Free agent Jared Sullinger has agreed to a one-year deal with the Toronto Raptors, league sources tell @TheVertical.

MikeAz wrote:I was kind of intrigued by Sullinger, at the very least he would have been an upgrade over Payne.

Adrian Wojnarowski?@WojVerticalNBA
Free agent Jared Sullinger has agreed to a one-year deal with the Toronto Raptors, league sources tell @TheVertical.

Per stein

"Jared Sullinger and the Toronto Raptors have struck a one-year deal believed to be in the $6 million range, according to league sources"

6 million that sounds good. I was reading an article about how Sullinger has a real problem with his weight and he was working with John Lucas last year and started the year in solid shape but started putting the weight back on.

khans2k5 wrote:

BizarroJerry wrote:Wow, so Portland is paying Crabbe and Evan Turner about 18 million each for 4 years? (facepalm)

Meanwhile both will be coming off the bench lol. Portland had a bad off season.

Two ways to look at it...

Portland made the 2nd round of the playoffs last season. And swapped Gerald Henderson for Evan Turner.

Seems more like status quo than anything else. I'm not privy to the team's salary cap stuff to know if the large contracts really impacts what they can/cannot do moving forward.