Yes they had to move two of Harkless/Turner/Crabbe/Leonard to make a his work. Crabbe is gone and now Harkless can move to NY for Ryno while Melo heads to Houston.
getting rid of Harkless and Crabbe while adding Ryno and Nicholson's cap hit after being waived actually saves Portland about 6 mil they add a stretch 4 that they could really use while getting rid of Crabbe's contract and saving a little bit of money
This explains the predictive timing too...that's why today is the day. Is Burt Steele about to become a legend?
Ok so i am caught up, crabbe to jersey for nichsolsoj. Crabbe waived kicker and blazers waived and stretched nicholson. Possible they are makijg room for a trade.
The Nets part of the Melo trade is mow complete, so they no longer need to be involved in the actual trade. POR needed to move Salary to a fourth team. Done