A large market that nobody wants to play at. They have to overspend by 20-30% to get any players of upside.
Interesting player.. would have made sense at Ego contract levels. Pretty steep price to pay. Wouldn't have signed Lin.
Yeah, and there used to be a time when you could get a coffee and a newspaper for a nickel. League revenues are constantly rising, so are player salaries.
I don't think so either. He is nowhere near that price range. I think teams are doing a mistake to fill their cap space with this kind of players with long contracts. This is especially true for a team like the Nets with no picks in the coming years. In general I think the team has to have a certain number of players with their rookie contracts to be competitive.
I like Crabbe well enough. Might have paid 4/55 for him. 75 is pretty steep for a guy who can shoot and has no other interesting skills.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Portland Trail Blazers have matched Allen Crabbe's four-year, $75M offer sheet with Brooklyn, league source tells <a href="https://twitter.com/TheVertical">@TheVertical</a>.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/752247796263055360">July 10, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> LMAO. Turner and Crabbe's contracts on the same team. Have fun Portland.
Portland is really spending. Good for them. Signed Turner & Ezeli; traded for Napier. Locked up Crabbe & Leonard. Harkless still sitting out there. Nice young squad that can grow together. Nets now still have a ton of money to spend.
Might actually make a big offer sheet for D-Mo. Plus, with all their cap space, they can absorb Brewer in a trade.
I don't really like what Portland has done this offseason at all. The Ezeli signing was a good one when you consider how much other big men got this summer. But they WAY overpaid for Evan Turner, and followed that up by overpaying to keep Crabbe. Between those two guys, they'll have something like $34 million-$36 million tied up next season in a couple of role-playing wings. And with McCollum on the roster, one of those guys is going to be coming off the bench. These just strike me as the moves of a team totally satisfied with getting the 4-6 seed for the next 3-4 years and not really thinking about cap flexibility or the challenge they're going to have in keeping McCollum a year from now.
