Training Camp - 2025

[oldfishermen]

I think a lot of you are seriously underrating the impact of the escalating salary cap; also, I think it's probably misguided to be looking at dollars/year instead of base-salary/annual-salary as a percent of the salary cap

when Simons signed his deal, his annual average salary was 20% of the salary cap; his base salary was 18% of the salary cap. At the same time, Nurkic was signed with an annual salary of 15.2% of the cap

If Sharpe gets an average salary of 20M starting next season, that would be 12% of the projected cap. Expecting that is unrealistic. Even at 25M/year that would be less than 15% of the cap....which would be a smaller percentage than Nurkic got. Think about that because for sure Sharpe's agent will

if Sharpe gets a contract equivalent to what Simons got, his annual salary would be 34M/year and his base salary would be over 30M. I don't expect Sharpe to get that, if for no other reason than Portland has the experience of seeing how they overpaid Simons. At the same time, that assumes Sharpe only incrementally improves this season. But what if he dramatically improves? When Simons got his contract, he was coming off a 4th season when he averaged 17 pts - 3 rebs - 4 asts. In his 3rd season Sharpe averaged 18.5pts - 4rebs - 3asts. And while Sharpe is not a good defender he's better than Simons has ever been.

Also, over the last 10 games of last season, most of which Simons was gone and wasn't blocking Sharpe's usage, Sharpe averaged 25pts-6rebs-5asts. Now I'm not saying Sharpe is going to improve dramatically next season, he may not, but if he does average something like 22-5-5, 30M/year is probably his floor

Not picking on you, just adding thoughts from a new view point.

Sharpe is a below average defender. His TS% is slightly below average. His 3PT% is way below average. Yet the average player salary last season was 14.2M. Offering 22 5M is betting on him making a huge improvement. Offering more would risk spending the Blazers out of contention.

If Sharpe wants more, trade him. How about a trade built around Sharpe for Matas Buzelis? We may need to add sweeteners.

[dckingsfan]

That doesn't seem to match many of the contracts that were signed this offseason though. There definitely seems to be a shift going on. I can't say I would be shocked if Sharpe got over $25mil or $30mil for that matter, as Cronin is the GM currently, but I will be surprised. Something in the line of Jabari Smith makes the most sense, not best for POR probably, but within the upper range of a reasonable deal.

Yep and that is the key. What is the market and how do you get these players on good deals.

Conversely, one needs to be willing to let a player go to RFA and be willing to match (or not). Sharpe may get to be that player but Sharpe may very well not get to be that player.

Offering 22.5 is VERY reasonable. If Sharpe turns it down, no worries you give him the qualifying offer. If it looks like he is breaking out - then no worries you can match next year.

For Sharpe, he will look at what happened this year and determine if it is worth going through the headache (limited upside) and look at the downside if he doesn't break out and looking at all the FAs on the market next year.

[PDXKnight]

3 years @ $69M is fine too.

Doubt he's going that price for 3 years, that probably takes it to 80 mil.

I think that is way to high... especially with what happened in his last of season, 25M per year is an overpay. 26+ is ridiculous (opinion). But this is Cronin so...

Im not saying if right or wrong just would suspect a shorter deal might cost a bit more as usually a longer deal buys you a bit of a "discount" on price per annum. And if this is the case id suspect 4 years is sort of the right amount unless we can get a 5th year with either unguarantees money and a team option or some necessary benchmarks ie an all star appearance or all nba team