Baby for Outlaw

[Jack wore plaid]

On a couple of things:

Portland doesn't have any "cap space" they only have the MLE.

Because of Base Year Compensation rules Baby will only return 2.8 mil in trade on a maximum MLE contract of 5.6 mil To sign and trade Baby he will have to be in a much larger trade.

At the moment this team needs two bigs before it does anything else, we can't move a 4/5 for a 3 to play 12 mpg behind Pierce.

If it becomes apparent that Baby's market is 25-30 mil and Boston isn't going to go there a deal with POR I could see would be for Pryzbilla who I imagine they would want to move before they spend more money on the front court. Scal and Baby or TA, Giddens or Pruitt , and Baby would be enough to make that happen.

Don't love it but don't hate it either.

Portland has soewhere around 7 million in cap space depending on the new salary cap. If they renounce the players they can renounce, they will have somewhere around 16 million in cap space.

[15th overall]

I'll pass.

I dont think the difference in production between Outlaw and a 2nd year Billy Walker (or a Barnes/Udoka-type of UFA) is worth losing Glen Davis. Especially with KG and Leon being unknowns for next season.

[sully00]

On a couple of things:

Portland doesn't have any "cap space" they only have the MLE.

Because of Base Year Compensation rules Baby will only return 2.8 mil in trade on a maximum MLE contract of 5.6 mil To sign and trade Baby he will have to be in a much larger trade.

At the moment this team needs two bigs before it does anything else, we can't move a 4/5 for a 3 to play 12 mpg behind Pierce.

If it becomes apparent that Baby's market is 25-30 mil and Boston isn't going to go there a deal with POR I could see would be for Pryzbilla who I imagine they would want to move before they spend more money on the front court. Scal and Baby or TA, Giddens or Pruitt , and Baby would be enough to make that happen.

Don't love it but don't hate it either.

Portland has soewhere around 7 million in cap space depending on the new salary cap. If they renounce the players they can renounce, they will have somewhere around 16 million in cap space.

They have some renouncing to do as far as Frye and draft rights to get to that 7 mil and it isn't likely worth it to simply throw an extra million bucks over the MLE at someone in FA. I don't see them getting anywhere near 16 mil maybe 12-13 and even then they would have to waive Outlaw and Blake making this conversation pointless.