Suns Offseason Thread 2: The Hunt for a Blazer Continues!

[rsavaj]

Why.............they have a $5 million trade exception from the Dragic deal, that and the aforementioned players get them into striking distance. The easiest thing would be to do a S&T with Portland if they were willing.

Trade exception cant be stacked on top of players salaries. Exceptions can only be used by themselves

Sure it can, not in a one-on-one trade but if you involve a third team in a deal you can essentially do just that, it becomes more complicated but it has happened before.

Sure, but how would that help us shed salary?

[GDFTony]

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[rottenbanana36]

ok that's creepy. Especially since he looks like a cross between Greg Oden and Duncan

[TeamTragic]

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[saintEscaton]

Okay guys, got a question. Was gonna make a new thread, but eff it.
Say we don't get Aldridge. There is no way that the twins haven't heard the news of us trying to get em. Which means, they probably knew they were on the chopping block had it happened. You think they'll be disgruntled playing for us? You know these guys get mad about everything, lol.

Tell them to put up or shut up. They're not of the calibre of players to have a say on how the roster is built. Of course they are expendable

[GDFTony]

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[TeamTragic]

Okay guys, got a question. Was gonna make a new thread, but eff it.
Say we don't get Aldridge. There is no way that the twins haven't heard the news of us trying to get em. Which means, they probably knew they were on the chopping block had it happened. You think they'll be disgruntled playing for us? You know these guys get mad about everything, lol.

Tell them to put up or shut up. They're not of the calibre of players to have a say on how the roster is built. Of course they are expendable

Agreed. Tell them that they should tread quietly. If they don't ship their asses out ASAP.

[TeamTragic]

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Interesting. PDX still in the mix?

[saintEscaton]

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More like financial werewithal. They're pretty much out of it

[bigfoot]

So Lamarcus has only 9 years of experience. The max salary for a player with 9 years is roughly $18.9M. Incoming salary can be $5M more than the outgoing salary in a trade for him. So we would need to move about $13.9M to sign Aldridge. Maybe we can work a reasonable deal with Portland where they get the Morri and one more young player plus a few draft picks for LMA. Get to keep Len, Warren, Granger, Booker, Tucker, etc

[SkinnyOMiller]

Trade exception cant be stacked on top of players salaries. Exceptions can only be used by themselves

Sure it can, not in a one-on-one trade but if you involve a third team in a deal you can essentially do just that, it becomes more complicated but it has happened before.

Sure, but how would that help us shed salary?

Doesn't the exception essentially count as a cap hold until you renounce it? I was thinking that in a S&T, it allows one more asset or player to be sent to Portland.

[charley barkles]

I don't think Bledsoe is going anywhere if LMA chose the Suns, that would be like the ultimate dick move, having him at the recruitment pitch and then sending him away, would instantly sour the LMA-Suns relationship.


P.J. Tucker, having played with LMA in college, should have been at the recruitment pitch, that he wasn't speaks volumes to me. He's a goner along with the lesser Morris along with some picks thrown in if LMA were to choose Phoenix......still unlikely.

I thought that too... but then, i also thought that it is very possible that Tucker missed the plane/bus. If that really happened, would you be surprised?

[gaspar]

I don't see how we get LMA and Chandler without giving up Tucker and the twins. We may even have to ship Len.

Double sign and trade with Portland.

Earl Barron (or Green/Thornton) at $15M/1year + picks for LaMarcus. Easy.

Nope. This was posted a few pages back, and should probably be posted every few pages, but this is a necessary read:

http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2015/7/2/8881977/phoenix-suns-chandler-aldridge-cap-magic

Two routes: we either clear the capspace to sign both of them outright, or we do sign and trades.

Either way, 15-17 milllion in salaries need to go OUT from our side. That's Morris twins(13) + filler.

Fine, in this case make 2 double sign and trades. Earl for Tyson to Dallas and Gerald for LMA to Portland. We have a lot of picks to trade.

[bigfoot]

[franksredhot]

Listen closely from 17 seconds to 36 second mark.

comin to PHX BABY!!

f lillard
f harden, howard
And F the SPURS!

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[RunDogGun]

Listen closely from 17 seconds to 36 second mark.

comin to PHX BABY!!

f lillard
f harden, howard
And F the SPURS!

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man if you had to drink a shot every time he said "you know", you'd be drunk in minutes.

[SkinnyOMiller]

Ed Davis left the Lakers for Portland, Greg Monroe turned down a max offer from the Lakers for Milwaukee......oh the humanity!!!!!

[sunsfever68]

http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2015/7/2/8882165/signing-tyson-chandler-is-a-bad-decision-regardless-of-aldridge

Interesting take if you want to take the flip side approach of having Chandler or Chandler/Aldridge.

Have to admit he makes valid points.

Unless we S&T our assets and shed only 9-10M, if we have to shed 18M and get rid of the Morris Brothers, Tucker, Granger, etc, who will come off the bench and be productive for us?

How will we have the money to field a productive bench?

We can hope for internal improvement from the young guys (Goodwin, Warren, Len, Bullock, Booker) but ultimately signing LMA might not have us crack the top 4 in the west.


Ultimately since we signed Chandler, we now are an 8 seed maybe a 7 seed if Knight/Bledsoe meshes well, we might as well go for it and try to get Aldridge which puts us at a 4-5 seed and see what happens.

If we could shed salary, sign Aldridge, and sign Amar'e to a short term deal and maybe one more vet I'd be happy with that.

[franksredhot]

Ed Davis left the Lakers for Portland, Greg Monroe turned down a max offer from the Lakers for Milwaukee......oh the humanity!!!!!

Good Ol' Kobe

[bwgood77]

So Lamarcus has only 9 years of experience. The max salary for a player with 9 years is roughly $18.9M. Incoming salary can be $5M more than the outgoing salary in a trade for him. So we would need to move about $13.9M to sign Aldridge. Maybe we can work a reasonable deal with Portland where they get the Morri and one more young player plus a few draft picks for LMA. Get to keep Len, Warren, Granger, Booker, Tucker, etc

Hmm I read somewhere it was 20.3.