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and have his salary no longer count towards the lux tax?
I just can't think any team would be interested in trading for him, and I would rather see some hungry scrub from the Toros getting his minutes at this point.
hater....
you sound bitter, tbh... you should talk to a professional about that...
They can't. The best they could do (without trading him) is spread his cap hit over three years. That would reduce their salary by about $700,000 this season, but cost a little more than $300,000 each of the next two years. Not worth it. He's still easily tradeable.
Blair is well worth his salary, tbh. Even at his worst he's still a bargain.
Blair should lose his starting spot, Diaw or Splitter deserve it
well, he's cheap but his "worth" is quite questionable. If it's just about having a body warming up a bench seat, wouldnt a Toros scrub be cheaper?
^ a toro scrub cant put up 30/20 in an nba game .....
this season?
^ wait it out a year ... ryan richards will be a spur + spurs will target a big in free agency with there cap space
eric dawson should have gotten his spot a long time ago
he brings the hustle and the mid range shot
Blair's not exactly a "scrub". If he played on a team like the Blazers, he'd be their first man off the bench.
Well, since somebody already pointed out it wouldn't save money or open up cap space for the Spurs, I guess there's no point in releasing him now
There's no way to prove it, but if there would be, I have $20 the Blazers wouldn't trade anything to get him.
You can only use the spread provision on contracts signed under the new CBA which isn't the case for Blair.
Sup DeJuan.
blair can only have good games when the team spoonfeeds him. This would never happen if he were playing with a Portland bench
Basketball wise and given his low salary, it makes little sense to dump Blair.
However, there is the human factor.
If Pop decides to go with Bonner/Diaw and downgrade Blair as the 5th bigman, how will he handle it?
Don't forget we are talking about a player that is in a contract year, has already asked for a trade and has had a twitter meltdown after a single DNP-CD in the season opener.
Could it reach the point where Blair at ude would be so ty that it would hurt the whole team?
Thanks for that correction. It's a shame they didn't make that a possibility for all contracts. I don't think the Spurs would've used it on Blair even if they could, though. Not only is his contract a bargain for his production/potential, but there's little reason to commit any money to future caps just to lower this year's salary by less than a million. I can think of at least a half-dozen teams that would take him if the Spurs really wanted him gone. They haven't traded him because they can't get equal value in return.
RR will likely never play in the NBA. He's scrubbing out of truly scrubby European leagues.
If Blair makes keeping him detrimental, pass him along to a team with a TE or cap space. He's instant production off the bench when he wants to be. The Spurs probably can't get a first-round pick anymore, but they could get a good second, or even a young player buried on the bench who doesn't have a guaranteed contract (like Jeremy Tyler or something). If that player, sucks, they can cut him without suffering a cap hit. Who knows? They could end up trading for a Danny Green or Gary Neal that way.
I don't think so. Also, who's going to give you a good 2nd pick when they can wait it out and get Blair in free agency and keep the pick?
A team that wants his production this year (Philadelphia with out Bynum). A team that doesn't want to use an exception on him next year (teams like Boston -- not that they have anything to offer). A team that doesn't trust rookies (Miami used to be this way). There a loads of teams that take a veteran player like Blair now as opposed to hoping that, a) they get him in free-agency next year and aren't out-competed and b) don't trust that their second-rounder will turn out to be a player that can help as much as Blair could.
While I agree some team might take a flyer on him (like the Spurs took a flyer on him during the draft), I doubt he's shown he can be a sough-after free agent, tbh. Just the perception I get and my opinion, tbh.
And I agree with it. I am not saying he's an $8 Million/year player (although neither are most of the players that make that much). But he's going to get a pretty substantial pay raise in the offseason. There's no reason to assume he'll make less that Green money. For a lot of teams, that means part of their MLE. For good teams, being able to use their exceptions on other vets is easily worth a second. Will the Wizards move their pick for Blair? Probably not. But Philly/Boston/Chicago may.
In the least, trading Blair for pretty much nothing could net a trade exception of just over a million dollars. That can be used to get a cheap player in another trade or allow the Spurs to claim an intriguing prospect that gets waived mid-season, like the Mavericks did with Corey Brewer a couple of years ago.
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