Blazers have interest in Tiago Splitter

[BatManu20]

Jefferson is a horrific defender and Milsap is on the downside.
No thanks to either.

Downside? Millsap is 28 and in the prime of his career right now..

[Mal]

Lol the Spurs have no shot at getting Aldridge.

You never take first trade proposal from desparate team.

[rascal]

Splitter + Green + De Colo + Picks for Aldridge.

You are like that guy in every fantasy basketball league that packages his 3 worst players to every team in the league hoping to land a star player.

[Mal]

So either the Blazers think Tiago > #1 overall pick...

or we ain't gettin Aldridge

Spurs can give them every euro player they have, CoJo, Nando, Bonner with his expiring as nice asset to trade to 3rd team.

I didnt watch Blazzer at all. What kind of PG is this Lillard ? PnR or Iso type ? Portland is going hard with this guy, as I recall. How he was cooperating with Aldridge ? LaMarcus isnt PnR type of big, so Tiago could be upgrade in that matter, cause he is very good at it. Plus he will be much cheaper than Aldridge. Probably 60% of his salary

[Chomag]

Would love to land Aldridge, always have. Does the FO have the balls to get it done? most likely not. Trading has never been their strong-suit.

[AFBlue]

That doesn't meant Portland couldn't include whomever they draft as part of the compensation for Splitter in a sign-and-trade, though. That's certainly possible. However, I strongly doubt the Blazers do a sign-and-trade for Splitter unless it includes Aldridge. Portland has no incentive to help the Spurs out by giving them assets when they can sign Splitter outright.

Spurs can guarantee a fifth year I believe. And they can also match the offer sheet, which provides them enough leverage to get some compensation in return; though its most likely to be a future pick than player on their roster.

[Capt Bringdown]

Why are South Americans so soft?

[cd021]

I wouldn't go for Splitter or trade Aldridge if I were Portland. I'd try to keep Hickson, but apparently, they've made it pretty clear they don't want to keep him. They're also supposedly going for Splitter and Pek, so they don't seem sold on Leonard as the answer to the five at least this season. Maybe they think he's a four, and when they get a legitimate center, he'll be a good player to replace Aldridge. I don't know. In the end, they'll probably keep LA, and the Spurs will probably keep Splitter. I could see Tiago agreeing to a deal during the moratorium and not even visiting other teams. It's pretty safe to assume that the Spurs will bring back the same top seven or eight player if they have their druthers.

I agree. Though I'm wary of what their offer sheet may be. For all we know it could be a 4 year deal worth $50 million. If i'm not mistaken Splitter can be S&T'd as long as he doesn't sigh an offer sheet else where. So in theory, the Spurs could move him for assets if the price gets too high.

[cd021]

You are like that guy in every fantasy basketball league that packages his 3 worst players to every team in the league hoping to land a star player.

You mean he likes those NBA Live trades. This actually isn't a terrible package but I'd subs ute Cojo for De Colo. He would seem to be a better prospect. I'd imagine we'd also be the one giving up a pick not them.

[cd021]

The SilverStars can have Tiago for all I care.

Splitter can go ham on Griner unlike Mike Miller and Shane Battier

[DPG21920]

If Splitter leaves, the Spurs actually end up having a LOT of cap space, so they could go after a player like Millsap and outbid anyone pretty comfortably. Baynes factors in this pretty heavily, because if the Spurs let him Splitter go, it will probably be because they have at least some confidence that Baynes can backup Tim.

They would have close to Dwight Howard money.

[kaji157]

Offer him the qualifying offer, i don´t think he´ll have any offers given the Playoffs he has had, not just the finals.

[SpursDynasty21]

Let him walk.

[PlayNando]

Nando is that you?

No.

[Stabula]

After Splitter got posterized by that Lebron block his value immediately crashed.

[ducks]

I would include green and splitter for alridge
sell green high

[SpursSerb]

How about Meyers Leonard and future draft pick for Splitter?

[SenorSpur]

Blazers set to embark on their annual summer "free agent money-whipping" event.

[ezau]

If we can't get Aldridge, Al Jefferson is just waiting for the Spurs to make an offer. I think if he starts playing alongside his idol Timmy, we'll see a much improved and motivated Jefferson. Jefferson might be a terrible PnR defender, but he could get better. The Spurs could punish teams who want to play small-ball against us with TD/AJ frontline.

[LakerHater]

Blazers Trying Real Hard To Push a Deal For Aldridge!

[ace3g]

Blazers Trying Real Hard To Push a Deal For Aldridge!

Where did you hear this?


Probably doesn't happen but imagine having both Thomas Robinson and LA next season

PF/C: Timmy, LA, Diaw, Robinson, Baynes

[LakerHater]

[look_at_g_shred]

Well then, the writing is on the wall.

[TheGoldStandard]

Portland wants to move Aldridge to Chicago to get Robinson in a trade and trade..

[Chinook]

Chicago wants to move Robinson to Portland as part of a package for Aldridge. I don't know if that's the Blazer's preference. They may just want to deal with Houston directly.