Trade for Joel Przybilla

[coyotes_geek]

It's not about "saving a few bucks". If they could sign Lee, keep Pryz, AND sign a FA next summer, they'd probably do it. They can't though, because of cap room, or lack thereof. The only way to get it is to have ending contracts. Enter: Spurs.

Or they can just keep Pryzbilla, extend Roy and Aldridge, sign Lee and have their MLE to use on a FA next year, as well as having a whole slew of young tradeable assets to work with, and avoid helping out a conference rival in the process.

I'm not completely averse to Pryz, but to lighten Portland's 2010 cap load like that, they MUST include Rudy in any deal.

Yes, clearly Pryzbilla for Bonner&Finley is so lopsided in our favor that Portland must kick in Fernandez to even things out. Come to think of it we should probably insist on Batum too.

[GSH]

It's not about "saving a few bucks". If they could sign Lee, keep Pryz, AND sign a FA next summer, they'd probably do it. They can't though, because of cap room, or lack thereof. The only way to get it is to have ending contracts. Enter: Spurs.

I'm not completely averse to Pryz, but to lighten Portland's 2010 cap load like that, they MUST include Rudy in any deal.

Lee's agent is talking about $12M per season. That's not going to happen, but it's looking like Portland would seriously pay him something in the neighborhood of $10M. Hard to believe, but that's what it looks like.

That's a serious chunk of cap space. And when you consider how important Aldridge and Roy are to their future? And the fact that half the teams in the league have maneuvered to have lots of space next season? Portland needs to keep some cap space for those two guys.

That's why I said - if they don't deal Przybilla this year, they will next year. And if he's playing short minutes behind Oden, Aldridge, and Lee? He's worth a lot more now than he will be then.

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Strange time to start a thread like this given the impending answer on Dice, but I like the idea. Pryzbilla would be a great fit for us.

It's not about "saving a few bucks". If they could sign Lee, keep Pryz, AND sign a FA next summer, they'd probably do it. They can't though, because of cap room, or lack thereof. The only way to get it is to have ending contracts. Enter: Spurs.

I'm not completely averse to Pryz, but to lighten Portland's 2010 cap load like that, they MUST include Rudy in any deal.

I like the sound of that! I think I might be as infatuated with Rudy as you are.

[JamStone]

Only thing might be if it conceivably helps the Spurs, it probably won't happen as Pritchard loves to block the Spurs.

[mountainballer]

there are quite a few very good reasons why such a trade could be possible and would help both teams.
and IMO the only valid point, why it is still more unlikely than likely is the question coyote_geek asked: why should Pritchard trade with the Spurs and risk to make us stronger?

back to the reasons for the Blazers: if they trade just Przybilla for Fin+Matt, they open an additional cap space of 1 million $. and this might be crucial when they are serious about getting either Lee or Odom.
especially when going for Lee. they would get better position to frontload the contract, which would make it even tougher for the Knicks to match, when they have to sacrifice more cap space for 2010. (and we learned that the cap will likely go down significantly next year)
it's right that the Blazers might want to keep Przybilla as long as they don't know about Oden, but on the other hand, it seems as if they now are trying to add a big anyhow. so Przybilla would become an insurance for a back up player.

Spurs once tried to sign Przybilla for the full MLE, so they really liked him.
(I better not think about it, if he had signed, Spurs wouldn't have signed Butler and consequently would not have sacrificed Scola to get rid of Butler.)
if Spurs add McDyess, Przybilla would be a very nice complementary piece for the back court. Tim-Dice-Przybilla-Blair-Haislip would be a front court rotation, that could match up perfectly with almost every front court in the league. Spurs could also add some teasers to get this done. (Gist rights, future 2nd rounders).
makes much sense.

[alamo50]

no!