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Can we put somethings in perspective here?
The Blazers have the MLE and the Vets min to tinker with.
Most of the guys so many of you want the blazers to sign and are *****ing that they didn't, weren't going to sign for the MLE or the vets min.
Brent Barry isn't a top notch free agent (which is why he was going for the MLE) and he (apparently) decided between Portland and the Spurs. Thats not bad to be 2nd place against the Spurs.
San Antonio spends their money wisely. Yes, they are lucky in that they have Tim Duncan, and he makes his team much much better, but they also didn't grossly over pay players to play there. They also had the cap room on top of being a winning team.
The Blazers have 4 guys who make more money than the whole Spurs team does almost. If you ad in DA, thats more money than the Spurs team is paid.
Man, thats just sad..
Where have the "big name" stars gone this off season?
To teams that a lot of money under the cap.
All this hullaballoo said, this next month (or hell, half a month) of the off season could be a "water mark" on the next season.
Quick is reporting that the offer to Miles has "frosted" the lines of communication..that can't be good. With the offers players who aren't better than him, aren't much better than him, and are in his "potential" class being around what he figures he should get, maybe the 8 million per isn't that unreasonable.
Losing him would not be a good thing for the team, unless they can somehow con another team (and thats what it might boil down to) into taking SAR and giving up a very very very good SF/SG.
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