Carl Landry Point/Counter-Point

Is it a forgone conclusion that we draft a power forward?

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Is it a forgone conclusion that we draft a power forward?

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I'm sure we go best player available and unless something throws us a few picks back, it looks like we can snag Thomas Robinson.

I think we really need to wait until the lottery though.

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you'd think we'd get a discount for paying him way more than market value this past season.

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A last shot at a ring really seems to be the only scenario guys give serious discounts for. But the bottom line is that with a PF stacked draft the market for PFs will be worse this year than last year and Landry's best offer last year was the MLE from Portland. Especially now that he's shown he's not a starter I don't think there's any doubt he gets the MLE or less. The only way he gets more is if we give him slightly more to outbid the market. One big * on my statement is there is supposed to be a lot of cap space this offseason, so who knows maybe teams that miss on their top choices go crazy and overspend on the leftovers like Landry.

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Smith will be center

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Doesn't affect the price of tea. Landry is not the future and will not be paid as such. He did make out like a bandit this year, though.

if we draft a PF, Landry is definitely gone imo...if we don't draft one, i would love to re-sign him. he is a great sixth man

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There also is an erroneous assumption made about Landry getting $7 million per year.

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I guess I failed to sufficiently explain why I believe his value lies around $7 million. In this post by Rohan over on At The Hive, he explains that "The marginal NBA win costs about ~$2M in the current market." Landry was at 2.9 this season, and that came from only 41 games; last year, he was worth 4.1. Factoring injury risk into the equation, $7 million per season seems fairly reasonable for a multi-year deal.

(Thanks to Rohan for those numbers)

Not going to hate on his game because his ability to score in the post and draw fouls is something any team would love to have, but it just doesn't make sense for the Hornets to bring him back due to the other reasons that I mentioned in the counter-point piece.

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Last season the best offer he got from other teams was the MLE

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I'm not sure that's accurate. Because of the lockout causing free agency to be significantly abbreviated, some free agents (like Landry) opted to sign more lucrative one-year deals and then look for a long-term contract during a full free agency period in the following offseason. I never heard anything about Landry not getting any better offers than the MLE. Either way, I think it would be unfair to judge his market price based on the level of interest that teams showed in him in a lockout-shortened free agency period.

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Do you think Kris Humphries who pretty much was in the same boat as Landry will get more than the MLE?

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Absolutely.

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Unless they are playing 30+ minutes a game, I don't think you are getting value for your money.

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I can see Landry being a 6th man type and being "worth" more than the MLE, but the problem is the teams that would use him as a 6th man are for the most part playoff teams who only have the MLE to offer meaning if they want more than the MLE have to find a rebuilding team that wants them as a starter, but what rebuilding team wants an aging bench player for a starter? Sacramento traded for Landry 2 years ago when many people hoped he could grow into a starting role. I think I'll just have to agree to disagree with Mason if he thinks Humphries will get more than an MLE offer too, but I just don't see it.