Maybe the Blazers are trying to move salary so that they can be players in FA this offseason for some reason. If we were to get CJ for say Hart/Sato/NAW/1st or less, then that's the only explanation I can think of as to why they'd be doing this right now.
If they did that deal, they'd be sitting somewhere around $90M in salaries for next year, which still wouldn't get them close to a max salary slot to go after anyone, unless they let Josh Hart go, but even then, they'd still need to send players out to go after Harden, if that's what their grand plan is, to sign James Harden in the offseason. His max salary is going to be $46.5M, so i'm not sure how they'd make it work.

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Posted by Bronc

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Posted on 2/7/22 at 9:48 am to TeddyPadillac

Blazers are a bit confounding at the moment so I genuinely am not sure what they may do at this point with CJ.

If you are going to make it work with Lillard you cant just be shedding salary for little return ala Norm. And getting rid of Norm over one of CJ/Simons makes little sense in that context. Unless it was to bring back a bigger wing...which they didnt. And with Simons/McCollum about to take up so much salary, you aren't changing up the core issue the team has had which is lack of perimeter defense and wing play.

Needless to say, I dont know what the frick the new Portland regime is doing anymore.

This post was edited on 2/7/22 at 9:50 am

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Posted by DallasTiger45

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Posted on 2/7/22 at 1:50 pm to TeddyPadillac

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Maybe the Blazers are trying to move salary so that they can be players in FA this offseason for some reason.

I think they just wanted to reset the luxury tax, which I’m pretty sure this deal did for them. CJ might get traded but I doubt they give him up cheap

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