re: 2023 NBA Free Agency, Pels cap state

Yeah, I’m out on casually liking Dame as a player now. I hope the Blazers say frick him, and let him rot in Portland if those are his demands. He can sit there for the rest of the year….force him to retire unless they let them do their job. I’d rather never watch him play ball again than pull off this heist.

He has “requested” a trade…they have no obligation to do right by him if he is going to act this way.

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per 36 is a stat for people like you to say a player is better than they actually are.

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I think you can learn a lot from per 36 numbers.

For shooters/spacers:
3PA - If they aren't taking 5 or more 3s per 36 then they aren't a volume shooter and it doesn't matter how good their 3 point percentage is. You really want the number to be 7 or above.

For scorers:
PPG - 18ppg per 36 seems to be a dividing line. 18 and below is just a guy. More than 18 and you have a better than average scorer.

For centers:
A personal foul rate of 2-4 means you play defense well enough to start. 4-5.5 means you play defense well enough to be a bench center. 5.5 and above means you should not play every game even coming off the bench.

I'm sure there are outliers for all of these, and not every bench player can do the same things as a stater, but from what I've seen there is a surprisingly strong correlation in these numbers for separating and projecting players.

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Dame is about to become a precedent one way or the other. If Dame forces his way to Miami, who has shite to deal, the NBA is officially broken. NBA is about to ask to redo the CBA to get NFL-style fines for that sort of behavior.

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They need to make this sort of thing conduct detrimental to the league.

41 game suspension without pay. If you come back and try to act an arse then you get a full year without pay.

2K logic doesnt translate to the NBA.

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Stars demanding to end up in one specific place without giving up much in return for them pisses off anyone who isn’t a fan of that team.

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It can be argued that POR would receive negative assets (depending on if they could get off Nurk's deal and how you see Herro's deal).

It's one thing to "lose" the trade.

It's another thing to not even receive positive value in exchange for your star.

Portland is rebuilding and probably tanking this year anyway. frick it, if he doesn't want to participate, just let him sit at home and fine his arse.

ETA: If you want to choose where you play, then do it in free agency. It's horseshite to attempt to force a trade to one specific team. Hell, if he would give them a list of 3 teams it would at least create a competitive market.

He really has no leverage here. In the Davis situation he only had 1.5 years left on his deal and he could just walk away for nothing after that. Lillard still has a minimum of 3 years left on his deal before he could opt out of his deal and that last year would pay him 63 million at age 36 (hint, he's not opting out of that )

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It's one thing to "lose" the trade. It's another thing to not even receive positive value in exchange for your star.

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People didn’t like the Beal trade but knew he had them bent over because of the NTC and that is why Washington got crap back.

Dame has 4 years left on his deal and is throwing a fricking tantrum that they didn’t trade Scoot for a mythical unicorn that he could ride into the playoffs. That pisses off a lot of people because it means contracts mean absolutely nothing anymore.

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That pisses off a lot of people because it means contracts mean absolutely nothing anymore.

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Yeah even Simmons was criticizing Dame and he's (at least his podcast-public persona) has backed the "player empowerment movement" for years. I think the public tide is turning (largely led by Harden doing it 3x in like 4 years ).

He signed a 5 year deal in summer of 2017 and got traded in the 2020 offseason.

The question is whether that last year was a player option or if it was a full year.

Edit - Per articles from the time of the contract, year five was a PO.

this just isnt' a good look for Dame, or the league.

I get he was loyal to Portland for 11 years, and that should be commended, especially in todays landscape. But just b/c you stayed in that small market for that long doesn't mean that they are going to make a bad trade simply b/c that's what Dame wants. If you didn't want to be there for the next 5 years, then you shoudn't have signed the super max.

There should be a stipulation when you sign a supermax that you cannot be traded until your contract is up. Maybe have some type of out in the last year, for both the team and the player, but if you want a supermax, then you play for that team for that contract, end of story. maybe they would stop handing out supermax's like they are candy.