Enes Kanter still unsigned
- Thread starter franklin
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Looks like OKC is taking Utah's approach to Hayward last year. Hold off as long as possible and hope all the money in the market drys up. Offer Kanter a fair deal and hopes he takes it instead of the QO. Who has money left to max him?
JazzyFresh
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He's gonna get paid eventually...
olden_undercover
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...and he should, because he's a tremendous talent.
He's also a gigantic prick, and it's great fun as a Jazz fan to 1) assume he's agonizing over the situation and 2) bathe in it with a ladle.
Well Philly won't offer.
Portland, would be a bad move. They have young talent like Vonleh and Plumlee they need to develop. Also that defense PNR combo of Lilard/Kanter would be horrendous.
Dallas should offer though. They can still tank with Kanter and it's getting a talent at a cost that won't be awful when the cap jumps.
olden_undercover
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Yeah, I got a little carried away...
mellow
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Philly could use a quality bigman.
CALJAZZFAN
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The fact that the Jazz, who have a reputation as being a stable franchise and who are quite conservative with releasing, trading players (and coaches for that matter, Corbin had no business being here as long as he was) wanted to offload Kanter for virtually nothing might have raised some red flags. Maybe not, but league officials talk. IMO, if a team wanted to prioritize signing Kanter, he would have an offer by now. He may be, and should be, viewed as a pain in the *** and not all teams want those types of players. Some teams want to win at all costs, however and will sign assholes like Kanter without thinking twice.
Maybe. He's also a restricted free agent who wants to return to OKC, who OKC wants to return and has stated they'd match any offer, and who has the ****tiest agent in the entire NBA. I think it's likely he wasn't made any offers before because other teams didn't want their cap space tied up while they were meeting with other free agents, because not many teams have cap room to sign him with the offer that would be required to pry him away from OKC, or because he doesn't fit the team (either due to having a superior player in their starting lineup, or because they're now deciding to enter a development/tank phase - see: Dallas, Philadelphia,Portland.)
I imagine Kanter hasn't agreed to OKC's offer yet because he's hunting to see if another team will recognize his generational talent and make an offer of more money that OKC will then match, similar to Hayward last summer. He isn't going to find one though, because no one is willing to pay 15 million for a back-up center that doesn't play defense when they already have better players on their roster.
And neither was Dennis Lindsey, which is precisely why he got all he could for him at the trade deadline, instead of letting him walk for nothing.
All that said, in case my attempts at being rationale above are misperceived - Kanter sucks and I hate him, and I hope OKC has to bench him several weeks into the year when they realize his porous defense is costing them games, his contract ties up OKC's ability to surround Durant and Westbrook with other pieces several years into the future, and Gobert/Pleiss repeatedly destroy him at the rim when we beat them in the second round of the playoffs in 2017.
And literally right after I type that no other front office would offer Kanter a max contract, Portland does. Which is absolutely astounding to me. Lowe thinks OKC will match and then trade Novak, Augustin, PJIII for peanuts.
Hopefully we'll take those three back for additional draft picks.
Hopefully we'll take those three back for additional draft picks.
Growlor
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Blazers win Kanter as a consolation prize in the FA Sweepstakes!
https://hoopshype.com/rumor/blazers-to-sign-enes-kanter-to-offer-sheet/
https://hoopshype.com/rumor/blazers-to-sign-enes-kanter-to-offer-sheet/
