Blount never came to training camp and won’t show up now. He’ll stay home in Miami but keep getting paid to allow the Wolves what David Kahn calls roster "flexibility" in case his $7.9 million salary slot can be involved in a trade between now and the trading deadline.
He didn’t end up waived like Antonio Daniels was last week because Daniels was willing to give back some money in a buyout of his $6.6 million contract so he can sign with another team (Cleveland?) once he clears waivers.
There’s not another job out there at the moment for Blount, so he’s not willing to give back any of that nearly $8 million salary.
So he’ll stay on the roster, but remain far, far away.
Jerry gives a Mark Blount update over at his Strib blog. For those of you keeping track at home, that's Big Expiring Deal #2 on the roster.
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It's definitely a win,
just as long as Blount keeps staying far away.
by Krotz the Wall on Oct 27, 2009 8:40 AM CDT up reply actions
It's still a lot of money for a team that isn't making money...
…to have to pay.
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agreed
But if you have to pay it anyways…you might as well hold on to the contract to see what kind of deals people offer you to create more capspace for next offseason.
by TheEvilProfessor on Oct 27, 2009 8:59 AM CDT up reply actions
A negotiated buyout probalbly saves them a few mil...
…which could be a big deal to some behind the scenes staff.
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Yeah, but isn’t that all dependant on Blount having somewhere to go to make up what he’s giving back? I can’t see anyone actually signing him at this point..
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True..
….and I don’t blame him for wanting what is coming to him, but I was hoping someone would pick him up for cheap and that the salary could be subtracted with the buyout.
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save $2 million
Khan saved Mr. Taylor a cool $2 million by trading QRich for Blount. [Their salaries did not exactly match]
As long as QRich would be as unwilling to negotiate a reduced buyout as Blount appears to be Taylor comes out ahead. Or, rather, as long as Qrich does not negotiation a $2 million buyout with the Wolves, Mr. Taylor comes out ahead.
by littleboxes on Oct 27, 2009 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions
Why not have him around when he costs you money anyway? If you are lucky he hurts himself and insurance pays 80%
Same with Detroit who waived a player who already had 250k guaranteed and was essentially free until January or so.
But slowly things happen that they cannot help and the Blazers Fellowship of the Ring begins to break apart
You missed out...
…on the last time he was here in Minny. After that unpleasantness, he can never come back. The chance of him getting hurt to cash in on insurance is far less than him talking to the young players on the team….which, if his last stint is any indication, is a bad thing. We wish him well in Miami with his $8 mil.
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yeah
you don’t poison your future to make yourself feel better about the present. In finance we would call Blount a sunk cost. You can’t change paying him but if you look at your long term plans, it is counterproductive to even have him near the team…so you just bite the bullet and pay him to stay away.
by TheEvilProfessor on Oct 27, 2009 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
You've almost got it, but the injury needs to be to a contending teams center
this will allow the Wolves to trade Blount for one or two expirings that total less than Blount makes, thus allowing the Wolves to save money.
Other than that, he gets paid to sit all season.
Wow
based on comments here and elsewhere, why would ANYONE want this guy? I understand Kahn trading for him and decreasing the amount against the cap, but I don’t see that anybody would want him, except as an expiring contract.
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lazy az Mark mayn. I bet he gon chief on sum Blounts if u kno whut im sayin shit mayn he shud have de wolves fans over for a chiefin session he migh be able ta git sum uv dat Blue Dream or dat Headband i wuz chiefin on lass summer wit 8 mill mayn shit he could push dat shit liek COrey Blount nah mean!
MAYN HOL UP!
Not sure how the NBA works
Can’t you fine a player for not attending camps, games, etc? Is it really worth that much to have him not even in the building?
Well, you can find/suspend a player for not attending
but if they wanted him there, he would probably be there—its the Wolves telling him not to come. He just wants his paychecks, to which he is entitled. I’m sure he’s play for them if the Wolves told him to.
by Eric in Madison on Oct 27, 2009 1:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Who signed him to this contract anyway?
And what were its original terms? I just want to know how something like this could happen.
Luckily, this one wasn't on McHale
Though the idiocy of trading Michael Olowokandi’s expiring deal for Blount is still boneheaded. Luckily he didn’t make things worse by adding players…oh wait.
by pagingstanleyroberts on Oct 27, 2009 4:54 PM CDT up reply actions
My favorite quote...
…is still the “Marcus Banks” made this deal happen one.
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Not that there wasn't a lot of prior evidence
but that deal and throwing in the extra 1st rounder for Banks was the last straw for McHale as GM as far as I was concerned. McHale just refused to accept the value of draft choices.
I haven’t thought it through but I wonder if bring in the Candy Man was the beginning of the end for the KG era??
No
The beginning of the end was the ‘04 offseason because two guys who got paid didn’t deserve it (Hassell, Hudson) and two guys who didn’t deserve to get paid went into a seasonlong funk (Cassell, Sprewell) and a rule change (enforcing hand check rules) went under the radar and made them a worse defensive team.
by pagingstanleyroberts on Oct 27, 2009 11:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I think the big problem with McHale...
..was that there were so many beginnings to the end. My personal favorite beginning to the end was the 1999 Draft.
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It's ironic isn't it
all the stalled efforts by McHale to find a long term PG, and Andre Miller was taken two picks after Wally.
What would have happened the last decade if McHale had drafted Miller and traded Brandon for a legit SG/SF? Still might not have gotten past the Lakers and San Antonio (maybe once with a little luck), but they would have had their BIG THREE.
Was this a Danny Ainge move
before he got KG and he went from being an about to be fired GM to a genius?
Yes
But I don’t think he was in danger of being fired; Rivers was. Ainge was just an average GM who made some decent moves like trade for Perkins and Rondo and draft Jefferson (and to a lesser extent Gomes since he was picked in the 50s).
by pagingstanleyroberts on Oct 27, 2009 11:40 PM CDT up reply actions
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