PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Trail Blazers have waived forward Ryan Gomes. Gomes, along with Luke Babbitt (16th overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft), was acquired in a draft day trade with the Minnesota Timberwolves for guard/forward Martell Webster.
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Geez....for a second I thought it said they waived Babbitt....
Well, no surprise. Not only is that contract not as valuable as we had thought, but remember that the Blazers don’t have Pritchard working for them either.
I don't know if I buy this as validation that Gomes's contract was not valuable
I mean, Pritchard got fired after the draft, i.e. fired after acquiring this asset. Isn’t there an imminent deadline that would lower the value of Gomes’s contract? If that’s the case, then the Blazers weren’t in the best position to maximize the value of Gomes’s contract, since their front office is in flux right now.
perhaps, but...
Portland’s phones were still working. If it was as valuable as some thought, teams still would have been making offers.
by TWolvesFanInLA on Jun 29, 2010 8:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Those who though Gomes' contract was an "asset"...
..really didn’t understand what made it so.
His contract ONLY had trading value IF the team that owned his rights was willing to take in return a contract with at least one year remaining on it. Otherwise, it was worthless.
Perhaps Portland thought it could find a taker. But even if it had, it would have had to eat, for the duration of the contract it received in return, a (roughly) $4 million annual cap hit. As it is, it has to swallow a $2.75 million cap charge spread over three years.
Kahn maximized the value of the contract. A great trade.
Too bad we can't re-do
the threads on Thursday night where Kahn was absolutely destroyed for the trade. Now that the “real” value of Gomes and that contract is known, would people think the Wolves had a decent draft? At the least, I think the venom would have been watered down.
He still included the 16th pick
There’s no getting around that, as well as the fact that he just made up his reasons for the trade immediately following its completion. He massively overpaid for someone he thinks can play the two and provide unknown production above and beyond what, Brewer?
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