Trail Blazers Make No Picks in the 2nd Round of the Draft. Are Big Trades on the Horizon?

Trail Blazers Make No Picks in the 2nd Round of the Draft. Are Big Trades on the Horizon?

in today’s show the Blazers wheel and deal and get the heck up out of the second round now they got a mostly full roster and we’re days away from free agency what’s next welcome to lockdown Blazers let’s get into [Music] it you are locked on Trailblazers your daily Portland Trailblazers podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day what’s up world it’s your past first point guard and Trailblazers reporter Mike Richmond you are listening to another episode of Locked on Blazers part of the locked on podcast network available wherever you get podcasts and also on YouTube thanks for making the show your first listen coming at you each and every weekday Monday through Friday so make it a part of your daily routine make it your first listen tell your friends to do the same it’s lock on Blazers your team every day in today’s show day two of the NBA draft the first ever day two of the NBA draft concluded on Thursday evening and the Blazers came away with nada I mean they got some cash and some future second round picks but no new players added to the roster we’ll talk about what they did and did not do in the second round we’ll talk about the implications the roster is like full like full it is Sim similar to full in that if they were just to bring the whole group back if they guarantee everybody’s salary they are fulled up 15 players under contract if they were to go that route and like fully run it back that would be wild I don’t think they’re going to do that but with free agency just a couple days away we’ll talk about uh the implications of the moves they’ve made so far with their in terms of where they sit with the luxury tax Etc and what to look forward to ahead as the Silly Season in the NBA starts in Earnest on Sunday let’s start with the draft stuff and then we’ll get into everything else the money the implications and the look ahead um just as a a real teaser delayed in the show Joe Cronin uh just he just there’s just a player’s name he refuses to mention and I think it’s pretty telling let’s start with the draft though now let’s actually start with the draft Blazers went into the day starting with 34 and 40 early picks in the second round and um while they didn’t have a ton of roster spots available um in fact basically one if you know I guess they could have as many as as three if they were not bring back tanii Kamara Jabari Walker and Delano banson but that always seemed unlikely so really you’re drafting for um for two-way contracts and at 34 that would be the earliest two earliest drafted player highest drafted player to ever receive a two-way contract 34 always and if you listen to the podcast I had said that a bunch it’s like the 34 team is a little Rich for two ways um so like really it seemed inevitable that they were going to make some move somewhere because they just didn’t have space and then then then they just started wheeling and or d uh they traded 34 well they technically I guess they traded the draft rights of Tyler kak who who who went at 34 uh the point guard from Marquette to the New York Knicks in exchange for three future second round picks those picks according to Jake Fischer of Yahoo sports are a 2027 pick from Minnesota a the worst of the uh 2029 picks between Indie and Washington um we’ll see we’ll see what that means I I I that those second round picks are always going to be a little bit dicey but I think there’s a chance that um Washington’s still bad and ind’s not that good and that ends up being an okay 2029 pick and then a 2030 pick from New York so picks in 27 29 and 30 um they had uh sent out two future second round picks in the Denny AIA Malcolm Brogden swap sent two picks to Washington uh in that deal so they end up netting a pick back overall I don’t really think that’s how trades work but I that’s kind of how um how the draft worked they end up only down one they ended up up one more pick than than they started the draft with the Blazers also had 40 um and then they traded 40 to 52 uh with they swapped 40 for 52 with Oklahoma City Oklahoma City gave the Blazers cash for that for that deal and then uh Golden State uh bought once the Blazers landed at 52 blaz Blazers traded with golden state and and the Blazers bought uh or The Warriors bought the pick Straight Cash swap for 52 you can’t buy first round picks um well you can but no one does anymore um and second rounders um this like late in the draft usually get traded are deep 52 is only 58 picks in this draft so deep in the draft those are the ones that get traded for straight crash most of them get traded for swaps and future picks like 34 did right if you’re a little bit higher up but then there’s like a threshold where they go back so the Blazers go in with 34 and 40 they end up with cash considerations twice over and three future picks in the in future drafts the cash doesn’t do anything um it isn’t cap space money it isn’t um it’s just it is like a separate pool that you use to that you can use to send out in trades um the Blazers now have that ownership gets it um it’s it’s or at least it doesn’t filter down to like player salaries or have an impact on the salary on the salary cap or luxury tax implications or any way like it’s just it’s a separate it is a separate boat for those things so they end up with nothing um I I also want to clarify something I said yesterday I missp on the podcast from time to time in fact earlier this week in a podcast that I listened back to of my own shows I called Donovan Kling and Donovan Mitchell that is misspeaking but yesterday I didn’t misspeak I just said something incorrect uh I described the pick that the Blazers sent to the uh the extra second round or the extra first round pick excuse me that they sent to the Wizards as the worst between Milwaukee and Boston and it’s actually the second most the second worst the second least favorable between three 2029 picks Portland’s own Milwaukee and Boston so it’ll be the middle of those pick so it’s not the absolute worst um you know Milwaukee might be bad by by 2029 they’re they’re certainly an older the very old team right now um older team right now um and they have you know probably a you know two two isier window to be really good and then it might get they might be in the desert for a little while so that that pick is fairly likely to be high uh the Blazers it’s hard to know um they’re certainly a couple years away from being a playoff team but 2029 is farther enough out that like you assume that they’ll be better than they are now but it’s it’s really hard to know and Boston projects probably is still pretty good so I think both Milwaukee and Portland picks could be relatively juicy but the Blazers give um the blaz you know I guess you’re you’re hoping the Blazers pick stinks it’s deep deep in the first round uh but the Blazers will give the second uh least favorable of those two picks the middle pick between those three Portland Milwaukee and Boston I I just had that wrong yesterday and I apologize don’t record at nights um again I sometimes I misspeak don’t need to correct me when I misspeak but if I get info wrong I appreciate um uh the the the flag there and a couple you a couple of you emailed me and and flagged that one as Incorrect and a couple commented on YouTube as well so yeah um that’s that’s a quick correction so here’s where the Blazers stand now they don’t make any picks in the second round the boat is full like the this is they’ve got they have a full roster by virtue of trading for you know one in one out Denny AIA comes in and Malcolm brog goes out you uh that that that doesn’t change your number of roster spots and they draft Donovan kingan at seven that adds another F spot and now it’s basically a full boat if they if they guarantee Delano banton’s uh non-guaranteed contract they pick that bad boy up that’s basic that’s a full roster and they’re going to run it back huh that would be weird but the the obia deal um also 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with a basically a full roster we talk about a about this a bunch on the show is that the roster was essentially full but because the wheeling and dealing didn’t include any wheeling and dealing of players on the roster this the the thing is full this is a full vote um the Blazers now have 12 guaranteed contracts technically Don vingan isn’t signed um but he’s going to do his press conference on Saturday so we’ll we’ll he’ll get a little in introductory press conference in in the beautiful city of Portland in the Rose City I guess it’ll be in twon in the beautiful state of Oregon uh but he will um you know he eventually will and and uh first round picks are roster or our salary slots it’s like he has a SL salary based on being picked seventh it’s guaranteed for two years and then back-to-back team options it’s a two plus one plus one for all first round rookie rookie picks so that’s a guaranteed deal that pushes the Blazers up um up to 12 guarantees then the non- guarantees or partial guarantees are tumani Kamara and Jabari Walker um non-g guaranteed contracts tumani is in the game tumani has outside chance to start right like I don’t think he will because depending on obviously some other moves to be to be made but like I think Denny Avia AIA and and Jeremy are you’re starting forwards as of today um pretty pretty easily uh but like T’s going to play he’s good he’s he’s a really he’s a very he’s a very good Defender even as even at this early stage in his career U he’s going to play no no question about it so he’s on there G guarantee him Jabari Walker it would be it would be very I think like I’ve said this a bunch there’s a nonzero chance there’s a world in which Jabari Walker just gets waved right like he they just let him go they they don’t guarantee his contract but it’s a very very slim one right like it’s it’s it’s I don’t know under under 2% it’s like incredibly unlikely but I think there is a world where that happens um like I said a nonzero chance but that’s at best you can pretty much guarantee him too like I think he would be as it stands right now I think Jabari Walker is a night one contributor in the fall right he’s he’s he’s a rotation player immediately out of the gate in the fall So like um those two dudes are in that pushes you to 14 and then the 15th guy is d o Banton he has a partially guaranteed contract the guarantee is $200,000 and then it’s um fully non- guaranteed he could be waved in in January uh like with with no penalties you get he will get paid while he’s on the team but like just to be if you know if if he hits his guaranteed date it’s it’s 200k it’s a very small number um that would be 15 that’s a full roster uh they don’t have any two-way guys I I don’t think they’ve waved technically any of the two-way guys but you can do that any time um so it’s like they have three two-way spots but um none of those guys are eligible for two-way spots the way it works or wouldn’t be converted to two-way spots and the way it works like just doesn’t work um that’s a full roster the Blazers can’t run it back they can’t they can’t I mean they could but they can’t right they can’t this that would be it would be Bonkers so there is more to come like there are trades to come there are deals to be made um if the Blazers do nothing and run back this 15 person group I will lose my mind on this podcast and I will lose my mind for several months because we will just see this like slow moving crash this will be like a 2 mph train wreck um but like they’re going to do something I’m not worried about that I me I might lose my mind anyways because I’m kind of a because I do this a lot and I um and I can tend in that direction but like yeah like I I I I think the trades are a Comon I’m going to talk about that in the third segment one thing I didn’t mention though and and this is related to the full roster one thing I didn’t mention in the Denny abdia and Mal Brogden swap is that it saved the Blazers some money because I think on its face rooting for your favorite basketball team to save a little money sucks it sucks like I know there is this like um sort of obsession with asset efficiency that has kind of come to rise over the last say 10 to 15 years in basketball fandom and that uh most people or many people I’m not to say most by any means but many people sort of fancy themselves more GM than point guard right um they it’s like people want to do the transaction game and get into the math and all that stuff and so like the there’s a sort of Ruthless efficiency of how of how smartly you can run your basketball team uh gets people jazzed up but I never root for a team to spend less money that stinks that said it would be it it’s untenable for a team as bad as the Blazers to be a tax team they were going to get out of the tax and by trading Malcolm Brogden uh to to the Wizards and bringing back Denny a on a very very friendly contract um the Blazers are below the luxury tax line according to Keith Smith Smith of spot.com friend friend of the uh show the Blazers are now $4.2 million below the luxury tax line and that’s including the Donovan kingan money in there as well um yeah you get a little wiggle room on its face who cares this is the only reason saving money would matter now the Blazers are able to take back you know up if it’s 4.2 up to $4.1 million in in money if they make future trades and I think that really matters if they were going to be really expensive if they were going to run it back and be really expensive they were going to kill some of their flexibility they were going to push up you know if they if they made both of their draft picks they would have been a first apron team which would have really uh prevented some some of the moves that they could have made or they would have had to not sign guys kind of deep into July to and then made some trades without signing their rookies kind of holding out say hell hold on we got to make some moves before we make make this deal official and make sure the order of operations kind of click together so you could um not technically be a first apron team even though those players have cap holds but it would be it would be more complicated um so like they they get to the spot where they’re under the luxury tax line and I think that I think it is worth celebrating if and that’s if they make trades to utilize that little bit of wiggle room if they make trades to improve the roster or if not improve the roster improve their asset base like improve the future of the team by taking on a little bit of money and future trades and the ability and the flexibility to do that and the wiggle room to do that is important the reason that you celebrate them getting under the tax line is not because you feel very thankful for the All State and I don’t think people do I just think there’s like again this like celebration of financial efficiency but like it will be it will be worth celebrating if the next series of moves include them being Frugal or not being Frugal rather and being being shrewd with taking on a little bit of money okay we could take back you know we’re we’re we’re like the Blazers are now can go into negotiations say hey we’re we’re a team that’s below the luxury tax line and we can take back this you know a little bit of money and particularly teams that are trying to shed and get and and they’re trying to shed money in in the coming weeks to make either free agent signings or just to kind of make sure that the roster is cheap in the right way the Blazers can now be a team that can facilitate that and when you can facilitate that you can ask for extra things and you can ask for extra second round picks and extra second round picks can help you do things like sweeten the pot to to trade for young wings like Denny Avia and in the future second round picks are going to be incredibly valuable because as more teams get up in the second apron these second round pick exceptions are going to be one of the few sort of ways that really expensive teams can add players to the roster see the New York Knicks it’s more valuable for them to to do it in that way and I think you’ll I think you’ll see we’ll see moving forward is like um and you saw Minnesota do that too it’s like they traded for Rob Dillingham and it’s like the only way they could have added a player making as much money as Dillingham is to do it via trading for draft rights they kind of that’s the loophole and so having draft picks and having those like having sort of those um in the future will be it’s not going to be like wildly valuable but it has some value and the Blazers kind of loading up on on future seconds and maybe uh at getting a few future seconds to take on you know2 million extra dollars of money to save someone a big luxury tax bill that matters and I think getting under the luxury tax line could be valuable in that way but they’re not going to run it back are they 15 players from you know and and and largely the exact same returning roster flip Brogden for Denny Avia which I really like that um in just terms of like practicality of the roster and things making sense and adding Donovan kingan in place of Moses Brown I really like that too but that can’t be all that they do and in fact I don’t think it will be and I think the way Joe Cronin spoke to the media after draft night one he didn’t do media after draft night two um there was only one play in media and he kind of um he he spoke about what he was going to speak about and he he said I don’t think I’m doing this tomorrow so ask your questions but the way he discussed the roster didn’t make me think that things were done by any means and then he did this thing that he’s done a couple times this off season he just won’t mention Anthony Simons he’s just not mentioning him uh whe whether that’s intentional unintentional or an obvious tell which I believe it is he keeps not mentioning him he won’t mention ant what the heck is 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die alive at ebaymotors.com eligible items only exclusions apply eBay guaranteed fit only available to us customers all right I’m still a pass first point guard you are still listen to lock on Blazers and I usually inose myself too and say that I’m Mike Richmond let’s keep it rolling um Joe Cronin won’t mention athrey Simon’s name whether it is a a choice that he is making intentionally whether it is a just a slip up that he keeps you know he’s doing too many things in his head in in in the press conferences and he just he keeps slipping his mind or it’s an obvious tell we have now sat through two postseason press conferences with with Joe Cronin and he has very very much not mentioned Anthony Simons he did it once in the uh immediately like postseason X interview type um uh press conference where he just he mentioned like there were some good things that happened this season and he didn’t mention anrey Simons and then he kind of had some other some other comments and finally he like he was asked very directly about an and he’s yeah he’s a good young he’s he’s a really good young player we’re really happy to have him all those all those things but he didn’t mention him on his own he didn’t bring him up on his own he didn’t mention him on his own he was a very much just like if if Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian hadn’t asked him specifically about Anthony zond he wouldn’t have mention him at all and at the time it’s like hm that’s a little weird but whatever but it was like notable to me that I like that’s a little weird but but you know I sure um at the same press conference Anthony Simon said like I want to win I want to play for a win I’m heading into year seven and I want to win um as if he has like no impact on the results of the game but that’s like for conversation for another day um but like obviously the team is not very competitive and and that that ant can only do so much uh but um then on on Wednesday after the night one of the draft Joe Cronin is is um he he didn’t you know he was he was asked once kind of about hey can kingan and can kingan and DeAndre play together and he kind of skirted it and then it’s like asked me again he said yeah they can play together and then finally finally he’s he’s but he hadn’t really he hadn’t he it wasn’t like he he mentioned you know and why I mentioned that is because he didn’t say okay well we have all these parts and we think that they you know they could be complimented by Anthony Simons he didn’t he they just didn’t come up but when those answers he didn’t come up it’s like no sure he wasn’t asked a direct question about it or or something more broad that would like kind of bring anrey Simons into the mix and then Bill orm of The Oregonian asked uh and well I I’ll offer this to to my young journalists out there he asked a simple open-ended question what’s next where do you go from here and what’s next um bill bill or actually has said this to me before and and I think this is he’s Bill’s the columnist for The Oregonian uh friend of the program and he he said to me he said to me before when we were discussing media and general he said bad questions get good answers all the time so you don’t have to ask a great question to get to get a good answer but the best questions are open-ended and short and when Bill orm asks a short open-ended question he gets a response from um from Joe cron and says okay well we’ve got 34 and 40 tomorrow so we’re going to navigate through the second uh the the second round and we’re going to do the best we can to build around I’m paraphrasing here and and we’re going to do the best we can to maximize and build around scoot Henderson Shane sharp that’s not MRE Simons You could argue MRE Simons is the best player on the team he’s 25 years old he’s certainly the most dynamic offensive player in terms of like demanding attention and obviously he’s a bad bad defensive player but like I think there’s a pretty pretty reasonable case that he’s just the best player on the team like and he didn’t mention him and when he you know it’s it it is it is telling that now at twice when the opportunity kind of Just Praise a really good young 25-year-old guard uh Cronin it’s not like he’s tra him by any means he’s just omitted him and the omitting him seems to me to just be too obvious at this point to ignore I don’t always bring this stuff up like I I’m not always highlighting this stuff but I think this one was too obvious to ignore we’re going to maximize scoot Henderson and Shaden sharp Joe was also asked directly about kind of are you going to trade the other vets and he said you know I’m just I’ll be opportunistic I’m not I can’t say either way but I’m mean I’m always going to be you know I I’ll I’m always going to take advantage of an opportunity or or keep my opportunities you know keep my options open right um I think that was kind of a a say nothing quote like I don’t think that was meaningful in any way he just kind of said like obviously you you have to try to trade players but he wasn’t I don’t think that was a very strong quote in either direction but I think the omission of amre Simons in that one sort of innocuous answer what he wasn’t asked something specific and he just kind of he just kind of gave the approach of of what’s going to happen in the me Immediate term with the second round and then in the future and not mentioning amre Simons as the player you’re going to maximize round gives a sense with the way that Cronin talked at the end of um at the end of the season and the way he talked here now it’s just like the way talked you know the draft night now it’s like yeah I think they’re going to trade amrey Simons this summer I think it’s obvious what they get for him and how they do it we’ll see but I think it’s just it’s incredibly clear that this full roster and all of that stuff just means that they’re going to move into the next stage by being involved in the trade process and I mentioned in the second segment sort of the luxury tax situation and all those things and um on Sunday free agency begins teams can start it’s the moratorium period you can negotiate with free agents that are on other teams beginning Sunday at um Sunday afternoon here in Portland it’s the Blazers aren’t going to be a player in free agency they don’t have a path to creating cap room they’re not a good team so you don’t really sign free agents with with when you’re not a very good team um you know they’re just they’re just not going to be a player in free agency the way that they’re going to improve and change the rosters on the trade market while other teams might be wheeling and dealing because they’re in free agency and and the moratorium usually Sparks um the beginning of of some serious movement this weekend should be a lot of fun and next week should be pretty darn fun as well as we kind of um get into like the real transactional season of The Summer it’s it’s a it’s a fun time year as teams as teams make their moves like draft right into fre agency it’s a great it’s a fun week then you get summer league and then kind of like things die down for a little bit but uh we got the got the Whirl win for that first week of July is reported by Matt Moore of Action Network and the host of lock on one of the co-hosts of locked on nuggets that the Blazers are also would be willing to trade Jeremy Grant but the asking price remains High here’s what I think and I’ve been saying it a bunch they had to trade Malcolm BR they did it they did a pretty darn good job Denny Avia is a really nice prize from that although I think um maybe the pick the pick part of the deal was a little bit steep but um maybe on the back half we will never remember it because Denny will be really good and I do think IT addresses like the exact thing they needed and you can’t be too critical when you address an exact thing you need with a young player under team control it’s pretty good pretty pretty good deal um so Malcolm brog was the first one but the guys we talked about is like they have to explore trades for Jeremy Grant I think they will and and I’ve been very consistent here since since um since the offseason started that my tune kind of changed I wasn’t a you have to trade amre Simons but I’ve I’ve moved to the point where they would I think it would they should trade anre Simons have to I don’t I’m not that far I don’t think it’s like it’s not a problem if he’s back but they should trade anrey Simons they should explore it because they can he has I don’t know how much value because I don’t know how much value that his archetype of player has out out in the open market like a like a not quite point guard who doesn’t defend is like not exactly in high demand um big players who play both ways are in high demand always um but and time is a good and a useful offensive player in the right team he’s very good like he’s in the right situation he’s very very useful if you can identify the right situations I think you can get you can maximize his trade value and I think the players are going to trade him I think they’re te Le suggest that that a trade is coming this summer and that they will explore deals for Jeremy grants and while the roster is full now the boat is full now and it seems like they’re going to run it back there is just enough evidence that suggests that they don’t want to do that and to for me that’s a great thing it’s a great thing because you only you know you only get so many cycles to try to do this and improve your improve your roster and do these things and when teams typically they get into training camp and get into the early part of the season they kind of want to see their roster play out like now is the time that you can actually maximize a deal and otherwise you kind of have to wait until you get back into sort of that January February getting into the free agent site or the uh trade deadline cycle again this is the week to get it done and I would say that there’s some evidence based on the Omission from the lead decision maker on the team that it could happen it’s not a guarantee and perhaps this is um you know like I’m reading the te leaves here I’m not reporting anything I am merely saying this has happened enough times that we’ve that we you know a couple different times in public settings that it is telling what is not being said I am a big proponent and if you’re a long time listener to the show I’ve been saying this for many years when the lead decision makers talk it’s important to listen to what they say both for what they say whether you believe it’s like objectively a lie whether you think it’s a telling Little Nugget or what they choose to Omit in this case what they choose to omit we’re going to build around Anthony Simons wasn’t we’re going to maximize Shaden sharp and Scoot Anderson is a telling Omission so while the boat is full the Blazers have a little bit of wiggle room four and a $4.2 million under the luxury tax line to continue to upgrade the roster and take on more salary than they send out which could be valuable they have a mostly full roster and the change that they’re going to be able to make the significant change over the next week is going to come through the trade market because they do not have a path to having meaningful cap space so they’re talking about you’re talking mid-level exception money which uh is not a competitive offer for a team in their situation because um you’d have to give the full midlevel and that puts them in another sort of cap situation that they probably don’t want to be in and and they’re just not going to be they’re not a good enough team where a free agent is going to say I would love to play for the Portland Trailblazers all things being equal I want to go play for a better team and the Blazers probably aren’t looking to upgrade via veterans in the trade market or in in the free agent Market they’re looking to shift things around continue to collect assets and young players on on team control deals like Denny AIA like that can um long-term team control that can improve the team in the sort of near term and grow with the team as they get better because they’re still in the get better mode they’re not good enough to try to go for it so it’s time to probably trade some veterans and continue to try to move some stuff around to continue to see what you can be and I’d bet if I had to that over the next three weeks ay Simons find a new home based on what we’ve heard that could be interesting we’ll see what happens um next time you hear my voice we will be through I’m probably going to record to be honest here’s how the first day of free agency Works some stuff happens right away then kind of things trickle in and then the end of the night is typically about like midnight on the East Coast maybe 1:00 a.m. on the East Coast so that’s like 9 or 10 o’ so I’m going to record pretty late on Sunday night so usually I record the Sunday show kind of in the middle of the afternoon or sometimes even even in the morning and it’ll be in your feeds like Sunday in the middle of the day no it’s not going to be there in the middle of the day because I’m going to wait for the first sort of wave of free agent stuff to happen and the next time you hear my voice we will talk of day one of free agency in the NBA it’s fun week ahead um this is what we do five days a week wherever you get podcasts and also on YouTube the only daily tribulations podcast we keep rolling through all of July so come back tell your friends if you’re a new listener I’m so thankful to have you um we’re just getting started for a fun off season so keep Rocka with me free on all platforms it’s also on YouTube tell your friends I appreciate you listening I’ll talk to you soon [Music]

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