Renting it out means selling it (taking on bad contracts ex. from portland) for draft picks this year or in the future like how Philly did to us. Only teams with owners who are willing to eat 70+ Million dollar deals can do this tho. I wonder if Vivek would be game for something like that.
So yeah I meant basically what your saying, under no circumstances should we spend on any veteran free agents unless its very short term and even then I would be against it. Next year is full steam tank ahead!
The issue is not just the money. It's also the length of the contract, and the value teams like Portland are willing to give up for taking these off their hand.
Money has to be spent to hit the floor. If we can get something for it, obviously, it's great. However, you don't want your space or a roster spot locked up in a dead contract, when you might be targeting someone else. If we take back expensive, long term contracts, we'll look for appropriate returns. As Captain pointed out in a previous post in another thread, getting that kind of value can be extremely tough.
In some ways, Portland is an ideal trading partner. They have several bad contracts, several picks this year, and their future picks are likely to be in the teens, unlike some other teams (like Rockets/Spurs), who might want to shed some salary to target some FAs, as is being reported.
All their bad contracts are long term though. It remains to be seen how much they are willing to give up in terms of assets to shed salary.