Portland signing Enes Kanter to Offer Sheet, OKC Likely to Match

[LooseCannon]

Adrian Wojnarowski ?@WojYahooNBA 12m12 minutes ago

OKC's Enes Kanter is in Portland, preparing to sign an offer sheet with Blazers, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

Zach Lowe ?@ZachLowe_NBA 8m8 minutes ago

OKC will likely match, + then look to deal Novak/Augustin/PJII for $0. But POR is forcing their hand. Lots of teams were rooting for this.

Sounds like a max deal.  I don't think the Celtics should be very interested in what the Thunder are offering, although I know some people on the forum have been pressing to acquire Jones for a few years.  Maybe GSW would be interested in a deal that sends PJ3 to the Warriors and Pressey/Babb to OKC as part of the Lee/Wallace trade.

[Cman]

I don't get the fascination with PJIII, personally.

But yes, i agree that if it makes sense to hone in on the deal using Pressey/Babb, then all for it!

[LooseCannon]

I don't get the fascination with PJIII, personally.

He's 6'11:.  Some people around here are desperate for height.

[Moranis]

I don't get the fascination with PJIII, personally.

But yes, i agree that if it makes sense to hone in on the deal using Pressey/Babb, then all for it!

Jones started off the year pretty good and then got hurt.

I'm not overly fascinated with him, but I did want him and Sullinger in that draft, but sadly we took Fab Melo.

[PAOBoston]

Sounds like he just got a max deal. 4 years, 70 mil. Anyone else find it odd that OKC ie willing to match that and not something similar for Harden a few years ago?

[celticsclay]

we could definitely use augustine

[Quetzalcoatl]

Sounds like he just got a max deal. 4 years, 70 mil. Anyone else find it odd that OKC ie willing to match that and not something similar for Harden a few years ago?

The cap is jumping so high even OKC is spending

[PAOBoston]

Sounds like he just got a max deal. 4 years, 70 mil. Anyone else find it odd that OKC ie willing to match that and not something similar for Harden a few years ago?

The cap is jumping so high even OKC is spending

Even with the cap going up, I don't see how Kanter is even remotely close to being worth that. It's a massive overpayment imo.

[rondohondo]

Sounds like he just got a max deal. 4 years, 70 mil. Anyone else find it odd that OKC ie willing to match that and not something similar for Harden a few years ago?

The cap is jumping so high even OKC is spending

Plus they don't want Durant to bolt , so they are putting the strongest team they can around him

[The One]

I would take a flyer on Jones III.

Give them a second rounder.

[NYDan]

That's a lot of scratch for Kanter considering the Jazz were a better team after shipping him out. Props to Portland for making the power move and forcing OKC to pony up, will be interesting to see what the fallout from the deal is and if Boston gets involved.

[Who]

Kanter was always a guy you were going to have to pay heavily for potential.

One of those risky contracts. Could work out great. Could be terrible. Or anything in between.

[jpotter33]

Kanter was always a guy you were going to have to pay heavily for potential.

One of those risky contracts. Could work out great. Could be terrible. Or anything in between.

You're really going out on a limb there, Who!  Haha jk jk

[sahara]

Enes Kanter gets a max?

[get_banners]

Sounds like he just got a max deal. 4 years, 70 mil. Anyone else find it odd that OKC ie willing to match that and not something similar for Harden a few years ago?

Whatever one thinks about the Perkins/Green trade that ended our starting 5's run, it completely killed OKC's title aspirations b/c the absurd contract they gave Perk made the Harden trade happen.