The Portland Trail Blazers are matching restricted free agent Matisse Thybulle’s three-year, $33 million offer sheet with the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN. Sheet was signed and received in Portland this morning.
The Portland Trail Blazers are matching restricted free agent Matisse Thybulle’s three-year, $33 million offer sheet with the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN. Sheet was signed and received in Portland this morning. pic.twitter.com/5WEqjCO18w
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2023
by jmchamakito
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Of course they are
Expected
Damn.
Well atleast we can say we tried
That was fast lol
Okay here’s Holmes and an SRP for your trouble.
Well shit, expected but yeah…
Sad I actually wanted him
Dammit.
He’s going to be an essential piece of their 30 win season next year!
Expected. We move now. Blazers did us good by not wasting time.
Who is actually worth the MLE now?
Tried to tell y’all
Fuck them seriously. Got him for basically nothing from 76ers then want to keep him to use as a asset. Fuck that give him up your teams going to tank hand him over to a winner. You ain’t getting a 1st round pick out of him.
Damn… are there any players out there worth the full MLE or should we just split it up at this point?
Was hoping they wouldn’t match but I can’t say I’m not surprised.
at least they were quick lol
Was 50/50 on this. If we landed him, cool. But not mad we missed out on a guy who could stall the offense.
Not too sad about it. I’m not convinced that Matisse is a capable playoff caliber player.
Oh well. I’m sure Nico has a major Plan B on hand. It’s not the end of the world.
Ok, not devastated since we also got Williams but time to pivot
Damn
Is a sign and trade still possible?
Gutted
Glad they did, I didn’t think betting on his small sample 3P% turnaround was a smart move.
This sucks, but at least we should get some more news about Mavs moves now instead of waiting to see if they match.
onto the next
Two questions Could we afford PJ or Oubre with our MLE? Would Charlotte be able to keep both?
I think we still need another wing, anyone else out there worth MLE?
Not sad about Thybulle specifically (he’s young but a pretty big offensive liability IMO), but I am a bit nervous about if we can still pivot and make one more free agency move to really level up. Here’s hoping.
Fk Portland
Never liked him anyway 🥲
Split it between bball paul and hami diallo
Good, I dont like one dimentional players.
We should give Powell the full MLE now. He deserves it. Right guys?… Right?
Now we pivot to PJ and see what magic Nico can do
Expected would of been a good fit tho. Time to pivot to plan b. Put curry into the MLE saving the bi annual exception for next year and use the remaining money on oubre jr on a 1 year deal.
Can we offer more?
Let’s wait for another move when Dame gets traded, I am sure we’re looking into being one of the teams interested in swapping
Ok. So whose next on the list?
We need a center
It won’t make Dame love them
At least thanks for doing it fast Portland. on to the next one
He would’ve been great defensively, but I gotta admit I think the first time he went 0/6 folks would start firing up the trade machines lol
Good for him and Portland.
He will be used a lot with all those young slashers.
Alas…
Portland did us a solid by letting us know early. Nico is already working plan b.
You guys dodged a bullet on this one
ESPN article said that Portland decided to match 1hr after Thybulle signed the offer sheet.
Unnecessary drama.
I feel like we dodged a bullet potentially. If he can’t improve his shooting he’ll be a reverse bertans contract. Overpaid one dimensional guy who’s unplayable.
They basically matched him to trade him to a contender at the end of the year