Ex-Portland Trail Blazer signing two – Allen Crabbe
Allen Crabbe was drafted by the Blazers in 2013/14 and played in town four years before being traded to the Brooklyn Nets. He averaged career highs with the Nets before injury and inefficiency led to him being traded to the Atlanta Hawks and then the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Crabbe shot a career-low 30.3 percent in the 2019/20 season, meaning that his value is at a low currently.
Crabbe has good positional size though at six-foot-five, with a bulky frame at 215 pounds. He isn’t a great defender but he can defend a little in the post because of his size, and won’t get completely embarrassed on the perimeter.
Crabbe is purely a spot-up shooter these days. He never gets to the rim or the line, but his career mark of 38.7 percent from three on 4.2 attempts is solid.
There are very few free agents on the market with his size who have shot 38 percent from three in their careers.
Crabbe is just 28, and if teams feel like his shooting hasn’t regressed terribly, I would commit the veterans minimum to him for one year and let him pot away from the corners. It doesn’t look like his market is very strong so a one-year deal at the min would suit.