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WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Nets waiting to examine forward Travis Outlaw, who suffered a hand injury that could include a fracture, league sources tell Y!

 

[Mediocre Man]

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Nets waiting to examine forward Travis Outlaw, who suffered a hand injury that could include a fracture, league sources tell Y!

With that news, we can almost be assured he will be back in a Blazers uniform soon

 

[MickZagger]

With that news, we can almost be assured he will be back in a Blazers uniform soon

Don't quit your day job.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Don't quit your day job.

But I really don't like it.

 

[Masbee]

Poor drafting caused a lot of the Nash issues. Portland got themselves into position to score big, but they drafted the wrong people. That's not the systems fault. No one thought Telfair or Webster should have been drafted so high. Nash was in charge of two drafts, and had he drafted who Pritchard wanted, or even who the entire basketball world thought we should take things would have been different.

Instead of Telfair - Al Jefferson
Instead of Webster/Jack - Chris Paul

However, didn't Nash give those stupid contract extensions to Ratliff, SAR, Zach, Darius?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Instead of Telfair - Al Jefferson
Instead of Webster/Jack - Chris Paul

However, didn't Nash give those stupid contract extensions to Ratliff, SAR, Zach, Darius?

I think all of them. That's why I said it wasn't the system as much as it was the man

 

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Al_Iannazzone Al Iannazzone
Billy King released a statement that Travis Outlaw broke his right hand and more would be known when he visits with doctors later this week.

#stoopid

 

[Weav]

Was he noodling?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Apparently it's an injury from boxing.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Was he noodling?

I noodled this past summer in Mississippi. It's a trip

 

[Nikolokolus]

Denver is doing it right. There are some major studs towards the top of the draft. They have a real chance of landing a potential superstar if they suck bad enough.

1 step backwards to take 2 steps forwards is a much better plan than the other way around

That's definitely the formula if you have a small market team. Let's get real, the Celtics, Bulls and Lakers have around half of the available titles in the sport. The Blazers are almost never going to be a destination for free agents (at least the ones that matter) and Paul's inherent financial "blunt force" method to roster building isn't going to be as viable moving forward, so the best you can do is build in as many opportunities as you can to draft a couple of top ten players and then hope that you have the personnel people to make the right decisions to surround those core players.

This is why I was fully on board with KP's approach the first couple of years he was here, because I thought he was trying to acquire some real top ten talent in the draft and then use other assets to compliment those players. The injuries derailed half of the plan (which wasn't completely his fault ... depending on how much he knew about Oden and Roy's pre-existing medical stuff) and the other half of the plan went off the rails because he got all sentimental and gun-shy when it came to parting with any of "his guys."

Denver almost certainly is going to suck for a little bit, but if you want to win it all as a small market team you can't screw around in the late lottery or just outside of it year after year -- neither good enough to make a deep playoff run, nor terrible enough to draft a difference maker. And ultimately you need somebody at the controls who knows what he's doing and has the power to make decisions and live with the results. This is why the Blazers kind of bum me out. I feel like this team is sliding into that muddy middle the past couple of years and instead of solidifying a real plan to reverse it, they've instead resorted to the "hang-on-by-your-fingernails" approach instead of conceding the nearly inevitable trajectory your franchise takes when 2 out of your 3 top 7 picks don't pan out -- it's nearly impossible to maneuver your way out of this without roster and cap flexibility plus getting back into the top of the lottery.

 

[MickZagger]

Vince Carter was released today from the Suns.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Vince Carter was released today from the Suns.

Smart move.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

brainless move, as in, even someone without a brain would do it

 

[oldmangrouch]

Vince Carter was released today from the Suns.

Put Roy's brain in his body, and you have an entire ball-player.

Put Vince's brain in Roy's body - and you have Greg Oden!

 

[KingSpeed]

I'd be all for picking up Vince Carter as a Vinny Johnson type scorer off the bench.

 

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WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Clippers offer 5 years, $40M to keep RFA DeAndre Jordan, sources tell Y! Still, he's destined to sign offer sheet and force them to match.

 

[Mediocre Man]

WojYahooNBA Adrian Wojnarowski
Clippers offer 5 years, $40M to keep RFA DeAndre Jordan, sources tell Y! Still, he's destined to sign offer sheet and force them to match.

He was already on the Clippers? Why would they have to match their own offer?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

He was already on the Clippers? Why would they have to match their own offer?

from another team duh

 

[Mediocre Man]

from another team duh

But it said the Clippers offered it.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

it was worded improperly, but the context is clear, to me at least

 

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RicBucher Ric Bucher
Clippers are not on DHoward's radar and neither is he on theirs, sources say. Story should be up on the interwebs shortly.

 

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TheRocketGuy Bill Ingram
Since Tyson Chandler is heading to NJ, Butler will be a Clipper and JJ Barea is likely gone, too . . .is Dallas even a top 4 team in the W?

 

[THE HCP]

Wow^ All 3 of those guys are leaving the Mavs!?

 

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RicBucher Ric Bucher
By the way: as uneasy as I am about CP3's knee, I can already hear the crazed howl CP3, Monta + Tyson Chandler would raise in Oracle.

 

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incarceratedbob Incarcerated Bob
**UPDATED NBA NEWS**Source: NO Hornets are real close 2dealing CP3 (The Buzz is before Sunday night) Clippers & Rockets in lead (GS Lurking)

 

[RoyToy]

Bucher's tweet is interesting

After dealing with Roy and his knees, and Paul suffering from the same thing, I don't think the Blazers would want to take the risk on him.

 

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incarceratedbob Incarcerated Bob
@
@afried11 I am hearing Clippers & GS may want the extension (Not deal breakers yet) but the Rockets could care less they will trade w/o ext

 

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incarceratedbob Incarcerated Bob
@
@mtomiuk6 Celtics are kinda in it but Paul has made it clear he is not signing ext with Boston at anytime.. So they continue 2be on outside

 

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hornets247 hornets247.com
On the phone now with an NBA guy I would trust with my life and he tells me: Paul WILL NOT be on the roster at the end of this weekend.