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Yes! I love getting Camby!! Good deal! No more having to have Blake out there, and Travis was injured anyway and I don't see much PT for him. Great move.

But thanks to Blake for being a pro, and Travis for his clutch shots and just being an overall good guy for the team. However, I'm happy KP has the balls to let some of his guys go.
 
I don't think TO gets anything more than an MLE offer next year, which means he could come back to us. And Blake? We could re-sign him with the bi-annual exception if we felt like it.
 
Roy, Aldridge, and Oden look on as Bucher hammers out his breaking news...

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MIXUM said:
i also feel like for some reason we are going after iggy. webster and a draft pick maybe? cash?
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Webster is neither good nor expiring. I can't see Philly being interested in him. And, of course, his salary doesn't match Iguodala's.

After trading Outlaw and Blake, it's very hard to match up outgoing salaries with a big incoming salary.
 
yes also I forgot.. I have been hard on them at times.. But both players have been nothing but professionals since they have been here. I totally agree with Maxiep that I bet at least one signs in the off-season here.
 
I will miss both Blake and Trav, but on paper I think this trade makes sense. A consolidation was in order, and this particular deal fills an immediate need as well. I like it. It's good. Hopefully Camby stays healthy. Which has proven to be a big "IF"
 
oldmangrouch said:
A part of me is sorry to see Travis go, but my gut reaction is that this is a good deal.

In the short term, it gives the team some hope for a play-off berth. After all those years out in the wasteland, that is nothing to sneer at. It would also seem to imply that Roy really is due back soon.

In the long term? I see this not so much as a rental, as an audition. Camby is looking at a pay cut next summer. If he fits in well here, and can be re-signed to a reasonable deal, he gives the team a real insurance policy if everything with Oden and Joel doesn't turn out to be sunshine and butterflies. At least it buys the team a year or two to come up with a better option.

Then again, this story could all be BS.
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I think Travis will be alright. I heard LA has some nice fishing ponds.:chestbump:
 
For all of the folks who said KP couldn't pull of an in-season trade:

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somewhere in Portland, KP has a browser screen open and he's jerking off to this thread and yelling "yeah, you take it you bitches!"
 
I can't wait till you guys play a couple of games and the Camby hate begins.
 
MIXUM said:
i also feel like for some reason we are going after iggy. webster and a draft pick maybe? cash?
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If we went for Iggy we would have had to traded Outlaw and Webster and blake. Not gonna work out now.
 
WTF. This trade is off the ESPN and NBA pages. I don't want to be a downer, but remember what happened with the Hedo deal when that was all over the ESPN NBA cover page?
 
Also... If it has been written already I apologize... but lets not lose site of the fact that its one less legit Center out there for the Thunder to get. I heard they could try and get Camby... with his presence that would be kinda scary!
 
@blazersedge Hollinger's analysis on the ESPN trade machine says Blazers +4 wins and Clippers -6 wins.
 
OH SHIT... I should have known kpee would back down


Two struggling teams looked to each other for help on Monday.

The Los Angeles Clippers were in discussion to trade forward-center Marcus Camby to the Portland Trail Blazers for Travis Outlaw and Steve Blake, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher.

One source close to the situation initially said that the sides had agreed on the deal, but multiple sources later said that the deal was close but not completed. A Clippers source called the talks "substantive."

The 35-year-old Camby is second in the league in rebounding this season at 12.1 boards per game, to go along with 7.7 points. The Blazers have had a hole in the middle of their lineup since Greg Oden went down with a knee injury in December.

In a text message to ESPNLosAngeles.com, Camby said that he "hadn't heard anything about it" from either his agent or the Clippers. He has said that he would prefer to remain in Los Angeles, but he understands why his name continues to come up in trade talks.

The 6-foot-9 Outlaw is averaging 9.9 points and 3.5 rebounds per game in his seventh season with Portland. Blake, a 6-3 guard, is putting up 7.6 points and 4.0 assists per game. He's coming off a 20-point, 12-assist game in a win over the Suns before the All-Star break.

The Clippers have lost four straight and are on the outside looking in at the playoff race in the West. The Blazers are clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot in the West, but star guard Brandon Roy has been nursing injuries and the team has been up and down.
 
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