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Hedo Turkoglu has backed out of negotiations with the Blazers, which could pave the way for David Lee to Portland.

"We had been talking, but we'll talk now," Lee's agent Mark Bartlestein told The Post last night.
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The Blazers have long lusted after Lee, who also seeks $10 million per season, exactly the amount the Blazers are under the cap. Bartlestein said because Lee is restricted, the Blazers were fearful of waiting 10 days to see if the Knicks would match and instead jumped at the surer thing in Turkoglu.
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According to a person familiar with the situation, two of Robinson's five most serious inquiries have come from the NBA Finalists -- the Lakers and Magic. If Turkoglu winds up in Toronto, Orlando might get serious with Robinson.

Other teams who have made inquiries are the Blazers, where Robinson is beloved by Nate McMillan and Brandon Roy
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David Lee is more mobile than Turkoglu and has good lateral quickness.

If this is the direction KP wants to go in, we have to find a way to get him playing time. You don't want to pay a guy $10m/per to come off the bench.

LaMarcus is a face up PF; David Lee is a garbage man and can slash a bit. Their games can work - together.

PG:
SG: Roy
SF: Lee
PF: Aldridge
C: Oden
 
Lee starting at 8.5 and Krypto-Nate starting at 6.5 in S&Ts would give them 6yr/49M for Nate and 6/63M for Lee. We trade them Travis and Blake so that they get useful players this year and more space next summer.

Then we figure out if we can send Joel for Battier, and Voila!

Nate/Bayless/Mills
Roy/Rudy
Battier/Batum/Webs/Cunningham
LMA/Lee/Pendergraph
Oden/Lee
 
I don't see Lee playing a lot of 3, but he and LMA can be on the floor together as 4/5 when Oden sits.
 
I would love to get both Lee and Robinson. Our big rotation would be stellar and rebounding will be at the top of the NBA, especially if Oden can start playing 33+ minutes and Lee can play some SF when not backing LMA
Question, how much SF does lee play?
 
Btw, this quote is very interesting:

Bartlestein said because Lee is restricted, the Blazers were fearful of waiting 10 days to see if the Knicks would match and instead jumped at the surer thing in Turkoglu.
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Was David Lee plan A?
 
GOD said:
Question, how much SF does lee play?
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Zero. None. Nada.

He's much less mobile (both laterally and north to south) than Aldridge, and has a much more inferior outside game. Lee or LA at SF DOES NOT WORK!
 
I can't see ourselves paying $10 million a year for a back-up power forward no matter how talented David Lee might be. Those minutes belong to Aldridge and any ideas of either of them trying to play SF are delusional. It wouldn't work. We need a legitimate starting point guard or small forward for the money we are trying to toss around.

God damn you Hedo Turkoglu.
 
I'm quite happy to acquire Lee and Nate R.

But I'd keep Blake and trade them Outlaw, Bayless and Pick.


Blake/Nate/Mills (perhaps Mills is our future - time will tell) I'm not a Bayless fan. Sorry to those who are! But I like Mills as a prospect.
Roy/Rudy
Batum/Webster/ (potential weak spot - serious weak spot - if Webster can't play) In this instance, Grant Hill might be valuable.
LMA/Lee/Claver
Oden/Pryz/Pendergraph
 
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I can't see us going after Lee. It'd be a panic move to prove that we can use our cap space on something. I'd actually rather wait for next year's trade deadline where we'd have more cap space, and other players become more available than make a dumb signing. Of course, KP would have to finally relent and actually give up something in value to get something back, which hasn't been his MO yet.
 
As I've said repeatedly, the David Lee interest on the part of the Blazers seems very weird. It seems like it's been consistently reported... a very extended stream of BS if there's nothing to it, that's for sure.

This makes it sound like Lee's agent is just talking it up to drum up SOME interest, doesn't it? With Memphis trading for Zach, there aren't a lot of bidders I can't imagine.

Ed O.
 
There's no PT for him on this team! Everyone say it with me now.......... POINT GUARD POINT GUARD POINT GUARD
 
ODENISGOD said:
Yeah I love paying a backup 9 million a year
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You're paying Miles 9M next year to be someone else's backup/rehab project (and I'm not sure if i mean drug-related or injury-related).

You paid Raef 13M this year

You paid Stevie Franchise 20M this year.

I'm all about paying players that will play for us at a high level, myself. You're not? Do the backup minutes count differently than the regular minutes? How about rollover minutes? THEY DON"T EXPIRE!
 
I love the people in this thread who are clamoring for Nate Robinson and fail to realize that Bayless is twice the prospect and has the potential to do everything Nate does, but better and at a fraction of the cost.
 
Makes no sense unless their plan is for him to back up Aldridge.
 
All the David Lee stuff that has come around this whole year all came from the NYPost. Sorry, I'm not buying this AT ALL.
 
If the Blazes sign Lee or even Milsap, it is out of desperation. Both are very good players, but both play a possition that we have a very good player at. It is not a need at all and neither can play SF.
 
I was going to post last night that the Knicks might be an ideal trading partner.

David Lee can bang and he's downright good.

I'd be looking to deal Joel if the Blazers got Lee. Lee can back up both PF and C positions quite nicely. Joel can bring you a nice PG for certain.
 
Lee is not the defensive player that Joel is, and is undersized at the C position. It worked last year because he was with the Knicks, it won't work on our team.
 
B-Roy said:
Lee is not the defensive player that Joel is, and is undersized at the C position. It worked last year because he was with the Knicks, it won't work on our team.
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Are you baskeball challenged? Didn't you watch Channing Frye stink it up last year, basically being another outside shooter? If maybe you actually thought about your statement "He is not as good as Joel". Dude, very few people are as good as Joel defensivly. What we would be paying for is to upgrade, and stopping have to play dudes out of position.


Are you going to tell me that Lee would not be an upgrade over Frye? Or Outlaw getting thrown around like a stick man in a blender while trying to play PF int the paint?
 
hasoos said:
Are you baskeball challenged? Didn't you watch Channing Frye stink it up last year, basically being another outside shooter? If maybe you actually thought about your statement "He is not as good as Joel". Dude, very few people are as good as Joel defensivly. What we would be paying for is to upgrade, and stopping have to play dudes out of position.


Are you going to tell me that Lee would not be an upgrade over Frye? Or Outlaw getting thrown around like a stick man in a blender while trying to play PF int the paint?
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Not at the contract Lee wants.

On a side note, I haven't see Lee a ton, but what I've seen, I really like. Can he be on the floor at the same time as LA and Oden/Pryz?
 
hasoos said:
Are you baskeball challenged? Didn't you watch Channing Frye stink it up last year, basically being another outside shooter? If maybe you actually thought about your statement "He is not as good as Joel". Dude, very few people are as good as Joel defensivly. What we would be paying for is to upgrade, and stopping have to play dudes out of position.


Are you going to tell me that Lee would not be an upgrade over Frye? Or Outlaw getting thrown around like a stick man in a blender while trying to play PF int the paint?
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Are you telling me we are going to pay 10 million a year for someone who is going to play 12-15 minutes per game? LISTEN TO YOUR SELF.

You claim we need to stop having dudes play out of position, well guess what??!! Lee isn't a center, so if you want to try to find minutes for him, you're going to have to play him out of position. Great job.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Not at the contract Lee wants.

On a side note, I haven't see Lee a ton, but what I've seen, I really like. Can he be on the floor at the same time as LA and Oden/Pryz?
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Yes definitly. He is a hustle guy. He is all about garbage buckets.
 
If the Blazers are moving Joel in a package for somebody else then it starts to make a lot of sense, otherwise I just don't see the sense in signing Lee for that kind of scratch to only play 12-15 minutes a night at backup power forward. At this point I'm not sure I would just blindly assume KP has a master plan :dunno:
 
Lee is a very productive player who doesn't need plays ran for him to be effective. He is a valuable asset and I'd be glad to add him to our team. He is a good teammate and won't complain about his role.

Could there be some PT issues if we add him? Sure it's possible. But if we have any injuries to a big man, which is a very plausible scenario for an extended amount of time, we can still chug along without missing a beat. If everyone is healthy, well then it's some friendly competition to see who is the most productive.

If there is a better option for cap space then sure Pritchard should consider it. But Lee may be the best asset available, adding him beats doing nothing.
 
In the wake of losing Hedo Turkoglu, the Portland Trail Blazers have become engaged in serious discussions about making an offer to New York Knicks restricted free agent David Lee, ESPN.com learned Saturday.

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Portland could offer all of its available cap space to Lee in the form of an offer sheet that would amount to roughly $50 million over five years. And as a disincentive to keep the Knicks from matching, they could structure the deal so that the highest salary of any of the five years would come in 2010-11 -- the season for which the Knicks will need as much salary cap space as possible to make a run at LeBron James and/or another of the marquee superstars that will be available.
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This is what they're saying, although I wouldn't be thrilled giving all that cap away for a back up when there are two starter positions that need to be filled. Unless somehow Portland can swing a trade for both a SF and a PG, but that would cost Portland more than just a couple of pieces since we'll have to throw the lopsided contract advantage out the window with a Lee signing. Seriously, I can be happy with a more role player type back up PF through a trade.

Maybe there's a point guard effort going on in trade, but I suspect that if they're going after Lee it's because they won't make any more attempts for a SF.
 
This is all agent crap. I haven't heard ANYONE report that the Blazers are heavily pursuing him.
This is bull, we might have a bit of an interest, but we aren't seriously going after him.
 
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