Felton to the Knicks via S&T?

[tlongII]

Neil with it!

 

[NOVoodoo]

Baker was a casualty of an alcohol addition. Kemp was a casualty of a cocaine addiction.

I suppose the lockout didn't help. It gave them more free time to drink and snort, but both had those problems prior to the lockout.

Felton is a casualty of a doughnut addiction.

BNM

Haha, yeah, Felton was a casualty of doughnut addiction, but then again so were Khalid El-Amin, Mateen Cleaves, and countless other players, including Felton's old college teammate, Sean May. Props to Felton to being a fat man, but at the same time being a semi-productive fat man.

On the Baker and Kemp subject though, they both had problems, but I honeslty beleive that if there were no lockout, those problems would have taken longer to manifest, especially with Baker. An alcohol "problem" for Baker is only a "problem" if it's impeding his play, and before the lockout, it wasn't.

Right after the lockout, Baker's weight sky-rocketed and his productivity plummeted. There's no doubt that he drank a lot before the lockout, but the lockout just gave him an extended period of time to do nothing but party with money and without responsibility.

With that said, I'm surprised the most recent lockout didn't claim more victims. I was expecting Zach Randolph, in particular, to become a victim. As Blazers fans, I don't need to tell you about Zach Randolph's background, so you can understand how I was expecting him to go the way of Vin Baker. Unfortunately, he got hurt at the start of the season, but fortunately, he looked great in the playoffs, besting Griffin when given the chance.

I'm just surprised there weren't more "lockout casualties" this time around, because that seemed to be a more realistic thing in '99. Maybe that's something that will take several years perspective to see though.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Neil with it!

I like it!

 

[crandc]

I think I like Olshitted.

 

[Denny Crane]

What a bunch of olslap madness

 

[gatorpops]

I think I like Olshey-maker

 

[Natebishop3]

I think I like Olshey-maker

I'd cut that down to just

The Shay-Maker

 

[Eastoff]

They will be taught to Neil before the mighty Olshey.

 

[Natebishop3]

Now ESPN is saying the Knicks should match..... so they can have Kidd, Felton AND Lin.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Wow. Cornering the market on questionable PG's??? Is Kahn the GM in NY, too?

 

[Natebishop3]

Wow. Cornering the market on questionable PG's??? Is Kahn the GM in NY, too?

Maybe Isiah Thomas is secretly running things again.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Or John Nash, or Chad Buchanan

 

[santeesioux]

Taiwan's take on Felton, he makes an appearance at :22

[video=youtube;oYegztGsf38]

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I heart Taiwan animated news.

 

[magnifier661]

I still don't quite understand this move. I guess I'm a little slow.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Animated fat Ray Felton somehow makes all of last year worth it.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Animated fat Ray Felton somehow makes all of last year worth it.

No kidding!

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Olshamed.

 

[PapaG]

said Olshey. “Jared Jeffries provides depth and a versatile skill to our front court. He is a consummate professional on and off the floor, competes every night and is a veteran leader for our locker room.”

Translation - he's the anti-Felton, and one who won't complain when he's stuck on the end of the bench, or even in street clothes.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

'shay-BLAM!

 

[Nikolokolus]

No kidding!

You say no kidding ... I mean "no kidding." That made me laugh for a solid 4 minutes after the video ended. My wife thinks I'm insane ... and then she watched it.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

'shay-BLAM!

And there it is!

 

[illmatic99]

According to twitter, this is what Felton looks like now:

 

[Mediocre Man]

According to twitter, this is what Felton looks like now:

My source says Olshey told NY he would accept the two Greeks, Jefferies and a bag of chips for Felton and Thomas, but Felton ate the chips, so NY had to kick in a 2nd round pick instead

 

[Natebishop3]

I swear he looks like Chris Haynes.

 

[RR7]

Jeff Kramer ‏@HoopStoryteller
Per Neil Olshey, the Blazers have a $3.5 million trade exception from the NY deal. Meaning that they are still technically over the cap.

deal keeps getting better.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Rudy's/James Jones' back in the day was only 2.7M, iirc.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Somehow these pics need to go together. I think we blew our big chance at having the odd couple:

OTOH I think Barton would have nightmares of Felton with a fork in his hand

 

[Mediocre Man]

Jeff Kramer ‏@HoopStoryteller
Per Neil Olshey, the Blazers have a $3.5 million trade exception from the NY deal. Meaning that they are still technically over the cap.

deal keeps getting better.

I didn;t get this. Olshey said like 2-3 times we were under the cap. Under the cap = no TPE

 

[RR7]

I didn;t get this. Olshey said like 2-3 times we were under the cap. Under the cap = no TPE

I think we "could" have space, but have technically not used any yet, and so might be more valuable to save the exceptions than renounce them. Used bird rights to get batum and trade felton, and sign hickson, and mle to sign freeland and claver. Depending on how close to the cap that ends up getting you, more valuable to land that TPE and keep the BAE than renounce them.