Hold up, wait a minute! (CP3 smokescreen?)

[Natebishop3]

Oden sure + filler. No to Oden + Batum. If CP3 is injured it's not worth it. If Oden is injured we'd still have Batum splitting our injury concerns.

I just think it's all bullshit. The whole country knows the Blazers have the most to offer. The Hornets know the Blazers have the most to offer. To say that they're looking at East coast teams is all nonsense. Like Shinn cares if he deals to a west coast team, and I'm damn sure he doesn't care about dealing a star. This is the guy who let Mourning go, Larry Johnson go, and Glen Rice. He'll blow shit up. He's a maverick like that

I think it's probably coming down to money. I think he wants us to take back Paul, Okafor, AND Posey. That makes things difficult. That's a LOT of money. It could be done if we moved Camby, Miller, AND Przybilla, along with some young talent, but that really guts our roster.

 

[mook]

I think it's probably coming down to money. I think he wants us to take back Paul, Okafor, AND Posey. That makes things difficult. That's a LOT of money. It could be done if we moved Camby, Miller, AND Przybilla, along with some young talent, but that really guts our roster.

I hope you are right. I wonder if this is the deal the Hornets are proposing:
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=258f569
(Camby/Przy/Miller/Batum for Paul/Okafor/Posey, and maybe our pick next year and/or some of our drafts this year)

Because in the end, I can see Portland hemming and hawing over that one, trying to talk them out of adding Posey, chiseling out youngsters from our side of the deal. Maybe Portland uses up all the summer, saying "We'll do that deal if we keep Camby and you keep Posey. If you don't like it, show us the better deal you've got out there." And then the Hornets start rumors about how it only wants to trade to the East, and nothing happens until early October.

But in the end, that's a deal that Paul Allen eventually signs off on. And Shinn would too if nothing better comes up--it's $121 mil in contracts going out with only around $30 mil in contracts coming back. And maybe still a playoff team with a lineup of Collison/?/Batum/West/Camby, provided Collison lives up to potential.

 

[Idog1976]

I just think it's all bullshit. The whole country knows the Blazers have the most to offer. The Hornets know the Blazers have the most to offer. To say that they're looking at East coast teams is all nonsense. Like Shinn cares if he deals to a west coast team, and I'm damn sure he doesn't care about dealing a star. This is the guy who let Mourning go, Larry Johnson go, and Glen Rice. He'll blow shit up. He's a maverick like that

I think it's probably coming down to money. I think he wants us to take back Paul, Okafor, AND Posey. That makes things difficult. That's a LOT of money. It could be done if we moved Camby, Miller, AND Przybilla, along with some young talent, but that really guts our roster.

This is the trade:

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=25y6fz3

Best value the Hornets can get and it consolidates our roster and solves the Hornets depth at SG. It also stomps any other trade out there without giving up Oden/LMA/Roy.

PG: Collison
SG: Thorton/Bayless/Rudy/Re-animated corpse of Peja
SF: Batum
PF: West
C: Camby

That's a competitive team and still sheds tons of salary for them and gives them three young talents. Ok, two young talents and one Emo fron tman. Also Bayless and Rudy expire next summer if they mope or don't perform. I think Bayless would start by the 20th game if not sooner.

 

[Cake]

This part stood out...The Hornets are concentrating on Eastern Conference teams as trade partners.

No mention of Portland in the article. So we can probably cross the Blazers off the list.

I disagree.

The bottom line is, they'll take the best deal they can. They can concentrate on whatever they want to, but if we put together the best offer, they'll take it.

 

[maxiep]

The Hornets may very well end up in the Eastern Conference after the needed realignment.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

"Hold up, wait a minute! Come on! *whew* Just let me catch my breath!"

Fez, if your thread title was the first half of this reference, I heart you.

 

[barfo]

The Hornets may very well end up in the Eastern Conference after the needed realignment.

Are you thinking Hornets and Grizz to the East and Bucks and Bulls to the West? Or something else?

barfo

 

[Nikolokolus]

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[Idog1976]

Hey Fez if you're on can you add a poll to this about whether people think it's all a smoke screen? I didn't want to start yet another thread on this.