In KP we trust

[Pinwheel1]

It is impossible to ever know for sure what young players are a long term or short term investment for a city like Portland. Which players (or Agents) feel they need a big market, warm climate, or being closer to home. We need our GM to figure that out. Not sure about LMA, but Amare would make me nervous.

 

[drexlersdad]

i might be a homer, but lma+raefs super expiring is BY FAR the best deal out there for phoenix. wally and jj hickson? yi and simmons? tyrus and gooden? wtf. even bayless and raef is better than all three of those. or rudy and raef. or outlaw and raef. imo its not even close.

raefs expiring>>>wallys/goodens/simmons not even an expiring.

lma>>>>>jj hickson/yi/tyrus

its just plain loony.

 

[Minstrel]

Do people really think that the team with none of the leverage will be able to extract a massive expiring deal, one of the top young PFs in the game and a guy who was projected to go in the top four from last year's draft? I don't.

Honestly, I don't think we know how much leverage they have. A lot of their leverage is based on how much interest there is in Amare, and that's very hard to accurately gauge from reports. If Pritchard wants Amare and ten other teams also do, then Phoenix has a lot of leverage because the team that gets Amare will have to out-bid the other ten teams.