Is this real life? (Re: Steve Blake)

[Fez Hammersticks]

Chris Haynes ‏ @ChrisBHaynes
Sorry everyone. Source has told CSNNW.com Steve Blake is close to being a Blazer again

 

[HailBlazers]

Click, Click, Boom. Rock Bottom.

 

[magnifier661]

FML

 

[B-Roy]

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Fuck Larry Miller.

Fuck Nate McMillan.

Ugh. Just when the season couldn't get any worse ....it does.

 

[magnifier661]

Joe Freeman ‏ @BlazerFreeman

A source tells me there is legs to the three-team trade that would send Jamal Crawford to Minny and Steve Blake to Portland.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

If this is not fantasy (and we are caught in a landslide, no escape from reality), then I want Darius Morris thrown in, just to give me some tiny glimmer of hope for a future that probably won't happen. At least then we'll be getting a 6'5" Michigan guard back for our 6'5" Michigan guard.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Not to worry, we'll ship out our second round pick to LA and everything will be even-steven.

 

[magnifier661]

Jason Quick ‏ @jwquick

Sorry been trying to tend to a family matter, but agent Andy Miller (Crawford) says deal with Minn/LAL is close to being done. Blake to PDX.

http://www.blazersedge.com/2012/3/14/2871540/blazers-timberwolves-trade-talks-gathering-momentum

Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports...
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Portland's talks with Minnesota on a Jamal Crawford deal are gathering momentum again, sources tell Y! Sports.

Portland's talks with Minnesota for Jamal Crawford are part of a 3-way scenario with Lakers, source says. Michael Beasley would go to LA.
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Alex Kennedy of HoopsWorld.com adds...
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Sources confirm: Lakers, Wolves and Blazers discussing three-team deal. Michael Beasley to LA, Jamal Crawford to MIN, Steve Blake to POR.

Other players and picks will likely be added to the LA-MIN-POR three-team deal. Those are just the names I'm hearing right now.
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Update: Chris Haynes of CSNNW.com reports...
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CSNNW.com has learned that the Portland Trail Blazers are close to bringing back guard Steve Blake in the reported three-team deal. A source who's familiar with the talks says "if it's not done, it sounds close."
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Joe Freeman of The Oregonian reports...
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A source tells me there is legs to the three-team trade that would send Jamal Crawford to Minny and Steve Blake to Portland.
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The Blazers and Timberwolves sides have been linked in talks for more than a week.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Better be picks involved, is all I have to say

 

[Nikolokolus]

If we get Utah's pick (via Minny) then I'm OK with it ... less excited if it's the Laker's late twenties pick.

 

[Mediocre Man]

If we get Utah's pick (via Minny) then I'm OK with it ... less excited if it's the Laker's late twenties pick.

Exactly, but at least it would be something

 

[RoyToy]

There's a month left in the season

Just let the fucking contracts die and start over in FA. Stop making a problem and bigger problem

Fuck this team

And this means Nate probably isn't on the hot seat. They're afraid to fire him because they know no GM or coach is interested in this mess.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Hopefully Paul just names Nate "Coach for life" and has done with it.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

BOYCOTT!!

 

[Nikolokolus]

Exactly, but at least it would be something

Yeah it's something alright. Another year and half of Steve-FML-Blake.

 

[RR7]

Utah's pick(top 14 protected in 2012, top 12 protected in 2013, right to swap if pick is outside of top 9 in 2014) If pick it not conveyed by 2014 compensation changes to a second round pick

 

[Mediocre Man]

Yeah it's something alright. Another year and half of Steve-FML-Blake.

Sorry, but that's two and a half years

 

[RR7]

Sorry, but that's two and a half years

at this point, i can only laugh. fuck

 

[Mediocre Man]

Utah's pick(top 14 protected in 2012, top 12 protected in 2013, right to swap if pick is outside of top 9 in 2014) If pick it not conveyed by 2014 compensation changes to a second round pick

That's a scary pick

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

This just proves that they really don't have a plan.

He's going to eat $4m in the oh-so-important capspace this summer and next.

Fuck Larry Miller!!!!!!

 

[Nikolokolus]

Sorry, but that's two and a half years

Oh, my bad. Even better!!!

 

[Mediocre Man]

at this point, i can only laugh. fuck

Ya, unless something other than the 28th or whatever pick is coming back, 2 and a half years of Steve Blake is not worth the cap space we lose, and you all know how I feel about cap space

 

[illmatic99]

Fuck this shit man.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

If this is not fantasy (and we are caught in a landslide, no escape from reality), then I want Darius Morris thrown in, just to give me some tiny glimmer of hope for a future that probably won't happen. At least then we'll be getting a 6'5" Michigan guard back for our 6'5" Michigan guard.

We are just poor fans, we get no sympathy. Jamal was easy come easy go. Little high, little low.

Any way this trade goes, doesn't really matter to me. To me.

 

[RR7]

That's a scary pick

yeah, very real chance we take on Blake for a 2nd rounder in 2 years. Right when Blake will be expiring!

 

[B-Roy]

We better be getting both the Laker and Mav picks...

 

[illmatic99]

Haynes:

Everything is agreed upon in the 3-team deal except for what the Blazers get back from the Lakers.

 

[Mediocre Man]

We better be getting both the Laker and Mav picks...

This is my thought as well

 

[RR7]

A source has explained that the Portland Trail Blazers first option is to get a draft pick in return from the Los Angeles Lakers, and that the Steve Blake transaction is a backup plan.
Everything else is agreed upon and this situation is what's holding up this deal.