LOL! Blazers save Courtney Lee trade to Boston! PA's revenge

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I still don't see details - what exactly did Portland give/get?
 
I think its still being finalized. We'll know soon, I suppose.
 
I have looked everywhere and no other details. My guess is 2 round picks. Maybe a trade exception?

I doubt it is Pavlovic, but at the right price he would not be horrible. A 6'8' SG would fill a need.

Edit: But then again I guess it could be Pavlovic.
 
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It would be even better if it was Stienmann (sp?). He is a big C who can rebound (fills a need) and was also a target for the Wolves....
 
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Hearing C Lee deal is more like 4.6M to start. Celtics paying Pavlovic's salary for Blazers and threw Portland a 2nd.

Impressive. We have 3 damn trades about Courtney Lee.
 
So far we have Jeffries and Pavlovic for free and extra 2nd rounders to boot.
 
ironcrotch said:
So far we have Jeffries and Pavlovic for free and extra 2nd rounders to boot.
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2 2nd rounders and 2 euro stashes for...absolutely nothing. Not that they are the greatest assets, but it's solid work, getting free pieces. The younger greek stash seems like he can have some value in adeal. Not tons, but likely more than a 2nd rounder. Good asset building so far.
 
Pavlovic, Papanikolaou, Printezis (the 3 Ps) and a couple of second rounders, all for basically nothing. I'm liking this Olshey character.

And he's not done yet, I suspect.
 
So if Boston pays for Pavlovic's salary, theoretically we could bring him into camp, take a look, and cut him if we wanted to make room for someone else. I like that
 
BBert said:
Pavlovic, Papanikolaou, Printezis (the 3 Ps) and a couple of second rounders, all for basically nothing. I'm liking this Olshey character.

And he's not done yet, I suspect.
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It's like trading a paper clip for something that leads to something else, etc. etc. until you end up with a car.
 
This sounds identical to our involvement with the Knicks and Felton.
 
Pavlovic, Papanikolaou, Printezis
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Try saying that three times fast!

I'm reminded of the folk tale about the boy who took a cow to market and kept trading down and down and down until all he had was a stick of wood - and when the crow mocked him, he threw the stick at it, and ended up with nothing. Olshey seems to be the reverse.
 
RR7 said:
2 2nd rounders and 2 euro stashes for...absolutely nothing. Not that they are the greatest assets, but it's solid work, getting free pieces. The younger greek stash seems like he can have some value in adeal. Not tons, but likely more than a 2nd rounder. Good asset building so far.
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Bingo. That's exactly what Olshey is doing--picking up pennies on the ground hoping to trade in a couple rolls of them for a dollar.
 
crandc said:
Try saying that three times fast!

I'm reminded of the folk tale about the boy who took a cow to market and kept trading down and down and down until all he had was a stick of wood - and when the crow mocked him, he threw the stick at it, and ended up with nothing. Olshey seems to be the reverse.
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But that boy is Kahn, and the crow is Love.
 
There's a trend emerging with Neil that I really like; he seems like he knows how to inject himself into other team's deal-making processes successfully.

My biggest gripe with KP was that he seemed to always be flailing trying to make a deal, but apparently couldn't for one reason or another (possibly because he irritated so many other GMs if Woj's columns are to be believed?).
 
Neil is the Illuminati of the NBA. Wait till next year when he turns Babbit into LBJ.
 
Nikolokolus said:
It's like trading a paper clip for something that leads to something else, etc. etc. until you end up with a car.
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Until someone convinces you to trade the car for some magic beans.... (a reference to "The Office").
 
tester551 said:
Until someone convinces you to trade the car for some magic beans.... (a reference to "The Office").
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you shoulda saved that one until somebody organically introduced a telescope into the conversation
 
Nikolokolus said:
There's a trend emerging with Neil that I really like; he seems like he knows how to inject himself into other team's deal-making processes successfully.

My biggest gripe with KP was that he seemed to always be flailing trying to make a deal, but apparently couldn't for one reason or another (possibly because he irritated so many other GMs if Woj's columns are to be believed?).
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I have a suspicion that this comes back to Olshey's history as an agent and his philosophy of having good personal relationships with them. He knows them, they trust each other, they work together. It has to make his job so much easier. He doesn't have to know what everyone is doing so much as the agents know to get ahold of him and see if he can help them out, to their mutual benefit.
 
RR7 said:
The younger greek stash seems like he can have some value in adeal. Not tons, but likely more than a 2nd rounder. Good asset building so far.
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Well we had the 41st pick and traded it away for cash; that Greek was the 46th pick. If he was at all on our board wouldn't we have just drafted him?

Its hard for me to get excited about three moves that seem to primarily be based on saving the team cash. If we had Donald Sterling as an owner fans would be annoyed the team is looking to save money instead of deals that bring in assets. Paul Allen used to go out and buy picks and buy players, now his team is making the opposite deals.
 
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