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19 and 17 in under 23 minutes against Rudy's old club? Nice!
 
I barely recognize him

2003:
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2011:
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Stomping Ha down to 4 foot 6 greatly shortened Ha's NBA career.
 
^ No, that's just what happens to Euro-Crackers over the course of 8 years!
 
I hope we have the movie rights. That guy has "it."
 
Here's how to find whether we have rights to someone. Go to RealGM's TradeChecker.

http://basketball.realgm.com/tradechecker

Put in Portland and any other team. Click Continue. Look at our player list.

Yes, we still have rights to Nedzad Sinanovic, Federico Kammerichs, Doron Sheffer, and Marcelo Nicola.
 
If you click on their names you will find that Sheffer and Nicola are age 39. I used to post years ago that we should waive them in case some other team might be interested. Does anyone know of any reason for keeping their rights, any technical difficulties in waiving players?
 
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If you click on their names you will find that Sheffer and Nicola are age 39. I used to post years ago that we should waive them in case some other team might be interested. Does anyone know of any reason for keeping their rights, any technical difficulties in waiving players?
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If someone were really interested, I'm sure the Blazers wouldn't stand in their way.
 
Then why are we standing there like an obstacle? Instead of saying that we'll leave the room if any suitor arrives, just leave the room now.

Clicking on their names, and then their drafts, you see the ancient drafts they were in. Way back there. How long till we renounce their rights? Same question for the 30-year-olds, Sinanovic and Kammerichs.
 
jlprk said:
Then why are we standing there like an obstacle? Instead of saying that we'll leave the room if any suitor arrives, just leave the room now.

Clicking on their names, and then their drafts, you see the ancient drafts they were in. Way back there. How long till we renounce their rights? Same question for the 30-year-olds, Sinanovic and Kammerichs.
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Because if you spent picks on guys, and it doesn't cost you anything to hold onto their rights, why get rid of them?
 
Can't wait to see this guy in a Blazer uniform. He has a chance to be the best center in the NBA
 
jlprk said:
Here's how to find whether we have rights to someone. Go to RealGM's TradeChecker.

http://basketball.realgm.com/tradechecker

Put in Portland and any other team. Click Continue. Look at our player list.
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Ever the alert researcher, I used that method to rank teams by players with unrenounced rights (TradeChecker marks them in pink). This is shameful. We are only Number 2. Why do we allow Houston to lead the pack? Why don't we keep the rights to 2 more (maybe Ha and Monia) so we can be the best?

8 Houston Rockets
7 Portland Trail Blazers
7 Oklahoma City Thunder
6 Dallas Mavericks
5 San Antonio Spurs
5 Minnesota Timberwolves
4 Utah Jazz
4 Orlando Magic
3 Milwaukee Bucks
3 Miami Heat
3 Indiana Pacers
3 Charlotte Bobcats
2 Phoenix Suns
2 Philadelphia Sixers
2 LA Lakers
2 Denver Nuggets
2 Cleveland Cavaliers
1 Washington Wizards
1 Toronto Raptors
1 Sacramento Kings
1 New York Knicks
1 New Jersey Nets
1 LA Clippers
1 Golden State Warriors
1 Chicago Bulls
1 Boston Celtics
0 New Orleans Hornets
0 Memphis Grizzlies
0 Detroit Pistons
0 Atlanta Hawks
 
Everyone will want to total those, so I'll save you all the calculator work. The total is 77 players for the whole league, and we have 7 of those 77. Further saving you calculator work, I estimate that is 1/11 of the total.

I understand someone like Ricky Rubio, but for the old players, I don't see the point. But to be fair, I should give the other side of the story--You never know when you'll need a 39-year-old rookie, so we keep two of them on hold, plus two 30-year-old rookie centers.
 
Sometimes those guys have value. OKC turned 2nd-rounder Peter Fehse into Eric Maynor and Matt Harpring. Aaron McKie (who was a free-agent-rights guy, not a draft-rights-guy) was signed to a contract so that he could be traded in the Kidd trade to make numbers work. (He was an assistant coach at the time)

It's all about assets, and creative use of them.
 
I'm not sure how accurate those lists your looking at are. I believe we renounced Kammerichs and some other old rights in order to get cap space to sign Dre. Other than cap holds there is no downside to holding onto oversees rights. It doesn't hurt the player either, they are like a second round pick in that if another NBA team wants to sign them and the Blazers don't the player can go to that club. Thats how the Lakers acquired the stupendous Travis Knight as a rookie even though the Bulls drafted him.

That is also why the Blazers had to sign Sergio. Sergio was intent on going to the NBA but the Blazers wanted to leave him oversees. If the Blazers didn't give him the rookie contract that season another team would have gotten the chance to offer him a deal.
 
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A young English guy named Shambeezy used to post on ESPN on several team boards about 2001-2004. The Blazers were one of his favorites to post on. The Bulls were his #1. (I talked to him and once hilariously asked questions, got the general area in England he was posting from, looked it up on an atlas, named his neighboring cities, gave progress reports on how close "my men" were getting to him, and actually got him a little scared that they were coming after him. Actually, he used the word uncomfortable, not scared.) He was afraid of Magic, the despotic Laker moderator, who followed people around to ban them. Weren't we all. ESPN kept banning him so he started his own board.

Lo and behold, my old fellow poster has this article dated only 2 days ago, updating exactly the players that this thread is talking about. Scroll down to Portland.

http://blog.shamsports.com/2011/04/unnecessarily-exhaustive-guide-to-nba.html#more

So Nicola was a assistant coach for the 2009 Spurs Summer League team. Sheffer's photographer framed out the propeller above his Jewish beanie. Kammerichs keeps the 70s look, good for him. Sinanovic got booted from the major leagues because Spain wouldn't give the Bosnian a passport.

Edit: A comment after the article says, "Marcelo Nicola now works as an announcer for an Italian TV, covering Euroleague games."
 
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Shambeezy said:
I wasn't afraid of him. I thought he was creepy, narcissistic, and fucking weird. Cos he was.
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Totally agree!! He was like a mob killer. He would physically threaten people he disliked, like you or me.

Great to see you! How'd you find this board? Maybe you noticed where the hits were coming from on your article. Remember me, BobWhitsittsGhost? Do you remember when "my men" were closing in on you?

Folks, this is one of the greatest basketball internet powers in the world! Denny should pay him to post here!

He's even smarter than Barfo! And more powerful than a speeding bullet! He's London's dark horse candidate to take over Libya 10 years from now when Europe and the US are bankrupt from fighting it and Libya is the superpower, rich from oil.

Great to see you again, Sham! You haven't aged a bit since the last time I saw you!
 
"The Fable of the Giant Nedzad":

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Today, the Blazers scouts come to see Freeland and Sinanovic surprise the best ever seen. Although no one was bitter sweet, the birds fly Sinanovic left the NBA and prefers to dream of a CBA title or playing a Final Four. I no longer yearn to be like Sabonis, but to retire in the future with the feeling that he has done everything possible to exploit the gift their feet.
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So that's clear, then.
 
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