The Blazers are seriously trying to move up in the draft

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Dwight Jaynes thinks so:

Over and over I keep hearing that from my friends around the league. Portland, they say, is trying to get up among the top five or six picks. The Blazers are chasing somebody at the top of the draft.

I keep thinking it’s Stephen Curry. I’ve said that before. He makes sense for them — a star-quality shooter to play alongside Brandon Roy. But a thought occured to me last night:

What if they’re going after Curry — or Rubio or someone else — for another team? What if they’ve got New Orleans convinced that if it can replace Chris Paul’s massive salary with a rookie salary that Curry or Rubio would serve the team just as well in the long run and help the team stay in business through tough economic times? Or what if Phoenix is wanting a big name to soften the blow to its fans for shipping Steve Nash to Portland?
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-DwightJaynes.com
 
Two threads made at the same time -- one says we're looking to get into the top of the lottery. The other we're moving the pick for future considerations for more FA money.
Looks like no one knows what the hell is going on. And I love it.
 
I just don't see NO trading Paul unless they're getting some SERIOUS star power in return.
 
alex42083 said:
Two threads made at the same time -- one says we're looking to get into the top of the lottery. The other we're moving the pick for future considerations for more FA money.
Looks like no one knows what the hell is going on. And I love it.
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Sounds like some pretty aggressive due diligence on KP's part...
 
Fez said:
Dwight Jaynes thinks so:

What if they’re going after Curry — or Rubio or someone else — for another team? What if they’ve got New Orleans convinced that if it can replace Chris Paul’s massive salary with a rookie salary that Curry or Rubio would serve the team just as well in the long run and help the team stay in business through tough economic times? Or what if Phoenix is wanting a big name to soften the blow to its fans for shipping Steve Nash to Portland?
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I would seriously write KP into my will if he brought CP to Portland. Sorry wife, but I have my priorities.

-Pop
 
I would go nuts if we landed Chris Paul somehow with out trading the big three. hell, never mind they can have all but Roy.
 
As much as I would love to have CP3 on our team, I agree that NO will not trade him. Why would you trade the best PG (a position so hard to get great players) in the league?...money aside, I doubt it will happen.

Fun to think about though.
 
ehizzy3 said:
we aren't getting cp3
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ehizzy3 said:
we aren't getting cp3
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What if we traded LaMarcus Aldridge, Joel Pryzbilla, Jerryd Bayless, Rudy Fernandez, Steve Blake, Travis Outlaw, Martell Webster, Nicolas Batum and the rights to Petteri Koponen?
 
Masbee said:
Dwight might be getting senile.
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Senile is when you start forgetting shit, suggesting somehow that Stephen Curry or some other player can replace a transcendent talent like Paul is called "bat shit crazy"
 
Sinobas said:
What if we traded LaMarcus Aldridge, Joel Pryzbilla, Jerryd Bayless, Rudy Fernandez, Steve Blake, Travis Outlaw, Martell Webster, Nicolas Batum and the rights to Petteri Koponen?
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Besides contracts not even being close to matching up, off-hand I'd say we'd be so depleted of depth/talent we'd look more like this year's Hornets than anything else.

Paul/Sergio
Roy/?
?/?
Channing/?
Oden/?

Tell me that doesn't look like a 35 win team.
 
yuyuza1 said:
I'd trade GO for Paul.
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As much as I like Oden, I absolutely would. Oden is a potential once per generation center. Paul is already a once per generation point guard. And point guards are important enough that it cancels out the "big for small" injunction, IMO. You definitely trade potential for realized ability.

I can't see New Orleans going for it, even to save money. But if you add in Rudy and Bayless...I don't know. It depends on how much they want to shed salary and their own evaluations of those three players.
 
Minstrel said:
As much as I like Oden, I absolutely would. Oden is a potential once per generation center. Paul is already a once per generation point guard. And point guards are important enough that it cancels out the "big for small" injunction, IMO. You definitely trade potential for realized ability.

I can't see New Orleans going for it, even to save money. But if you add in Rudy and Bayless...I don't know. It depends on how much they want to shed salary and their own evaluations of those three players.
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Well said!
 
HispanicCausinPanic said:
Fuck that! New Orleans is a dump. KP should just sign me this summer and we'd be set!
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That guy in your sig needs to get some real rims. Is that supposed to impress me? Anything under a 6 foot diameter doesn't do it for me.
 
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