The Blazers offered Aldridge for Favors+Devin Harris

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e_blazer said:
It's not the New Jersey end that wouldn't work, it's the Blazers side of the rumor. Harris makes just under $9M, and the most that the Blazers could take back for Aldridge would be $7.41M. They'd have to throw in another $1.6M in salaries to make the numbers work.
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Ruh ruh ruh, Rudy!
 
e_blazer said:
It's not the New Jersey end that wouldn't work, it's the Blazers side of the rumor. Harris makes just under $9M, and the most that the Blazers could take back for Aldridge would be $7.41M. They'd have to throw in another $1.6M in salaries to make the numbers work.
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who knows what the throw-ins would have been, but it wouldn't have been too difficult to include Rudy and one of the second rounders (Johnson, Pendergraph, Dante) to get it to work.
 
Nikolokolus said:
who knows what the throw-ins would have been, but it wouldn't have been too difficult to include Rudy and one of the second rounders (Johnson, Pendergraph, Dante) to get it to work.
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Agreed. Just saying it would have to cost the Blazers more than just Aldridge, which is what the rumor said.
 
e_blazer said:
Agreed. Just saying it would have to cost the Blazers more than just Aldridge, which is what the rumor said.
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Trade rumors don't involve the scraps, usually. The main pieces are what is in discussion, filling in the other pieces to make it work.
 
I'm crying baloney on that one. I think Ford is making it up.

Well, KP wouldn't make that offer.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
I'm crying baloney on that one. I think Ford is making it up.

Well, KP wouldn't make that offer.
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Squeeze me? Baking powder? A lot of people have compared Favors to Dwight Howard physically (and in terms of his game) and Harris is a year removed from an all-star appearance and could be a lock-down defender at the one for the next 5 years. LMA? Well, he's not terrible and he probably has a little bit of upside left, but he hasn't shown much growth in his first 4 years in the league. This would have been a steal for Portland, which is why Rod Thorn probably turned it down.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
I don't think we should be in "rebuilding" mode. We need proven talent that wins in the playoffs, not just talent and hoping a rookie can step in and start for us.
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I don't think the team should EVER stop trying to improve its talent base, and, especially given the youth of our core, we should be looking to do so.

Ed O.
 
Nikolokolus said:
Squeeze me? Baking powder? A lot of people have compared Favors to Dwight Howard physically (and in terms of his game) and Harris is a year removed from an all-star appearance and could be a lock-down defender at the one for the next 5 years. LMA? Well, he's not terrible and he probably has a little bit of upside left, but he hasn't shown much growth in his first 4 years in the league. This would have been a steal for Portland, which is why Rod Thorn probably turned it down.
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But he's still an unproven rookie and we're not in a rebuilding mode. To trade LA for him, and with no appreciable PF backup, seems like so much of a stretch that I'm having a hard time buying into the logic of it all. Many bigs have entered the league and gone pffffffffffffft (Darko....), so, again, it just seems to far out.
 
BLAZER PROPHET said:
But he's still an unproven rookie and we're not in a rebuilding mode. To trade LA for him, and with no appreciable PF backup, seems like so much of a stretch that I'm having a hard time buying into the logic of it all. Many bigs have entered the league and gone pffffffffffffft (Darko....), so, again, it just seems to far out.
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Even if Favors goes "pffffffffffffffft" (something I don't see particularly likely given his physical profile) I think it's a risk you have to be willing to consider. LMA is a nice, safe player who might even get to the all-star game if enough elite guys retire or switch conferences, but he's not a transcendent player and he's unlikely to be good enough to be this team's number 2 option on a championship squad (a number 3 or 4 for sure). If I was more confident in Oden staying healthy long enough to mature into this team's number 2 option on offense I probably wouldn't worry about LMA so much, but he's looking like a longer bet with every knee injury.
 
Good Ole KP. Always lowballing other teams because he overvalued his guys. Hopefully with a new GM.....someday, we can make some serious offers.
 
Mediocre Man said:
Good Ole KP. Always lowballing other teams because he overvalued his guys. Hopefully with a new GM.....someday, we can make some serious offers.
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Was it a GM or a Agent that told Quick last summer about the nickname "Pritch-Slapped" and followed that up with "Man, Fuck that guy."
 
Fez Hammersticks said:
Was it a GM or a Agent that told Quick last summer about the nickname "Pritch-Slapped" and followed that up with "Man, Fuck that guy."
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If I recall, it was a GM in the league that heard the phrase and asked Quick (it could have been Woj?) "Did he come up with the bullshit himself? Man, Fuck that guy!"
 
Pretty much everything we hear from Chad Ford is coming from Kevin Pritchard. I'm sure it was leaked to make an insecure guy like LMA who easily holds a grudge a little disgruntled in Portland.
 
Vinyard said:
What a horrible offer for the Nets.
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We'll give you BGrantfan for the woman in your Avatar.








Yes, I am taking the reigns from Pritchard to lowball the shit out of you guys.
 
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