The Blazers will match Batum

[RR7]

Yeah, passing on Brandon Roy because of his knees, drafting Randy Foye, and flipping him for Ricky Rubio worked out so terrible.

yeah, kept you in the lotto for 4 more years. comfort.

 

[Wheels]

Yeah, passing on Brandon Roy because of his knees, drafting Randy Foye, and flipping him for Ricky Rubio worked out so terrible.

3 Years of Prime Brandon Roy > 1 year of Rubio so far

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Yeah, passing on Brandon Roy because of his knees, drafting Randy Foye, and flipping him for Ricky Rubio worked out so terrible.

so hows that Oden, err I mean Rubio knee thing working out for ya?

 

[Chris Hawkey]

3 Years of Prime Brandon Roy > 1 year of Rubio so far

We still have Rubio.

You're still paying Brandon Roy.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You're still paying Brandon Roy.

Actually I think the insurance company is paying Roy now.

 

[Wheels]

We still have Rubio.

You're still paying Brandon Roy.

am I??? Damn that sucks... good thing he isnt counting towards the cap. Call me when Rubio has a season close to Roy's Rookie season, let alone All Star seasons.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Farmer Chris, you're a character Oh, btw...

Scoreboard, did someone say scoreboard?

15 of 23 years in the lotto.
21 of their last 26 games lost. That's hard to do even if you try.
The last decade in the lotto.

Facts are facts. They may not be pretty but you can't dispute 'em.

 

[Wheels]

guys dont quit now!!! One of them just admitted to me we are winning the battle!

 

[Harry's Raincoat]

"He [Ndiaye] said he wanted to go into the free agent market and do a deal with somebody else and put pressure on us to match or do a sign and trade and that’s his prerogative. And look, Nic has never said a bad word about Portland. Some of the issues he had with being here no longer exist, so I don’t think that’s a problem."

 

[oldguy]

This was probably posted somewhere, maybe here, but I'm not going looking for it.

On Wednesday afternoon, Blazers General Manager Neil Olshey spoke with the media regarding the status of Portland’s restricted free agent Nicolas Batum...

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You said before you’re going to match anything, is that still the case?

Yeah. If this goes to an offer sheet, absolutely. I don’t see any reason, nobody here sees any reason to let talent walk out the door.

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Sign and trade is still off the table?

Yeah. Look, you don’t close the door to anything in this league, but from what I can see as far as what they could viably offer, as of today, I would think Nicolas would have more value than whatever they could put into a sign and trade.

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http://blogs.trailblazers.com/Publi...99/EntryId/4107/IamaUserID/13183/Default.aspx

 

[Nikolokolus]

We still have Rubio.

You're still paying Brandon Roy.

I'm sure that ACL thingy will work out great.

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

We still have Rubio.

You're still paying Brandon Roy.

Our owner is worth ten times your owner.

Who cares?