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By: Blake Murphy

Blake Murphy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:29:12 +0000

My bad for the Miles thing (I didn’t know he had officially filed) and the resulting cap error, and for the Sergio/Rudy flip. Thanks for the feedback!

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:44:08 +0000

“After all, Pritchard already had a prominent scouting story to his name as the man who was overruled lobbying the Blazers to select Chris Paul at number three in 2005 before they traded the pick…”

What is your source? An Oregonian blog? What is their source? It’s Pritchard, gloating about himself as usual.

By: Laurel

Laurel — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:56:01 +0000

Nice article. A few notes.

Miles was waived after being declared to have a ‘career ending injury’ by the league and NBPA doctor.
Unless Miles is signed and after serving his 10 game suspension (for testing positive for diet pills)and then actually plays in 10 games for a NBA team he is off the cap.

That dropped them to 64,851,732 well under the tax line last year and they will remain under next year by about a million if Miles stays retired.
In the summer ‘09 they will have either about 15 million in cap room for the free agent market or, if Miles stays retired, about 24 million.

LeFrentz contract is on KPs watch as it was part of the boston trade, sending the Ratliff one year shorter contract as the lure to get the #7 pick and Roy.

Likewise the Francis contract is residue from moving Randolph on KPs watch.

In that NYKs trade they also received a trade exception which they later used to acquire James Jones from the Suns, only the pick where they took Rudy Fernandez was traded for cash on draft night.

You left out Steve Blake from your depth chart. Nate has already said he will remain the starter at the beginning of the season with Bayless and Rudy being part of the “white unit”.

And after you wrote this they signed Batum. They decided better to train him here and in the D league then send him back to France.

Laurel T

By: Shawno

Shawno — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:26:35 +0000

Nice article on the whole. There’s no mention of Miles’ I believe *currently* being off the books due to his “career-ending injury” and the depth chart isn’t as accurate as it could be — Fernandez is a SG while Rodriguez (who’s unlikely to still be on the team at that point) is a PG. (Blake and/or Koponen are more likely the long-term back-ups to Bayless.)

Finally, Pritchard as been saying (basically since becoming GM) that he’s aiming to net a “big free agent” in the summer of 2009. *If* he manages to do so, said player will almost certainly be either a SF or a PG/combo guard.

That said, most of those points are pretty small — again, nice article!

By: lance

lance — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:12:36 +0000

Great article. It is nice to see KP get credit for where credit is due. I might add two points. First, Paul Allen deserves a lot of credit for recent moves to buy the arena, get rid of the “jail blazers”, and for funding KP’s moves.

Lastly, on your depth chart you need to switch Rodriguez and Fernandez. Rod is the 1 and Fernandez is the 2.

By: johnson

johnson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:09:22 +0000

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rashad Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Good article. The Blazers are going sneak up on some people this year. That Bayless/Roy/Oden trio is going to be fierce.

Why would it be referred to as the Bayles/Roy/Oden trio? the more significant three is Roy/Aldridge/Oden.