Free-agent point guard Andre Miller has signed with the Portland Trail Blazers

mojorizen7 · July 24th, 2009, 04:49 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4354227

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Miller's contract is a three-year deal worth $21 million, with $14 million guaranteed and $7 million included as a third-year team option, sources close to the process said.

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The Blazers had been looking for a veteran point guard for the past couple of seasons and have flirted with everyone from Jason Kidd to Kirk Hinrich.

Add Steve Nash to that list....unfortunately the SUNS balked in the name of mediocrity & ticket sales at the expense of getting younger.

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Before they committed to Miller, the Blazers made a strong push for the Knicks' David Lee, a power forward. On Tuesday night, Blazers coach Nate McMillan and front-office executives Pritchard and Tom Penn had dinner with Lee in Las Vegas to make their recruiting pitch.

Interesting.....they'd have been loaded up front.

Chaplin · July 24th, 2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by mojorizen7

Add Steve Nash to that list....unfortunately the SUNS balked in the name of mediocrity & ticket sales at the expense of getting younger.

Geez, you don't know that. You have no clue whatsoever what Portland was offering.

mojorizen7 · July 25th, 2009, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Chaplin

Geez, you don't know that. You have no clue whatsoever what Portland was offering.

I do know that. Do i have to dig up the link for you?
Beter yet, here's a link to their roster.
http://www.nba.com/blazers/roster/
I seriously doubt they were offering a combonation of LaFrentz/Pryzbilla and Ruffin for Nash.
Everyone else on that roster is a young,solid NBA player...a rookie, or just a young unproven.

Chaplin · July 25th, 2009, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by mojorizen7

I do know that. Do i have to dig up the link for you?
Beter yet, here's a link to their roster.
http://www.nba.com/blazers/roster/
I seriously doubt they were offering a combonation of LaFrentz/Pryzbilla and Ruffin for Nash.
Everyone else on that roster is a young,solid NBA player...a rookie, or just a young unproven.

And again, this is all conjecture on your part. You don't know.

mojorizen7 · July 25th, 2009, 09:07 PM

I'm not just making this crap up as i go.
My claim is that the SUNS turned down moving Nash to Portland for a mix of young players. This is true.
You can cry "conjecture" all you want but my perception is that you're just satisfied with condemning anybody here who states an opinion based on facts presented by journalists and sports writers.
If you don't believe that the BLAZERS offered anything but garbage for Nash then fine.....but this isn't a "F"ing courtroom so climb off my nutsack.

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Sources say Portland never got close in recent weeks with its determined push to convince Phoenix to part with a package of young players for Nash, who then would have received a contract richer than the deal he ultimately accepted from the Suns.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4341269

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Portland, Golden State, Toronto, New York and Houston are five teams we know of that are either readying or contemplating bids for Nash, with the Blazers listed first not only because of their interest in a push-the-pace veteran leader but because they could furnish Phoenix with multiple youngsters -- Jerryd Bayless and Travis Outlaw, just to name two for starters -- if the Suns decide they want to start over.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/column...Chatter-090518

Chaplin · July 28th, 2009, 04:43 PM

Your second quote is speculation by sucky ESPN writers, the other says "young players", not Jerryd Bayless and not players that we may not want. I'm not sure why you think every player on the Blazers is worth his weight in gold.

Besides, with all their low-salaried players, they'd have to give us a lot back, and we'd have to figure out what to do with an overloaded roster.

arwillan · July 30th, 2009, 11:19 PM

It's a step in the right direction, because they've always needed an elite point guard to round out that team. However, until Oden gets a lot better and proves something, I wouldn't call them elite.