Reading the Tealeaves - Blockbuster Coming Soon?

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  1. Stevenson

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    Just listened to Barret on the BFT: Essentially he said (but tried not to say):

    * Ruffin is part one of a two part trade.

    * Blazers now have $15 million in Raef, and Ruffin trade exception, also
    covered by insurance

    * Ruffin would be less expensive to buy out in a "multi-part trade"

    * There is lots of smoke out there and the deal is something no one would see
    coming

    $15 million.. who is it??

    Is this the greatest time of year or what?
     
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    15m looks like the ballpark range of a guy named Carter.
     
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    B-Roy If it takes months

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    Ceeee peeee threeeeeeeeeee!
     
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    As long as it doesn't disrupt the big three, and improves our Defense, I'll be excited!
     
    blue32, Feb 18, 2009
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    big all star?
     
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    That's exactly what I'm thinking. Something is coming, and probably before the game tonight or tomorrow.
     
    Natebishop3, Feb 18, 2009
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    Canzano, saying he talked to Pritchard, disagrees, stating for a trade exception. Although this could still be used.
     
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    It's confusing now because Canzano said the TE can't be used in combination with RLEC after he spoke with KP.
     
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    Last minute posturing and using Canzano to spread disinformation?
     
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    Are you being serious?
     
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    Why? Is it because that contract is covered by insurance? That's hardly the Blazers' fault.
     
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    Even if that's true, you can trade twice with one team in 2 separate deals yes?
     
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    I hope this is true. VC is somebody we would see coming in a trade. Maybe someone like Rudy Gay or somebody that hasn't been mentioned in rumors.
     
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    That doesn't sound right. Can anyone back this up?
     
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    Rudy Gay gets paid roughly 1/6th of 15m. I highly doubt we would be raising our "cost cutting pieces" for a guy who gets paid around 2.5m a year.
     
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    The TE can't be combined with RLEC for salary-matching purposes. What Portland can do is trade RLEC and other players for whomever they are interested in and, as an incentive, send the TE to that same team, as part of the same deal, for some $2.5-2.9 million clutter.
     
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    The TE can not be used with another player in a deal.

    That is the correct information.
     
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    There are several posts about it in the Ruffin thread.

    A traded player exception cannot be combined with any other player or exception in an atomic transaction.

    We could not take the RLEC and combine it with the TPE we just got to get a single player that we could not afford without using the TPE.

    We could, though, trade RLEC for a contract and the TPE for another one.

    Ed O.
     
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    A trade that nobody saw coming. We have the most valuable trade asset in the League.

    We can rule out:

    * Vince Carter
    * Gerald Wallace
    * Richard Jefferson


    The anticipation is making me utterly useless at work. I'm sitting here pretending to concentrate really hard at the computer screen like I'm doing work...but I'm here.....refreshing the site....refresh...refresh....refresh....
     
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