Minnesota: full of shit (confirmed)

Will there be butthurtness if Minny cut a couple of assets to make room for Batum and then don't get him?

 

I don't think that is true. He may prefer Minny, but (in case you didn't know), he said at the end of last season that he would be back because he wanted to be back and that the blazers told him then that it was "99% likely" they would match any offer.

He has known his fate for a long time, and is resigned to it. But hey, it would be cool to play with Rubio, so he told his agent to give it a shot.

 

Like I said both teams are very similar. We both think we have a good young pG and a C.

Rubio has played a half a season and got hurt. I assume he will be good, but he does have some red flags.(i.e can he stop anyone from blowing by him, can he hit the outside shot consistently to make sure players who have seen him a few times don't all start playing off of him) Your center also looks promising, but certainly nothing to write home about.

I agree there are no guarantees.

 

Looking at the future cap situation for Portland, Signing Batum to 11.25 per for 4 years is not a big deal.

His contract expires when they really have to pay anyone. Plus the one year contracts of Hickson and such will fit in nicely

 

Right. And I think the answer is probably leaning more toward keeping Nic when those are your options. Frankly I think cap room has more value than two picks in the twenties in a crappy draft. At least you can make lopsided trades with that room, two guys who can't really contribute just take up locker space and seats on the plane ... and you have to pay them apparently too.

 

Adding two picks is great, but in reality, those two picks could end up being guys like Trevor Booker and Dominique Jones, who were picked 23 and 25 in 2010 by the Timberwolves and Griz

 

Picks are fine ... and in most circumstances I would advocate flipping a player for picks in a rebuilding effort, but usually when that means sending a player out on the backside of his career; that isn't Nicolas. But as it is, the team is so overloaded with youth right now, frankly how are they going to integrate two more rookies in a year? (And yes I realize that they are liquid assets that can used to sweeten a trade down the line).

Nic still has a ways to go before he'll ever be worth 11 million per year (and he probably won't ever quite live up to that much money) but at 23 and with no Nate I think he still has some headroom to improve and won't be quite the albatross that some fear.

 

Gals who say the never masturbate are lying
Gals who talk about all the sex they get are lying
Gals who call everyone else lesbians are really nervous about themselves

Blazers will wait for Batum to get an offer and match

 

the picks don't change based on how teams do in the playoffs, so they do not need to make the WCF.

 

One of these Minny posters says that Webster's is nonguaranteed and that Miller has retired. Do they still have to clear waivers?

 

1) probably true
2) women don't usually do so - you know, when someone sleeps around, he's a stud, she's a slut, for doing the same thing. But yes, generally, the more they talk the less they do
3) also probably true but happens a lot less with women. I really don't know of too many girls and women who always going around calling others "gay". There are a lot of homophobic women, no doubt, but when chips are down what scares men is a guy thinking/talking/acting in the way they think/talk/act about women, and even the most homophobic women know that the threat to their physical safety is generally not from lesbians.

4) Yep, just wish they'd get it done already as there are around 10 threads on the topic and the Minny trolls are boring me.

 

That's total bullshit.

 

I think they're better than Den, and potentially SAS and LAC. Potentially Ind. You mention everything needing to go right for them, but that holds true for every team. Boston is still really old, and at any time, an injury to KG can kill them. I don't know if I have Chicago that high with Rose out for possibly half the season.
I don't necessarily think HIGH 20s, personally. I see 19-24, though. And it doesn't make me super interested, personally.

 

0%? That is total bullshit.