BrianFromWA
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Yet, the rewards are potentially so delicious. There’s a reason that he was the consensus #1 pick in the 2007 draft over Kevin Durant. His athleticism, innate nose for rebounding and defensive ability led to the axiom that “Durant will win scoring titles, Oden will just win titles”. Hurts a bit, when you think about that this playoff season.

As it stands, most believe that Oden will be offered the $8.79M qualifying offer, which would allow them (presumptively; all of this

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I’m about to do write something that, on its face, is going to sound pretty stupid. And I’m not even sure I believe totally in it. But I believe in it enough to waste my lunch break researching and typing it out.

As an aside, let’s discuss the Blazers’ ability to acquire talent. As was painfully shown this season, over the last 2 years the Blazers have lost a lot of the depth (especially “young depth”) that had been a hallmark of their team late in the last decade in

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