Merged: Breaking News: Hedo rejects offer

Perhaps. However, are Colangelo and the Raptors really the winners in this (proposed $56 mil) deal?

 

The last two years were players who were on high lottery teams with cheap owners and incompetent management. New Orleans has a cheap owner but their management team is somewhat competent and New Orleans is going to be in the playoffs next year unless Paul goes down. Paul is very young, a MVP caliber player and it just isn't feasible to think that Portland can acquire Paul with anything less than offering Roy. They won't take LaMarcus because he is due for a bigger contract than the player they already have at that position, and a package of Outlaw/Bayless/Webster/Rudy/Batum will not get it done. Those are just players with potential who haven't put up big consistent numbers and unless George Shinn wants to have his body one day show up in the gulf half-eaten by crabs and other various sea-life they will never accept such an offer.

 

lay off the crack man..every post is cp3 this or cp3 that..IT IS NOT HAPPENING!
Once you get that through your mind, you won't be so pissed when we make other, more realistic moves.

 

I give KP some time now. What defines his legacy is how to responds/reacts to this. What happens next?

I'm willing to give him time. He has some work to catch up on. He needs to get some steals. He needs to work out some deals. But now, given current events, how he responds from this moment will likely define his career. He does nothing? Better hope Roy, LA, and Oden all reach their ceilings - that alone means huge things for Portland.

Pull out some magical trade or signing this summer, I think that buys him credibility with most folks. But if he stands pat, after come this close, people will doubt him. Right or wrong, that's the game.

Personally, I don't doubt him. He hurts, but he comes up swinging and make something happen. We'll see. As David Stern would say, "Kevin Pritchard is on the clock."

No pressure.

 

I have a question with anyone who wants to do some math. Won't Hedo really be getting less of his paycheck in Canada since he has to pay the higher government taxes there? I think if its 10% more or so over the life of his contract the money might look closer then it seems.

 

He's almost that good. If he has a normal length career at the level of his seasons so far, I think he'll belong in the point guard class of Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson. He's been that good.

 

Oh, and as for Turk's wife....it's quite apparent the "small things" don't matter.

Yes, Turk. Congrats. You found a life partner that looks beyond the small things in life.

 

he probably didn't like portland, the city?

 

I knew they should have taken him to Devil's Point for Stripperoke

 

10% of $56 million is $5.6 million. So if Portland is offering $52 million, as some media outlets have offered, Portland is offering $1.6 million more.

 

ouch

 

Toronto is a better city and his wife wanted to go there. End of story. Toronto is one of the best city's in the world I can understand where she is coming from

 

I agree to an extent. But let's be honest. Ultimately, the majority of those who matter will look to what KP did with his cap room. Portland isn't a championship team today. So people will look to this to say, "How did KP improve the Blazers when he had his moment?" What you and I think doesn't matter. People will remember what Memphis did, but that means little with this FA market. The big thing people will really look at is how he used the cap room to improve the Blazers.

If Roy, LA, or Oden improve to the complete dominance level and win a championship, KP is a genius. If Portland doesn't improve upon it's performance over the next few years, it's going to come back on KP and Nate. It's the way it is. I still hear people say whatever about Adelman, and even Petrie, for the way it was in the early-90's.

 

Did Hedo just TURK-SLAP Kevin?

Kevi was already talking about additional changes after acquiring Hedo.

One would think the horse still needs to come before the cart.
Just like the Miles debacle, the only one slapped is Kevi.

 

Re: Did Hedo just TURK-SLAP Kevin?

 

Re: Did Hedo just TURK-SLAP Kevin?

Hi Wojo.

 

Bwahahaha


I am so glad we didn't use "The greatest trade piece in the history of mankind" so we could have this cap room.


Pathetic!!!!

 

Oh, and Hurrakane, in professional sports, you're hired to be fired. You do your job to the best of the potential, or you're fired. Many won't sweat this, but let's be honest, in the industry (in the eyes of fans, writers, whomever), this reflects ultimately on KP, right or wrong. So yeah, his legacy is likely going to be significantly impacted by how he responds to this moment.