Let's all take a moment of our time to acknowledge our good friend Chris Wallace

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  1. Stevenson

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    Did you happen to notice that Shaq says we tried to get him at the deadline? That was the RLF contract bro. KP cant trade by himself - it takes two to Tango.
     
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    Did you hear the Blazers say they never tried to trade for Shaq?


    Are we picking and choosing when we get to believe KP now?


    Portland had many deals on the table and didn't pull the trigger. It was said we didn't because of this summer and our wonderful cap space. And yes, I do know that had many deals on the table "deal coming soon" jokes to follow.
     
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    I guess I'm not up-to-date on things, but Chris Wallace did what exactly? Prevent KP from signing Hedo somehow is all I got.

    EDIT: Oh, right, Miles, haha. That's on KP, pure amateur crap.
     
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    Chris Wallace's signing of Miles is the reason we don't have 17M in cap space right now. 19 if we renounce Kopo/Free. Or, in other terms, a lopsided trade that brings back 27M (enough for Paul and Peja).
     
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    And I agree wholeheartedly.
     
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    What would that extra cap space get us? We could give Hedo an extra 4 million a year? yay. whoopee!
     
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    ?? You can't think of anything good we could get from a team for taking 20M of dead contract from them? Seriously?
     
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    Wait how was the D-Miles thing on KP again? An independant NBA appointed doctor said that Darius Miles should retire as further play could jeopardize his health. We retired him with the consent of the players union and the NBA. D-Miles, his agent, and the lovable Chris Wallace took it on themselves to go for the gold or the extra 700k in D-Miles case and the few million in Wallace's case. They took advantage of a poorly written rule that was clearly supposed to prevent Allan Houston like retirements and resignings not what D. Miles did.

    It's funny NY abused the rule with Houston and reaped the benefits. Then the NBA puts a poorly worded rule in place to prevent teams from medically retiring their own players for cap reasons and then resigning them. Portland gets fucked by the rules poor wording and Wallace is rewarded. Ah, the CBA where amazing happens!
     
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    What are you talking about? The letter we sent AFTER Memphis already signed Darius with the sole purpose of screwing us over? That did absolutely nothing to hurt or help us.
     
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    considering the way we fucked up the RLEC and 10 million of cap space......no.
     
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