Chris Paul to have sitdown with MGMT on Monday

GET IN THAT ROOM MILLER!!! lets see whats good...

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

The way things have gone recently, everyone will emerge from that meeting saying that the air has been cleared and Paul feels reinvigorated and is excited with the new direction.

 

Those guys are shitting right now!

 

Oh shit I thought you meant Blazers management.

False advertising, dude. 50 lashes with a wet Chris Paul jersey.

 

I THOUGHT YOU MEANT THE BAND MGMT

 

ahahaha , deserved!

 

Chris Paul is sitting down with Cho on Monday?

 

The biggest plus in the Blazers favor IMO: With Monty intimately aware of Nicolas' potential and having worked with all of our players there'd be an instant comfort level that he'd lack with the other team's offering up pieces. If New Orleans is going to go young and cheap and rebuild, I think Nic would be one helluva player to start with, paired up with guys like Thornton, Collison and whatever youngins and trade pieces we send along with him.

Giving up Nic is a tough pill to swallow, but I think I'd be happy for him to get to go somewhere and become a legit cornerstone player where he'd get a chance to fully develop his potential -- the Hornets would instantly become my second favorite team to watch.

 

Well Said Nik

Dare we pretend were front-runners in the CP3 lottery?

 

I like the reference, guys. Though EL PRESIDENTE was doing his ironic hipster mocking thing again.

 

You said what I wanted to say except you said it before I said it.

 

And those pieces are Roy, Aldridge and Oden.

 

Actually I think the Blazers advantage, is that the other teams are not in a very good position to do anything.

If the Knicks trade for Paul, all they are probably going to do is pretty much cap space for players. So nothing comes back that is useful for the Hornets but some breathing room.

If Dallas tries to trade for Paul, they already traded their big chip, which was Eric Dampiers expiring contract. So that means they have to send players back. Who are they going to send back that makes sense for the Hornets?

Orlando is over the cap. That means salary has to be matched with salary, and I don't really know of any of their players who have expiring contracts.

Meanwhile here in Portland, we have expiring contracts, and we have young talent we can send back. We have draft picks stashed overseas we can send back that will cost the Hornets nothing now.

So unless Shinn just decides to dump for salary relief to NY, IMO Portland has an advantage.

 

I really don't know what Hornets management is going to say to assuage his concerns. What could they do to be competitive? They could trade Collison I guess. He might bring back something that would help, but I really think that team is just too far from competing again, and I think they will be for quite some time. Plus, until Shinn is officially gone, that team has a terrible track record with stars, so I doubt anyone would want to sign there in free agency if they had cap space.

I think this is a meeting of, "please Chris.... stay. No? Okay. Well, this is what we have on the table, is Portland the place you want to be? Yes. Okay."

 

A couple of other things: Sending Monty a bunch of Blazers would accelerate the Hornets' assimilation of his system. It would probably up the win total by a few games than if they traded him to another team for similar pieces. He would be able to speak authoritatively about the capabilities of these players and it would go a long way to him establishing the culture he wants in the Big Easy.

 

from a twitter tweaker:

 

New Orleans should be more concerned about having a franchise in 3 years than keeping Chris Paul.