I really don't know why you seem to think insulting people is a way to post, but it's really tiring. I'd love to have a good discussion on this as it's an interesting debate, but your decided asshole attitude makes it impossible. And that's a shame. You love to ruin the spirit of the board.
How valuable do you all think Oden is? I don't think much... Is this a statement that is being made because the Blazers know something about Oden's health that we don't?
the same voices that told him my comment/joke of "Blame Bush" was somehow a racist joke against Polish people. In other words, this "insult" was pulled from the deep darkest parts of his ass.
I don't understand why it's taking Oden so long to heal. Remember when there was talk of him returning for the playoffs?! I never imagined, that 5 months after that, he'd still not see the court.
As they said in the LAC telecast...Blake Griffin had a much more minor version of Greg's injury (he just had a crack, when Greg blew his in half), and took a year to get back (and he's still not at "basketball wind" yet). The whole "back by playoffs?" thing is probably one of the bigger reasons why everyone's telling Greg to shut up about a timetable to return.
For perspective: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/20934/horford-hawks-still-talking-extension. Only Durant and Noah have signed extensions from that draft, and only 6 had from the draft before (2 of them Blazers). I think this is more evidence about general risk aversion with the new CBA coming, than about GO. You have to have a pretty compelling reason not to let the market set the price.
Are you asking what you think Oden and his representation would want? If that's the case I'm sure they would take 4+ years at 10 million per, but they and the team both know that Greg is in no position to make that kind of demand. His only choice is to try and have a productive (mostly) healthy year so they can actually set a baseline of comparison with other players.
12 million a year for a really productive player who doesn't miss games ... that only reinforces my belief that if the Blazers had offered Greg 40 million for 4 years, he and his agent would have signed that before the contract had a chance to dry coming off the printer.
Yup. That would have been fair, I would have preferred 5 years...5 years/48 million would have been ok. I think we'll end up paying closer to Horford money next summer.
I just think the Blazers are in a lose-lose situation. They have to re-sign Oden, otherwise they passed on Durant for nothing, but if they re-sign him and he never pans out, they just wasted a bunch of money and cap space. They can't not-sign him, but if he doesn't work out, they look like idiots for overpaying him.
