Second. Also, "moderator," I'd like to see your deleted post. I can only hope and fucking pray that we've hit bottom. It sure feels like the bottom. Of course, knowing this team, tomorrow we're going to hear Wes Matthews broke his foot and is done for the year. Time to flush the training staff... which is what we should have fucking done after Joel went down.... this is bullshit.
Hmmm, I'd jump on the "It's Barfo's fault" band wagon but I'm just not ready to jump off the Blazers band wagon.
The only silver lining is that we have a solid set of young guys for Cho to build around. I still am very happy to have LA, Armon, Batum, Matthews, Rudy and Cunningham on the roster. If they were a few years younger, I'd be equally happy for Joel, Dre and Camby. If Roy can adjust and become even 3/4 the player that he was, then we're still looking like a team that can be on the rise.
Trying to imagine Greg playing basketball for more than 20 games is like trying to imagine the queen of England naked and popping a boner.
barfo posted about lupus a second after I specifically told him that my oldest daughter had it, and then did so a third time. He said that Roy was going to die from it. HAHAHAHAH! Funny thing is, I don't even think the guy is a Blazer fan. And yes, he is the magnet for my rage right now. Karma is a bitch, as I tried to say earlier.
At this point, I wouldn't consider Greg playing more than 20 games a sure thing. I'd use another analogy.
I'm shocked that they let you keep your trolling license when you became a mod. Regardless, *deleted* -- gloating about an injury is pretty much the opposite of class.
Did some of you not see this coming? He has been injured for a while in that knee. With no progress. Camby is still a good center. I don't know for how long but he's solid.
You have to make an offer to restricted free agents for them to stay restricted? I thought the whole point of RFA was to have other teams offer first?
Tough break. There goes our chance at contending for a title any time soon. What is with our medical and training staff anyway???
Interesting. I see where they get the number. It seems pretty close to the second part of this paragraph. The CBA reads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap "For 1st-round draft picks, restricted free agency is only allowed after a team exercises its option for a fourth year, and the team makes a Qualifying Offer at the Rookie-scale amount after the fourth year is completed. For any other player to be a restricted free agent, he must be at most a three-year NBA veteran, and his team must have made a Qualifying Offer for either 125% of his previous season's salary or the minimum salary plus $175,000, whichever offer is higher." My interpretation is that this falls into part A that I've highlighted. If you do the part that says "For any other [other than 1st round draft picks] the rule is 125% of previous season + $175K. For Oden, if he were just generically put into that second rule, it would put him around $8.7M. But the language would seem to override that for 1st round picks and this year's Q.O. for a #1 pick appears to have been set at $6.4M. So that is where I was getting my info. But like I said, may not matter. Would you pay him $6M for one year if it was even that low?
