Going to be sicker. http://blog.newsok.com/thunderrumblings/2010/11/18/a-case-for-greg-oden-in-oklahoma-city/
That'd be a big kick to the junk if G.O. found himself in OKC, and got healthy, and him and Durant win championships by beating LA and Miami along the way. There will no doubt be teams lined up to grab Oden as a low-risk, high-reward pick-up.
Luckily for us the Blazers arent owned by reporters or overemotional fans.. Oden is not going anywhere, we already hedged our bets, folding now would be plain dumb.
What a ridiculous set of assumptions. Cho has no reason to keep Oden simply because he was a Pritchard pick? The Blazers would be unwilling to gamble $2-4 mil, but the Thunder would? Right. And I thought Canzano was bad.
So that would only be 8.8 million......add in the 2 to 4 million.......cost the Blazers $10.8 or 12.8 million depending on the offer from another team. My gut tells me that Oden would want to start a new someplace where the expectaions are low for him, like Miami. A break up with Oden might be good for both parties to move on........I have a vision of something completely different when we drafted him, but you play with what your dealt.
Fuck what Oden wants... he should only be able to play for one team, and that's the team that paid him to exercise!
No, I don't think it works that way. It's the qualifying offer or a new contract, not both. The qualifying offer is, essentially, a one-year contract...accepting a deal from another team would be instead of that one-year contract but, since the original team offered the QO, they are entitled to match that new deal. I believe that's how it works.
