Interesting. Would be a huge get, I've wanted him on the Blazers for years. Says winning is a priority over money. -Marc Spears yahoo
Huge get for sure. Is there a way to make it happen dollar wise? Waive Roy, but then what? Camby and Wallace for Nene and something?
Just as long as the contract isn't too big. Remember, he has knee issues as well. In the short-term he'd make the Blazers relevant again.
He's saying he wants to win, right? From his point of view Den-> Por has to be a lateral move. My initial reaction was Miami. But damn, it would be awesome indeed.
How would Denver to Portland be a lateral move? Him with Felton, Matthews, batum, Wallace and LMA, or him, Miller, Gallinari, Afflalo and Birdman. That's not equal.
True. I hope he sees it that way as well. Edit: As opposed to going to a team with recent championships, a team with a track record of winning, or a team with big stars (which theoretically could equal success).
Nene is a very good defensive player. Would be sweet to add to the team. But, what would the cost be? Likely a lot.
If he wants to come here I would do two things to make it happen. Amnesty Roy and withdraw the qualifying offer from Oden (if possible) to make the financials work. I don't know if that gets us close, but Roy's 15 million plus the 8.8 due Oden sure seems like it could help. Nene paired with LMA, Wallace, Felton, Batum and Wesley actually makes our top six players a worthy rotation.
I would obviously consider trading one of Wesley, Batum, or Wallace for him. Wasn't Denver rumored to be interested in Batum before? I can see why he doesn't want to return to Denver, they lost one of their best players in Chandler, will also be without KMart or JR Smith, and seemed to overachieve at the end of last season with lesser talent. It would be a pleasant surprise if Portland was an acceptable destination for him, I'm not used to hearing about that from free agents.
That would be a freakishly good defensive team. Possibly best defense in the NBA. Problem is, we get the stop and can't score on the other end. No closer.
I don't see a problem with scoring in that lineup. Nene is good for 13 or 14 points a game, which would be more production than we've got out of starting C for a while. He also doesn't take a high volume of shots. He led the league in FG% last year. Definitely not the rebounder that Camby, or Joel were though. I think a lot of people are going to be eating crow on Felton. He was playing AS caliber ball for NYK last year when he had a go to guy in Stoudemire. He has that now with Aldridge. He's also a gamer, willing to take the big shot. Felton game winners: [video=youtube;7yR9ZGvVs4g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yR9ZGvVs4g[/video] [video=youtube;uebbzufuR7k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uebbzufuR7k[/video] I could get used to seeing plays like this to Aldridge and Wallace: [video=youtube;BIIdd_thoBk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIIdd_thoBk&feature=fvwrel[/video] [video=youtube;QYiDtzG4JqU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYiDtzG4JqU&feature=related[/video]
Can you post a link kind sir? This is not on Marc Spears twitter at all about blazers being interested in Nene.
Yeah that's a quite a bit less than "Blazers are interested" but if they aren't interested then their problem(s) are obvious
I guess it's just me, but I think Nene is an overall average center. He will demand max money and he's just not worth it.
He won't get a max contract, he's not "average" and he's probably worth whatever sub-max contract he ends up getting.
