Trail Blazers waive guard Armon Johnson

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hes not even worth starting a thread

 

Trust me....... I've seen some of your threads..... this is like The Grapes of Wrath compared to some of your shit.

 

The interesting part is why? Did they keep Oden in hopes that it will create some kind of good will should he ever get healthy and then feel an obligation to sign with them and actually play?

In a way it was good for Johnson because he wasn't going to get any burn on this team anyway. Maybe he can hit the D-league and develop some skills on his own.

 

Yeah, this is the best for AJ.

 

Because regardless of what the majority on here believes, a 7 footer with a shitload of potential (regardless of injury or shitty play has value in this league)

 

Listen "fams" or whatever the hell u wanna be called, im sure u have a personal relationship with the guy or whatever which is fine. Maybe armon is a great guy but hes a pretty fucking horrible nba player who will be out of the league by next xmas. Therefore not worth discussing imo. Its gonna be the same situation when we cut babbit and nolan smith. Awful draft picks who nobody cares about.

 

I was just messin' with you new guy! Armon is not ready to be an NBA player if you ask me..... nice move.

 

"Not worth discussing." Then why are you "discussing" it?

Everything Blazers related is worth discussing on a Blazers board.

 

Yeah. "New Guy". Riiight.

 

A no-brainer, IMO. May as well keep Oden around just to keep the pipedream of him ever producing for the Blazers alive until at least the end of the season.

Armon Johnson sells no tickets, but cutting Greg Oden would have sold even less tickets, even though he can't play. I think the chances of Oden playing for Portland are next to nil, but even I would have been pissed had he been cut.

 

they did right thing... cant cut oden

 

AJ = the next Jeremy Lin?

 

You can't cut Oden while there is still any chance of him playing. The chance may be small, but it's still worth keeping him.

 

but there's no chance he plays this season, and very unlikely next season, so what does keeping him do.

 

Couldn't you say the same thing about Armon?

 

It keeps the Blazers in the position of holding his Bird rights, in the unlikely event that being able to offer him a longer contract than anyone else should be something of value. However minuscule that chance may be, it's greater than the chance that Armon Johnson was going to break into the PG rotation.

 

Armon COULD play. Not that he'd play well, not that we maybe want him to, but if needed, he could play, and Oden won't for another 2 seasons.

 

I'd say there's a greater chance of Armon playing PG for Portland than there is a need to go 5 years instead of 4 on a new contract with Greg.

 

Maybe, but the potential reward with Greg could be better.
Either way, I think my odds of winning the Powerball lottery are probably better than either one of those events.