http://keepingitheel.com/2012/02/28...reportedly-drawn-interest-from-the-la-lakers/ Sorry if its already been posted. Two questions: 1) what are the Lakers thinking? 2) what could they offer to interest the Blazers? Blakey?
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake I'd take a first round pick for him. LA's bench sucks.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake 1. "Jesus Christ, ANYONE would be better than the PGs we have." 2. The trade exception they got for Lamar Odom. The "former UNC" part is important too - Kupchak is a supposedly fanatically loyal ex-Tarheel.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake +1. First round pick and their TPE for Felton.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake Rule #1: never trade with the lakers. it'll bite us in the ass later. you know it will. he'll have a career game in an elimination game in the playoffs where he knocks down 10 3 pointers in the 4th quarter or something.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake Each of these have more potential value to the Blazers than Felton. If it were actually offered, I'd do that before Kupchak sobered up.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake When have we ever traded with the Lakers? (Besides, we don't NEED to trade with them - Blakey went there of his own volition and had his best game in two years against us last time.)
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake That story is several days old and nothing has happened. I'd say that it's a lot more likely that the Lakers will make a play for Kirk Hinrich.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake No trades are probably going to happen till the deadline. Just because it hasn't happened, doesn't mean it won't.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake Will the Lakers use their trade exception? It would cost them double whatever they take in because of the luxury tax. It would be a good indication of how serious they are at getting Kobe another ring. That trade exception could probably score them somebody pretty damn good in the current climate. (But then of course they have it because they dumped someone pretty good. Who then went to shit.)
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake Fuck the rapers.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake The Blazers aren't making the playoffs, so that's a non-risk.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake A first round pick is just another asset we could throw at Boston...
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake Felton for a TPE and their first
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake The Lakers seem to have a hard on for current/past Blazer PGs with single digit PERs. If they offer us ANYTHING for Felton, I'd do it. Fuck, I'd take a second round pick for him. Of course, they'd need to use the TPE to make that work. So, it clears a roster spot for us. I'm not a Patty Mills fan, but he's better than Felton. Worst case, we jettison Felton and sign Mills. Not the greatest move around, but it gets rid of our worst player, doesn't really hurt our on court performance and keeps the Lakers from using their TPE on someone who might actually help them win more games. BNM
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake The Knicks would give us a late 1st. They'd love another near-all star.
Re: Former UNC Point Guard Raymond Felton Has Reportedly Drawn Interest From The Lake If we could trade them Felton for their first rounder, I would do it in a heartbeat. They are over cap though, so it wouldn't happen.
