LOL! Blazers save Courtney Lee trade to Boston! PA's revenge

The Blazers cost the Wolves Scola and Lee.

 

olshey is a barter

 

Neil is the Illuminati of the NBA. Wait till next year when he turns Babbit into LBJ.

 

well, they cost cap space, but yeah

 

rasta, any info on these euros?

 

Until someone convinces you to trade the car for some magic beans.... (a reference to "The Office").

 

ha! Nice.

 

you shoulda saved that one until somebody organically introduced a telescope into the conversation

 

I have a suspicion that this comes back to Olshey's history as an agent and his philosophy of having good personal relationships with them. He knows them, they trust each other, they work together. It has to make his job so much easier. He doesn't have to know what everyone is doing so much as the agents know to get ahold of him and see if he can help them out, to their mutual benefit.

 

Well we had the 41st pick and traded it away for cash; that Greek was the 46th pick. If he was at all on our board wouldn't we have just drafted him?

Its hard for me to get excited about three moves that seem to primarily be based on saving the team cash. If we had Donald Sterling as an owner fans would be annoyed the team is looking to save money instead of deals that bring in assets. Paul Allen used to go out and buy picks and buy players, now his team is making the opposite deals.

 

So you're saying instead of essentially trading the #41 for cash, #46, a future 2nd and another euro, we should have just taken the guy we got at 46 at 41? And just skipped on getting cash, a future 2nd, and another asset? Well that makes no sense at all.

 

they also made a max offer on roy hibbert, and matched 11 million per to batum

if a team is going to throw you cash, why say no?

i will admit that might have been the first pick i remember us selling though, maybe olshey had some back room deal going down

 

no but we could have drafted another player at 41, and then done the samee deal with NY anyways

 

we could have, sure. he was saying take the guy at 41 we essentially got at 46. If we got 500,000 for the 41, I can't fault Paul for pocketing cash over a 2nd rounder who won't get much burn for us.

 

I understand where you're coming from, but also the landscape has changed since draft day. The Hibbert max contract offer, matching Batum, Claver and Freeland coming over, etc. So, maybe selling the 41st pick made sense at the time as part of the larger picture.

And, now that the dust has settled, we turned Fatty Felton into a veteran role player and good locker room guy, two Euros (one who we might have drafted at 41, if we'd kept the pick) a future second round pick and cash. Given that we would have gladly let Felton walk for nothing, I'd say Olshey did pretty good. Worst case, we acquired some future trading chips and cash and for essentially nothing. Anytime you can get something for nothing, I'd say your doing OK.

BNM

 

Bye Bye Diebler.

http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/rockets-get-players-and-pick-three-team-deal

 

Ya know I was hoping it would be bye bye Babbit.

 

While I think Diebler > Babbitt, Babbitt has much more value, so I hope we get more for him.

 

The Portland Trail Blazers have acquired guard Sasha Pavlovic, two 2013 second round draft picks and cash considerations from the Boston Celtics while sending the draft rights to guard Jon Diebler to the Houston Rockets as part of three-team trade, it was announced today by General Manager Neil Olshey.

2 picks. even better