If Chris Paul and/or Dwight Howard wanted to play for the Blazers next season...

Your back is nothing to fuck with. It's probably the most debilitating injury you can have. Anyone who has thrown out there back can attest, it pretty much ruins your life until you feel better, and then you become extremely paranoid about hurting it again. I went through it this last summer. I still think Rudy's career was ruined by Ariza and that fall he took years ago.