Source: Blazers Identified As 'Wild Card' For Omer Asik

Fwiw, Lopez is experiencing back pain that started in Philly, according to Haynes.

Iirc didn't he injure his back in PHX?

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5035772

 

Oshley better get on phone fast

 

If they can get his back fixed with rest I'm fine being extra cautious and holding Lopez out for a few games. Might cost us a win or two right now but worth it in the long run.

 

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Houston has ended talks on an Omer Asik trade and plan to keep him for now, league source tells Yahoo Sports.

 

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Houston has found too many teams leery of Asik's contract next season, and hasn't found a deal it wants.

 

Posturing.

The thing is, it's probably the other teams that have ended talks.

 

LMAO! They didn't get what they wanted? No surprise! Asik's demands and bloated 3rd year killed any true effort to get something quality in return. OKC wouldn't mind trading Perkins for him I bet.

 

So much for the deadline. Guess it was all rhetoric by Houston to try and get a biddy war.

 

Good way to increase value

 

exactly, Morey for once has fukked this one up

 

after the "value" HOU expected has crashed I guess a dead cat bounce is hoped for

 

Morey gave away TRob to get Howard, now he's going to have to give away (or underutilize) Asik, because he got Howard.

Good.

 

What he really should have done was given us Asik when the Howard fiasco took place. We would have gladly given up more cap space to get him back then. Then they could have kept T. Rob; which would be better for them anyway.

We would have still had the opportunity to get Lopez too, if we traded a player with the Asik deal. Possibly Freeland

 

We would've given up our draft pick that became CJ to get Asik. Yes Morey has totally botched this situation.

After Houston raped the Thunder in the Harden deal they have unrealistic expectations of what they are able to get back in a trade. Every day Asik is on that roster he is losing trade value, it was at the peak in the summer.

Its similar to people holding onto a house in 2008, they just can't accept the loss. The market is not going to go back to what it was in the summer. Houston hasn't been able to come to grips with that.

 

"The Houston Rockets have abruptly ceased trade talks involving Omer Asik and now face the complicated task of trying to re-integrate the unhappy center into their frontcourt rotation, according to sources close to the process.

Sources told ESPN.com that the Rockets moved away from the negotiating table Thursday when it became apparent they wouldn't find a trade that matches their valuation of Asik before their self-imposed Dec. 19 deadline to move him."

-Marc Stein/ESPN


Wait for it...


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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHahahahhaahahahhaa....haha...ha




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They aren't getting anywhere near what they thought he was worth. Hilarious.

 

This is good. Fuck Asik and Fuck the Rockets.... They dropped the ball and should have used Asik as the trade to free up cap space. They probably could have gotten a first rounder and back-up big that would fit their need. Instead they lost T. Rob (Not really too huge I guess) and probably won't get anything but scrubs for Asik.

 

hahahahaaaahhaa They wait till the trade deadline now..odds are they get even less, because there will be more players on the market as teams fight to tank the hardest..

 

I would love to watch them have a free-fall before then. Howard would be crying to the media about how this organization isn't worthy of his "un-clutch" performance. Most likely campaigning to get McHale fired!