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yeah I've thought of that, but it's Noah Vonleh, why would anyone make that up, that's such a specific person, and nothing about that dudes twitter screams spoooortz.

 

Also doesn't mention flight from where to Den.

Could be he stuck around in BOS to watch his Patriots w/Patty et al and was heading back to PDX via DEN.

 

That's probably the case.

Although the timeline doesn't really add up. Tweet was sent just after 10pm. Assuming Vonleh was at the patriots game, he wouldn't have made it to Denver by that time, unless he left at halftime or something, but what's the point in that?

I'm thinking way more about this than I should, but it's fun to speculate.

 

Very excellent point

 

Actually yah, that's what it was. Connaughtons Instagram story confirms it.

Oh well.

We still need Nurkic!

 

This reminds me of two years ago when we were desperate for bench scoring and Olshey didn't make a move until the last possible second. I'm guessing the same will happen this year. Hopefully at least Vonleh gets the next month to really show what he's got, and maybe we can solve this issue internally.

 

Just saw it. They were on a southwest flight

 

Do you think that it could mean something?

 

On another note, John Henson had a DNP-CD tonight.

 

I got mine. I don't give a fuck where I play.

 

I hope so.

A week or two ago, there was a quote about the Blazers that they were not looking to move Turner or someone else. My memory was Crabbe was suspiciously missing from that quote. Can anyone find it?

 

Allen Crabbe for John Henson confirmed?

 

That would be beneficial for both teams but I believe the Bucks would need to send more salary over.

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=z8lnjux

This would be nice

 

I'd be happy to trade Crabbe away for more manageable salaries, but I don't think Henson would change a whole lot for the Blazers. Henson is basically Ed Davis, prior to Ed Davis' disastrous current season. In fact, I'd rather have the Davis who existed prior to this season than Henson.

But, as I said--more manageable contracts would be nice. If Milwaukee actually was willing to take Crabbe, that'd be great. I think Henson and Dellvedova are significantly more tradeable.

 

Crabbe should want to get traded, whoever trades for him is probably going to start him and he gets a 15% raise.

 

Naw, it's just the basketball gods fuckin with me since Nurkic and Henson are my top two choices.

 

Let's see if they are Neil's top two choices also.

 

Not sure MIL is in any hurry to move Dellavedova. He's back in the starting line up and is 4th on the team in minutes played. I'm also not sure why they'd be so hot to land Crabbe, he'd be a temporary starter until Middleton returns and then he'd be back to being one of the most overpaid bench players in the league.

At the very least, MIL would need a backup PG in return. The trade still works if we add Napier, but I don't think MIL would be thrilled with giving Shabazz Napier Matthew Dellavodva's 26.7 MPG.

All in all, this trade doesn't seem to make sense for MIL, and other than unloading Crabbe's contract, it's not exactly a needle mover for POR. If you just look at positions, it helps balance the roster a little, in theory, but since Ed Davis and John Henson are so similar, it doesn't really help with the distribution of minutes. And, while Dellavedova is better than Napier, especially on defense, we'd still be stuck with the same undersized back court problem we currently have when playing him with either Dame or C.J.

BNM

 

Middleton is back in 2-3 months and he's a much better player than Crabbe, however Bucks are fighting for a playoffs spot NOW so it would in a way make sense to get a shooter in. Problem is they cannot really let Henson go because they need him too. Also, Dellavedova is their best point guard, unless they want to use Giannis at point and move Crabbe to SF when Middleton returns.