Ken Berger coming up on NO radio... http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/standard_plr/audio_player.php?id=WISTAM&playerType=silverlight
b/c whoever broke the story wanted the sex appeal to be LAL or NYK, with ORL thrown in b/c they've been to the Finals. No way would CP3 go to LAL, run the triangle, and be K*be's li'l buddy If he wants "SuperFriends", his best chance is to come here with Roy and Oden and whoever's left over from the purge. If it takes LMA and Batum to get it done, I understand why you'd hesitate, but you gotta pull that trigger.
we're in the drivers seat fellas!!! lets get this done Cho http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=27wmge5
But Broussard also said Dallas was in the mix. I still don't see any competition if Portland really wants him.
I can't see what Dallas could offer that woudl entice N.O. Beaubois is nice, but duplicates Collison. Centerpiece of adeal being a young point isn't too worthwhile fo rthem. They have no other young assets to offer them.
According to Adrian W of Yahoo a while back, there were some conversations going on between the Blazers and Paul's camp(I think some may have even thrown out the word "tampering", so I would not doubt there have been conversations between the Blazers and Hornets over the past month, even after the reported rejected trade back around draft time. I think the news broke today about Paul wanting a trade and the Blazers being on the list since the Hornets hired a new GM (Demps) yesterday and now he won't look like the bad guy if he trades Paul. I also think the Hornets rescinded the deal with Luther Head because their ownership knew that a deal might be happening that would bring back some backcourt help. So, knowing that the Hornets are looking to dump other salaries with Paul, here's my deal: Portland sends: Camby, Pryzbilla, Miller, Fernandez and Batum (hard to send Batum, but I really can't see sitting Matthews on the bench for the amount he's getting paid. They can start him at the 3 and he can guard the likes of Bryant and Melo, besides, trading Batum, not even a top 10 SF in the league for the top PG in the league is a no brainer). NO sends: Paul, Okafor and Posey. PTB: C-Oden/Okafor F-Aldridge/Pendergraph F-Matthews/Cunningham G-Roy/Posey G-Paul/Bayless