(Flashback) BREAKING NEWS: Blazers to Sign Andre Miller

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    RFAs can be S&T.
     
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    Gut feeling - they must have really really liked what they saw of Oden yesterday to go this way.

    I will go on record to say that I am luke-warm on Miller - would rather have taken the bigger risk/bigger reward of having Sessions - but if he is a Blazer I am going to support him and hope he proves me wrong...
     
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    Good point. The Lee sign-and-trade deal is alive again!
     
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    As opposed to saying we could get Ramon Sessions or Andre Miller for the vet minimum? Good one.
     
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    I think this is more a result to what they saw this summer from Bayless.
     
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    Just checked outside ... no pigs flying.

    Just got up off my chair ... no monkeys flying out of my ass.

    Not sure about the temperature in hell.
     
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    Yeah they offered me a 3 year 20 million dollar contract to replace KP as GM. But I turned it down because Milwaukee offered me a similar package and my wife thinks its more cosmopolitan.

    So it could most definitely be worse, I could have accepted and then you know what would have happened day one!

    ;)

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    Yeah, Morey would have said no thanks to your trade offer.
     
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    found it

    http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q36

    towards the end of #36
     
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    LMAO. I will have to fina and post that extra-credit physics question relating to whether Hell is exothermic or endothermic...
     
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    its normal here.
     
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    Re: BREAKING NEWS

    I'm lukewarm on Miller as well, but in retrospect, I'm much happier to see the cap space used on him than on Hedo (hated that move) or Millsap (not a position of need for $8 mil/per).

    I'd still prefer to sit on the cap space, but I'm sure there is a good reason for using it now. Anyhow, I'm excited to see how Miller gels with the team, and if Blake is still around at the start of the season, the back-up PG spot goes from a liability to a strength. I actually think Bayless' suspect performance as a PG in the Vegas summer league convinced the Blazers that they needed to get another veteran PG. If Bayless had shown a grasp on the position, I don't think you'd see this signing.
     
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    :'( yep. Then I would be out of idea no not ideas I meant Idea. I only can hold one in my brain at a time. They say even a blind squirrel can find a nut, most just starve to death.
     
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    so they can offer him up as a trade for that amount of salary? And where is Sessions gonna get the money offered now? we cant anymore
     
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    Actually this all goes back Zach Randolph. Andre Miller is just the final piece that we added after making that move to rid ourselves of Zach.

    Pritch is God. Proof. Bam. Thank you, mam!
     
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    yeah was just reading that, ignore the last one lol
     
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    I never said the Blazers could get them for the vet minimum. I said I'd offer Miller the vet minimum. Obviously the team felt differently. Sessions I never wanted, plus as a RFA, offering him the vet minimum makes zero sense. Perhaps try to get my position correct next time before posting?
     
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