Twitter rumor - Blazers to deal F Gerald Wallace for picks

Jquick

Very possible now that Blazers are working toward adding both @JCrossover and Carl Landry. Trade exception could net Crawford and MLE Landry

 

This will be a part of something much bigger.

Otherwise, their marketing right now is a big 'ol fail:

 

Jason Quick @jwquick
Very possible now that Blazers are working toward adding both @JCrossover and Carl Landry. Trade exception could net Crawford and MLE Landry

 

Exactamundo.

I'm getting really excited about the team again.

#crossingmyfingers

 

Ben Golliver @blazersedge
Five words to terrify a city: "We really believe in Luke."

 

I'd look at Kris Humphries or Ryan Anderson instead of Landry, tbh.

But this IS the draft to stock up on picks. Probably the deepest one since 03.

 

So we potentially lose Wallace, but get short term deals on Crawford and maybe Landry and up to three future firsts? Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

 

Jason Quick @jwquick
Blazers would look like this: Felton, Matthews, Batum, Aldridge, Camby with Crawford, Landry, Thomas anchoring second unit.

 

Hell yes.

 

That's a competitive team and not much less competitive than if they scratched out Crawford and Landry and put Wallace back in there.

 

son of a bitch what's the world coming to, the dwarf and I agree! lol

 

Everybody thinks I'm some kind of Eeyore. The truth is that when somebody gives me a shit sandwich, I'm not afraid to refuse to eat it and will tell people it is in fact a shit sandwich.

If this trade goes through, this is the best possible outcome I could have envisioned when it looked like Roy and Oden's careers were very seriously in doubt last year. So when things start to go the way I think they should I do in fact get excited.

 

i just dont know this blazers team anymore...

 

I know, it's been an age since this front office showed some long run vision and the ability to make competent personnel decisions.

 

In the last few years, we have very rarely traded for draft picks. Part of the reason why was because of PA's willingness to throw 3mil at some cash strapped team to get picks at draft time.

But the new CBA says we can only throw in a net 3mil cash max per season in a trade. Wonder if that had anything to do with why we want picks now.

 

this is a pretty attractive scenario, especially in a very deep draft.

 

I'll be shocked if we get Landry, I think he's waiting for NOH to up their offer, they probably end up doing something like $29+ million over 4 years and max we can do is $21 million. He is happy in NOH, they lost David West and he played well for them in the playoffs. It's his first decently sized contract so he's not taking a 25+% paycut to come to the rainy NW.

 

lets all keep our perspective that a Dwight Howard trade is a HUGE IF so this is likely not to happen.

 

What's the purpose of getting picks? To find an all-star forward, right?

He doesn't fit in with Nate's system? Good! Like Andre Miller, he adds a dimension to a flat unimaginative system.