but he does not play defense. Secondly, he is much more of a PF than a SF.

Who are you thinking of moving?
RLEC?
Outlaw?
Frye?
Webster?
Batum?
Ike?
Shavilik?

Will he sit behind LMA?
Will he push Batum/Web/Law futher onto the bench? (or off of it if they are traded).

Why?

if we could get jamison and possibly someone else for RLEC outlaw or martell and someone like sergio or frye, this would be an awesome deal. Jamison would be very motivated to be able to win some games, and he can shoot, rebound, the guy would make our team very legit, as long as he can buckle down on D, if there’s one thing that nate has shown, you can get no playing time on this team without at least a solid effort on D.

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=341727542015385&teams=27272722&te=&cash=

I like him, but I fear he doubles LMA’s position more than Outlaw, and he is too good and expensive at this age to play as a backup. If the Blazers would be convinced he could start as a three and it’s not just an experiment, that would be an interesting pickup if we don’t have to give up one of our main guys.

Trades: RLEC + Outlaw for Jamison + Songaila might work, but it’s likely not enough (and they would not put the younger Blatche in there instead of Songaila). If we add Frye, the deal would only work if we take Etan Thomas back instead (RLEC + Outlaw + Frye = Jamison + Thomas).

let me just say that i haven’t loved a player for his portland-ness like channing frye since.. oh probably brian grant. if we do part with ol’ channer (and i’m sure we will, likely sooner than later) i hope he keeps a home here and maybe does blazer ambassador stuff. i’d miss him.

but i don’t think he necessarily fits our needs at this point. We’ve got scorers, I’d rather see an elite level ball handler who can play w/out the ball as well and shoot from deep and defend the 1 respectably, or a lock down defender who would be coming in off the bench to bolster the second unit defensive effort.

I interpreted ‘wait and see’ as no thank you to any but the most lopsided trade and let’s watch this team keep winning, not wait and see if we could use Jamison.

but i don’t think he necessarily fits our needs at this point. We’ve got scorers, I’d rather see an elite level ball handler who can play w/out the ball as well and shoot from deep and defend the 1 respectably, or a lock down defender who would be coming in off the bench to bolster the second unit defensive effort.

The Bullets aren’t going to give away Jamison for backups, even talented ones like Trout and Channing. You can keep throwing more players into the deal but being an NBA GM is not like being a GM in NBA Live. To get Jamison you are going to have to trade a potential all-star caliber player like Aldridge. I wouldn’t even be sure that the Bullets would make the trade if you threw Rudy into the deal, which I am sure people here would be against.

Okay, here’s the quick ‘n’ dirty on Antawn Jamison.

1. Jamison is an inefficient shooter (41.5% eFG%) on jump shots.

2. Jamison shoots too many jumpers — which makes up 59% of his field-goal attempts — for a 6’9" dude.

3. Jamison lacks the strength, toughness, and intensity to guard power forwards.

4. Jamison lacks the speed, agility, and lateral quickness to guard small forwards.

5. Jamison has a exorbitantly large contract that shouldn’t be touched with a ten-foot pole.

Well, that’s that.

But really, I’d rather get Caron Butler. That guy’s a stud.

I think this is a fair deal for both sides. You would be fools to pass this deal up.

(I’m joking, obviously.)

Shouldnt this poll be for Caron?
He would fit much better and is much younger

I proposed Blake, Pryzbilla and Sergio for Antawn. That’s probably not enough of a return for us, and I doubt you’d trade both your PGs, so that’s probably out. Maybe substitute Outlaw for Blake and we’d throw in someone like Darius Songaila.

So it’d be Antawn and Songaila for Outlaw, Pryz, Sergio and either Channing Frye/Ike Diogu.

but I don’t see how Jamison is an improvement over him, especially considering their ages.

I don’t want to do this trade. – Elgin

I would trade for Butler before I traded for Jamison….but I don’t dictate any trading.

I don’t think there’s any combination of players that the Wiz would take in exchange that wouldn’t be too high a price to pay. And for not that big an improvement. If any. And what would the deal do to the locker room?

However, I would be willing to trade Webster and another player (Sergio?) for their lottery pick. I might even throw in Raef’s big cap space bonanza (even though we could kinda use that, too.)

His personality and work ethic fit our culture. He’s a bit of a tweener forward, but it doesn’t take much of an imagination to get excited about a front line of Jamison, Aldridge and Oden.

There’s a lot of trade talk out there, but when I look around the league there are very few vets that I’d really want to introduce to our awesome roster. The “borderline” note means it would have to be an absolute steal to make the deal, IMO.

Jamison
Battier
Lee
Calderon
Nash
Deng & Hinrich (borderline)
Prince
Granger
Paul (notgonnahappen)
G. Wallace (borderline)

I consider SG, PF and C filled and untouchable. I’ve also left off superstars that would steal focus from our team oriented game. Considering that, what is your list?

It makes me laugh when this site has encouraged me to ignore/report silly trade ideas recently, and then posts one front and center in the next few days.

Maybe I should report this misuse of the site to Ben?

Seriously, this idea isn’t as horrid as some, but it isn’t as good as some either.

There’s not really a need for Jamison, while he can shoot the three he’s 31, the tail end of his career. You could probably do a lot better than Jamison with that kind of offer, or probably giving away less, like maybe Hedo? If you’re dead set on getting a PG, try Raymond Felton perhaps, a straight-up of Felton for Outlaw is a maybe, or Gerald Wallace, but he can’t shoot threes.

It upsets me a great deal that someone that follows this team and holds such an important position to my favorite site, would even suggest that a deal being made for Antawn Jamison is a good idea.

His defense. Defense? The only thing he provides to a team defensively is rebounding. We’ve got the #1 and #2 overall rebounding centers in the league. This quality of his is nice, but has very little relevance on this team. He can’t defend on the perimeter because he is far too slow, and he can’t defend in the post because he is far too short. So basically, having him on the floor is going to hurt your defense, and if he were on the court at the same time as say, Travis Outlaw, or Channing Frye it would be a disaster.

His offense. He’s supposedly an interior presence, but again, if he were to start he’d play the 3 here. He takes a surprisingly high percentage of his shots from outside (59), while not being a great shooter (33 from 3). He’s a poor passer, despite touching the ball a ton, he gets under 2 assists per game. His only real contribution offensively to this team would be on the offensive glass. The issue there however is that LMA and Batum are already very good offensive rebounders, and they provide other important skills to this team (Batum’s D and 3PT’r) and LMA’s general awesomeness.

The biggest and most crippling mind numbingly dumb part of any trade in which we get Jamison is his age and his salary. He’s owed over 50 million dollars for the next 4 years, and he’s already 32 years old. I’m not sure how familiar some of you are with basketball players prime ages, but Jamison is already 5 years past his, and he isn’t getting any better. Most players when they get up in age try to grab onto skills they can maintain (3PT), but Jamison has had a steadily decreasing % from 3 the last 4 years. The reason his PER is so high is because without Haywood on the Wiz he gets a lot of rebounds by default. He also uses up a lot of his teams offensive possessions. He’s just not an efficient enough guy for a basketball team and it shows it the Wizards record 3-12.

There are a ton of players that are better fits, cost less, and are younger. Please in the future Ben, find those guys to write trade rumors about. I can also assure you that any KP rumors surrounding Jamison or the Wizards are false. We’ve got one of the best GM’s in recent memory, and I’m not at all worried bout such a disasterous trade going down.

Some players that you could write more reasonable trade rumors about include, Gerald Wallace, Mike Miller, Tayshaun Prince, Shane Battier, Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Marvin Williams, Shawn Marion (I’m against this one too), Hedo Turoglu (through FA), AK47 (although he’s on a rival), Mike Conley Jr, Jason Terry, Baron Davis, Luis Scola, Carl Landry etc….

I’ll say it again:

Here’s a good trade suggestion:

Nobody for no one.

Can we please just forget about trading our players? Goodness gracious.

I don’t think Antawn Jamison fits in.

• Too weak defensively
• A tweener forward
• Old
• Long contract with limits any other moves the Blazers might want to do