Sergio will successful lead a team to a championship game….a futuristic game where missed shots count as points and each assist yields a chalupa.

Nope…not gonna happen.

Blazers have taken care of it and will. They´ll look for keep him healthy and he´ll work for that goal too.

What else did you expect? ;0

I want to echo Daves point, THE BLAZERS WILL NEVER HAVE CHRIS PAUL AS THEIR POINT GUARD. Nice thought, but never even close to a reality. Oh, and also, they’re not moving to Seattle either damn it!

...for a straight across trade of Zach Randolph for Richard Jefferson: a veteran SF who is a team player with a knack for taking the ball to the hoop and drawing fouls, can run, has playoff experience and plays decent defense. Even though KP made a nice move at the Knick’s expense, I would still do this deal. But alas…it’s never gonna happen.

Also…
Greg Oden will never be called “Babyface”
Mortimer will never be known as a “man of few words”
The jersey of Bonzi Wells will never hang in the Rose Garden – unless in effigy
Will any true Blazer fan wear Laker apparel? Never!
Never will Nate utter these words: “I’ve been too hard on you guys. Take the week off”

Blazers will not get Chris Paul (he loves his team, AND the city he plays for and he’s winning)
Blazers will not get Williams.
Blazers will not be able to trade up for the top three picks. (surprised I listed that?)
Blazers are NOT going to Seattle.
Blazers will never win with the current roster and no changes
Blazer players will not be happy with so much talent buried so deep.
Blazers will not sacrifice young talent for a two year prime vet in the next two years (see silly kid or nash trade ideas).
Blazers are NOT going to make major block buster signing deals (signing expensive vets who are over priced or even market priced because that tends to be overpriced).
Roy will never be a superstar (but he will be the leader of our team and the heart and reason we win. People have compared him to Jordan but if you look at Jordan and look at Roy you can see that there really is no athletic comparison although Roy seems to mirror other Jordan traits and that’s good)
KP will NEVER be mistake free, but he’ll definitely do more good than harm.
Fans will NEVER be 100% pleased except maybe for the first day – month after a championship (and then they’ll go back to figuring how to tweak the team again)
Fans will NEVER agree 100% on everything (thank goodness because this site would become dull!)
Fans will NEVER always be right
Fans will NEVER always be wrong (and sometimes there never really is right or wrong but there will always be the “what if”)
SErgio is NEVER going to be a star or a good player playing for the blazers.

he would have written, “We’re not going to get Greg Oden.”

This has been a long time coming… I took a hiatus (used to post as Champs2009 but lost my password and my computer) but I’m back and looking for something to carry me over to next season…

Never gonna happen?

Historical -
Terry Porter + a draft pick for Gary Payton… Man, I loved TP but The Glove taught me how to play the game.
Bill Walton and Maurice Lucas continue and expand the “Seafirst Jammin’ Hoops Camp.” Looking back, this was a star-studded coaching staff at a relatively cheap summer basketball camp. Not many kids can say Walton and Lucas taught them how to cheat down low for rebounds…
Shawn Kemp for Jermaine O’Neal… Yeah…

Current -
Josh McRoberts starts as our small forward and averages a triple-double for the first month of next season…
9 out of 10 fans at the Rose Garden can explain why the Blazers mascot is a “Trail Cat.”
Kevin Pritchard and Paul Allen choreograph a dance to “Crank That” by Souljah Boy…
Obama chooses Greg Oden as his running mate…
The Sports Guy uses “Raef LaFrentz’s Expiring Contract” 2,126 times in his ESPN column next season (he’ll only use it 2,125 times)...

And…

Sorry Fatty (if you’re still out there somewhere), the Houston Rockets will NOT win this year’s NBA Championship!

and I’m sure all of the Sergio Rodriguez man crushers will beg to differ but Sergio will never be the next steve nash on the blazers.

There’s NO WAY they can bring in a star player to the horrible mix they’ve got right now. They’ve got Paul Pierce and some young projects…no way they could bring in an Amare Stoudemire without giving up Pierce. Never gonna’ happen.

And there’s no way the Lakers can add a key piece without giving up Kobe or Bynum. They’ll probably have to give away Bynum, and maybe Odom if they want another piece, and probably a few draft picks or maybe a guy like Jordan Farmar. No way is anyone going to give up there star, unless the Lakers really shell out the dough.

With that said, I’m predicting we sign Miles back and trade him straight up for Paul.

Before this season, and for that matter in the beginning of this season, getting Chris Paul may not have been a “never gonna happen”.
N.O. was not having a lot of success, they weren’t drawing crowds, it was looking like they might not even have been able to stay in N.O., and Chris Paul was just a very good PG not a MVP runner up.
Add to that the fact that N.O. has a ton of money already wrapped up in West, Chandler, and Stojakavic.
If things hadn’t gone so well for them this season, given the franchises precarious future and substantial financial obligations, would they really have matched a max deal for Paul next season and gone into luxury tax world with only about 7 players under contract.
It was a lot more fun to talk about then.
But now, their future is secure, the crowds are pouring in, they’re winning a ton, Chris Paul is the best player the franchise has ever had, and the added revenue from deep playoff runs make the luxury tax a lot easier to swallow, sooooo…
...it’s never gonna happen.

will never be as good as Chris Paul. Never gonna happen. He’ll be an awesome player for many years and very well could have more team success (and he will if Oden lives up to his potential) but CP3 is a cut above as a player.

Because LeBron will become a Portland Trail Blazer.

...Sergio will never become the star everyone things he is (unless he learns to shoot and play defense)
... The Blazers will never move to Seattle
... The Oregonian and John Canzano will never stop being critical
... Chris Paul is not coming to the Blazers
... We will not draft another (!) young point guard
... Jose Calderon is not coming to the Blazers

Martell will never be as good as k*be.
A Jack trade will never yield a better point guard than he is.
When Raef’s contract expires the cap space will not be enough to lure an all-star player to Portland.
There i said it, now i am going to go cry for the next couple of days…

Will never see it rain agian like Z-Bo and D. Miles could make it rain.

The 5 paragraphs on “what New Jersey gets….” “what Portland gets”....”why we/they do this trade”. A general rule of thumb – if it doesn’t hurt, you’re not giving up enough. Just because Lebron James is a 10 does not mean you can trade 5 players who are a 2 to get him. These aren’t babes in the woods, they’re NBA GM’s and just about all of them know how to do their jobs. Just not quite as well as KP does.

Jettisoning the JailBlazers didn’t hurt because we didn’t want them despite their talent. There are likely some changes in the works that are going to hurt. My buddy is a huge Lakers fan and can recite the history of the team almost to the dates the happenings….. happened. Ugh

Anyway we were talking recently and he said “I love your team, it reminds me of some old Laker teams where we were just stocked and on any given night anyone could just explode for 30. But it’s not going to last, and you wouldn’t want it to anyway. You want, 3 or 4 guys to be great, not 9. There are a few different tiers of GM’s, and your Pritchard is up there with the late 80’s to mid 90’s Jerry West. Pretty soon, he’s going to trade a bunch of your young guys for what’s going to seem like nothing, and you’re going to be pissed. But it’s going to work for some weird cosmic basketball reason and your team is going to function like it should and you’re going to pull down some rings.”

He’s smarter than me.

Blazers aren’t going to trade a cheap, quality, hard-working guy like Steve Blake and change for an over-the-hiller like Magloire. No way. Not gonna happen. Say wha? Bull! You’re kidding! Eeks!

I get suckered in by trade rumors every now and then, but that one I refused to fall for. So on that note: Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Jose Calderon, or Devin Harris won’t be playing for the Blazers while in their prime.

will ever win the league’s MVP award.

ever be able to find a taker for Jarret Jack this offseason, and he will still be with the team next season.

make any magical acquisitions on Draft Day. Just some minor-seeming moves that end up being much larger than they first appear.

entertain ANY trade offers for Rudy, or any of our ‘big three’.

be able to resist trading Travis for veteran help, possibly on draft day in a move that does not seem to make much sense at the time. This will, however, end up being pivotal to our future success in some way.

Holmgren will retire from the Seahawks only to come to the Blazers to replace Nate and lead this young team to a championship?

also…

In an effort to boost publicity, the Blazers will trade Paul Allen for Mark Cuban.

Will NEVER get injured in a Blazers uniform.

Wasn’t there a huge post by Ben here about retiring a number? Where did it go?

Nothing gets my goat more then people saying that we’re going to sign Paul as a free agent. Everytime I see someone type this, I think, “what an idiot”. I know, that’s mean, but it’s how I feel. I’d say the odds are about as good that N.O. signs BRoy when he is a free agent.

Paul will be signed to a max contract with N.O… get over it.

Deron Williams is not coming to the Blazers. Never gonna happen. We had our chance to draft him a couple of years ago. He’s gone for good now.

I dont know, mabee I’m an idiot, but I definatley think we should reach for it. L*ker sites would being saying “we will NEVER dump Kwami for Gasol” All my friends use to ask, “Why do you try and talk to her, she’s never gonna like you”. Now those circumstances are different, and Nawlins’ ARE winning, so even though George Schinn? stated that he would not give any of his players a max contract. Sorry I dont have the link, it was a while ago. Well no matter how bad I hated my job, If I was offered a 60% pay raise, I would probably stay and like it. So I guess he does have the right to change his mind. So yah as they go deeper, schinn has probably allready earmarked for Paul.

Now in a recent interview with pritchards assistant, the question was asked about that 09 capspace, and the answer was vaque but aluded to the fact that having our core so cheap, and all that cap space is a rare opprotunity to run at something heavey. Also, in nearlly all Pritchards interviews, he seams very aware of this fact, and has even stated-not exact quotes- That unless some team makes a rediculas offer, letting us get away with robbery, we are probably not doing anything.

C- great teams are great teams but only for so long, some longer then others, peaple get old, hurt, sometimes some unexpected offcourt issue can destroy team chemistry. there are as many reasons as there are great teams. And just like with Divorce, relationships can change. They just don’t always stay the same forever. Well a lot can happen in a year. Our chance, or chances if it really is more then 0.001% are truly sliming the deaper Pual moves through the west coast, but can also increase with circumstance. Failure breeds discontentment, now i am not saying that they wont win, this year or next, but no one call the future with certainty, so we can only speculate. Again alot can happen in a year. Now I’m not now and have never been ignorant enough to really think this trade was going to happen, but by the same coin, I will not give up my “hand of God hope” (slim chance), and I will certainly not pretend I can assert my “Stern” will on the NBA with proclamations of what will or will not happen, hopeing my template version fits the future.