schedule comes out today.

Do you think they are the holy trinity of Blazer’s Edge? I need to work out the details more but Dave is pretty much all knowing, as to what takes place on Blazer’s Edge. Blazer’s Edge is our universe and even though it wasn’t created by Dave, he takes care of it. Ben is sort of the Holy Spirit of Blazer’s Edge. I think Dave is Blazer’s Edge Jesus.

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That we traded RLEC for Kenyon Martin so the Nuggets could save money or something. It was the third dream in a set of 3 bad dreams.

Hoopshype/The Oklahoman: “Bennett remains non-committal on when the Oklahoma City office will be running full steam. Basketball operations, human resources, even business operations remain in Seattle. Some employees will make the move, others will not. The relocation and launch aspects of the franchise are being handled by a few senior employees on the ground here in OKC.”

Funny sidenote: In this article even the local reporter is beginning to call OKC the “Not-The-Sonics” while waiting for a name, a logo, colors, ...

Says the Blazers are one of only six teams that improved over the summer:

The Blazers didn’t make any major moves this summer. But they’ve improved enough that you have to believe they’ll be a serious contender for one of the eight playoff spots in the West next season.

I agree with Ridiculous Upside that it’s kinda bad that the NBA overpays some guys and others have to go to Europe to make money playing BBall.

It just bothers me that guys with considerable talent and a passion for the game don’t get a chance to live their dream while Kwame Brown gets $8 million over two years. Stephon Marbury is making about 25 times what it would cost to get these guys to sign. And that just irritates me. I’m glad somebody out there values talent.

..by her sup…we haven’t seen her in here for a coupla days

Don’t have enough info for a fanpost, but rumors have it that talks between him and the Sixers are stalling. He seems to be demanding money in the Luol Deng range (ca. 70+ million over 6 years). Philly wants him back, but is also looking into sign-and-trades. They couldn’t take back e.g. the RLEC for him due to BYC restrictions (unless we take on a bad contract, but they don’t have that many), and we would have to offer at least one nice player for him. Any interest in a slasher and high-flying dunker who is 24, could start on 3 but also play the 2, has a PER of 19 (!), can get close to 20 ppg any night, gives a lot of assists for a player on his position but is only an average outside shooter and defender?

There are also rumors that Indiana is in talks with Danny Granger about a long-term contract extension already this year. I support the “wait until 2009 and see school of thought”, but have to admit that with Deng off the market at least the number of attractive free-agent targets is getting smaller right now – which of course doesn’t prevent us from making a good trade next season.

Which member of the big three would you be willing to give up to get rid of Wheels and Rice? I’d give up LMA.

Just kind of an interesting idea. No one else has the money, and we would be getting a lot of value for the Contract. This is of course ridiculous as we already have Brandon and could use the contract to shore up our SF position.

But it is kind of interesting that you can assume the Bulls make this sign-and-trade, as they are very worried about spending too much money, and he would also give them the Big man with the scoring ability that they have wanted (believe me I know he is not up to putting in very many minutes on the court, but he would be valuable in the veteran big man position, and there is something he does know how to do and teach, and that is scoring from the post position).

Ben Gordan puts up almost 20 points a game, and can just shoot the lights out. While i am looking forward to Rudy acting in the SG role, it would be pretty amazing if he ended up being a better player than Gordon. Gordon also will almost certainly shoot the 3-ball better, and while we are giving up 2 years of youth (to the day actually) we are gaining a lot in the fact that we can be fairly confident of what he will bring to the table, and while it definitely is a slap in the face to Rudy to bring in a back-up over his position, should we care that much if it makes our team better?

if the plan is to let RLEC expire then we probably would have signed PK from the summer league, if the plan is to make a big trade, then (IMO) it can’t get much better than this. While we can sit and wait for another player, Ben Gordon would still (again IMO) have value as a trading piece. And if we do keep him, he would be an excellent piece in the 4th quarter when Brandon takes the PG position. According to his rep he would want a little bit more than Larry Hughes is getting, which would match almost perfectly with Raef.

The other thing is the Bulls also have the option of simply not signing Ben Gordon, and taking the money off of the cap straight off. So if this were to happen it would almost definitely require giving up some pieces that we probably don’t want to part with, but after reading the Sports Illustrated article about the Gordon issue, I realized that we are one of a very few teams that might be interested in this.

And you can’t show me any stats to get me to change my mind.

I’m starting it.
I think it is time.
I need something to believe in.
BlueBooYay is the first deacon.

I know we dont want to trade any of our players, and we want to see how the season starts out before we do anything but..

Tayshaun Prince/Antonio McDyess
for
Martell Webster/Raefs Corpse

I don’t know how serious Dumars is about rebuilding his team. While he loses an integral piece in Prince, he gets back a dangerous shooter in Martell and serious cap relief. I think McDyess is over paid and at the end of the road, but he would be a good mentor and a serviceable backup. In the worst case we could flip him to another team for an expiring contract if need be.

Would you do it? I would
Would Detroit do it? I think it would maybe take a future pick in there, but I would be willing to part with one of our first rounders down the line.. maybe 2010 or 2011

Besides my obvious weakness for lightskinned, tall, skinny boys, his d fence is off the HOOK. He would make our team better.. no doubt. However, McDyess = dead weight. TP is a pretty good shooter and I would worry about the eventual touchs he takes away from Travis.. as the 4th q is Travis’ time. IMO adding TP is going to hurt Nate’s system.

Sophia

but we may not need the same amount of scoring down the stretch as before. I think Bayless helps the second unit quite a bit..

still #25

What about acquiring Rip Hamilton or Jamal Crawford next year? Both have early termination options in 2009, so they could become unrestricted free agents a la Baron Davis and Elton Brand if they and their agents were convinced we would sign them.

Crawford (6’5, would be 29 then) is great friends with Brandon Roy as we recently learned (hey now, that surprised me a little). Like Roy SG is the natural position for his size but he can also play some time at the point. Including Bayless basically we would have a team with three combo guards (has that been done before?). He can mail it in at times (Chicago fans still hate him), but is arguably the best player on the Knicks roster and I suppose Roy has his respect. Still the Knicks might not even try to bring him back to save more cap space for their desperate 2010 efforts.

Hamilton is two years older, taller (6’7), great outside shot, moves amazingly well without the ball (what Roy still is learning), and has proven that he can win it all.

it was almost immediate.

BEdge >>>> Doing your job

Definitely junk drawer material…but…check this out….

I just received my ESPN the magazine today, and it has Olympic swimmer (and swimming God) Michael Phelps on the cover, with the captions “Aquaman Returns” and “Michael Phelps, Superhero”. He is walking underwater in a pool, showing some major muscles. Probably the best mag cover I’ve ever seen, and I’m not really a swimming fan (I can barely tread water). But I really admire his accomplishments.. Pretty cool looking picture. Google it, buy it, etc. – check it out. Very, very, very cool.

John

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its a little old, and i havent read the whole thread yet, bet they seem sincer in there distaste for mr stern.