(that means it will never happen on utah’s end)

i didn’t even finish reading the rest of the trade.

That sorta guts their roster a bit.

Is Utah takes Picks in return and nothing else after they sign Milsap they will be way over the Cap

for everyone but utah. i know they dont really want boozer but i think they could do better than outlaw and noah.

of

POR sends Steve Blake to CHI
POR receives Kirk Hinrich

UTA sends Carlos Boozer to CHI
UTA receives Tyrus Thomas

CHI sends Kirk Hinrich to POR and Tyrus Thomas to UTA
CHI receives Carlos Boozer

I included those two players from Chicago since they are the ones most mentioned as trade bait. Utah gets salary relief plus Tyrus Thomas to play backup PF (and Thomas also serves as a possible expiring contract if they don’t want him beyond this season). And Portland gets their upgrade at PG.

Boozer is not for them, in my opinion. Nor any big free agent this year.

Here is there plan in my eyes:

Wait for some freak of nature Pau Gasol/Chauncey Billups trade to fall into their laps

OR

Make moves for expiring contracts in 2010 so they can be a player for Dwayne Wade, to bring him back home to pair probably the most disgusting Back Court in the NBA of Rose/Wade.

I think it could work, but i’d expect Utah to want a little something in return if they can get it. Yes, they want cap relief, but the Blazers are full of talented young players with relatively cheap and/or expiring contracts. I’d be surprised if a 3-way deal sending Boozer to the Bulls and Hinrich to the Blazers didn’t also send at least one of our somewhat attractive young guns such as Batum, Rudy, or maybe even Bayless and probably either a Blake or Outlaw expiring contract to the Jazz. None of the first three have expiring contracts but they’d all come with at least pretty good value for the buck which helps in the long run towards fielding as much talent for as little $ as possible (no GM wants to put together a garbage team just to save money, even if they are directly ordered to cut costs they still all want to win as many games as possible while doing it). Portland would be better off trading Rudy if they had to pick one of the three just because he seems the most expendable as he’s yet to prove he can consistently produce at any position outside of SG, on a team with an all-star SG ahead of him. I’m not sure what the Jazz would want, they have a very good PG now and decent wing players. Would they want more of a scoring punch on the wing in Rudy, a very good perimeter defender and probably the player with the most potential in Batum, or a PG/SG hybrid in Bayless that could probably provide decent minutes at both positions now or in the near future? I’m almost sure they’d want one of them, my guess is if there were talks going on, the Jazz would be trying to wrestle Batum from Portland in the deal above all else.