[ Bumped to Front Page, good job Kap -- Ben]

Here is the latest version 1.1 of my Portland Trail Blazers Transactions Flowchart. 

For more explanations regarding the background to this work, see my first FanPost with the chart from April.

Because the chart is so big, this image is only a preview. You can use the following ways to access it:

Option 1:  Navigate it online with the Google Maps interface. Zoom in and out, drag or use the arrow buttons to move in all directions like on a map. This is pretty cool, and the quality is very good.

Option 2: Open/Download it as a PDF (via Rapidshare. You don't need to sign up for an account. High quality, but only ca. 1 MB)

Option 3: Open/Download it as a JPG image (via ImageShack, ca. 4 MB). Alternative JPG dowload (via Rapidshare). Or as a PNG image (via Rapidshare, 11 MB).

The order in which the current players are listed from top to bottom is purely based on how the chart developed and where I had space, not sorted by any preference. The icons for the drafts are in the upper third all on one line to have some consistency. A legend for the symbols is in the bottom-right corner, but I think it's self-explanatory.

Now included:

• The moves from draft day and the offseason so far. I am expecting some small changes before the regular season begins like Pendergraph and Cunningham getting signed, and they are shown as "current players" even though there is no official signing date yet. That along with potentially Shavlik, Ruffin, Raef signing elsewhere in free agency, players in pre-season, and so on will be updated in the files shortly after it happens, but I won't do a new FanPost for that. 
• Connectors from players involved in draft day trades to the draft they were selected in (that was a bit inconsistent in the first version)
• Contract extensions (a player re-signing with the Blazers)
• A number of other small revisions and corrections
• More moves among coaching staff and executives included

(Still) not included:

• More years. I was thinking of adding another decade, but simply don't have the time at the moment. And of course it would make the chart much bigger.
• Trade exceptions. I made a connection between the NY (Zach Randolph) and Suns (James Jones) deals where the use of such an exception was discussed extensively, but that is the only one. There is no reliable source tracking all those exceptions. Essentially I would have to know the contract situation before each trade, and track if the exception was really used later. Impossible. So e.g. the now renounced exception from the Diogu - Ruffin deal is not included.
• The team exercising or declining option years for players in existing contracts, as opposed to signing new contract extensions which are now all included. When a player left the team as a free agent, I didn't care if that happened because his full contract was up or the team didn't pick up the last year of his deal.
• Player profile photos was an idea to make it more visual, but that proved to be a bit too much work for now to search for and rearrange a lot of things.
• Connections for the moves in coaching staff and executive positions. That would cost a lot more space, sometimes things got complicated with new positions, and it isn't that interesting to most people. You should still be able to follow the major changes that happened under a new coach or new management. Also no exact dates. While I have them for many moves for some especially when someone left the team the exact date is harder to track down since there aren't always press releases or notes on prosporttransactions for that. So I left those away.

A few little anecdotes I came across this time (see post from April for some more):

• A small trade of 2006 #31 draft pick James White on draft day looks better and better. We got Nicolas Batum and Dante Cunningham and the rights to Petteri Koponen out of it so far.
• Sergei Monia didn't sign with the Blazers for one season after he was drafted in 2004. Waiting for a player to develop and get out of his contract a la Rudy has happened before (also with Sabonis of course). Similar with Jason Jennings, who was drafted in 2002 and signed in 2003 but waived after just 1 month before the season began. That's where the "signing dates" come into play, for draft acquisitions that's usually weeks and in some cases months to years later. I always tried to visualize the start and end of the timeframe a player actually was with the Blazers.
• Joel Freeland's draft rights are a result of the 2006 draft day deal with the Jazz trading down three spots and picking Martell Webster (instead of Chris Paul or Deron Williams). So if Freeland pans out and comes over, that deal will look again a bit better :)
• Point guard Omar Cook briefly played for the Blazers in 2004 on two ten-day contracts and then signed for the remainder of the season before going overseas. He is now a teammate of Joel Freeland for Unicaja Malaga. He is also a national team player for Montenegro. The more you know...
  
• As remarked in the comments when I first published the chart, the Blazers got the rights to swap second round picks with the Nuggets in 2011 or if they want 2012 after a small legal battle around assistant coach Tim Grgurich switching to the Nuggets in 2005. Odd, but hey, potentially a better asset.
• Former assistant coach Herb Brown is the brother of the more famous Larry Brown, currently with the Bobcats.
• Who is longest with the Trail Blazers (apart from Paul Allen)? It's not Travis. It's not KP. It's not one of the assistant coaches. It's athletic trainer Jay Jensen (1994) and strength and conditioning coach Bob Medina, who started with the Blazers in 1997.

Thanks again to Prosportstransactions as the main source for much of the information, and to Wyn from Canishoopus for the idea of a flowchart for player transactions.