not via trade. However, the Martell Webster deal cleared some cap room for the Matthews signing, and Matthews figures to account for most of the minutes Webster played last season. In that sense, you can consider Matthews to have been indirectly acquired by trade.

One preseason blowout doesn’t mean that much, but any trade that gets Turkoglu and his baggage off one’s hands is going to be a win for the team. That guy is expensive and nowhere near the player he was 2 years ago… Certainly nothing close to what we thought we would have had if we’d signed him last summer. It’s good that he’s in the Western Conference now too, from the Blazers standpoint. It will greatly diminish the Suns relevance in the playoff hunt and make them easier to beat.

But Channing had a career year playing C in PHO. And we all know he’s an oversized 2 or 3.

I can see Hedo as either a 3 or 4 playing some high post and at times initiating the offense while Nash runs off screens.

He’ll hit some clutch outside shots, and make some fancy passes at just the right times.

The PHO version of Hedo may never be the Hedo of ORL, but I suspect he’ll be much more than the Hedo of TOR.