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Blazers Make 5 Year Offer To Jazz Guard Wesley Matthews

SLC Dunk has and the Salt Lake City Tribune have the Blazers making an offer to Wes Matthews at 5 years and $25 million. Update: Yahoo! Sports has the offer at five years, $34 million. Update: This from a Blazers press release: TRAIL BLAZERS SIGN WESLEY MATTHEWS TO OFFER SHEET PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Trail Blazers announced today they have signed restricted free-agent guard Wesley Matthews to an offer sheet. Per team policy, financial details were not disclosed. The Utah Jazz will have seven days to match the offer sheet from the day on which they receive it. Undrafted out of Marquette University, Matthews appeared in all 82 games, including 48 starts, for Utah as a rookie during the 2009-10 season. He averaged 9.4 points (48.3% FG, 38.2% 3-PT, 82.9% FT), 2.3 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 24.7 minutes for the Jazz. Matthews (6-5, 220) started all 10 of Utah’s 2010 postseason contests, posting averages of 13.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 37.1 minutes.