Bucher: Blazers Would Be Good Fit For Hornets PG Chris Paul?
Ric Bucher of ESPN.com (Insider) writes that the Portland Trail Blazers could be a good fit for New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul if and when he becomes a free agent...
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If Paul has a list of preferred destinations, he hasn't let it be known, so let's assume the field is wide open. Let's also assume he wants to go to a bigger market and play with another superstar, which seems to be the blueprint du jour. I see the Knicks as the most ideal fit with either Amare or Carmelo. (Put down the pipe, Knicks' fans, if you're thinking you can have all three.) His toughness and ability to penetrate and kick would work well with the skill set of either current Knick star and, unlike Dwight, he has the necessary nastiness to keep Melo focused. The MSG crowd also enjoys a show and Paul is certainly an entertainer. I'd worry a bit about marrying two stars -- Amare and CP3 -- who already have knee issues at such a relatively young age and are average defenders, at best. But I'd love to see Deron as a Net and CP3 as a Knick battle for point-guard supremacy in Gotham.
Now, if market size weren't a factor, the Trail Blazers would be an ideal fit for Paul, assuming the Brandon Roy issue can be resolved. Roy and Paul would have a hard time coexisting, but I can't think of a big man who would benefit more from playing with Paul than LaMarcus Aldridge, and Portland has the necessary compensatory size at the other perimeter positions.
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Who with bad knees wouldn't be?
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by T Darkstar on Jun 29, 2011 10:19 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
Can we trade Felton?
If so. This indicates we are getting Chris Paul.
by Oden Mad, Oden Smash! on Jun 29, 2011 10:34 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
If you got them good and drunk
They might consider this:
That link just goes to an empty trade.
Copy the Share link
It's
Felton, Batum, Camby, and Ewill for CP3/Okafor.
Lil cap relief and some young talent. Like I said though, you’d have to get them good and drunk.
"Maybe... if we got him drunk. Verrrrry Drunk."
"Every day was a good day at UCLA." -Coach John Wooden
Wouldn't everywhere be a good fit for Chris Paul?
That’s what it is to be a great PG – you make everyone better.
(As David West and the new team that signs him will find out.)
by meru on Jun 29, 2011 10:50 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
That's what I was thinking. Maybe he would have a hard time in chicago?
No one in the world can beat me at RBI baseball 3(nes).
future 1st round pick for cp3
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Trade for Iggy
and maybe diebler
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
If we give up Diebler for a bum like CP3
I’m not supporting this team anymore.
by ozqb3 on Jun 29, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
you're right
swap batum for diebler
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Batum, Matthews, Roy, and Wallace
Frees up space for our shooters – Diebler and Babbitt
rec
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Trade for Iggy
in pencil.
Most guys block shots with their fingertips. Wallace was blocking them with his armpit.
by ODEN on a stick on Jun 29, 2011 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
You know who else might be a good fit here?
Ray Felton
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
by sammymohawk on Jun 29, 2011 11:55 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
this greg oden kid would also be a good fit here
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
eh
not too sure about that one
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
plus, we have guys that can do what nic does...average shooting, above average D
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Can guard 4 positions, good shot-blocker, still some upside.
That poor shooting year might have lowered his stock a little, but I think he’ll pick it up next season.
Pull the trigger, KP!
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
i wish we had some three point shooting...
Can we trade for the Spanish guard Rudy Fernandez? He seems like a perfect fit.
by SGT Lenny on Jun 29, 2011 9:04 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
i wish we had some three point shooting...
Can we trade for the Spanish guard Rudy Fernandez? He seems like a perfect fit.
by SGT Lenny on Jun 29, 2011 9:04 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
You know
I’m starting to think that sammymohawk might actually be Raymond Felton.
by cloud razor on Jun 29, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
mwahahahaha
anybody got any cupcakes up in this joint????
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
oh snap
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 7:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Chris Paul, a potential Trail Blazer? What a novel idea!
Why haven’t more people been talking about this? This is the first I’ve heard of it here at BlazersEdge.
Perhaps someone could concoct a suitable trade scenario… ?
"Kingdom livin' is a full-time job; every day, I be clockin' in."
by JelaniGNatural on Jun 29, 2011 12:12 PM PDT reply actions
or perhaps a retrospective...
…on what the Blazers might have been if they had drafted Chris Paul instead of Martell Webster? Yes, that also be quite an original, groundbreaking train of thought.
"Kingdom livin' is a full-time job; every day, I be clockin' in."
by JelaniGNatural on Jun 29, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Excuse me...
…but we just traded Andre Miller and Rudy Fernandez for Raymond Felton, with the supposed hope that he will be our PGOTF for the conceivable future. He hasn’t yet played a single second as a Blazer. Maybe I’m just not in the mood for Chris Paul replacement scenarios yet…infact maybe I’m so sick of hearing about Chris Paul as a Blazer I hope it never happens.
Get back to me, when the lock-out is over and if Raymond doesn’t lose the pudge.
"Mother Nature started this fight, I think it's about time we ended it!"
by Krang on Jun 29, 2011 12:14 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
My mom always told me not to trust people with two first names.
I don’t care how good he is, my mom hasn’t been wrong about anything.
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Coming from
Adam Randall, so much irony.
by AR-15 on Jun 29, 2011 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Zing!
Portland could coast along with their superior talent and stay right with us. Now that Portland woke up, the hammer cometh down.
Bayless > Daffy Duck after 3 cans of rockstar
by Batumshakalaka on Jun 29, 2011 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Randall is my middle name.
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Boomerang zing!!!
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
Steve is his last name.
"I told him, ‘We will get through this, then shock the world.’ He got a kick out of that,'' Miller said. "We will get through this and shock the world ...''
oh man
third degree hypothetical zing!
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
That, sir, is untrue.
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Blazers G Raymond Felton jealous of Chris Paul, sources say
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Newly acquired Trail Blazers point guard Raymond Felton has a bone to pick with superstar Chris Paul, anonymous league sources say.
“CP3!!!! I will destroy his flesh on the court,” Felton apparently told sources.
According to anonymous league sources, Felton frequents Blazer’s Edge, the popular Portland blog filled with ravenous, obsessed basketball fans. The blog is believed to be the leading source of workplace procrastination in the region, and has been responsible for seven known deaths.
Apparently, Felton was angered by Portland fans’ obsession with Paul, despite the recent trade that brought Felton to the Trail Blazers.
“I will take him any day, one-on-one…”
When asked if he meant one-on-one in basketball, Felton assured that he meant a one-on-one knife fight.
More on this story as it develops.
by CaptainSexyJacob on Jun 29, 2011 12:18 PM PDT reply actions 6 recs
Sources in Paul's camp say he has burned the fat of three young bulls in preparation for the upcoming duel.
Felton is pursuing a less traditional training regimen, calling on experts from many different backgrounds including, sources say, voodoo magic.
“The other day, Ray asked me where he could find a live chicken,” teammate Wesley Matthews recalled, “He wouldn’t tell me what it was for, but he was hanging out with a pretty scary dude that had a snake wrapped around his shoulders.”
When told about his new point guard’s upcoming duel, coach McMillan was enthusiastic, stating that he likes to see his players show “scrap”, and encouraged Felton to “get some shots”. When told of Felton’s unorthodox fight preparation, McMillan was unsure whether it was legal in city limits, but declined to criticize, instead focusing on the bout. “He’s going to have to out there, and play the game the right way.” When told that there were to be no rules or referees, and thus no right or wrong, McMillan gazed out the window and muttered the word “scrap” under his breath.
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
Just checking.
Felton is pursuing a less traditional training regimen, calling on experts from many different backgrounds including, sources say, voodoo magic.
Are you sure the sources didn’t say Voodoo Donuts?
Who's that tromping across my bedge?
by Troll Blazer on Jun 29, 2011 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
this is Raymond Felton:
this is Chris Paul: 
by hoodieNation on Jun 29, 2011 12:18 PM PDT reply actions 5 recs
So you're saying...
…the bigger cake has bad knee’s?
"Mother Nature started this fight, I think it's about time we ended it!"
Here's the team trying to survive another injury...
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
as long as chris paul doesn't go to the knicks or l*kers, i'll be happy
I hate that knicks fans think that every player wants to join the knicks, plus, i don’t think even chris paul can find a way for carmelo and amare to coexist.
i don’t even have to explain my problems with the l*kers.
I'm not sure it's worse than the lakers
Bynum? Sure, trade him. I mean, we’ll be getting Dwight next year anyway. And point guard problem? Don’t worry, we have a couple easy options coming up.
It looks like sarcasm, but that wasn’t the context I read it in.
Portland could coast along with their superior talent and stay right with us. Now that Portland woke up, the hammer cometh down.
Bayless > Daffy Duck after 3 cans of rockstar
by Batumshakalaka on Jun 29, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
knicks might not be worse than the l*kers about that
but for L.A. that’s just one small piece in the long list of reasons that i despise the L*kers. If you want a few other sample pieces:
Andrew Bynum’s cheap shot elbows
over 30 appearances in the finals
Kobe Bryant is the Darth Vader to David Stern’s Emperor Palpatine
Jack Nicholson is more obnoxious than Mark Cuban
Um, Rick...
I’d worry a bit about marrying two stars…who already have knee issues at such a relatively young age…
Nevermind…
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:21 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Bottom line
if the Blazers fail to reach the WCF following the lockout, they are not going to be a destination for any blue chip FAs
losing in the first round 3 years in a row = pretender, not contender
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
WCF?
I’d think that if they made the WCF, they wouldn’t be looking for a new core player.
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Like Dallas did before this year
or is it different since we’re Portland?
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
by sammymohawk on Jun 29, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sure it's different
prior to this past season, Dallas had been to the finals with Dirk 4 years ago, OTOH Portland hasn’t been past the first round since 2000
Dallas is a major metropolitan area where many professional players make their homes. University of Texas players are available year-round for workouts. OTOH, Portland is tucked way up in the NW corner of the country, there’s no incentive for FAs to come here, unless…
Paul overpays for them, which he can’t do while the Blazers are over the cap
Or the team looks like it’s ready to compete for a championship, which, if you ask anyone outside of PDX/BE they’d say is far from the case
So, comparing the Blazers future to the Mav’s recent past is apples and oranges. The only thing the two franchises have in common are rich owners—but Cuban knows how to stay out of way and let his basketball department do it’s jobs—while Allen is hand’s on re:draft day and insists that his “favorite” players like Rudy absolutely not be traded away for years, until finally all of their value/upside is wasted away.
Keep on thinking positively if you want to, but it’s going to be a long offseason and nothing will be settled by Bedgers talking about it from now until the end of the calendar year
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
Well we agree on all counts here!
Keep on thinking positively if you want to, but it’s going to be a long offseason and nothing will be settled by Bedgers talking about it from now until the end of the calendar year
And you know I will
"If I had a dime for every basket I made today, you'd still suck!" - from the book 'John Dies @ the End'
As a player, I would prefer D-Will
As a person, I would prefer CP3. Not saying Deron is a bad actor, but it’s pretty clear that Paul is one of those community guys who really drinks the kool-aid on being involved and giving back and all of that sort of thing. I think he’d be a much better cultural fit.
And since we’re not getting either of them, squishy off-court criteria is as good as anything.
"You can pretty much flip a coin to see which Portland team will show up: the dark-horse world-beaters or the mixed-up eggbeaters" - Dave
by conspirator5 on Jun 29, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
cp3
D
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
coincidence?
Felton – 1 year left
Camby – 1 year left
Batum – 1 year left
Trade for Paul if he tells the Hornets “no way.” They can have salary cap space plus Batum (and probably a few others).
Ruudster
Does anybody know when they can sign Batum to a long term offer?
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember we had until October or November to sign Greg...
I guess we really won’t know until the new CBA comes out, but what was the ruling for the last one?
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was more like feb.
I know you can do it sometime mid year, if you don’t you are stuck like we are with Oden.
Not coincidence, IMHO.
Felton – 1 year left
Camby – 1 year left
Batum – 1 year left
And if Greg takes the QO:
Greg Oden – 1 year left.
I don’t think it was orchestrated to be like this from the very beginning, but I do think that at a certain point they realized there was an opportunity to build in an escape hatch into the team’s development plan. I fully expect that if we end up with Greg not panning out and/or further dissapointments, we’ll be well positioned to blow this roster to kingdom come.
"You can pretty much flip a coin to see which Portland team will show up: the dark-horse world-beaters or the mixed-up eggbeaters" - Dave
by conspirator5 on Jun 29, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Wallace--1 year left
Armon—1 year left
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Chris Paul!!!
Brandon Roy all the way; great Blazer, injured or not: #7
by collectiveshane on Jun 29, 2011 12:55 PM PDT reply actions
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooottt!!!!
the dream lives on!!!!!
by hoodieNation on Jun 29, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
It' fun to dream...
But sooner or later we are all going to have to wake up. There are plenty of players around the league that would be a good, if not great fit on our roster. No question (stealing coach Mcmillan’s favorite phrase)! But the problem that plagues our franchise is the location of said franchise.
Why would you want to come to drab and dreary portland oregon when you could finish out your career in sunny LA or Miama? Dont get me wrong, I LOVE LOVE LOVE my city but I’ve also lived here all my life. High profile super stars arent able to get past all the preconceived notions about our town to want to play here.
Its really to bad Portland has this stigma hangin over its head because if it didnt, who knows where or how far our team could go if Chris Paul would want to come here and play.
Why would you trade Paul for expiring contracts?
His contract expires after next season, they’d get cap space if he bolts anyway. Let’s use common sense people.
cuz you could possibly resign the expiring contract players if you want to keep them.
or you could get absolutely nothing out of losing the best pg in the world.. but you know whatever..
by hoodieNation on Jun 29, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Soooo
What he’s trying to say, is that Portland is the best small market team.
I like Ric Bucher and his subliminal ways.
thanks for keeping the "CP3 to the Blazers" fire lit Bucher
we now have at least another 6 months of Fanshots and Fanposts to look forward to
Can I just go ahead and nix any of the Babbit+Diebler+Mills+Future1st round pick for CP3 suggestions?
by rip_city_swagger on Jun 29, 2011 1:15 PM PDT reply actions
i guess
but after you’ve seen, literally, more than 100 posts about how the Blazers will acquire Chris Paul, and some of the completely unrealistic suggestions of how to do so (most centering around getting the best PG in basketball for our bench players and future picks), you grow weary and cynical
by rip_city_swagger on Jun 29, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm just as tired of it as you
I don’t even want Chris Paul.
Really!
There is no way Patty Mills agrees to a sign-and-trade to New Orleans!
;-)
Who's that tromping across my bedge?
by Troll Blazer on Jun 29, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Roy and Paul would have a hard time coexisting
Seems like Roy has a hard time with all his PGs. Funny how nobody else does…
Look at all the good SGs
No top Tier SG has a top tier PG next to them. The only thing close is Monte and Ellis and Curry…and now looks like one of them will be traded.
Allen is different
He plays much more like a 3. How many top tier SGs stand in the corner and throw up threes all day?
Besides the alleged friction with Miller, who has he had problems with ?
Seemed to coexist fine with Blake, Jack, Bayless.
You mean the second-teamers?
The ones who’d be cut in a heartbeat if they pissed Roy off?
by GoForthAndDie on Jul 2, 2011 1:44 AM PDT up reply actions
It's officially the offseason now that there's a post about trading for Chris Paul.
"Nicolas! You're the strongest boy in the world!"
So it's been offseason since I joined BEdge?
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by Adam Randall on Jun 29, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
you saw the way they played in the playoffs
(most of them)
Felton will make a lot of people have selective memory on their reaction to draft night
Raymond Felton's job requires him to where a sleeveless shirt in front of thousands of people; it should not be this hard to determine whether or not he is fat.
Trade for Iggy
by thomasikehara on Jun 29, 2011 7:33 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
Chris Paul is the most loved non-Blazer of all time. And with non-stop trade talk about him he also might be becoming the most hated, haha
by hoodieNation on Jun 30, 2011 2:40 AM PDT up reply actions
The league needs to sell this team back to individual ownership.
There’s two ways to do it:
1. The Hornets are a contender, and represent a “blue chip” sports team acquisition.
2. The Hornets have slashed their payroll and have both minimal operating costs and are well positioned for the next couple of drafts. This makes them a “value” acquisition.
Chris has said repeatedly that he wants to stay with the team long term, but the odds of an owner wanting to buy a zydeco band by the name of “Chris and the Benchwarmers” is highly unlikely. Assuming West goes and contention hopes along with him, the league will pressure CP3 to move on so that the team can become both terrible and marginally profitable from day 1.
I don’t see that having anything at all to do with Portland now or later. I’d sooner predict something like Chris and Dwight anchoring Boston or some other large market team in need of retooling around a new core.
"You can pretty much flip a coin to see which Portland team will show up: the dark-horse world-beaters or the mixed-up eggbeaters" - Dave
If Chris Paul wants to win
he will go to PDX. The NY media is like playing a secondary opponent every night.
I'm more interested in how available this makes Okafor,
although now that they’re losing Gray, the Hornets might try harder to keep him. Still, if they have any interest in blowing things up, I’d love a Camby and Babbitt for Okafor kind of deal.
"Nicolas! You're the strongest boy in the world!"
Did anyone see Chris Paul in the playoffs this year?
He was killing it. You can’t even tell his knees are bad. But yeah his knees are probably bad, so we shouldn’t sign him. Can you imagine having Roy and Paul…..injured…:\ so that means we are trading for Chris Paul.
What would the "Batum is the next Pippen" crowd offer Frenchie?
Should Uncle Pauly open up the wallet to ensure we get to keep him forever and ever in PDX? Wake me up when he accomplishes anything more than CP3, as I know his presence is why the latter isn’t here still. I mean we coulda, woulda shoulda in the draft, but no, we decided Martel was the next Jordan, and then in recent years deals involving Pip, I mean Batum were apparently squashed involving CP3. Look, I really do think he is a pretty good player, but we have so overvalued him as a fanbase and an organization that we failed to cash in our chips at a great value. Now we either will have to resign him or be faced with losing him to another team, or perhaps see his trade value shrink ever more when others see he aint Pip or even Prince.
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