They'll probably want Oden and want us to take Okafor's awful, terrible, whichever GM offered it to him should be beaten out back then shot, contract.

For Chris Paul they can have Batum, Bayless, and the expiring contracts of Joel Pryzbilla and Andre Miller. The trade machine says this works if that's how it goes down straight up. The cog is Okafor. New Orleans isn't giving up Chris Paul without making someone take Emeka Okafor. Portland can't do a straight up deal with them for Paul without giving them the farm. There would have to be a third team involved and we'd still be the ones left with the Okafor contract.

Are there any fans more unrealistic than Blazer fans?

No all-stars would willingly come to portland in his prime, why would they? To eat at the R+B cafe, to frequent local math rock shows, or to hang out with the non-existent black community here?

A real sasquatch will play center for the blazers before CPIII comes to portland

Ezra!

Rebecca Haarlow is leaving Comcast Sports Northwest for Los Angeles! Have you sent an audition tape to Mike & Mike yet? You'd be the perfect sideline guy.

Gorilla Monsoon! I was just about to post this same message.

What up, Ezra?

I'm sad that they keep talking about getting rid of Pryzbilla. We'll miss him when Oden shatters yet another bone in game 12 of the season.

But Graham...we have Camby for the inevitable Oden injury.

@Gorilla Monsoon - I shall not be trying out. Plus everyone knows Haarlow was just the first piece in a complicated deal for CP3 that involves multiple teams and various sideline reporters.

@BlackedOut Agreed, Okafur's deal is horrific. No way Paul moves without towing that bloated contract with him.