For Portland Trail Blazers supporters familiar with terms like RLEC (Raef Lafrentz’s expiring contract), and salary dump (pretty self-explanatory), today is like Christmas morning. The NBA trade deadline ends tonight at midnight tomorrow at noon, and Portland has a golden ticket (RLEC) they are ready to cash in. But the question is, who does Portland send packing, and more importantly, what player(s) will the Blazers acquire?
The names being tossed around include: Amar’e Stoudemire (not gonna happen), Vince Carter (maybe if it came with a time machine to take him back to his younger days), Kirk Hinrich (meh), Qyntel Woods (just kidding), Luol Deng (yes please), Caron Butler (oh yes), Gerald Wallace (oh god, yes!), and tons more. This is like the NBA version of Brewster’s Millions, and Portland is playing the role of Montgomery Brewster. The only problem is that midnight cannot possibly come soon enough. I want a trade.
Now.
*** 2:30pm update: Blazers Edge is reporting that Ike Diogu is on his way to (most likely) Sacramento. More coming…
Don’t get too excited about Deng. He has regressed quite a bit since the playoff performance of a couple years ago. And he has an expensive long-term contract.
Isn’t the deadline at noon tomorrow? Even MORE waiting.
Thanks Truthypup. I got my EST’s confused. Yay, more time to dream about Wallace…
Who do you want to go though? Besides Channing, RLEC, Sergio… I’m kind of a nervous wreck. Don’t say Travis or I’ll punch you and kick your pug.
I guess I could spend a few moments looking this up… but, what ever happened with that Darius Miles stuff?
Dmiles is playing against us tonight, he is on memphis. We got screwed, but at least we don’t have to have Darius sulking on the bench.
I don’t know, Cosmonaut. I think I would regress, too, if I were forced to play under Vinny Del Negro. Underneath someone who, you know, knows how to coach, I think Deng flourishes again.
Caron Butler is clearly the at the head of this class. Give them RLEP and Señor Turnover and we’ll call it good. I’d accept the loss of Outlaw, too, if that’s what it takes.
Del Negro is a bad coach, to be sure, but Deng is nowhere near as good as Caron Butler, or even Vince Carter.