Comments on: Yes, Portland Will Take Durant

By: Crybaby

Crybaby — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:52:29 +0000

WAAAAAHHHHH! I’m a Suns fan… WAAAAAAHHH!

By: pdx_hooligan

pdx_hooligan — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:33:32 +0000

Here’s a link to YouTube that shows a mix of Oden. Within this mix of highlights… You’ll also noticed that he goes up against Durant several times and Oden schools him a few. Portland would be nuts not to draft him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xEtSZof7zk

By: pdx_hooligan

pdx_hooligan — Tue, 29 May 2007 18:04:36 +0000

I’m a portland guy, been here my whole life. Been through the ‘BlazerMania’ days with Clyde, Porter and so on… I just don’t see Portland passing up on Oden. We lost the frickin’ NBA finals twice because we didn’t have a legit center. Now, don’t get me wrong, we were playing against Jordan. Everyone lost that came up against that freak of nature. Although, Blazers have Aldridge who looks like he has the potential to be another Tim Duncan mixed with Rasheed Wallace. The dude has freak talent. The word around here in Portland is that Pritchard may end up keeping Randolph and seeing how the three can play together.

Then after next year make the decision to move Randolph. Pritchard has mentioned on a few occasions that he’s worried he would give up a power forward like Randolph and never know if the three could exist and eventually turn into a front line that could literally make any team crap their pants where they stand.

I see Portland taking Oden. As much as Durant looks good… They come around more often than ‘True Center’s’. Also, we could easily find another small forward that can put up numbers. They keep Oden and then trade away for a decent small forward. Not only do we get our Center but we get a small forward.

We keep Durant and there isn’t a quality center to trade for anywhere… Wouldn’t make sense to me. We get more of a complete team with Oden.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:03:33 +0000

If the Blazers take Durant over Oden, it won’t be as monumental a mistake as taking Bowie over Jordan. So I’ll give the TBL that much.

Still an absurd notion though.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:32:41 +0000

Quit trying to be contrarians. The Blazers will take Oden. Period.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:53:14 +0000

Hibbert going to the Celtics ain’t going to happen; already reports that he’s holding a presser today to say he’s staying in school another year.

By: Jon Pyle

Jon Pyle — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:20:37 +0000

Randolph at SF?
LaMarcus Aldridge the next Tim Duncan?

Sorry, I think I’m in the wrong place. I’m looking for The Big Lead but seem to have found the Not in Your Wildest Dreams message board.

By: Mozatta

Mozatta — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:37:14 +0000

Drafting Durant will mean Seattle can let Lewis go.

Oden will be #1 by Portland. You don’t know about Aldridge and Randolph needs to be shipped out.

MN will not trade KG for Randolph. If KG gets traded, it’ll be to Phoenix for Marion and some other people.

By: simon

simon — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:32:27 +0000

Crappy weak to be a Suns fan, give me a break, try being a Celtics fan who’s too young to remember them in the Bird days, atleast your team is really good. Right now the C’s president is incompetent enough to give Doc an extension and Danny full latitude to make another horrendous deal. And you end up with the worst possible pick you could get, the one you were least likely to wind up in and now you can sit back and watch Danny make another horrendous trade. Woo. Gotta love the NBA.

By: SM

SM — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:07:49 +0000

A sign and trade by Portland for Rashard Lewis for Zach Randolph makes so much sense for both teams. Portland Gets Oden Lamarcus and Lewis as its frontcourt and Seattle gets Randolph and Durant. Seems like a win – win for both teams.

Also maybe the first pick and Zach Randolph for KG and 7th pick and minnesota #1 next year.