Portland would be sending Batum, Fernandez, Bayless, picks & Pryzbilla& Andre Miller for contracts. that only get's them to around 21 million. not enough to include Okafor. i suppose they could include Oden as well. No could have the option whether or not to extend the qualifying offer next year.
New York cant trade any of those new guys, except for straight up, for a while.
for Orlando, VC is a team team option after this season. not sure whats guaranteed but his IS an attractive expiring--17mil. they would probably send Gortat, Anderson, VC, Pietrus and picks and could take back 2 bad contracts. can Reddick be traded yet?
Dallas could offer Roddy, Chandler, Stevenson, Jet, JJB, picks and cash.
but they would probably have to include Butler.
if NO doesnt care as much about dumping Posey then it opens up the bidding a bit.
i could see Portland being the team to beat. Batum is very well regarded, even though he's not a big name. Oden,Batum, Fernandez, Bayless. or Roddy, Caron, JJB, Dojo(?)
all things being relatively equal Portland probably wins out. they get to send CP out of the division and get back Batum at a position of need and other young cheap options. as well as some flexibility w/ Oden.
wouldve been nice to have the Dust to instantly erase 13 million...
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