Portland Retooling (8th seed next year?)

They did a 3 way trade to get Grevis Vasquez and send Tyreke to New Orleans.

 

Greivis-McClemore-Salmons-Patterson-Cousins.

Still need another part for playoffs. Josh Smith fits nicely in with that club. Need some veterans as well, too many youngsters.

 

They still shootin for Iggy or did they pull out?

 

Pulled out but he's still a FA and the market seems soft for him.

 

Looking at the West, you could envision the Lakers missing the playoffs even if they DO keep Dwight. Every Achilles tendon in the history of torn Achilles tendons is laughing at Kobe for lying about being back next year. There's no Adrian Peterson bull steroids out there in the world that can accelerate that kind of "recovery", if you wanna call a return to 50% explosiveness in that leg a "recovery".

Hey. Why on earth is Dwight considering the Lakers as a viable option again???

 

Because he's afraid of disappointing everyone.

I keep picturing that scene in Inception (except with Dwight & Shaq).

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