Time to stick to the blazers?

[Fido]

Oden is a very good player when healthy. But when it comes to the financial commitment required to "steal him away" from the Blazers now that they have extended the QO coupled with the risk that he can stay healthy I think you have to ask is it worth the risk? What are the other options at that position? How would this move limit the team making other moves and what are the priorities?

Making a decision based on whether or not we could "stick it to the blazers" on a message board is an absolutely foolish reason--as fun as it could be for some.

[MeestR]

Portland offered Oden 1-year for $8.8 million. I wouldnt give him $8.8 million for 4 years. What has he done besides break both of his glass knees?

I'd give him $8.8 if I had at least 4 full years of team options @ $8.8 stacked on the back end. Guy will be a steal if he ever gets back to even his rookie production. Knees should be good now, too.

http://www.slcdunk.com/2011/7/1/2254928/what-nba-lockout-retro-stat-breakdown-of-john-stockton-going-head-to

an article about john stockton, but scroll down to the bottom. he compares oden and fes.

That was pretty funny. Thanks for sharing. Aside from the good jokes it's about as incorrect as they come. Here's Oden's true numbers. http://www.nba.com/home/playerfile/greg ... stats.html They dwarf whatever slcdunk.com pulled deep out of some ass.

Dude shot 60 %, grabbed almost 9 rebounds, and averaged 2.3 blocks in under 24 minutes. There's a reason Portland is willing to gamble on him next season. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if a team could afford to take a little higher shot in the 10 million range.

i believe slc dunk was referring to oden's numbers against the jazz and fes's numbers against the blazers. he was using deron v paul to prove deron was the better player, stockton v magic-magic won. stockton v thomas-toss up stockton v any other all star was all stockton. fes v oden - well oden won the match up but didn't do that well against his competition.