Greg Oden: By all accounts, a good person and someone who's legitimately tortured about letting the Blazers and their fans down. Looks like he's accepting their one-year qualifying offer for $8.9 million. Still … if I'm Indiana, I'm offering the hometown kid a three-year deal for $33 million that goes backwards ($12 million, $11 million, $10 million) with Year 3 kicking in only if Oden plays 65 games or more in Year 2. If anyone needs a change of scenery, it's Greg Oden.
Josh McRoberts: That's right, the same Josh McRoberts who was nearly dealt to Memphis with a no. 1 pick for O.J. Mayo at the trade deadline, only they didn't announce the trade in time (one of the most underrated NBA boners of recent years). He's not a true center (more of a power forward who can masquerade as a center on a non-contender, ala David Lee), but his numbers (22.2 MPG, 7.4 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 0.8 BPG, 2.1 APG, 54.7% FG and 73.9% FT) weren't bad last season. You know what that means? Ladies and gentleman, I present to you our most likely winner of the Amir Johnson Award for this year's "Wait, He Signed For WHAT????????" guy. Someone will give him the full mid-level or the financial equivalent. It's coming. A quick PS: Johnson exceeded everyone's expectations in Toronto last season, so be careful about making too much fun of Roberts for $25 million (or whatever it ends up being).
Later he offers some predictions on where players end up and has none of these guys ending up with Indy except...
12. Aaron Gray
Prediction: Signs with Indiana (three years, $15 million)
Verdict: OVERPAID
I'm not sure why he thinks we would pay that much for Aaron Gray. This would fall under the category of "terrible offseason."
