Fred Jones Talks about Trade Fred Jones, the newest Trail Blazer, will fly home to Portland on Friday, but it's likely he'll see his first action in a Blazer uniform until Monday night when Portland plays in Seattle. Thursday, on trade-deadline day, the Blazers sent Juan Dixon to Toronto in exchange for Jones. I haven't gone through the record books completely, but I can't imagine that there's been a time in franchise history when the team has had five players on the roster who all went to high school within two and a-half hours of Portland. The Blazers now add Jones, who went to Barlow High School in Gresham. Ime Udoka went to Jefferson in Portland, Dan Dickau went to Prairie in Vancouver, Brandon Roy to Garfield in Seattle, and Martell Webster went to Seattle Prep in Seattle. The one point about this trade that isn't getting mentioned enough is what Jones gave up to come home to Portland. NBA players don't leave money on the table, but that's just what Jones did by guaranteeing not to pick up his option year, which would have been worth $3.5 million. Dixon had one more year on his contract than Jones, and the Blazers didn't want to bring back anyone with more time on his contract than Dixon. The Blazers told Jones' agent they'd agree to the deal only if the contracts were of equal length. Jones says his agent advised against doing that, obviously, but Freddie wanted to come home bad enough that he agreed to waive the final year. That's an enormous gamble on his part, and you just don't see players do that. Jones was a guest on our radio show, Trail Blazers Courtside, presented by L.A. Weight Loss, Thursday night. We talked with him about every aspect of this trade, including giving up the option year. He gave us his reasons why he did it, and said it didn't come without some careful consideration. In the end, he simply said he has enough confidence in his ability that it would eventually pay off in the right situation. He feels Portland is the right situation for him. http://mikebarrettsblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/fred-jones-talks-about-trade.html Fred Jones友情价最後一年$3,500,000的player option决定不执行， 这也是当初拓荒者和他交涉时的条件之一， 不过他的经纪人叫他不要放弃执行player option， 但他很想回家乡奥勒冈打球所以他也把他最後一年的player option给放弃了， 这样使得他的合约长度和Dixon一样明年就可以到期， 让波特兰拓荒者至少在合约的长度方面没有吃到亏， Fred Jones为了可以回家乡打球真的很积极，连钱都先放在一旁，经纪人的建议也不听XD 无轮如何对於Fred Jones这样的表示我们要先给予肯定才是， 当然也希望他可以和Ime Udoka一样，一回到家乡可以爆发小宇宙发挥自身能力XD (Udoka之前在尼克、湖人NBDL和欧洲打球时三分球评价不高，甚至很少出手三分球 但一回波特兰之後马上发挥出之前没有的水准，也跌破一堆专家的眼镜) Fred Jones加油吧！希望你可以珍惜这次机会，让拓荒者未来可以更愿意和你续约！ -- --

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