作者Iverigma (big 3:Oden-Roy-Aldridge)
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标题[情报] Blazers preparing offer for Utah's Paul Millsap
时间Thu Jul 9 11:28:22 2009
breaking news:
KP 突然出手 准备要对 Millsap 丢出合约 看起来是确实的消息而不是谣言了
丢出之後就看爵士那边会不会跟进
http://tinyurl.com/klm6sx
Blazers preparing offer for Utah's Paul Millsap
Posted by Jason Quick, The Oregonian July 08, 2009 18:59PM
Categories: Breaking News
After a series of trades fell through this week, the Trail Blazers have
settled on their next target: Utah power forward Paul Millsap.
Although Millsap is a restricted free agent, meaning the Jazz can match any
offer, the Blazers are preparing what one source called a "toxic" offer
designed to exterminate interest from other teams.
Millsap, 24, is a bruising and active player who excels at rebounding.
Despite being only 6-foot-8, Millsap last season used his 250-pound frame to
average 13.5 points and 8.6 rebounds in 30.1 minutes per game. His 3.3
offensive rebounds per game ranked fourth in the NBA and his 251 offensive
rebounds ranked sixth.
If Millsap signs an offer sheet accepting the Blazers' deal, Utah will have
seven days to match the offer. The Jazz is already facing the luxury tax next
season with a team salary of more than $73 million. Their finances, and
prospects of competing with a lucrative offer to Millsap, took a hit last
week when Carlos Boozer ($12.6 million), Mehmet Okur ($9 million) and Kyle
Korver ($5.1 million) all exercised options to stay in Utah.
The Blazers figure to exhaust nearly all of their cap space to lock up
Millsap. They are $7.7 million under the cap, but can gain an additional
$1.65 million by renouncing the rights to Petteri Koponen and Joel Freeland.
However, in the process, the Blazers would be assessed with a roughly
$450,000 cap hold for having less than 11 players, thus giving them $8.9
million in cap space.
Millsap is from Grambling, La., and attended Louisiana Tech, where he became
the only player in NCAA history to lead the nation in rebounding for three
consecutive years. He entered the 2006 NBA Draft after his junior season and
was a late second-round pick (47th overall), but immediately became a
rotation player, earning second-team All-Rookie honors.
In his third NBA season last year, Millsap started a career-high 38 games
while filling in for the injured Boozer. He had a career-high 32 points at
Boston in December and tied his career-high with 17 rebounds in a January
game at the Lakers.
Sources say Millsap has told the Blazers he would be amicable to playing
behind LaMarcus Aldridge, the Blazers' returning power forward and one of the
franchise's cornerstones. The Blazers are hoping Millsap provides some
interior grit and toughness, two qualities that were lacking in a first-round
playoff loss to Houston.
The move would appear to most affect Travis Outlaw, who was expected to move
into the backup power forward role full-time this season, but there has been
no indication whether another move was imminent.
On Tuesday, Millsap's agent, DeAngelo Simmons, declined to comment on the
Blazers and their interest. Simmons did not return phone messages Wednesday
night.
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1F:推 jessieptb:我预感爵士会跟进。可是KP真的先不管PG了麽? 07/09 11:32
2F:推 williams55:真正的交易是没有先放流言的 07/09 11:42
3F:推 Ansel:因为Millsap是RFA 所以一定要放出消息阿XD 07/09 11:56
4F:→ Ansel:我觉得现在KP的策略就是找市场上最好的球员 不管位置 07/09 11:57
5F:→ Ansel:到时候交易价值也比较高 07/09 11:58
6F:推 shumman:7M左右都可以签看看 好用的替补PF 07/09 16:31
7F:推 qoomilk:阿阿阿...ODOM也比他多一点而已阿 07/09 16:35
8F:→ popstarkirby:他在Boozer回来前一度平均15分..满威的 07/09 16:42
9F:→ shumman:个人觉得她比Lee还好用 防守更棒 而且Lee涨到12M 夸张~~!! 07/09 17:50
10F:推 jonesking:他防守 受限於身高 够硬但还是会被吃 07/09 18:19
11F:推 lanver1220:买了可以当称职的替补PF 不过要先过米爷他叔父那关... 07/09 19:52
12F:→ lanver1220:我觉得7M还是算贵,5M~6M差不多,米爷是硬但矮 07/09 19:54
13F:推 david319:出价超过8M ,爵爵应该就会放弃了吧 07/09 21:55
14F:推 Verlander35:5~6M Millsap不会同意签吧 爵士也没match的机会 07/09 21:57
15F:→ Verlander35:拓荒者若报价8.9M就有可能了 可以赌一下 07/09 21:57
16F:推 Ansel:我们不是只剩下7.7M吗 07/09 22:10
17F:推 jonesking:Millsap 9M.......!!!!!!!!!! OMG 07/09 22:11
18F:→ Verlander35:如果放弃Petteri and Freeland好像能增加到8.9m 07/09 22:11
19F:推 Ansel:喔喔 懂了 谢谢 07/09 22:13
20F:推 AdamHmc:Petteri感觉可放一放了... 07/09 22:15