The Utah Jazz will match the four-year, $32 million offer the Portland Trail Blazers tendered their restricted free agent Paul Millsap, the team posted on its Web site and a league source confirmed to ESPN.com Thursday evening. Under the terms of the contract, the Jazz, which stated all summer that it would match any offer Millsap received, will have to pay the 24-year-old forward $10.3 million this weekend. Portland had front-loaded the contract to discourage Utah from matching. A formal announcement was scheduled for Friday, the last day Utah can match the Portland offer. Utah's decision is likely to set in motion a string of moves by both teams. The Jazz, whose payroll will balloon to roughly $84 million, will continue trying to trade All-Star forward Carlos Boozer. If the Jazz don't move Boozer before next season's February trade deadline, they will have to pay a luxury tax of nearly $15 million. The team recently told Boozer, who will make $12.7 million this season, that he is not in its long-term plans, and Boozer responded by telling the Jazz to trade him. Chicago, Miami and New York are among the most interested teams. Before the Blazers made their offer to Millsap, the club was in preliminary talks with Utah and Chicago about a three-team trade that would send Boozer to the Bulls, Chicago point guard Kirk Hinrich to Portland and Bulls forward Tyrus Thomas to the Jazz. Now that Portland recoups the roughly $8 million in salary cap space it used to make the offer to Millsap, those trade talks could be revisited. The Blazers could also decide to go after Los Angeles Lakers' forward Lamar Odom. Negotiations between Odom and the Lakers have stalled, as Los Angeles recently took its three-year, $27 million offer off the table. Portland has showed little interest in Odom to this point, a fact that baffles several executives around the league, but after coming up short in its attempts to add Hedo Turkoglu and now Millsap, perhaps the Blazers will set their sights on Odom. Not only would such a move strengthen Portland but it also would weaken the defending champion Lakers. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4334968 -- ESPN的作家 Chris Broussard 认为拓荒者在 Millsap 的合约被爵士match後 可能重启与公牛和爵士的三方交易(个人认为这个时候爵士绝对不想让拓荒者爽到 但是市场上有薪资空间可以运作的球队屈指可数 不过别抱太大期望就是了) 或者去抢 Odom 好补强PF以及削弱湖人的战力 另外 Oregonian sports 的专栏作家 John Canzano 也发表了一篇文章 http://0rz.tw/0zOdX 一样是支持去抢 Odom 虽说 Odom 跟 Aldridge 有些过节 但是这是职业运动 商业至上 Odom 也是目前台面上最有天赋的球员之一了 KP会想要他吗?? 目前看起来八字完全没有一撇 -- ╔ Greg Oden LaMarcus Aldridge Martell Webster Brandon Roy Jerryd Bayless ╗ ║ ████████████████████████████████████ ║ ★ 「RISE WITH US」 Let's back to RIP CITY!「GO BLAZERS!」 ★ ║ ████████████████████████████████████ ║ ╚ Joel Przybilla Travis Outlaw Nicolas Batum Rudy Fernandez Steve Blake ╝ --

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