<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Source: Portland GM Neil Olshey & team prez Larry Miller visited restricted free agent center Roy Hibbert tonight in DC, offered max deal</p>— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) <a href="https://twitter.com/sam_amick/status/219334933389381632" data-datetime="2012-07-01T07:41:37+00:00">July 1, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Sam Amick @sam_amick Indiana did not offer a max deal, and Hibbert is now leaning to Blazers unless Pacers match. One other unnamed team offered max.
Olshey is the GM who signed Deandre Jordan to a bad contract. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Pritchard: "We have our own grading scale, Miles grades off the chart athletically. He was off the charts."</p>— Mike Wells (@MikeWellsNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeWellsNBA/status/218753432109068290" data-datetime="2012-06-29T17:10:57+00:00">June 29, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
We can dream cant we ?! I feel sick just thinking about that damn draft. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. No big , no trade .... Not that Im not warming up to the new players.
If they manage to sign Hibbert at the max how will they afford Batum? Even if they manage to do that I don't know how good they'll become, a Hibbert-LMA-Batum frontcourt looks good on paper but I don't know how good Hibbert really is, paying the max for him seems like a Juwon Howard-esque move.
Blazers making serious moves! Morey can learn from how they are trying to become contenders, because they are very similar with Roy and Oden injuries to our Yao and Tracy drama.