Jul 17 2009
Millsap BAI!
No more Millsap. This offseason has been a hilarious series of failures and PR blunders from the Blazers front office. They must be wishing for the season to come just so the play on the court (which will be some of the best in the NBA no matter what) will take the focus off their new-found ineptitude.
Then again, who’s to say it was ineptitude. This Millsap move was a success in that it punished a division rival in a very serious way no matter what. If he were to come to the Blazers, Utah would have lost one of their border-line all-stars. Instead, they paid a border-line all-star like an all-star, crippling their salary situation. They crippled their salary cap.
Could the Blazers reap the benefits from this in some sort of hypothetical play for Kirk Hinrich? Probably. But I wouldn’t be getting my hopes up right now. We may be done this offseason, we may not be. No matter what, the Blazers are still one of the NBA’s best teams.
