Hedo Agrees With Portland

by Myles A. Mills on July 3rd, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Via ESPN:

“Hedo Turkoglu has reached an agreement in principle to become a Portland Trail Blazer, according to sources.

Although a verbal commitment may be announced sooner, the terms of the contract cannot be finalized until Wednesday, after the NBA informs teams what next year’s salary cap will be.”

As Tommy said, this does affect the David Lee situation because now Portland has spent their money, Oklahoma City is more interested in Paul Millsap, Memphis got Zach Randolph, and Sacramento has Jason Thompson and Spencer Hawes. David Lee’s only option is basically New York.  

About Myles A. Mills

Myles is a sophomore at The Browning School, an all-boys private school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. He's been a Knick fan as long as he can remember, and 02-03 was the last season he could remember in entirety. He hopes to one day see the Knicks in the playoffs. Myles is also fond of the Mets, and follows them vehemently, but his the bulk of his time goes to the Knicks. Myles wants to be a radio hosts on WFAN or ESPN 1050 radio, and he hopes to write for theknicksblog.com for years to come. View all posts by Myles A. Mills →
  • Jon

    S&T Lee and Mobley’s contract to Toronto for Bosh

  • Magik_Trick

    Toronto is supposedly after Lee also, but thats a long shot..

    It all comes down to Millsap, if he stays in Utah, then OKCs focus will be on Lee

    &In other news it looks like Nate will accept the QO. Sacramento drafted Evans, Portland is no longer an option, and nobody else has a legit interest in him..

  • CircleLimit4

    Can we sign him for a qualifying offer and trade him at the deadline? He might be more valuable then.

  • jingo

    According to the Toronto Star, the Toronto Raptors are interested in making a play for David Lee:

    http://www.thestar.com/article/659530

  • CircleLimit4

    I mean for Nate, but I suppose that could qualify for Lee too.

  • KBT1615

    Lakers want Nate…

  • 3dsoul

    Toronto is not giving up bosh, Its just simply not going to happen. I think they should trade him and get something for him now, instead of letting him walk next season, but they wont.

  • Bart

    Does anyone think we should go after Shawn Marion? I know he plays 3 and we have lots of 3/4 on the team but he would give us another athlete and he had is best season under Mike D @ the MLE he would be good value.

    Lee seems like an after thought for teams.

  • gilcher82

    why would they trade Bosh for Lee ?
    cause they dont wanna pay Bosh in 2010?
    is a deal for Bosh realistic?

  • HaS
  • Myles A. Mills

    no to shawn marion….

    he’s the one that complained about d’antoni not allowing him to be “the man”

  • jingo

    I can see something along these lines happening. Bosh is not gonna resign in Toronto. I read that he is linked to Miami/2010, which is understandable. However, I think it would be a worthwhile risk for the Knicks to move Lee and other assets to try out Bosh for a year to see if he likes it in NYC. On the one hand Bosh can love it here and help to lure Lebron (or someone else) to NY in 2010, but in the worst case they have the Bosh cap space for the mega FA class of 2010 (or his expiring contract to deal if it becomes immediately apparent that he is not gonna resign with the Knicks).

    Its not unlike the Mets’ risk in acquiring Mike Piazza back in 1999.

    Its just a thought borne of my great desire to see the Knicks materially improve themselves immediately rather than wait another year in the hopes of landing Lebron.

  • KBT1615

    Bosh said someone made that up about him wanting to go to Miami.

  • Qaspec

    I think it’s kind of funny that some are getting so ecxited that we have a better chance to keep players that no other team really wants….

    That said maybe Donnie knew how this would shake out and he knows bringing Lee back means keeping a player with value that he could trade to another team for additional space. This could be what Donnie was talking about when he said he had another way to make cap room and really couldn’t talk about it. Any team that wants Lee will have to take Jeffries in the least to make more room.

  • jho

    Lee will obviously not sign a qualifying offer when he’s going to make at least 3x that per year.

    I rather not have Robinson return at all. I feel like if the deal by Sac to take Nate and Jeffries was on the table, Donnie screwed up big in not accepting it (that’s a bigger gaffe than the rumored #5 pick deal).

    I would definitely not want Marion in a sign and trade deal. The Knicks would not be able to get him otherwise because he’s an UFA and I doubt he would sign a MLE with the knicks.

    And while I think a sign and trade for Bosh is interesting, it will potentially handicap us for the 2010 summer. Since Bosh has a player option for 2010-2011, let’s say he gets hurt or he doesn’t play that well in NY (but loves NY). Then he may just stay when we could have instead gotten both Lebron and Dwade (highly unlikely, but who knows?) or Lebron and Amare or Dwade and Amare <—all options I view better than a Bosh & superstar.

  • barnaby8787

    Bosh already said that he won’t sign an extension in toronto, so for them not to try to get some value for him this off-season would be dumb on toronto’s end. With that said, if they wanted lee, I wouldn’t object to bargnani and cap filler for lee…

  • Bart

    Sessions is a good player but he wont put up better numbers than Duhon and since we picked up Douglas he has a back up. Since Kidd is gonna stay in Dallas I think we should just shut it down on the FA front.

  • Bart

    We should Make that move Curry and Hughes for T- Mac and look to move Jared Jefferies contract save all our pennies make a hard run at the Playoffs then make a Huge spalsh in the 2010 FA market with all that CAP space.

  • barnaby8787

    LOL, Ramon put up arguably better numbers this year. In D’antoni’s system he would put up much better stats…

  • barnaby8787

    Alan Hahn reported that believe it or not, Curry has more value than T-Mac right now, so we could get more out of that trade.

  • KBT1615

    I thought teams couldn’t officially sign players until July 8th.

  • KBT1615

    Who else?

  • jho

    There’s no way that Colangelo is trading away Bargnani when he finally blossomed last year (especially using the #1 pick on him). Noo way Lee would get it done. If anything they would offer Lee a deal too big for the Knicks to match.

  • jho

    It’s just a verbal agreement. Once the date comes they can officially sign.

  • barnaby8787

    Meaning who else could we get or who else reported it?

  • barnaby8787

    Why not? Lee only has two years on him and is a much better rounder than bargnani. The raptors were 20th in the league in rebounding this past year. Bargnani isn’t a great rebounder at all and doesn’t fit their system well at all. They could get lee and run with bosh and lee and dominate the boards.

  • Bart

    If Duhon were a FA and Sessions they would pick up Duhon he wont be much better than Chris, Session is a above average backup PG like Duhon.

  • Bart

    Would you really try and play hard ball with a team over Eddy Curry. I say take T-Mac and run.

  • barnaby8787

    I really want to hear your explanation behind this one…sessions is 23, scored 12.4 ppg, and had 5.7 apg. He runs the floor a lot better than duhon and is much quicker. Duhon, although the better shooter behind the arc, is 27, averaged 11.1 ppg and had 7.2 apg is an uptempto system averaging 9 minutes more per game than sessions…so please explain how you came to that conclusion…

  • barnaby8787

    Considering there are no other options on the market at center and the rockets really wanted gortat, yes, I would.

  • KBT1615

    Who else could we get and Im with Bart if they want to take Curry I say take it and Run.

  • barnaby8787

    Maybe curry, duhon, hughes for t-mac, landry, and lowry

    or

    Maybe curry, nate, and hughes for t-mac, landry, and aaron brooks

    We get more out of the trade obviously then just curry and hughes for t-mac