I appreciate your passion for your team but I don’t think you understood what I was saying.

First of all, my opinion is based on the fact that if the Blazers really wanted Miller than they wouldn’t have tried to sign Hedo on July 5, signed Millsap to an offer sheet on July 11, and then ultimately settled for Miller on July 24 after first kicking the tires on David lee and Lamar Odom first.

Combine that with what Miller told Yahoo!’s Marc J. Spears just two weeks ago and you’ll know where I’m coming from (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-millerblazers101009&prov=yhoo&type=lgns):

“If I was told right out when I had my meetings that I would be a backup, then I wouldn’t have come here,” Miller told Yahoo! Sports this week.

Here’s where I think you misunderstood because you said “this organization has improved in recent years by just blowing cap space, right? Just appeasing its fan base by making SOME, ANY kind of moves, right?”

No. They improved in recent years because they drafted well and found teams to take horrible contracts off their hands. They didn’t blow their cap space this summer on Miller to appease its fan base.

They did it because if they didn’t spend it then they would have lost it. They signed a pretty good point guard to a short-term deal because they’ll be able to move him easily. He clearly wanted money regardless of what team was offering it (or else he would have stayed in Philly) and the Blazers wanted an asset they could trade down the road before losing cap space that would have been greater if not for Darius Miles.

Travis, bloggers don’t need anything I write to give them a bad name. There’s enough plagiarism and made up stuff in the blogosphere to take care of that for me.

When Miller gets traded before his deal is up you’ll remember what I wrote.

In the meantime, lighten up. It’s just an opinion. It’s not like the Blazers are going to win the championship this year, anyway. You don’t go from losing to a lower seed in the first round of the playoffs to winning a championship just by adding a 33-year-old point guard who is playing for his fourth team and has never made an All-Star team.

If you think the guy who signed for $21 million might have to wait until December to be a starter then he’s probably better off renting.

Sure he’s untouchable!

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The reason Boozer isn’t on the list is simple. He is an expiring contract on a team with the second-highest payroll in the league. Why would the Jazz trade him for other expiring contracts? He’s a better player than any player they could get for him and they already have his replacement in Millsap.

What would the Jazz trade him for? They could use a good shooting guard but they’re not going to want to take on additional payroll for next season and who could they that matches Boozer’s salary and is also on an expiring contract?

The Celtics aren’t trading Ray Allen. The Heat are obviously not trading Wade. Don’t think they want Larry Hughes. Doubt the Hawks would trade Joe Johnson for Boozer. They don’t want Tracy McGrady and his microfractured knee. Ginobili? No.

Unless Boozer becomes a real problem then they’d be better off watching next year’s payroll drop $23 million when Boozer, Harpring, and Korver’s contracts all expire. The year after that they’ll lose $18 million from Kirilenko’s expiring deal.

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I can’t see Ilgauskas for Redd going down because the Bucks would probably want at least one young guy on a rookie contract and all the Cavs have right now in that department is JJ Hickson and he hasn’t proved that he can be a player.

The Warriors don’t really need any more young players because they’ve already got plenty of them under contract for years. That’s why the Jackson deal makes some sense for them.

The Cavs do have Daniel Gibson playing on an under market value contract that could be attractive to Milwaukee. Gibson first needs to prove he’s healthy and that his best days are in front of him and not behind him.

The Cavs wouldn’t mind including Gibson in that type of deal because Cavs fans hate him and with West, Mo, and Parker all able to play shooting guard, Gibson would be expendable with Redd on the team.

Thanks for the comments, guys.

Miller sure does look good tonight though. It looks like he’ll be starting by the middle of November.

You have no idea what’s going on with that team. Simply reading Quick’s crap in the Oregonian does not inform you, trust me. This is precious:

“Make no mistake, the Blazers didn’t want Andre Miller in June and they don’t want him now.”

Make no mistake! You’re killing me. Right, right, this organization has improved in recent years by just blowing cap space, right? Just appeasing its fan base by making SOME, ANY kind of moves, right?

You make no mistake: Miller has convinced everyone in Portland that he’s the best PG on the team, and he’ll be starting by December. No way does he get traded before January 2011.

This is why bloggers get a bad name, Andrew. You hear grumbling, so you trumpet ill-informed predictions that, in turn, get posted to more reliable blogs (BDL). Although, their credibility is questionable for linking to this post of yours. I’m sure you’ve done some fine work in the past, but predicting in no uncertain terms that Miller was never wanted in Portland and isn’t now, well, that’s just plain ignorant.

Tune in a little closer before you rant about our Blazers. Follow Blazers Edge, Rip City Project, and watch Trail Blazers Courtside for extended periods. Quick and Canzano are always upset when things don’t play out their way, and Quick has had it out for Miller from his first day because ol’ Quicky has developed a friendship with Blake.

Ouch.

Detroit could really use a backup sf like Andres.

Dallas could use him too.