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Canis Hoopus: Great Off-Season Performances: The Dylan Edition
Third Quarter Collapse: Hedo Turkoglu rejects Blazers, ends negotiations
BallerBlogger.com: Points in the Paint
MKRob's Sports Blog: Turkoglu Rejects Blazers Offer; Will Leave Tommorrow Morning
Rip City Project | A Portland Trailblazers blog: Scratch that, Hedo ditches Portland
Great Off-Season Performances: The Dylan Edition
Canis Hoopus —
... sometime next week. We hope to have much more Lynx content over the summer.
Enjoy the weekend and we'll be back full-time on Monday.
One more thing: With all of the interest readers of this site have had with Hedo-to-Portland and Rudy Fernandez, my over-the-weekend-fantasy-GM challenge to you is to figure out a deal that lands the Wolves this Portland small forward. When it comes to the Blazers, it's Batum or Bust.
UPDATE: Maybe not:
The Oregonian has learned that free agent forward Hedo Turkoglu has ...
Hedo Turkoglu rejects Blazers, ends negotiations
Third Quarter Collapse —
Hedo Turkoglu rejects Blazers, ends negotiations
[Ed. note: bumped to front page. This is some weird news. Discuss it here - BQR]
The Oregonian has learned that free agent forward Hedo Turkoglu has rejected an offer to sign with the Trail Blazers and has ...
Points in the Paint
BallerBlogger.com —
... The Oregonian reports Hedo Turkoglu has rejected Portland’s offer, and has ended negotiations with the team. ...
Turkoglu Rejects Blazers Offer; Will Leave Tommorrow Morning
MKRob's Sports Blog —
... The Oregonian has learned that free agent forward Hedo Turkoglu has rejected an offer to sign with the Trail Blazers and has ended negotiations with the team. ...
Scratch that, Hedo ditches Portland
Rip City Project | A Portland Trailblazers blog —
... Well, so much for that idea. Hedo Turkoglu has pulled out of talks with the Blazers and is likely headed to Toronto to sign a new deal. It’s confirmed by The Oregonian, ...
Oops
Blak4rest: Sports, Media and Vegas —
... ESPN was wrong. It said earlier in the day that Hedo had agreed to become a Blazer. But Hedo isn't heading to Portland. No sir. Toronto might be his destination instead. Apparently, the wife prefers Toronto instead of Portland. Gotta have your priorities straight and keep the home fires burning. The Oregonian
Surveying the remnants
RaptorBlog.com —
... is reporting that Turkoglu just signed with Portland . (A few hours after this was posted, I learned that Hedo actually rejected Portland's offer , so this whole blog post is probably irrelevant. Anyway, carry on!) That knocks off two of Colangelo's rumored primary options (Ariza and Turkoglu), so who are we left with? Shawn Marion remains the most likely candidate to fill the starting SF role next season, particularly since ...
The dawn of a new era? Or something like that
Doug Smith's Toronto Raptors blog —
... as they’ve had in years and years. Sure, if someone gets hurt they could be screwed which is exactly the same thing they’re saying in Cleveland and Boston. But if one of the starters goes down, I still think the other four can carry the load at least a little bit.
Look, everything’s a gamble.
This one just makes senses and, to me, was worth it. I like those pros far more than I’m worried about those cons.
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Here's how they explained it in the Portland paper this morning.
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Oh, and there’s this.
Here ...
Berman : Lee To Cash In On Turkoglu’s Flip-Flop
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... encourages the Knicks to pursue free agent PG Allen Iverson, Hedu Turkoglu’s stunning decision to bail on Portland’s offer in favor of ...
Sniffing Turkoglu and Turning Up One's Nose
El Blog Ilusorio de Rudy —
... This is in direct contrast to the Turkoglu players. Players of this ilk are known to leave a turbulent wake of flim-flammery and pizza boxes! ...
