blog.oregonlive.com - 6/30/2009
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Channing Frye's two-year stint with the Trail Blazers officially ended Monday.
sports.espn.go.com - 7/1/2009
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sports.espn.go.com —
Portland's pursuit of a certain player from Turkey
has infuriated the Trail Blazers' lone remaining Spanish player,...
Rudy Fernandez , to the point where he'd prefer to play in Greece, Russia or even Spain again, ESPN.com learned Tuesday. A league ...
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Rudy Fernandez of Portland Trail Blazers draws interest ...
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 6/28/2009
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sportsillustrated.cnn.com —
Amid a wealth of midseason rumors that he
was headed to Cleveland in February at the trading...
deadline, Shaquille O'Neal says another team also was trying to land him -- the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Shaq says Blazers also wanted him
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Bye Frye
Blazersedge —
... Jason Quick is reporting that the Trail Blazers will not make a qualifying offer to forward Channing Frye. This was somewhat expected as it clears more cap space this summer than any other move the Blazers could make. Obviously you know the Blazers are going after someone, otherwise they'd not be letting talent go for nothing. ...
Channing Will Not be Back Next Season
Bust a Bucket - A Portland Trail Blazers Blog —
... The Blazers announced today that they would not be making a qualifying offer to Channing Frye. He will now become an unrestricted free agent. ...
Channing Frye is off to do better things in a worse city
Deceptively Quick —
Everything about Channing Frye is awesome except his fit with the Blazers on the court. In the second off-season move that everyone saw coming, it is being reported that the Blazers will not offer that contract extension to the man that hopes to spend his post-basketball life in Portland. ...
Suicide lines: Bosh, Boozer, Millsap, Ariza and more ...
Ball Don't Lie —
... Jason Quick, The Oregonian: "Channing Frye's two-year stint with the Trail Blazers officially ended Monday when general manager Kevin Pritchard said the team has decided not to make a qualifying offer to the 26-year-old free agent power forward. The move allows Frye to become an unrestricted free agent, and prevents the Blazers from having the right to match an offer from another team. The Blazers had until midnight on Tuesday to make a $4.6 million qualifying offer to Frye, who made $3.1 million last season. 'We are going to open up some cap space,'' ...
Can Hedo Turkoglu Really Do Better than 4 years, $35 million?
The Big Lead —
... that the Blazers need a SF, and you scoffed? Leadership and skilled passing are two qualities Portland could use. And they just said goodbye to Channing Frye last night to free up some cap room. ( ...
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Turkoglu to visit with Trail Blazers (AP) —
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