Marcus Camby Dealt?

If true this would b a terrible tradefor us

Nice. Camby goes where he will make the playoffs, and we get help at the guard. Outlaw’s no slouch either. Thanks Marcus – you were a true pro while you were here.

Kaman and DJ in the frontcourt …. if this is the new lineup, guess we can stop and the discussions about the potential of DJ and his playingtime and watch the rest of the season to see if he can handle himself night in and night out

This trade was all about JOHN WALL…cuz the Clips won’t win very many games the rest of this year.

OUCH.

This isn’t a bad deal. My question are both guys expiring? If they are it’s a good one. Gives the team some help at the wings and if for any reason one of them plays well – maybe we sign them for next year. Blake is an upgrade over Telfair and can start if Baron “quits.” Outlaw is much needed defensive and scoring help at the 3. As for the frontline, well…Kaman’s an All-Star. Let’s hope he can play like it for the rest of the season.

is looks like this deal will increase our cap space next year by 1.3MM (7.6 expiring vs. 8.9 expiring), will that be enough to offer a max deal? to be honest i had given up on them winning this season, and it looks like dunleavy has too.

We traded an expiring contract for 2 expiring contracts, one of which is injured and no picks?

This isnt a good deal. We could have gotten much more for Camby, i dont see much upside to this. Neither of these guys is worth much if we resign them next season.

So instead of holding Camby’s bird rights, we get Outlaws and Blakes?

HORRIBLE!!! The only reason i would’ve justified this trade is if we got a 1st rounder & they took bassy and thorton. What is Dunleavy thinking? is he planning on going back to portland or something?

Article for Trade on ESPN now changed to “camby MAY be headed to Portland”

“The Los Angeles Clippers were in discussion to trade forward-center Marcus Camby to the Portland Trail Blazers for Travis Outlaw and Steve Blake, sources told ESPN The Magazine’s Ric Bucher.

One source close to the situation initially said that the sides had agreed on the deal, but multiple sources later said that the deal was close but not completed. A Clippers source called the talks “substantive.”

I think you guys are missing the big picture here. We’re giving up ONE expiring contract for TWO in return. Dunleavy has made it clear many times that he wants the Clippers to be “players” in the 2010 sweepstakes. Whether we have a chance at landing a player via trade or during the off-season all depends on how Dunleavy works his “magic”. Either way, I think this is a good trade, We gain 1.3 mil.in cap relief and the trade deadline isn’t officially done until Thursday. I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a move for an even bigger move that’s to come. All we’re doing is gaining “trade bait” to either make more moves or to have more cap space. So this leaves us with, C Smith, Butler, Camby/or Outlaw,Blake, Telfair(maybe), SKinner, Novak, and B. Brown. as expiring contracts… Not bad! Anyways, we won’t be making any more noise for the rest of the season.

@First2One00 – We don’t get any cap relief from this, all three guys are off the books. We would only get cap relief if someone with a contract BEYOND this year was included (namely Thornton and Telfair). The way this deal went down, the only benefactor is Sterling as the Blazers are giving them cash. We still have the same number of guaranteed contracts, only now we’ve lost one of our most valuable trade assets that we could have bundled together with Thornton or Bassy so we could offer a max contract in the summer. Dumping Bassy would have been ideal as I believe Thornton has a reasonable contract and could have been dumped for a conditional 2nd rounder to a team looking for cheap younger talent.

Look guys, with the team in a downward spiral, Dunleavy needed to shake things up a bit before the deadline, and obviously Camby is our most valuable trading chip. As some have suggested, getting someone like Igoudala may have been nice, but highly unlikely. Does anyone not remember how good Outlaw was when healthy? Travis Outlaw is a better player (athletic, great midrange, 3pt, defense) than both Butler and Thornton. He’s not the missing piece at the 3 we all crave, but this guy was one of the top 6th men a few seasons ago. Steve Blake is a far better backup PG than Bassy- good 3pt shooter, decent playmaker. Both are expiring, and maybe we get a pick, cash, or another player when all is said and done. It would make more sense to include Thornton and/or Bassy in the trade, but lets see. DeAndre Jordan will now have the minutes he needs to develop as a player- something that could pay off huge down the road.

I like Camby alot but he was kind of an offensive liability, jordan now has a chance to show us if he is worth anything and next year blake will be ready to go.