The Goods Posted June 28, 2009 Report Share Posted June 28, 2009 Shaquille O'Neal claims that the Trail Blazers were interested in trading for him this past February. O'Neal says he vetoed a trade to Portland in a conversation with Suns general manager Steve Kerr. "During the middle of the season, Steve said Portland was interested," said O'Neal. "He said was I interested in going to Portland? I told him no, so he stopped that." However, Portland is denying O'Neal's claims. "Why would we when we've got Greg (Oden) developing and we've already got (Joel) Przybilla?" said a Blazers official. "If were in go-for-it mode, maybe we would be more interested." http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/60149/20090628/shaq_nixed_trade_to_blazers/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owner Real Deal Posted June 29, 2009 Owner Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 The Blazers official can say what he wants about Joel Przybilla, but they probably offered him and some others for O'Neal, so they could bring Oden off the bench and have someone "mentoring" him in the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wall2Wall Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Yeah I was thinking the same thing. It was probably like Rodriguez, Outlaw, Frye, and Pryzbilla for Shaq. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klashnekoff Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 I doubt Portland offered for Shaq. Shaq likes to feel important around the league .. no one needs him in retrospective and he knows it. Watch him fail in Cleveland and LeBron leaving to go to NY, NJ, Memphis etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldChili Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 He is important considering he's still a great player at the age of 37. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren2ThaG Posted June 29, 2009 Report Share Posted June 29, 2009 Would rather lose to ORL or CLE not Kobe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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