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I would love for the Blazers to offer him a bloated contract.

What? That tweet was about someone who works for KFAN. Did you read it?

He didn't say he was coming to Utah. The tweet he was replying to said, "Give [Utah] a look." To which he replied: "I am." Ergo, he is giving the Jazz a look. Along with several other teams, no doubt.

Yes. But we already knew that. Jefferson is still bigger than Boozer and can thus match up better with the longer teams that gave us trouble.

On the luxury tax thing: Is it just me, or would you kind of assume that, if we do land Jefferson, we'll basically turn our attention to trading AK in a pure salary dump - for a draft pick or something, to some team that wants that expiring contract - and then use that created room to match the...

Yeah, Hornacek is the biggest player trade - has to get the benefit of the doubt because we've seen the results. But the draft-day trade to move up and grab D-Will is right there, too. Certainly bigger than the (potential) Jefferson deal.

Yep, and here's the ESPN story. Says we're quickly trying to complete the deal: https://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5374949

What's the problem with letting go of a draft pick? Tell me, what exactly have we done with our first-round picks the last few years (Williams excluded)? Hmm? So how much value does that pick really have to us? What, will it blow a chance to get another Kris Humphries? (Who was picked one pick...

Yeah, I agree. The Memphis pick is protected anyway. The $13M TPE and a first-round pick is worth it for Jefferson.

He's not a particularly good defender - no better than Boozer, certainly. But that's individual defensive skill - the fact is he would still make us a better defensive team than we are right NOW, because Millsap - being a quite undersized PF (he's definitely not his listed height) - simply can't...

Hey, I understand the desire to simply get out of cap trouble before indiscriminately spending it on guys, just for the sake of saying you made a move. I get that. But if you think certain guys on that list - namely, Jefferson, Iguodala - would be the 4th, 5th or 6th option on the Jazz - or any...

Wouldn't touch Thabeet with a 10-foot pole. Jefferson, yes. Iguodala, yes. Foster, yes. Biedrins, yes. I like Varejao but the contract sucks. No way on Jamison - not a top-2 player for a contender and too old to acquire at that rate.

So your brilliant idea is to hold off on using the TPE until next summer, and then hoping that within the first week of free agency, we somehow find the right offer? Really? It's not like they have the entirety of next offseason to use it. They have one solid year. So you're saying the Jazz...

Yeah, that's why he averaged 16 minutes a game for a team that desperately needed a wing defender. He was the Celtics' 10th man. Great, that'll help.

Dude, Tony Allen is f***ing terrible.

I wasn't "debating," I was explaining. There's a difference. A "debate" would require an actual substantive argument from an opposing viewpoint. "Explanation" is required for ... well, for people like you.

I'm not talking about stats. They can be misleading and you know it. I'm talking about which is the better basketball player and which is the better point guard. And I'm basing this on actually having watched the both of them play. I'm sorry, but it's not open for debate. Maybe a year from now...

Uh...Paul is a two-time All-NBA Defensive Team member and he's led the league in steals twice already. Yeah, he's a much, much, much, much better defender than Rose. Pretty solid (not perfect) man defender, knows how to use his quickness, best pickpocket in the league. And as I also mentioned...

I'm sorry, but if you'd take Rose over Paul right now, you simply don't know what you're talking about. Rose isn't even a good distributor (yet) and plays no defense whatsoever. Watch basketball. Rose is a terrific player, I expect him to be great, but he's nowhere near Chris Paul yet. It's not...

I know you wanted to enhance your argument by including the 04-05 season in which he broke his wrist, but over the last FIVE seasons, he's averaged 67.2 games per season (which is right in the range I said earlier - 65-70 games per). You've said multiple times on these boards that he plays 50...