In the wake of losing Hedo Turkoglu, the Portland Trail Blazers have become engaged in serious discussions about making an offer to New York Knicks restricted free agent David Lee, ESPN.com learned Saturday.

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Sounds like Avs fans are ecstatic to get rid of former SCSU Husky Tyler Arnason. The Comments on this subject are comical and worth the read

(Lee in a still from his short lived MSG show, “Non-Stars On Non-Stars”) The past several days of musical chairs in the NBA left some observers to conclude David Lee would have no choice but to return to the Knicks, with few, if any suitors having the requisite cap space to recruit the former Gator.

Nothing is more fun than to read the Ranger beat reporters falling all over themselves with words of praise for the New York Ranger prospects. Maybe if they took the time to come here and read what we have been saying about the kids then they would not be so surprised. Start with Evgeny Grachev who everyone keeps harping on his 40 goal, 80 point season with Brampton last season but what is being overlooked is a couple of other numbers that beg to be shown

Stephon Marbury says that collecting roughly $18 million from the New York Knicks for not playing for the team in the 2008-09 season “mentally damaged” him. You cannot make this stuff up; just insert your own punchline–and I’ll even give you a head start by quoting a statement Marbury made four years ago: “I’m telling you what it is: I know I’m the best point guard in the NBA. I don’t need anybody else to tell me that.” Are we supposed to believe that Marbury was not “mentally damaged” when he made that statement?<br /><br />The best thing that New York Coach Mike D’Antoni did last year–and the thing that I said for years that the Knicks should do–was banish Marbury, even with the Knicks getting nothing in return; this was the ultimate example of “addition by subtraction.” The funny thing is that even though the Marbury-less Knicks won nine more games than they did in their scandal-scuttled 2008 season, their 32 victories fell one short of the team’s win total in 2006-07–and the reason for that, as I <a href=”http://probasketballnews.com/story/?storyid=309″>explained near the end of the 2009 season</a>, is that D’Antoni juiced up New York’s offense but he did nothing to improve the team’s leaky defense

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