Trade Johnny Flynn For Rudy Fernandez?
ESPN just posted an article about how Portland's pursuit of Turkoglu makes Rudy Fernandez expendable, and he is now angry at the team and looking for a way out.
"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 source told ESPN.com that Fernandez has already been courted informally by European powerhouses Olympiacos, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and CSKA Moscow as word spread that the Blazers had become the apparent front-runners to land free agent Hedo Turkoglu."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4300407
Portland still could stand an upgrade at point guard with Blake aging and Bayless being a bit of a let-down last year, so it would seemingly make sense for both parties to look at a Fernandez-Flynn swap (Note: I'm not exactly sure if anything would need to be done to make the salaries match up, but I imagine this wouldn't be too difficult to maneuver). For us, we solve our point-guard log jam, and get a legit 6-6 shooting guard who just-so happens to be close friends with Ricky Rubio. Not only would that help us get Rubio over, it would also: a) Give us a tall, long backcourt for the first time in... well... ever, b) help solve our deficiency in outside shooting since Fernandez shot 40 percent from behind the arc in his rookie year, c) give us two creative players that would fit perfectly in the uptempo offense that Kahn wants to create, and d) make us an absolute hit in the spanish market which would have to help the t-wolves out financially. If I was Kahn, I would start looking into this ASAP before Rudy starts looking more formally at European teams.... What do you guys think?
Update: Whoops... didn't realize that like 5 other people had already jumped on this idea....
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