Camby to the Blazers? Camby not happy about it

[djohn2oo8]

Los Angeles Clippers (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/lac/;_ylt=Ap7e8nhG6trO1JFYU22QfghzK7J_) center Marcus Camby (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3084/;_ylt=Aga06B2JqgSlf8dAaeizio9zK7J_)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3084/news;_ylt=AgZgVM0vdarX5f5mT53QRxdzK7J_) may have unknowingly attended his own farewell dinner on Monday night.

The Clippers are on the verge of completing a trade that will send Camby to the Portland Trail Blazers (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/;_ylt=AnIB6gOLDm3FMDwHSGmGhktzK7J_), league sources said, but the veteran center is not happy about the potential deal.

The proposed trade, which was first reported by Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski, will send Camby to Portland in exchange for forward Travis Outlaw (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3726/;_ylt=AlVzJoN3Yi_kNx2Eou8uom5zK7J_)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3726/news;_ylt=AipL.DWtz.K8LA0srryYAgFzK7J_), guard Steve Blake (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3741/;_ylt=AlCKk9dEzgtSuGTFH0YjlV9zK7J_)(notes) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3741/news;_ylt=ApNiHKden3zrZ.Is5h7LALJzK7J_) and cash.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-cambytrade021510&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

[tlongII]

He'll love it when he gets here. A good team and 20,000 fans every night.

[Reeko_Htown]

He likes losing because the expectations are little and it allows him to be lazy.

[lil_penny]

Lol camby

[SenorSpur]

Originally, he didn't want to leave Denver to go to the the Clippers, either. He'll get used to it.

[tlongII]

Leaving Denver going to LA is a lot easier than leaving LA going to Portland.

Why are so many people from LA coming up here then?

[jack sommerset]

With the housing market down, he loses money everytime he is traded.

[Phonzie20]

Originally, he didn't want to leave Denver to go to the the Clippers, either. He'll get used to it.

I was going to basically say this...

He's a good guy outside of being on the court. I was very glad that he was moved for peanuts in Denver but that was due to his selfish play on the offensive end and gambling on the defensive side.

Camby does a lot for whatever community he is in during the off-time. He'll help Portland a bit but not put them over the top.

[Phonzie20]

With the housing market down, he loses money everytime he is traded.

If you've seen the size of some of those diamond earring he sports, he should be ok. If need be, he can hock them and get a decent 150k house.

[Brazil]

dumb trade for Portland

[Banzai]

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[LakerHater]

The Portland Trail Blazers (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/clubhouse?team=por) have acquired the Clippers' (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/clubhouse?team=lac) Marcus Camby (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=125), the center they've desperately needed since they lost both Greg Oden (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=3225) and Joel Przybilla (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=682) to season-ending injuries.
In return, Los Angeles receives point guard Steve Blake (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=1994) and small forward Travis Outlaw (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=2015).
Portland will also send $1.5 million to Los Angeles in the trade and is responsible for $2 million in incentives Camby will earn before season's end, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher on Tuesday.

Shelburne: Clips Gearing Up

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/columnists/shelburne_ramona_m.jpg The Los Angeles Clippers are preparing to make a run at the elite 2010 free-agent class, writes Ramona Shelburne. Story (http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/columns/story?id=4919152)



All three players traded are in the final years of their respective deals.
In Portland, Camby will team with another veteran in Juwan Howard (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=351) to solidify the Blazers post. The lanky veteran is a former defensive player of the year and two-time member of the NBA all-defensive team.
"We are very excited to bring an experienced big man of Marcus' caliber to the team and we feel he'll help us a great deal down the stretch run," Blazers general manager Kevin Pritchard said. "He's a fierce competitor and has been one of the league's best defensive players for quite some time."
There has been a season-long debate in Portland over whether Blake or Andre Miller (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=557), whom the Blazers signed as a free agent last summer, is a better fit at point guard next to All-Star shooting guard Brandon Roy (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?playerId=3027).
Outlaw, meanwhile, has not played since breaking his left foot in mid-November and is just on the verge of returning to action.
Blake and Outlaw will not play on Tuesday night but will fly home with the team and take physicals on Wednesday morning.
The 35-year-old Camby is the league's second-leading rebounder (12.1) on an underachieving Clippers team that has lost four straight and fallen out of the Western Conference playoff race.
Portland is currently clinging to the eighth and final playoff spot, with Roy missing Sunday's All-Star Game in Dallas because of a nagging hamstring injury.
Blake, a 6-foot-3 guard, is putting up 7.6 points and 4.0 assists per game. He's coming off a 20-point, 12-assist game in a win over the Suns before the All-Star break.


Ric Bucher covers the NBA for ESPN The Magazine. Information from ESPNLosAngeles.com's Ramona Shelburne and The Associated Press was used in this report.

[tlongII]

Great trade. It doesn't put us over the top, but it should get us into the playoffs. We'll win the title next season health permitting.

[duncan228]

‘Shocked’ by trade, Camby warms to Blazers (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=mc-cambyblazers021610&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
By Marc J. Spears

Still stunned to be traded from the Los Angeles Clippers, Marcus Camby said he’s quickly warming to the thought of being in the playoff hunt with the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Clippers traded Camby to the Blazers for forward Travis Outlaw, guard Steve Blake and cash in a deal that was completed Tuesday morning. Camby, however, learned of the potential trade – which was first reported by Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski – Monday evening while he was at a sponsors dinner with the Clippers at Ringside steakhouse in Portland.

Camby immediately left the restaurant after receiving the call from his agent, and those close to him said he was upset about the news, primarily because his family had settled comfortably in Los Angeles. Camby, who will be a free agent at the end of the season, had hoped to re-sign with the Clippers.

“I’m still trying to get my thoughts together,” Camby said by phone Tuesday afternoon. “It’s been only 24 hours. Hearing the news at a dinner that we had, that was real tough knowing in the next 24 hours I wasn’t going to be here. It was pretty intense and pretty nerve-wracking all at the same time.

“I had a lot of doubts and I had a lot of issues about what was going to be next for myself.”

Meeting with Blazers officials on Tuesday helped allay some of his concerns.

“It seems like a great town and a first-class organization,” Camby said. “I already know they have a great fan base here. I’m feeling a whole lot better today than yesterday.”

Camby had similar initial concerns when the Denver Nuggets traded him to the Clippers in the summer of 2008, but he grew to like playing and living in Los Angeles, even though the Clippers didn’t have much success on the court. This trade “shocked” him, he said, because he had never before been dealt in the middle of the season.

“The weird part was actually being [in Portland],” Camby said. “My first initial thought was, ‘I’m here, I just got traded and I only packed for a one-day trip. I don’t have no clothes.’ Everything was like real crazy and coming at me all at once.”

Camby was scheduled to get his physical Tuesday afternoon, but will not play in Tuesday’s game between the Clippers and Blazers. He hopes to be on the court Friday when the Blazers play host to the Boston Celtics.

If Camby sees anything positive in the trade, it’s that he’s going to get to help Portland compete for a spot in the playoffs. The Blazers have weathered season-ending injuries to their top two centers, Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla, yet began Tuesday holding the eighth and final playoff seed in the Western Conference.

“It’s been about two years since I’ve been in the playoffs,” he said. “I’m really excited about it, really excited about my team. I’m being reunited with Andre Miller again, a great underrated point guard. I’m playing with Juwan Howard, a guy I played with my first year in Denver. Of course, they have two great stars in Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge. I look forward to playing with these guys.”

Camby said he won’t uproot his family because his children are in school. He also becomes a free agent this summer, so there are no guarantees he’ll be re-signed, particularly if Oden and Przybilla heal from the injuries.

“That was some of the concerns and questions that I had about me not being a rental player,” Camby said. “They expressed that they want me here in the future. That’s something I definitely have to take into consideration once free agency hits for myself. But, hopefully, if things work out for me, I can be here an extended period of time.”