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Post subject: Blazers to try and convince Rudy Fernandez to come to NBA
 Posted: Mar 06, 2008 - 10:58 PM PST
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Pritchard and the Blazers would love to have Rudy Fernandez come and play for the team, but he is currently under contract with his Euroleague team until 2011. Here's an article on the effort by AP:
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — If Kevin Pritchard has his way, talented Spaniard Rudy Fernandez will be a Portland Trail Blazer next year.
The Portland general manager acknowledges it may not be a slam dunk to pry Fernandez away from his Spanish team, DKV Joventut.
"He has — and this is the good and the bad — absolutely played above his draft position," Pritchard told OregonLive.com. "We picked him at 24 and if he was in the draft this year I think he'd be in the top 10."
That means the Blazers could end up in a bidding war with DKV Joventut, with which Fernandez has a contract through the 2011 season, and that Portland would likely lose if the money gets too high.
The NBA collective bargaining agreement puts a cap on the amount of money a team can offer a draft pick.
But Pritchard still plans to try to lure Fernandez, who is close friends with fellow Spaniard and current Blazer Sergio Rodriguez.
Fernandez, averaging 20.3 points per game for DKV Joventut, is a 6-foot-5 shooting guard but Pritchard envisions him playing alongside Blazers All-Star guard Brandon Roy.
"Brandon Roy is so good that he's whatever he wants to be (positionwise)," he said. "We need another attacker and I think Rudy will help us in that regard." |
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