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Now Abdur-Rahim is sidelined with a mystery elbow injury. Worst-case scenario for the Blazers: Rahim's injury requires season-ending surgery. That would leave the team holding an empty bag at the end of the year as Rahim becomes unrestricted and will most likely walk. In the end, that could mean the Blazers traded Rasheed Wallace for Theo Ratliff and cap relief.
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If we're talking worst case scenario, it's a lot worse than that. Not only would it end up being Rashed for Theo, but the contract situation got
worse, not exactly cap relief. We traded $20M+ in expiring contracts to get Shareef and Theo. With Theo re-signing for about the same as Rasheed did in Detroit, no matter what comes of Shareef, we're no better off in the salary department through that trade, and probably worse depending on what eventually comes of the Shareef/Wesley side of things.
Dan
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