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Or they found out he is 35 years with three years left on his contract.     Kidding, but not kidding that maybe someone should of told Nico you could have held onto an early second instead of getting some far out 30 second round pick when physicals turned up bad.

You are half-joking, but I wouldn´t be surprised, if that´s how this played out. This was the first big trade and Portland gave up the picks. Since then in every trade the "Portland" got the picks. So they decided to find something on the medical to cancel the picks. It worked.