When I first heard of the story I thought that something did get lost in translation as, if the dislike of Toronto, from Hedo’s part, was of thad magnitude, that urge would have been better served by a statemetn behind closed doors. I believe his agent has already (or will) have some hard words with Hedo. The only way for him, not to be “just dumped” somewhere is to eat some humble pie. In an ideal case, for Hedo not to terminate his NBA career as a salary trade chip in pointless teams is to make a deal with BC, come back in top shape raise his value for being traded at the trade deadline.
The alternative fro Hedo is to e stuck in TO or to go to a even less palatable team. Yet again, good job Hedo, you have an absmal idea of your self worth…..

Hedo’s garbage; get rid of him while there is a chance you can get something in return.

I am warming up to the idea of picking up Eddy Curry from the Knicks in exchange for Hedo. The Raptors need to start cleaning up their cap situation and this would be a good step towards doing that. Calderon is probably movable to a team that has enough decent defenders to cover for him(Bobcats, Hawks, Portland, etc). Keep Banks and Evans who would come off the cap along with Curry next year. Play this year with a team of youngsters and then see what you can do next offseason. If Triano has one strength it is teaching and with a bunch of young (hopefully) receptive players you can play to this strength.

Next years line up might be: Bargnani, Johnson, DeRozan, Weems Jack; Bench – Bellinelli, draft pick, Evans, Banks; At home – Curry. This leaves out any return from a Calderon trade and from a possible Bosh sign-and-trade. Hopefully, those deals would bring back either picks/prospects or veteran mentor types.

Raps play hard, but probably lose a lot this season. They hit next offseason with a good draft pick and some cap space to either sign someone(unlikely) or acquire salary through trades(more likely) and hopefully some promising young talent with a bit of seasoning(’10 pick, Weems, DeRozan).

It’s only $899.99 and don’t pay a cent for 3 years!!! Leon’s eats Hedo’s contract and we could fill the remaining balance with a leather coach, maybe an area rug, 50" TV… the possibilities are endless.

Seriously though, keep Hedo and bench him. He can spend the next four years of his life getting chirped by the fans and wondering why he signed the biggest contract of his professional career and then didn’t take it seriously. Like really, the team had to ask him twice to wear that mask, and potentially avoid a career ending injury. But Hedo said it would affect his delicate genious and he would not perform like the machine he is. GO &$ YOURSELF!!!

“shouldn’t have flip-flopped on their attitude towards him after defending him through most of the season”

I don’t agree with this at all. Just because you give someone slack for a bit doesn’t mean you extend the rope as long as they want. At some point something gives, and although Hedo may have seen his transgressions as minor, they were enough to ‘break the camels back’.

You can blame the organization for not bringing in enough talent, for making bad trades or signings, for going to easy on players… but there is no way the organiztion is to blame for this current Hedo situation.

What Hedo did was of his own doing. He made the choice. Everyone one of us here knows there would be hell to pay if we ran into the same situation at our jobs. As far as I’m concerned the punishment was rather light. Lots of players have received worse for just showing up late to practice…

we will be regretting that move for the next 5 yrs. I’d take any other trade scenerio but not Arenas. Arenas makes wayyyy too much money for a guy who isn’t even close to being one of the best in the league in any category. Also, why give up banks and evans, our “muscle” for weak a** , declining Arenas. NO THANKS.

I would rather see Hedo payed 10 mil to sit on the bench for 4 years, then dish out double that for Arenas, his bad knees, his ridiculous ego, and his bad influence.

Besides Arena’s health and off the court problems, its been three years since he has played a full season. Even then he was the typical SG in a PG body, undersized (although strong) for the 2, more concerned with his game than his team, plays no defense, doesn’t share the ball, streaky player.

I can’t picture him being anything more than what Iverson was for the last few years of his career…. a drain on whatever team he plays for

who said the raptors fans need to apologize to hedo? i thought it was said that you need to think twice before labeling someone as party maniac taking the fact that he has a wife and a baby into consideration…by the way nobody talks about it is our genius gm colangelo who gave him the contract….and some of you guys, get some f.cking information before jumping into the conclusion..yes you who said ‘’this turkish clown’’

He had his chance. We’re very glad he chose as he did.

As for the Wizards…I lived in/followed WASH for years, and fully agree they should dump Arenas ASAP. But not for Hedont. I’d rather take on Curry and sign him to an extension.

if his contract wasn’t so bad I could understand wanting him instead of hedo but that guy hasn’t been healthy or playing anything close to all star calibre basketball for over 3yrs, how can any GM in their right mind handicap their franchise by taking on 17mil and rising for the next 4yrs? Just to get rid of Hedo? BC should be fired if he crippled the raptors salary cap over Gilbert “rapidly declining” Arenas.

 I’d like to see that guy in a raptor uniform coming off the bench. If we like the idea of having a point forward, I say get rid of Hedo and bring in a 6’7 205lbs Vujacic to play that role.

ok hedo sucks we all know this nobody wants him so i think the best option out there for him is arenas. i would take arenas over curry any day at least arenas can still score

Picture this, after Orlando’s collapse, Raptors get the Magic to agree to a trade to get (wait for it) Vince Carter for a Hedo package. Then, Vince Carter is forced to come back to the Raptors for his twighlight years and play for a God awful Bargani led team while we loose at least 50 games a year for a few seasons and aquire draft picks. Then when his contract expires we are positioned to rebuild. What irony, what justice. The same guy who whined and winged his way out is sent here to play out the string. Hey, Raptors fans could boo VC 41 times a year!

Look let’s face it, this team is an absoulte shit-show right now, an unmitigated debacle. Might as well make the loosing and general fan experience entertaining. For that same reason, I’d sign off on an Arenas deal. At least he adds some entertainment value, a spark to a team that is most likely not going to be worth watching for a few years.

i can se why some of us here are alil worried about having arenas in the locker room with our young players and having a gun but think of it this way..arenas after what just happend was an embarressment to not only the team, the nba..but to himself. goin to jail is no joke, and hearing all this talk that hes a declining player and the wizards dont want him even around john wall, that should only motivate him to be a better player, when arenas is going he is hands down 1 of the toughfest players to guard in this league, and hes still young enoungh himself to gain his form back, a fresh start is what would be good for him.and like McGateway said earlier fearing that he would bring a gun is a mood point cause now that he has a record theres NO WAY IN HELL he would risk doing that again or face a longer jail sentence i just dont see that happening.with the amount of money hes making just be safe and hire bodyguaurds.but with all this talk about trading for arenas is there even a chance in hell of getting him? was there any rumors saying that theres a chance of a trade happening between the raptors and the wizards or are we all just having a fantasy trade talk? i think i would do the deal if it came up and if not..its like i said last week on here cause of so many teams palying so terrible in this years playoffs like the hawks, cavs and magic if the arenas trade doesnt work im sure theres going to be many other players that will be avaible for sure..this is gonna be the most interesting off season in leaugue history and it just got more interesting with this hedo saga

That is the latest rumour circulating the internet. I’d do that deal before I took on the risk of acquiring Arenas. Gilbert may behave himself off the court, but he is not a good team player on the court and would disrupt the team’s chemistry as well as the development of the young players. He will be out to prove himself this year which to me means that he will come out chucking. No thanks. Diaw doesn’t solve the Raptors problems, but he would be a lot more palatable guy to have on the roster than either Turk or Gilbert. I pray that Colangelo will be able to hang onto Toronto’s draft pick while dumping Turkoglu.

Hedo’s trade request could land Bosh in Miami.

http://swishand1.wordpress.com/hedos-trade-request-could-land-bosh-in-miami/

i think that arenas is the best option because it might persuade bosh to stay and if it doesn’t then we need someone to replace 24 points and that person may well be arenas and not diaw

One more point about Arenas as a role model. I was just reading an article on ESPN about Stephen Curry. It talked about how Stephen Jackson was mentoring him, teaching him the pro ropes, in Golden State before he got traded to Charlotte. You know, “shot my gun off outside a strip joint” Stephen Jackson. I rest my case.