Guess Portland's "toxic" offer to Paul Millsap wasn't toxic enough.
The Utah Jazz will match the four-year, $32 million offer the Portland Trail Blazers tendered their restricted free agent Paul Millsap, the team posted on its Web site and a league source confirmed to ESPN.com Thursday evening.
Under the terms of the contract, the Jazz, which stated all summer that it would match any offer Millsap received, will have to pay the 24-year-old forward $10.3 million this weekend. Portland had front-loaded the contract to discourage Utah from matching.
A formal announcement was scheduled for Friday, the last day Utah can match the Portland offer.
This could be good because it might mean the Trailblazers go for Lamar Odom. I don't get why they wouldn't lure a key piece away from a team above them in the standings. I'm not alone in thinking that losing Odom and Trevor Ariza is too much subtraction... and it more than offsets the addition of Ron Artest.
