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This might be my most hated on post I’ve ever made. And it is in regards to an offseason acquisition, that no one in Portland is talking about. What if the Blazers signed Anderson Vareajao? Now I may be getting the cart ahead of the horse here, because he is not a free agent yet. He has a player option for next year to make $6.2 mil. I think it might be hard for him to get that this year on the open market, but whos to say its going to be any better next year, when he is going up against the likes of Dwayne Wade, LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Joe Johnson, Dirk Nowitski, and a handful of other great players. For the sake of this post, let’s assume he does opt out this summer.

I know that everyone hates Varejao, and I can’t say that I don’t. But after a few years of hardcore fantasy basketball under my belt I have come to realize something. If you want to win, you have to put emotions aside and just take the flat out best player. And you know what? Sometimes that nets you a very nice player that many other teams looked over. So if you take out the emotion factor, doesn’t obtaining Varejao make sense? He is exactly what we need on this team. An energy guy off the bench, who is not only a great team defender, but one of the best one on one post defenders in the league. He rebounds, scores when the opportunity presents itself, and plays within himself. He is a great teammate, and would fit in nicely with the rest of our foreign flair on the team. If you could lock Varejao up for say 4-5 years at 5-6 mil a year, would you do it? I think it would be next to impossible to not do it. Not only do you strengthen your team by adding a high quality backup PF, but you weaken a possible championship rival in Cleveland.

So now I want to hear from you guys. Can you give me one good, unemotional reason, to not get Varejao?