re: Pelicans to bring Mickey and quality offer to Oden meeting

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Pierre Jackson is the only player I'd give up on our current squad for Oden.

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I'm not even sure that's possible though.

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teams cannot trade players under the following circumstances:

...For three months or until December 15 of that season (whichever is later) after signing a contract as a free agent or matching an offer sheet to a restricted free agent. This obviously does not apply to the trade completing a sign-and-trade transaction

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If he's already signed then he can't be part of the deal. Would Lance Thomas take one for the team again and do a S&T knowing he might get cut by Portland and he can't come back to the Pelicans for a year since we would have traded him?