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Blazers want to move WellsWells last week flipped off a fan and had a shouting match with Coach Maurice Cheeks. Still, Nash isn't planning on just giving a player of Wells' talents away for free. "If an opportunity presents itself whereby we can get ourselves a good player without a bad contract, we would do it," said Nash, who had contacted more than six teams about Wells. "Right now, I can't say there is a potential for a deal that would make sense. We don't want to take another team's baggage or a player with plenty of financial obligation." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Bonzi on the blockPortland TrailBlazers head coach Maurice Cheeks is not going to take anymore of the insubordination he has endured in his over two years of coaching Bonzi Wells. "I will coach him, because it's my job to coach him," Cheeks said. "But I've let things fester, and whatever leeway I gave him before won't be there anymore. It's another sensitivity issue. Well, that sensitivity that I had, it's not there anymore. The Blazers are rumored to have had talks about Wells with 12 teams. "Several teams expressed an interest in Bonzi early on, but we never were able to achieve anything that was in our best interest," GM John Nash said. "But we weren't really looking for a Bonzi deal earlier, and now I think we'd be more amenable to one." Via Jim Besada of the Oregonian Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Cheeks on Wells: 'I'm tired of it'Monday's incident was at least the fourth time Wells has berated Cheeks in front of the team in Cheeks' two-plus seasons, but Tuesday's penalty was the harshest action taken because of the repeat nature of the offense. "This time I'm fed up with it," Cheeks said Tuesday. "I'm just tired of it." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Trail Blazers Nov 2003 Archive
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