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Wojnarowski: Blazers To Make Offer To Bulls RFA C Omer Asik

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Adrian WojnarowskiofYahoo! Sports reports on Twitterthat the Portland Trail Blazers will make an offer to Chicago Bulls restricted free agent center Omer Asik. ------------------------------- After Houston tonight, Blazers GM Neil Olshey will meet with Chicago center Omer Asik and make him an offer, sources tell Y! Sports. To clarify, a Portland contingent is meeting with Omer Asik tonight, but Olshey was meeting with a different player, source tells Y! Sports. -------------------------------Peter Vecseyof theNew York Postresponded to the newson Twitter... ------------------------------- Paul Allen should keep Neil Olshey as far away from restricted free agent centers (think DeAndre Jordan) as possible. ------------------------------- Olshey's Clippers matched a 4-year, $43 million offer made to Jordan by the Golden State Warriors back in December.K.C. Johnsonof theChicago Tribune reportsthat Asik could command an $8 million per year offer from the Houston Rockets, who are meeting with Asik early Sunday morning. Rockets GM Daryl Morey encouraged his team's fans to send messages to Asikon Twitter. Asik, 25, averaged 3.1 points and 5.3 rebounds in 14.7 minutes per game for the Bulls last season. The Blazers drafted Asik in the second round of the 2008 NBA Draft before trading him to the Bulls.Follow along and discuss the latest NBA league-wide free agency rumors and reports inthis post.-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter