Updated: July 5, 2009, 3:54 PM ET

Turkoglu shakes up free-agent market

The Blazers and Raptors still have decisions to make after the Turkoglu reversal

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Hollinger By John Hollinger
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Anyone who saw the footage of Hedo Turkoglu meeting Blazers bigwigs at Portland International Airport on Thursday had to get a little bit of a weird feeling. Especially any married guys. Turkoglu came alone, amid rumors that his wife very strongly preferred to be in Toronto, and I remember thinking at that very moment that the Blazers' recruiting pitch was doomed to failure. It was going to be tough to sell her on the charms of Portland if she wasn't there.

Thus, despite two days of Chamber of Commerce weather here in the Rose City, replete with blue skies and Mt. Hood views, and tours of the Blazers' first-rate training facility in Tualatin, Turkoglu isn't coming to the Blazers. After an 11th-hour Boozerang that will forever immortalize him as "Hedon't" in the local vernacular, the Turkoglus are heading to Toronto instead -- a place they never visited on this free-agent tour, apparently because they didn't need to be sold on it.

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NBA Free Agency 2009

LEE, ROBINSON RETURN TO KNICKS
ODOM RETURNS TO LAKERS
SESSIONS TO WOLVES
MILLER TO BLAZERS
UTAH MATCHES FOR MILLSAP
ORLANDO MATCHES FOR GORTAT
MARION TRADED TO MAVS
WALLACE TO CELTICS
KIDD RETURNS TO MAVS
TURKOGLU TO RAPTORS
ARTEST TO LAKERS
VILLANUEVA, GORDON TO PISTONS
BIBBY RETURNS TO HAWKS
McDYESS TO SPURS
GOODEN TO MAVERICKS
FREE-AGENT CHATTER

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