The super Melo to Portland thread + The Big Blockbuster

No, shut the thread down, MM says its a non-story

 

If we get Melo, I hope Eric really rubs it in Clutchfans faces.

 

This is old news folks, Blazers have been trying to get Melo for over a month. No one believed, but now its finally out there. (a "real possibility")

 

When Syracuse lands at PDX, you can get all the snark out you wish

 

It's just a summer story. I was told they don't matter.

 

Well, not getting Paul George may not have really been Ainge's fault. From the sound of things KP wasn't going to let him go to any Eastern Conference team where he might actually re-sign, no matter how good the offer.

But, I think Ainge's main target all along for this summer was Gordon Hayward. Yes, George and Butler are better players, but they would have cost significant assets. Hayward gives them an all star level SF and it cost them nothing but cap space.

And, I think this was all part of Ainge's long game - to get Hayward this summer while preserving all of his valuable assets. Now, he has the assets to go after Anthony Davis, and if that fails he still has all of those top draft picks to add to his two top 3 picks in the last two drafts (Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum). Either way BOS is going to just keep getting better. I mean, if your fall back plan is 4 top 5 picks in 4 years, while already being the No, 1 seed in your conference. I think you're doing OK.

BNM

 

Then you bumped it with negativity?

 

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...melo-anthony-is-interested-in-joining-blazers

Another source but basically the same as above:

 

Yeah, I liked the tweet, just not who tweeted it. Quack is about to pass Rick Fox on my list of most dispised people in the world. And I still HATE Rick Fox!!! STILL! Floppin, dirty playing, whiney little bitch! ARG!!!

(deep breaths Doug.....)

 

Can't be this bonesJones. He was on here bulldozing all my Melo takes a month ago.

 

BOS would end up with the 1st and 2nd picks in the draft if this years lottery reoccurs next year, with the BKN pick being 1st, and the LAL pick being 2nd. That would be insane.

 

I don't agree with how good you think he is. I think he'd be a good starter, not an all-star. I don't like his defense, but I've decided to say fuck it, because in the end, we're not winning it all, so we might as well land a household name and future HOF and have some fun scoring 120 points per game.

And I want us to trade for him because we would barely have to give anything up.

The other thing I've changed my mind on is that, if he would waive his NTC to come here, then he wouldn't be a problem egotistically. I always figured he'd bring the team down with his selfishness, but he knows this is Dame's and CJ's team. If he waived his NTC, I think it would show how he wants to add to that.

So while I don't agree with you, I have come around to the idea of Melo in a Blazers uniform for a couple different reasons, and I think that it'd be a good move to trade the little we'd have to trade to get him.

 

Ah yes, don't you just love unintentional irony?

I can't believe all you losers are still posting in the thread I'm posting in...

BNM

 

The ability to change one's mind, especially when new data becomes available, is not a weakness or character flaw.

Of course, it's also not nearly as fun as being able to say, "Neener, neener, neener, got you!!!! Burn!!!!"

BNM

 

Nor have I - but the assets (the pile of shit) is not the issue. If he is unhappy and he does demand a trade - Portland has assets to send out.

IMHO - NO's play last season with all the big contracts was to have the assets to trade when something like this happens. I do not think he targeted AD or any other player - he just wanted to have the assets when the opportunity presented itself.

 

That ought to throw some coal in this thread's boiler.

Choo-Choo!!

 

To go along with the No. 3 picks in the last two drafts + adding Gordon Hayward to the top seed in the East.

We already have the Ted Stepien Rule. Shit like this makes me wonder how long before we see a Mikhail Prokhorov Rule - something like you can't trade away a butt load of future unprotected first round picks for a bunch of guys who are over 35 years old.

Do you believe Garnett was 37 when that trade happened and Pierce and Terry turned 36 before playing their first game in BRK? That has to be the worst trade in NBA history.

BNM