Paul Pierce just said Portland Trail Blazers dark horse to land LeBron

Fundamental flaw. Lbj is a free agent. He isn’t going to facilitate a trade to a team that guts the roster.

 

You know what? My bad.

I thought you were another poster. The guy who completely advocates for scrub after scrub. Blazer forever or something.

I apologize.

 

Dame - Evan - LBJ - Love - Nurk
MLE Guy - Collins (in my proposition)- Davis - Napier - Vet Ring chaser - Crabbe TPE.

Still something to build around.

 

I'm not so sure that the roster is "gutted" by this trade idea, especially if you factor in the veterans who would be willing to sign here on a minimum contract to fill out the roster and go ring hunting.

PG: Lillard, Napier (re-signed), Baldwin
SG: Turner, DWade (sure, why not?), Pat (re-signed) or Wilcox
SF: James, (Turner), Layman
PF: Love, Ed (re-signed), Swanigan
C: Nurk (re-signed), Ed, PapaG?

Add a draft pick or two, maybe another vet FA, maybe another trade, and I think the Blazers are in a heck of a lot better shape than this year's Cavs were to compete with the Warriors.

 

Mmm I disagree. We have a much tougher conference. Means more wear and tear. Plus I don’t see that as any better than Cleveland when they had kyrie.
Giving up your second best player and most promising young big is kinda gutting.

 

Cleveland with a healthy Kyrie won the championship bro.. (Devil's Advocate font)

 

Ohhhhhh snap! So he can’t be civilized JUST cause he’s BLACK???!?! Ahhhhhh shit......he we go FAMS!

 

Evan Turner ruins that entire lineup.

 

Everyone is drumming him up and then he can't even coexist with CJ. I'm not getting into the argument of who's the better player but when they play together we're hard to beat. both came from college programs where they were The man, and need to learn to share the limelight

 

Lbj isn’t going to a city that would hurt his brand, if he goes to a West Coast team it’s the Lakers. I’d say there’s a 100% chance he teams up with buddy CP3 in Hou or stays in the weaker division and joins the rising Sixers though.

 

Who would not have been obligated to sign, if I'm not mistaken?

 

Him and Paul George head or the lakers. Cp3 joins them a year later.

 

Wait what? We'd pick him But he wouldn't have to sign??

 

I just don't see it.

 

This post makes absolutely no sense.

 

Here’s my dumb question for the day, why do you believe CJ and Dame can’t co-exist? They seem to be good friends, Dame doesn’t seem to mind letting the team ride CJ when he’s hot. You could argue they have a similar skillset and I could see that to a certain extent, but I’m not sure I get the arguement that they can’t or don’t do-exist.

 

That's what I'm wondering. It said he'd have to sign after the following season, but before the next draft. Does that imply if he didn't sign, he could have put himself back into the draft? Was it different than when we drafted Sabonis, and held his rights? (He asked no one in particular.)

 

The great thing about CJ is that he takes pressure off Dame. It's someone else he can throw the ball to that can get buckets if Dame is struggling or even if Dame is having an amazing game. You always need that other guy who can help and CJ is good at that. Look at Game 4 of playoffs this year. CJ had 38 points. In a loss, yes, but that is because AD went off for 47.

 

They do great at getting each other shots depending on who's hot. As you've said, you don't even watch the games, so how do you know? Is like never reading the Bible then trying to preach to a priest... it's ridiculous.