The 2022 Trade Idea Thread, now with more urgency!

I think Neil may have hijacked Dwight Jaynes' Twitter account. DJ doing his best to downplay anything Portland can do now while completely ignoring what/who led us to this point and the almost entirely abject waste of time that last 6 years have been.

 

Really don't like they way anyone is acting in the Harden Simmons Morey Philly Brooklyn thing.

Harden is trying to force his way from one MVP teammate to another, plays shitty defense, and is out of shape.
Simmons is not playing basketball, appears mentally weak, and won't work on shooting
Morey is a total hypocrite, on the one hand demanding Simmons needs to honor his contract, on the other hand trying to get players like Harden under contract to force their way out
Brooklyn enabled these stars to run their circus. Pushing for stupid moves such as DeAndre Jordan instead of Jarret Allen.

Durant can kiss my ass... jumping to a 73 win team, then trying to build another super team. Wouldn't be shocked if he tried to demand a trade soon too.
Irving is obviously a flat earth believing vaccine denying idiot.

I like Embiid and Seth Curry. The rest can eat shit.

 

Makes $12 million next year (final year of his deal) and couldn't play with Nurk. It seems Joe would prefer the cap space.

Only way I could see it making sense to bring in Powell is if we do a Nurk trade and expect to be over the cap next year, such as also using the TPE now.

 

Simmons will be dealt and it will be to clear cap space to sign Harden in offseason. Just my gut....

 

you are right. If the Trail Blazers want to try to be a contender, they need one of the best defenders in the league and the only one I can think of that's available is Ben Simmons.
But it could be that our new GM is just plugging in pieces like most people do. not really thinking about what it takes to be a contender.

 

I can’t say say specifics, but I was told it’s ok to say Blazers discussing a couple of different things (buying mode)

 

....agreed.

 

We can still use that contract later; why mess up our tank?

 

How do we use it later? I think it has to be fully guaranteed to trade in full later, which no team would want to do.

 

I did not realize that.

 

The only way we use it later is if it is fully guaranteed, or if it only counts as 3.9 million

 

The EBEC is worth more today, than it is much later. But what Joe is willing to bring in to take up the cap space with what is available, is slim picking as of now. A couple of targets, but whether those come to fruition, is beyond his control right now.