Dame all but demanding vet roster

Hopefully it never happens. But if it does, hopefully it's because you both need to move on. Mine, after 25 good years , came to an abrupt stop , and cut my heart out. I've forgiven her , and she's a friend now. 10 years later i still have hope that i may meet that special lady one day.

 

Yes, because he's a proven champion with an amazing skillset.

 

We all hope players will be totally invested in our city going forward. Especially the best ones. But i just don't see it.

 

Fingers crossed but i'm worried on the return. Who can we really get with that haul?

 

Nope! While Giannis is a complete stud on and off the court (oh what could have been) but 29 with knee & back issues vs 19 and a bright future all in front of VW is why. I don't think GA is built to last and expressed this when the Blazers dealt the Bucks 2025 unprotected 1st for Grant.

STOMP

 

Nurk doesn't have value on an overpaid contract, so it's really just Ant. He probably has about the same value as CJ McCollum. He's younger with more upside, but also less proven. So we can probably get a Josh Hart level of backup/flawed starter plus a protected pick.

Getting a star probably requires us throwing in a lot of draft picks, which makes it difficult if not impossible to construct the rest of the roster towards being a contender.

Joe and the Blazers have put themselves in a very difficult position if they're truely trying to build a contender with Dame this summer.

 

Nobody.

 

I don't think Joe has ever said his goal is to build a contender after his 2nd season.
Fans and the media have concocted all kinds of trade scenarios, the kind they thought we'd see in 2022-23.
I think his goal is to make the playoffs next season and keep adding talent.
Making a big trade like Minnesota, Cleveland and Phoenix has not proven to be a quick fix anyway, or even an improvement.
Denver has slowly added pieces to get to where they are now.

 

Dame just did a 30 min live again from the parking lot of the PF chiding all the people yelling at him to leave Portland. Kept going on and on about how insufferable he will be to all the media and people outside when he wins in Portland.

 

I really don't think anything has changed in the Dame equation

Portland will not trade Dame unless he asks to be traded. And whatever happens in the off-season, Dame is unlikely to ask out of Portland, no matter how you interpret what he's said lately

 

I missed it. Any quotable quotes?

 

Nothing he hasn't said ad nauseum for the past 3 yrs.

 

Maybe this is him doing some form of damage control due to some of the comments he made when Stephen A Smith interviewed him on live TV that sounded like he was putting the blazers on the clock. Maybe he realized when he publicly say those kinda things, it makes Joe Cronin's job more difficult.

 

It's not that serious. He was just shooting the shit.

 

Also said during his live

 

Who is yelling for Dame to leave Portland? Maybe some idiot national media types, but then go address them specifically. Call them out for their buffoonery.

 

Dame trying to boost Sharpes trade value so we can send him out for one of his friends

 

This whole time we thought Dame was Obi-Wan but he was actually Emperor Palpatine.

 

Exactly

 

Do you have to be cynical of every single thing? God damn. Such a draining energy from these posts.