nothing, because you didn't present a realistic trade scenario other than just throwing crap at a wall.
Dame said to JJ Redick (IIRC), something like, they (the media, doubters …) better hope we don’t win a title. That’s what he wants. To beat the doubters his way, his terms. Then saying it. I have hope. Guess that’s why I’m a Blazers lifer. I’m okay delivering up Dame to a contender that returns serious younger players and picks. BUT that is option 2. Plan for the worst but get option 1 done.
This dude says there's only three guys to consider taking up at the top. Wemby Scoot Amen He's not in love with Miller at all.
There's two scenarios. One is you send Brown to OKC for a handful of their plethora of picks and a young guy. Makes sense for them because they can put Brown with SGA and Chet. Another is Houston IF they bring in Harden. They ALSO have a plethora of picks and a handful of young guys. They could in theory put Brown with Harden and Green. Brown doesn't really make sense in Portland because I don't think he'd want to be here if Dame was gone. But OKC made the playoffs this year and I think adding Brown could really vault them up the standings. Houston is a bit of an unknown. Depends on how serious they are about actually trying to win now.
again, you're not saying anything. "Plethora of picks and a young guy" doesn't mean anything, especially considering tyhose picks might mean much.
I thought of this same construction with Orlando. 6/11 and a future pick plus Suggs and salary filler seems like good value for Dame.
Dude, both teams have so many picks and young players, there are a lot of different combinations. I’m not sure who we would want.
Too stupid to post it, but Dame and Galinari to Boston. Brown and Boston 1st to Houston to Houston. Smith, Eason filler to Portland
I like HOU if that’s available. Smith + Garuba + #4 + 3 of the 1sts that they have from HOU for Brown, and Gallinari + White + their 2024 and 2026 unprotected 1sts for Dame. Then follow up with trading Ant + Nurk for WCJ + Harris + #11. Draft Scoot at #3, trade down from #4 to draft Ausar and get other pieces/1sts in return, draft Lively at #11. Scoot/White/Mays Sharpe/White/Harris/Thybulle Nas/Ausar/Thybulle Smith/Watford/Garuba/Walker WCJ/Lively/Garuba This team isn’t going to win and shooting has potential to be atrocious, but this is a team I can root for every night. Chauncey’s playcalling is still questionable at best, but he really succeeds coaching young guys. This team has the potential to eventually be very good on defense—between Scoot, Sharpe, Ausar, Smith, and Lively, we realistically have five guys from different positions that could be long term starters for us, and we would’ve found them in one summer.
This is a series of terrible tweets. Straw men and postured superiority permeate the nonsense. #1: I have heard FROM PORTLAND FANS that Dame "deserves a title" more than anyone who's mentioned the Knicks. Most of the trade ideas/rumors/speculation have nothing to do with either Knicks nor with the "trade him because he deserves it" mentality. #2: It is not necessary to identify specifics in order to support trading Dame. No one that I am aware of identified the Mitchell Butler deal, or the Rudy Gobert deal, or any of the James Harden deals, or just about any big-time player that's been traded. Further, there are very few "keep Dame" folks that will agree that ANY trade proposal is adequate compensation for our best player ever because they don't want to let him go and/or think the Blazers will finally magically put a contender around a guy who hasn't won a playoff game in years and/or that competing is just not a priority. Establishing that "you have to come up with an idea for a trade in order to believe that the Blazers are better off not trying to do the same stuff they've been doing for a decade" as the standard is lazy and inconsistent with the way the NBA actually has worked for decades. Sorry if those tweets are from someone on this board, but they're garbage.
I'm sorry...but anybody who effectively uses the word "plethora" in a sports forum has made a successful post. It's in the rule book
