It stings to lose him. You're right, he owes little to us. However, what he does owe is to go where he's traded. Calling his destination is now too late. He signed his contract. We didn't force him or fool him. If he wanted Miami, he could have taken his talents to South Beach as a free agent. The Blazers have to be loyal to their family. The Blazers don't have to explain to him where they're sending him or why. They have paid him handsomely. They upheld their end of the deal as an employer.
The drama comes from not asking out, but asking out to a specific destination. The former is fine; the latter is no bueno.
Let his agent work with Pat and find 3, 4 or even 5 teams to make this trade good for Blazers and it is all good. (If it's this shhh trade around Herro and Lowry it will be grande no bueno)
Yep. It's not on us to take pennies on the dollar (or Dolla in this case). It's on the Heat to make the most compelling offer. Time is on our side. We're not expected to win. The clock is ticking on Dame Time. Miami is in win now mode. The pressure is on their side.
Yeah, I'm not responsible for any of our success and I don't work my ass off for any of that. Anything else you want to say to tear me down?
Crazy how a lot of you want to fuck Dame over in a trade and completely ignore what he wants. After all he's done for this fucking poverty franchise you side with the awful front office and ownership who fucked him times and times again.
Because a lot of people here are Blazers fans first. The goal should always be about making the Blazers team, and the 15 guys who are on that roster, better. I don't think many people here have ill will towards Dame, or "want to fuck Dame over". They want what's best for the franchise. That should never change. The Blazers gave Dame almost a half a billion dollars to play basketball. If you're going to ask out a year after after signing that latest huge contract, that no other team could give you, you don't necessarily get to choose where the team trades you. maybe should have thought about that before you took all the money you could get from Portland. I don't fault him for taking the money either. Just don't expect to get to run the franchise on your exit too. This team is more than one player.
Joe Snake Cronin drove Dame out of town because he wanted to go young but didn't have the balls to say it and wanted it to come from Dame to save face, don't get that backwards.
Cronin has handled this situation horribly and him driving away a guy like Dame and then giving a quote like Dame is the bad guy when hes as quality as they come is filthy work.
What does that have to do with anything that my previous post said? And honestly, you may even be right. I don't think that's true at all, personally. But maybe he wanted to go young all along. That doesn't change anything in my previous post though. The job is to make Portland better.
The biggest part of this trade process is going to be a war of leaks in the media. My fear is the Blazers aren't prepared for the national onslaught. We're viewed nationally as a farm team that should just roll over for a glamour franchise. It's our time to show we won't be treated as a second class team.
very well said, no hate or wanting to F him over, if he wants out fine but Portland is entitled to try to find the best deal it can for the team's future. If he limits us to one team by demanding Miami (have not seen that confirmed yet) then our chance of getting a good/fair deals diminish by a good bit, so I am not in favor of that. If he's reasonable and says he's happy going to some other teams then I'm good with that, he does not have a no trade clause but if he's reasonable about going to some different teams I think Portland can and will be reasonable about trying to accomodate that.
I don't care if it's east or west. Give us one extra draft pick and I'm trading him to the west. Plus what if his new team trades him? Blazers could trade him East and he's back in the west in 6 months. Hell it might even be fun to play him. It's a game people.
