Do you really think Joe went out of his way to ignore Dame at the PF? The guy who was at every single predraft workout? The guy flew to Croatia for Nurk's wedding for chrissakes. This is the franchise player who he has lauded at every opportunity. Something doesn't add up. I think Bert got in his feelings and forced Joe's hand.
Need an overhaul. It's really interesting to read the league had to intervene between Dame and the GM.
It's a business and if the right move when looked at pragmatically was a youth rebuild the only thing they should have done was tell Dame and not pretend they were trying to thread some needle. Obviously if the Haynes shit is true then Cronin or ownership or whoever wanted Dame to ask out and were happy when he did. Not the way to do this on the up and up but this is high stakes business and people don't always take the high road.
I was quoting someone who said divorce. I was continuing that analogy, and make no mistake, this is a nasty divorce and both sides are fighting to not be the bad guy. But Haynes directly quoted Dame multiple times in this article. This article was written with Dame's blessing. Dame/Haynes/Goodwin just pulled the pin on a hand grenade and tossed it into the PF as they walked out of town. It's classless. Joe sent him to an amazing situation. He should have kept this shit to himself. He requested the trade, he demanded to be sent to Miami and his agent was working against the Blazers to try to prevent other teams from tossing their hats into the ring. This is just weak. If you and your wife split up and ultimately you decided that you didn't want to reconcile, but she tried to come back, would it be okay if she turned around and trashed you to your kids?
I do think this could really motivate the league to put pressure on Jody to sell the Phil Knight. That's the only substantial outcome I could see coming from this and I think it's a slim chance that it happens.
...most likely this intervention has everything to do with Goodwins shady tampering and the torpedoing of Dames value rather than this false narrative of being "ignored"
Guys IMO this edict about coming back was not from Cronin, yes he "communicated it" but kolde/ownership laid this down and I'd bet on it
If you pick up on some of the things that have been said, it's clear that neither side trusted each other at all, and both sides seemed to think the other was actively working against them. So I can see why the league stepped in.
OK when you continue down the road of the metaphor until it's becoming literal once again I have to question if you get it. This isn't a family it's a place of work. It was Dame's information to choose to share or not. These aren't Dame and Joe's or Vulcan's kids they are employees and consumers/fans. This is business so you should probably stop muddying that with the family analogy and continuing to bring kids from a broken home into this. This will not have lasting emotional trauma on anyone... not anywhere close to the level of your analogy and therefore if Dame is being a little irresponsible it's negligible and doesn't really matter whereas when a parent trashes the other parent in a divorce that damage is very very real.
this is a good point. but he was apparently still thinking he might end up in Miami. This was in the paragraph following the one that said he was told he could not come back. "Lillard was still hopeful a deal with the Heat was within reach."
And the guy sitting on the other side of Dame at predraft workouts. Let's not continue to forget him.
I remember someone on Miami's side around Sept 23 saying the Blazers field a grievance with the league. Wonder if this is what it was.
National media is picking up on this. They seem stuck on the tanking paragraph. Could this result in repercussions after they penalized Dallas for the same thing? I mean, it's obvious, but never so openly admitted.
Fair enough, it definitely was a separation filled with acrimony. I'm interested to see how Joe responds, most likely he'll just choose not to or say something about how he could see how Dame would feel that way. High Road Joe. With that said what's done is done and I don't really give a fuck as long as Joe keeps doing as good of a job with the rebuild as he seems to be doing. I will say that I agree with people that say Joe might have just been doing dirty work for the Vulcans, that would explain (if it's even true) why Joe would be avoiding Dame. Maybe Joe fucking hated doing what he had to do.
So, if i am reading this correctly dame, get me help or I walk Joe, start with signing the guy you wanted to a lucrative extension Dame, before anything else can be done, trade me, only to Miami Joe, will try to get dame to a contender, butave to meet standard for team Dame, anywhere other than Miami, I will not report League, you can't say that ... summer break Dame, if traded elsewhere, will still ask for a trade to Miami Dame, ok, if not Miami, take me back Joe, sorry, can't trust you that you will not ditch us again Joe, trades to create the likely best team in the east Dame, thanks everone except Joe. Yes, not feeling that one from the Miami heat legend. Once again going against his public persona Maybe I will boo.
Not sure I get the angst. (Dame) 'Trade me but only to one team. You aren't going to trade me for nothing? Okay, I want to come back.' (Joe) 'No, but I will trade you to a team that will now be the best odds on favorite to win a title.' (Dame) .... hit piece coming. I just don't see where Joe did him wrong. 137-173 in the last 4 seasons. It wasn't working.
