Who would you trade Lillard for?

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  1. BlazerCaravan

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    But the Lakers don't want rookie Lillard.
     
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    I don't like the premise of OP, but the general question of who I would trade Lillard for? Most would be unrealistic, so let's just throw reality out the window and toss the obvious ones too (James, Durrant).

    K. Irving: Lillard might end up being as good, but Irving has it now. Lillard could easily be a better pg, but Irving is a guy who could be a star of the next level.
    Harden, Westbrook, Curry: good players now, but maybe not as impactful on a team as Lillard could be. Probable upgrade, but come with question marks.
     
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    While my OP was definitely a troll, the notion of selling high to get someone very valuable is in Olshey's bag of tricks (Eric Gordon for CP3). If Lillard and LMA could get you a S&T'd LeBron James (for example), you do it.
     
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    I'll take the question seriously and give an answer; I'd trade Lillard for PG's - CP3, Deron Williams, Rose, Irving, and Westbrook. Maybe Jrue Holiday.
    Of course, I'd also trade him for Lebron, Durant, Wade, MGasol, Harden, Howard. That's about it.
     
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    Irving's history injury, even at Duke, is a red flag, IMO.
     
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    I look at it a bit differently. Again, assuming he HAD to go for some secret reason, but we're still able to sell high on him...

    I'd trade him for someone who was on a rookie contract, in order to maintain maximum ability to keep him. Put it this way: I'd rather have Dame for the next 8 years than CP3 for maybe 3. I don't like Deron-is-Deron much at all. Holiday is similar (and getting better), but already paid. Curry is paid, and pretty fairly, but also a bit fragile if I'm giving up Dame.

    Wall and Irving would be intriguing, if Lillard HAD to go. The fact that he's in the conversation is awesome. For some strange reason, I respect the heck out of Rose, but I'd rather have Lillard for the price and not coming off ACL surgery. That could just be the homer in me.

    5 years of Harden would also be interesting, but I think you'd need a PG.

    Obviously LBJ and Durant, but there's no way I'd trade 8 years of a 22-y/o Lillard for Wade or Melo. And I would trade everybody BUT Lillard for Howard. Dwight can't get himself the ball.

    Another tack is that I'd probably trade Lillard for MKG and Charlotte's Top 4 pick this year or for Davis if I had another PG lined up.
     
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    With SG being the hardest position (Center second hardest) to find lately imo then I would trade him for Harden but not much else. I think some other names are fair but pretty much straight across talent swap. I want to improve if moving him of course so while I like Irving (not really straight across I guess - at least slight improvement), Wall, Curry, etc. I would go for possibly the best SG in the game (and maybe already now - between him and DWade probably) in Harden.
     
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    Best answer yet.
     
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    Agreed and I wish I could rep him again, but I need to spread it around.
     
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    Very homer of me, but I think Lillard may become the best PG in the league in a few years. I see he has the Rocky "Eye of the Tiger". So I wouldn't trade him for anyone right now.
     
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    It's interesting how many of the PGs near or ahead of Lillard right now come with injury concerns: Rose, Curry, Parker, Rondo, Irving, Nash, Wall, and Paul. All that leaves is Westbrook, and maybe Deron and Holliday. And Lillard just started all 82 games and led the league in minutes played, plus held his own against most of those guys as a supposedly overwhelmed rookie! Any advantage they have is very small right now, let alone in a year or two, so it's a rather frivolous exercise to look at who it's worth swapping Lillard for among co-PGs.
     
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    Please remember that Lillard isn't actually a point guard, but an undersized SG who passes. :lol:
     
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    Let me ask something purely hypothetical (we know POR won't trade Lillard anytime soon or maybe even ever).

    Would YOU trade Lillard, Matthews, Batum and our 1st round pick (we draft a Center for them) for Lin, Harden and Asik?

    POR gets a step down in PG but a huge step up at SG and our Center that we have been looking for.

    HOU gets a big step up in PG (or an undersized SG I guess according to this thread) a step down in SG but a player who has a chance of being somewhat close to as good as Harden (or at least a chance of being an All-Star) in Batum.

    Not that it would ever happen but you have to take that deal right? Even if you didn't keep Lin it is easier nowadays to find a good PG then it is to get a SG or above average Center.
     
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    Anthony Davis deserves consideration? Give me a fucking break.

    This and the Lillard and Leonard for Bledsoe and Jordan just have to be jokes.
     
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    What is so crazy about this statement?
     
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    Lillard and Meyers for Korver and Horford
     

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