Have you noticed on the ESPN pre-game show he is on that his co-hosts often say jokingly (but kind of not so) "Dont say anything that is going to get you fired Bill"? I have heard them say it more than once.
that joke started with Jacoby and Jalen Rose on their podcast, Jacoby would always joke and say "now don't get fired" when a touchy subject would come up and somehow its almost an inside joke between Jalen Rose/Jacoby/Simmons.
Would they have the space to sign LeBron? I think it's a lot easier to lure LeBron back to Cleveland if he can play with Irving and Aldridge, as opposed to Irving and ? Regardless, Irving and LeBron would be terrifying. Seems like such a better fit than LeBron and Wade.
It's not really an inside joke...Simmons has been "grounded" twice in the last 3 years at ESPN for saying things that the MotherShip didn't like.
I'm not desperate for change, but I'm not that optimistic about our long-term chances if LMA and Lillard are our only two really good players. I'd like to see how free agency and the draft plays out this summer. If we're basically in the same position we are in now, I'd get on board with trading Aldridge before the trade deadline. A lot can happen between now and then. We can luck into another fantastic draft pick like Lillard was, Meyers might explode in Summer League, Lillard might evolve into an MVP-level player. We can make a free agent signing that becomes a steal in hindsight. Portland is still in the driver's seat with Aldridge and with so many possibilities I'm not really eager to deal him yet. So I'm voting for patience, but not too much patience. Once LMA is in his final year so much of that flexibility goes away and you are stuck in a Toronto/Bosh kind of situation.
They are in denial of where their current roster sits and have rose colored glasses on. Trading LMA to Cleavland doesn't make them any better than the Blazers were this year. Likewise, the Blazers aren't going to get significantly better with any of the FA C on the market that they can realistically get.
Maybe, but I think a more logical conclusion is that this trade scenario is noyhing more than Simmons jacking his jaws to fill dead air time.
I was told you don't build your team around a 29 year-old. Actually, it was 28, but LeBron will be 29 next year.
