OT: OKC should've kept Jeff Green and James Harden

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  1. KingSpeed

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    They'd be a dynasty and they'd be surviving their injuries right now. I hope Neil and Paul don't break up our group.
     
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    They were SOOOOOOOO close. All they had to do was to trade Westbrook for Lillard (and his much lower salary), ending contracts, and picks and they would be a real dynasty. Yes, the blazers would have jumped all over that before Lillard started his rookie year.

     
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  3. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    Can't look at sports like this though. What ifs......coulda' beens.....
     
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  4. Wizard Mentor

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    We've won 1 playoff series in the last 10 years. Forgive me if I want to occasionally bust out my what-could-have-been rose garden colored glasses. Pretty much everyone on here (including me) never takes off our what-might-be rose garden colored glasses.

     
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    A little easier said than done. Back in 1984 all the Blazers had to do was trade Clyde Drexler for a good center and draft Michael Jordan instead of Sam Bewie.
     
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    Exactly, the blazers have had many close misses. Of course that may be true for many teams. In the pre-CP3 days, you could have made an all-star team of still-in-the-league former clippers.

     
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  7. Boob-No-More

    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    But then, they would have been deprived of four and a half years of the stellar play of Kendrick "Grumpy Cat" Perkins. So short sighted Eric. Learn the game, then post!

    BNM
     
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    lamar odom? am i missing anyone else?

    where they really screwed up was drafting
     
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    This. This. This.

    Karma is a bitch.
     
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    durants contract only has one more year after this right? if they miss the playoffs, all the "will durant leave" chatter will be delicious
     
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    Lets be Thankful this Thanksgiving that the "tight wade owner", Clay Bennett wrecked any dynasty for that ball club
     
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  12. magnifier661

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    I look at Durant being such a loyal player. I think the only way he leaves is when that franchise completely falls apart. He would look at this season as an anomaly.
     
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    i look at it like he is going to want to go somewhere where they will go into the lux tax if they have a chance at a dynasty. he knows that okc aint that.

    i really think there is no way he stays unless they win a title
     
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  14. magnifier661

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    Okay fine... We will help them out!

    Batum, T. Rob, Leonard and Wright for Durant! :D
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    I think Jinxy is looking at it more as being instructive, as in, "Please Mr. Allen, don't make the same mistake", rather than as OKC shoulda woulda coulda. I think we are all universally glad they shoulda coulda didn't.
     
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    Kingspeed would never make a thread if that's the case.
     
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    They should've never traded Green for Perkins, they needed a center (Remember Nenad Kristic was their starter) but they could've done better.

    Harden was just a full retard move.
     
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  18. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Agreed.
     
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    No it was a tightwad move... If their owner wasn't so cheap, he would have stayed OKC
     
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    Keeping Harden would've been nice but when they decided to trade him they should've gotten a better package than Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and Steven Adams.

    They should've moved him to Chicago for Jimmy Butler, Taj Gibson and picks.
     
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