Guide to the NBA trade deadline: Blazers

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  1. riverman

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    fact....rumors are part of the trade deadline process..and Olshey generally lets his moves become knowledge about 2 minutes before the deadline
     
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    no one in the FO will talk, Blazers will send Kaman somewhere for 2 2nd rounders. no other trades. You can go back to bed now, :)
     
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    Good. So what you're saying is theres no reason to look into any rumors. More time to not care until Thursday.
     
    Strenuus, Feb 16, 2016
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    BUT I'M AT WORK!!!! :MARIS61:
     
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    Neil can't trade with himself so rumors are where you find out what Phil Jackson or Pat Riley are doing etc...so you can make some interesting cases for possibilities but you won't hear it from Neil weeks before it happens....not that you need to care, but it's a slow time for hoops topics this time of year
     
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    Meh. All the rumors are for media is time-fillers.
     
    Strenuus, Feb 16, 2016
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    yet here we are in a rumor thread discussing it...and not members of the media either
     
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    But the media are the ones perpetrating the thread to exist in the first place.

    #theeggcamebeforethechicken
     
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    Absolutely correct, except....
    Sometimes, other GMs will leak Olshey plans. I'm also sure that Olshey has a set of guidelines about when to leak and what to leak. I don't know what these are.
     
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    So, what others say are exactly what Olshey thought.

    Might as well listen to what EVERY politician has to say about each other, I guess.

    Oh wait, fuck politics. :)
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Strength is our unity? Shouldn't it be the other way around?
     
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    It'd mean the same thing, really.

    Unity is our Stength

    Our strength is our unity. lol.
     
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    Strength is our unity says we're only united when we're strong, i.e. we'll crumble if we lose.

    Unity is our strength says we're strong because we're united, i.e. don't break up the winning formula.

    Clearly, the second is what Dame meant.
     
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    You're overlooking the all important "in"
     
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    Exactly.
     
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    No "strength is in our unity" means when the Blazers are united they are a strong team...if we traded players away it would hurt our unity and we wouldn't be as good
     
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    enough of this crap, if we can make a trade to improve the team for the next several years you do it, you don't sacrifice a good chance to improve a .500 team because of "unity", if a good trade does not come along then fine, keep the team together
     
    Blazinaway, Feb 16, 2016
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    I'm glad to see the team lobby to stay together. Shows how much they like being with one another.

    If we have a great offer to make a deal I think Neil pulls the trigger. He told Eric Gordon he wasn't trading him then two days later sent him packing for CP3. If that happens the team will deal with it. Or if its Hendo being shipped out and Neil tells the team thats what Hendo wanted they'll all be fine with it.

    But Dame's statements gives them something to be excited about and if the core sticks together say we all wanted to be here. It probably helps the players feel like Dame really has their back.

    Compare that to selfish asshole Kobe who was cussing on camera because the Lakers didn't trade away his young teammates for a washed up Jason Kidd. Dame's job is to get along with teammates and be the face of the franchise; which he is excellent at. Neil still has a job to do and he will make the smart decisions.
     
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    Oh shoot, I did miss that. My bad.
     
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