Notice Should Trail Blazers sign-and-trade Jusuf Nurkic for Harrison Barnes? 17 trades to help Portland

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The Portland Trail Blazers need to make big changes to their roster after being shockingly swept out of the playoffs by the New Orleans Pelicans in the first round.

Considering his First Team All-NBA status, we're working under the assumption that star guard Damian Lillard is untouchable, so we made everyone else on the roster available. With Portland's salary cap situation as it is, the Blazers would have to get very creative with their trade exceptions and possible sign-and-trade deals to make a few of these ideas work. But sign-and-trade deals aren't so popular these days, especially when you have to find a player and team that can agree on a good fit and a contract number while also giving away assets to the team the player is leaving.

Are all of these deals great for both sides? Probably not. But we wanted to get the ball rolling and find out what you, the fans, think about some of the players who may be available on the market this offseason.

Don't like these trades or think you might have some better ideas for the Blazers? Use the ESPN Trade Machine to come up with some possible moves for Portland. Then throw your own thoughts and submissions in the comments section and we'll do another roundup of trade ideas later in the month that feature some of your ideas.

Blazers trade CJ McCollum, Meyers Leonard and the No. 24 pick to the Detroit Pistons for Blake Griffin




Blazers trade CJ McCollum, Zach Collins and the No. 24 pick to Minnesota Timberwolves for Karl Anthony-Towns and Jeff Teague




Blazers sign-and-trade Jusuf Nurkic along with Moe Harkless, No. 24 pick to Miami Heat for Hassan Whiteside and Justice Winslow



Blazers trade Evan Turner to the Dallas Mavericks for Wesley Matthews



Blazers trade Moe Harkless, Evan Turner and No. 24 pick to Oklahoma City Thunder for Carmelo Anthony




Blazers trade CJ McCollum, No. 24 pick to the San Antonio Spurs for Kawhi Leonard, Bryn Forbes




Blazers CJ McCollum, No. 24 pick to Memphis Grizzlies for Marc Gasol and Dillon Brooks



Blazers trade CJ McCollum, Zach Collins and No. 24 pick to Golden State Warriors for Klay Thompson and Shaun Livingston



Blazers trade Evan Turner, Al-Farouq Aminu, No. 24 pick to Toronto Raptors for Serge Ibaka and OG Anunoby




Blazers trade CJ McCollum, Al Farouq-Aminu to Cleveland Cavaliers for Kevin Love and Kyle Korver



Blazers trade CJ McCollum to Oklahoma City Thunder for Paul George and Corey Brewer




Blazers trade CJ McCollum, No. 24 pick to Philadelphia 76ers for Robert Covington, Markelle Fultz



Blazers sign-and-trade Jusuf Nurkic, add Al Farouq-Aminu and No. 24 pick to Dallas Mavericks for Harrison Barnes and Nerlens Noel



Blazers trade CJ McCollum to Los Angeles Clippers for DeAndre Jordan, No. 13 pick



Blazers trade Moe Harkless, Caleb Swanigan to Denver Nuggets for Wilson Chandler



Blazers trade Meyers Leonard, No. 24 pick to Indiana Pacers for Al Jefferson




Blazers trade Al-Farouq Aminu, No. 24 pick to Cleveland Cavaliers for Kyle Korver

 

NO.

 

These trades are horrible.

 

Not only do many of them not work under the CBA... why would we trade a 1st round pick for Korver or Jefferson???

 

I didn't read it all before then I just saw the bottom two.

And I'm not a fan of Harrison Barnes. He's horrible.

 

I like the Wesley Matthews and Carmelo trades and we could make both of them. I know Melo's stock dropped last year in OKC but I have a feeling he'd be much better on our team. Look at how bad Oladipo was alongside Russ. And CJ and Dame both want to play with Melo. As for the other trades, the only ones I'd go for would be Blake Griffin and Love deals. This line up is better than last year's come playoff time:

Dame/Baldwin
Matthews/Korver
Melo/CrabbeTPE
Love/Collins or Griffin/Aminu
Nurkic/Davis

 

#smh

 

You want to trade Moe Harkless (who's better than Melo) and a first round pick for Melo?

C'mon Eric.

 

Talk about a lack of defense at the forward spots... my goodness.

 

To answer the question in the thread title;

FUCK NO!!!

 

This article is great news. It means.......... It's the peak of the mushroom season.

 

I'm not a fan of getting Barnes, but he is far from "horrible".

 

It looks like the thread title got truncated.

As if there was any doubt, after seeing this one, I'm 100% convinced it was supposed to read:

Should Trail Blazers sign-and-trade Jusuf Nurkic for Harrison Barnes? 17 trades to help Portland tank.

BNM

 

Barnes is horrible when your asking him to be a #1 option and carry a team. Barnes needs to be a 3rd option type of player or even a 6th man would do him some good. Just because a player doesn't live up to expectations on one team doesn't mean he won't on another in a different role. Let's ask Mo Harkless to be the #1 option and carry the Blazers.

 

Both Melo and Love are underrated defenders. Heck, Love played championship D on Curry when it mattered:

 

Yes, 9 seconds of solid defense in 10 years. I'm surprised he hasn't made 1st team all defense multiple times.

BNM

 

Yes to all the deals involving CJ!