Notice Sheridan: Lakers Discussed Idea of Acquiring Damian Lillard

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  1. BrianFromWA

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    LeBron came into the league in 2003, 15 years ago. He's still pretty good. But when he was great, in his prime, he didn't win jack until he teamed up with the SupaFriends. Through his first 6 years, he and Dame had the same number of rings. CP3 has been traded a couple of times in his prime, and never got any of his teams anywhere.

    I stand by the premise that you keep your "4th-most-valuable-player-in-the-League" guy as the cornerstone of your building, not the thing you pawn to get 75c on the dollar so that you can go buy some lotto tickets that, if you're supremely lucky, are as good as the thing you have already.
     
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    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    Not totally true...they gave away players for negative-free so that they could be below the tax and offer Seth Curry half of the MLE so their bottom line would be stronger. Or something. Seems to me that a few rounds' worth of playoff games' gate receipts would be a better recoupment, but...
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    If I am at a casino and see it...I might just do that too.
     
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    For the record, I am not a "Dame hater" or something....but the situation with Kawhi is a reminder of how fast the relationship between player and team can go south.
     
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    Great analogy!!!
     
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    You know, when shit like this comes out, you'd think our esteemed local media would try to get the scoop from the team/Dame/his agency/league sources/etc, etc.

    No one cares.

    What a waste of the access they have.

    Joe Freeman is useless, Quick is in his own little world, Casey can't do shit, and the rest of the media are even more pointless. Chris Haynes kept getting played left and right by agents when he was here, but at least he built relationships with players and tried to get ahead of stories. Even if he was a shit writer and a relative novice, he cared-- and that's why he's national now.
     
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    It starts with Ingrahm+. Then if we have to take on Deng's contract, they have to add in Kuzma and Draft picks. When they decline Kuzma, settle for Ball (who I think would work quite well with Dame) but require another pick.

    I'm guessing for Stauskas, The Curry and Trent if he hasn't been introduced by then.
     
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    ahhh The loudmouth2.0 strikes again....

     
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    Yo @ Cheese deuce-deuce, love the avatar man!:cheers:
     
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    Yeah, that's right. I said it. And in the bellicose environment whereby which the Portland Trail Blazers and their aforementioned, superduperstar guard Damian Lillard -- unequivocably frustrated with the palaveric rendition of end-of-bench musical chairs orchestrated by their verbose and soliloquent former daytime television thespian General Manager-- Damian Lillard, he of the quarternary position in the league's Most. Valuable. Player. voting, that Damian Lillard who is probably wanted for manslaughter in multiple states for the veritable daggers he stabs into the thoracic cavities of his victims on the court, deserves to be appreciated and adulated by a franchise, by a fanbase, by an executive suite in Earvin Magic Johnson and Jeanie Buss, who will utilize his multiplicative talents in a manner justifiably in keeping with his status as a League Great.
     
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    Nice suedo @jlprk
     
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    Lmaooooo Mr. Loudmouth thinks we are in the same Division as the Lakers and he thinks CJ could be a Franchise Player. My God that man is so stupid
     
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    Sure but do we have any indication that Dame would be like that?

    Rhetorical question.
     
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    Max looks high af in that picture.
     
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    He has the exact same look on his face as the Abby's pizza guy that was 2 hours late with my pizza delivery the other night.
     
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    I love Abby’s.
     
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