SI: Should the Blazers Consider Trading Damian Lillard?

Yep! Been that way for years.

 

@hoopsjock made some reference to that. I trust few others to explain it. I know i do not know enough about contracts to explain it. But my simple figures say it puts the team in the tax if they try to keep CJ and Nurk with Lillard on a supermax?

 

The problem with trading Dame right now is that it would be almost impossible to get equal value in return. That argument only holds up, however, for as long as Dame honestly wants to be here. At some point he will want to leave and the team will need to make the best of it.

 

Right now sure. But next season they might be able to. Same thing goes for CJ.

 

I'm firmly in the camp that roots for the name on the front of the jersey over the name on the back. IMHO, no player should ever be labeled untradable.

 

Exactly! Players come and go. The Team is what i am a fan of.
If they trade Lillard for westbrook and get Durant to replace a bunch of players then happen to sign Green and go on to win a championship am i gonna hate the Blazers? No! I'm gonna be happy my team won.

 

If we want to win Westbrook would be the worst option.

 

Please don’t take that post for anything other than what it says. Next you are gonna tell me that the contracts won’t work.
I don’t really care if it’s Chris Paul or even Blake Griffin? Even Dic Rivers could be the coach. If the Blazers win a championship then my team won a championship.

 

Yes I meant to type Dic Rivers.....

 

Can i say i meant to say tram???

 

Well KJ’s makes more sense lol

 

Baseless statement.

 

Based on historical decisions by previous stars in similiar situtions?

 

You really think it's sensible to compare Dame to people like Kevin Durant and LaMarcus Aldridge...?

 

Yes. Plausable he turns out like them? No. But i think it isn't sensible to think about it as a possibility. It wouldn't be prudent otherwise.
It must be taken into account with regards to long term planning.

 

What? Dame is nothing like this MFers, and he never will be. To say so is asinine. It's still a baseless statement to say "He'll want to leave" when all he's said is he wants to be here his whole career, and then use beta males to justify it. Nah.

 

Im not saying he will want to leave. Im saying you cNt bank on him staying.

 

Why? Because of guys he's nothing like? Also, this conversation started because I responded (and said it was a baseless statement) to someone who did say that, then you replied by disagreeing with me saying his statement was baseless...

 

I am only adding my opinion. I think its assinine for any team to not consider a star player leaving a treadmill team as a free agent. I dont care what the star says.
I love lillard. I believe him.

I also believed lma.

 

Here was the conversation. Can't show it any more clearly than this.