It's way more possible Dame goes to Milwaukee than Giannis coming to Portland. Both very unlikely though. Bucks can wait a bit more Giannis is 26. Dame is 30. He surely sees his prime will soon be over. Also Olshey knows that this or next year are peak Dame value.
2 number 2 guys, that won't work imo. 2 guys who have not done much, save Giannis 2 MVPs, but in terms of winning.... Dame has a 36% playoff win percentage. Could Giannis bump that up? Sure, however, I am over Dame. Chris Broussard (Or however you spell his name) said Giannis needs a Kyrie or Wade type of guy to win it all on the Colin Herd show today. I agree, you need an accomplished guy beside Giannis. I am not trying have 2 guys who really have not went anywhere on the same team. Kyrie and Wade are proven to work, or win titles if you put another superstar beside them. Bron all but begged to get Kyrie to LA, we now see why... It was reported PG was Kawhi's 2nd option, Kyrie was his 1st....we seen why. We don't know how Dame's game will translate not being able to shoot 20 plus times every night, or handle the ball 90% of the every night. I would rather have a proven guy like Bron, KD, Kawhi, Kyrie, etc in Portland. Just being hypothetical. Putting 2 superstars together does not guarantee a ring; this aint 2k. Guys like Kyrie and Curry works, because they are highly efficient over their careers. 50 40 90 club guys, that is why. In order to win, we gotta get rid of Dame, because he does not attract superstars. Superstars want to play with other champions, winning superstars. We just need to bring in 1...just ONE champion superstar here, and the chips will fall in place (Pun intended).
That's asinine. Charles Barkley is the only superstar who ever came out and said, "i want to be traded to Portland". But the Blazers failed to engage. You under estimate Dame.
Dame & Giannis? Perhaps the question should be "Dame for Giannis?" If CJ's value is in fact low around the league, is it possible that CJ+Giannis is better than any Dame+_______ pairing we could reasonably obtain via a CJ deal?
This is the elephant in the room...Dame brings the most value in any trade we can dream up....there'd be riots in Portland if we traded him though
If it was for Giannis I don't know if there would be any riots. Trade Dame for the Greek Freak and our rotation could be CJ, Norm, RoCo, Giannis, Nurk, DJ, Ant, Nas, Zach... add a PG for the MLE and we have a contender. I would never do that trade if I was the Blazers because I'm too emotionally attached to Dame and really just want to do whatever it takes to build a contender around him. That being said, it's a real GM's job not to be a fan and not to be emotionally attached. The good news is I doubt the deal is on the table, so we should get what we can for CJ that fits the best around Dame and make a real attempt at being a contender for this team and for Dame. Edit: For the record, if we could get Giannis for Dame straight up. I would then actually see if I could get Brogdon and Turner from Indy for CJ, Nurk and as many future draft picks as it would take. Totally rebuilt Blazers... Brogdon, Norm, RoCo, Giannis, Turner, Ant, DJ, Nas, Zach
