Zombie Damian Lillard to request trade in coming days (nope, he's not.)

I will cheer on Dame wherever he plays… hope he wins that ring(S). Sad that the Organization picked the GM before their superstar.

 

It's like Neil doesn't believe him.

It's nice to see Dame finally doing what I wanted him to do for years. Hold Neil's feet to the fire. Neil has just been coasting for years.

 

You don't use that many possessive pronounce (our team, my teammates, we, our new coaching staff) if you're asking for a trade out.

 

At the same time, it clearly sounds like he believes there are people in the organization that are not putting the same amount of effort into winning a championship as him. Neil is for sure one. Wouldn't be surprised if CJ is another.

When is team USA's practice over? Gonna be a long day.

 

Except the whole brother thing. I mean, Nurk legit looks at Dame as his big brother. This isn't a "normal" teammate situation, at all.

 

God people will really hear what they want to hear. Nothing he’s said since the season ended has led me to believe his stance is anything other than “Hey Neil upgrade the squad ASAP” If he wanted out why would he give a fuck what Neil does about the roster? Please, use your brains.

btw that first upgrade has already happened by shit canni I mean parting ways with Stotts.

 

Dame is the hot story right now. All these fools want to get in on the feeding frenzy. They know that Laker fans, Knick fans, and Sixer fans are all thirsting for Dame, and on the flip side they know Portland fans are on the lookout for rumors. So it's easy clicks to drop some vague rumor and watch people freak.

 

This.

 

disappointed in henry abbott. he wasn't like this before truehoop started introducing paywalls.

 

seriously... there goes my friday

 

It's not Henry Abbott's style. He's not a clout chaser. And there's a lot of smoke with regards to Dame's trade requests. I don't know how much it would take for Dame to formally request a trade but it's not unlikely he hasn't at least discussed what it would be like if he asked for a trade with people close to him.

 

Yup here it comes. He could have easily just shut it down during that Chris Haynes piece.

 

This is probably the source Abbott has. Some good things will come out of a Dame trade request

1. Olshey should and will get fired
2. Hard to win with your pg being your best player unless he’s surrounded by other all stars.

 

So in 3 hours we know the future of the Trail Blazers?

 

Yup that’s the bad part. You know it’s coming

 

I knew at the time the Blazers would take the wrong lesson away from the fool's gold 2019 WCF run. Placing too much stock on internal development and not being aggressive on the trade market.

 

Looks like it will be around 12:30 when Dame will speak.

 

Haynes piece was yesterday

 

I don't think they'll fire Olshey because if Dame makes a trade demand now is the best time to trade him... so unless they've got a guy on the sideline they trust with the biggest move in franchise history, they'll stick with the guy who's been getting over on them for damn near a decade.

 

I find it highly unlikely Dame formally requests a trade at the team USA media availability, even if it is what he wants. That seems like a stretch considering last time he said he would just talk to Neil.

Likely it will be some ultimatum that puts public pressure on Neil to DO SOMETHING.