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

Has Dame been doing press conferences after every practice?

Maybe someone did leak it to Abbott to put pressure on Neil for this meeting tonight. It just so happens Chris Haynes drops a story about dame this morning adding to the drama and anticipation of the press conference. The press conference he says he hasn’t made a choice yet to put more pressure on Neil.

that being said I wouldn’t trade Dame if he asked for a trade

 

Dame retweeted this

 

Dame is phony, like most rappers

As a Black guy growing up listening to Nas, Pac, and Digital Underground. They don't make em like that anymore.

Dame wants to keep his baby-face, media darling, by the book hero persona...but have his anti-hero cake and eat it too.

EDIT: Dame is not happy, and wants out....Do not believe him if he says otherwise. This aint Kyrie buying white milk, and the media labeling him racist by taking it out of context. Dame has publicly implied he wants to shake things up.

 

Or to the Vulcans to SPEND

 

Again another obvious reason you have quite so many posts.
The Lillard rumor is not true. Now go chase another rumor and qualify it with LaMarcus Aldridge all you want but don't include me thanks.
By the way any correlation between the two situations is clearly a stretch.

 

Bad ass move on his part. Now everyone shut the fuck up!

Not a peep from Abbot since his interaction with Nurk earlier. True Hoop? Really?

 

Yeah, I believed Dame that the meeting was already planned but that being said, after listening to Dame I also think the plan for the meeting was discussing what the team has to do to keep Dame. So while it's not about damage control from media stuff, it most certainly is about what Dame was talking about... which is that the team isn't living up to his expectations and if they don't he'll want out.

 

Laker fans in a tizzy — every “asset” on that roster is accurately illustrated here ^

 

could be the case, but I'm not buying the by-training-camp-or-else notion. Sure...If Olshey does nothing and just rinse/repeats the same broken formula Dame would probably say trade me now

but the idea that just one transaction will turn things around seems a little far-fetched. It may take several moves and some of those might be better in season. There are always good-to-great players that become available during the season and as the trade deadline approaches. That's how Portland landed Powell. I'd think Dame is smart enough to understand the process

of course, speaking of Powell, that's the first big test. If Olshey can't convince Powell to re-sign, it becomes a really bad first step in the off-season. That would be major failure and I'd bet dame would see it that way as well

 

You're a troll but not a good one.

 

Dwight spitting truth.

 

I think a CJ plus picks move for a star caliber forward and re-signing Norm wouldn't necessarily make us a favorite to win the championship but it would be enough to show the urgency Dame needs to see. I'm not saying we have to have a championship team by the time Dame is done with team USA but Olshey will have to have shown the urgency Dame is demanding or I really do think he will demand to be traded ASAP.

 

I agree. He will obviously do the right thing. Thus there will not be a story broke like this which was the whole point of the original post.

 

Olshey one last chance or else Dame is gone

 

Translation: "Kids these days!"

 

like I said, the first giant test is re-signing Powell. If Olshey fails at that the off-season starts out in a deep ditch that climbing out of may be next to impossible

but if Powell is re-signed then Olshey can turn to CJ trades as well as the MLE signing and perhaps dealing Jones, assuming he opts-in, and other players

Olshey can't just re-sign Powell and call it a summer....he has to do something major after that. I have no faith that he will though. This situation was completely avoidable if Olshey would have just done his job 4 or 5 years ago. I still can't believe that oily fuck is still the GM