Blazers trade the #7 pick for.....?

wrong lane = don’t call me out on something I probably spend more time on than anything in life, nothing to do with superiority complex.

And no Wagner would have not played in the finals if he were on golden state, they had an 8 man rotation. Even Bjelica didn’t play that much and he was a solid rotation player for them the whole season.

 

I had a lot of issue with Kerr's rotations. I hate that he was validated by winning, but I will disagree with this. I think Wagner would have been their sixth best player this year.

 

or maybe he just knows better than some fan on a message board? (And this applies to every fan, not just you. I’m included as well)

 

or maybe he got bailed out by a top ten player in the history of the league.

whatever... besides the point.

let's get back to who Portland will trade 7 for. This is more unnecessary discussion over irrelevant stuff at the moment.

 

Phony rumor.
Grant's been on the market for over a year now. He's a 5-6th man on a championship level team (or a 3rd man on the Blazers). He doesn't have a whole lot of on-court value.

 

Hopefully he goes to Miami

Pat would be saving dumbass Cronin from himself

 

Stein and KOC said OG is our #1 target for #7.

Collins also a target but all our focus is on OG.

 

So Pat wants Grant? Guess that makes him a dumbass too. Whatever. Nothing Joe has done so far makes him a dumbass. But if paying your dues, and becoming a GM is a dumbass, sign me up.

 

Pat don’t have a top-10 pick to trade for the upcoming UFA Grant.

 

I'd call trading 4 starters for Hart, Didi and scrubs dumb. Is he an ass? If so then yes he's a dumbass.

 

I don't believe that Miami wants him at the 'asking price'.
They may like to add him - but this stinks as a PR move by Detroit to raise the price on Grant.

 

Marang has been saying this for months

 

Agreed.

 

Not to be dismissive, but I don't care. We have other options. I felt like we'd have been settling for him anyway.

 

We didn't trade 4 starters.

 

I don't like trading 7 for just OG. Need more.

If we combine some rumors from yesterday...

#7 to OKC

#12 + 2023 DEN 1st to TOR

#34 + Dort to Philly

#23 + OG + Green to POR



Essentially, we'd turn 7 into OG + 23 while taking on salary. Seems a bit better than OG alone.

 

A couple of things:
1) Something is wrong with the calculation here. We can't receive both OG & Green without sending something back. We don't have large enough TPE to achieve that (although Green's contract is not guaranteed, Portland still has to be able to receive all $10M of it).
2) Green is injured with an ACL(?). He provides no value right now.
3) Green's contract is 100% non-guaranteed for '22-23. Unless you want to guarantee his contract (and expect him to play next season) - including him in this trade does not help either Philly or Portland.

 

is fanspo broken to allow me to do this? it has been unreliable at times in the past.

i know of Green's injury and his contract situation. his contract was the price to get #23. Was based off this: https://nba.nbcsports.com/2022/06/1...essively-shopping-no-23-pick-and-danny-green/

 

No, what he did was brilliant.
With the Trail Blazers, Hart is a better player than CJ. Winslow is clearly better than Covington. Nance wasn't a starter and Powell wasn't putting out consistent effort on defense.
It was much more important to make the team better and go in a different direction, namely consistent defense, than wait around until Cronin got whatever the max value was for those players.
The team is better now. That means the higher value placed by some people on the players who were traded away and the lower value placed on the ones who came in, in reality, not theory, is wrong.