Event Do you all want to get together and watch the draft lottery on May 16th?

Sorry I can’t make it. 10.5% chance of a Wemby kumbaya moment for the board. 89.5% chance of fisticuffs. Fun either way.

 

My offer to trade cookies for swag still stands.

 

Don't disagree; all of those three trades had reasons they could work out well and be a step to contending. Turns out none of them were steps, and we'd have undone all of them if we knew what the future held at the time of the trade.

We shouldn't send out a super high value lottery pick, thats worth much more than any of those prior picks traded away, unless it directly results with us being a contender. Even moves that landed Durant in Brooklyn, Paul George in LAC, etc haven't resulted in titles.... so we certainly shouldn't trade away extremely valuable lottery picks for a window that is much worse than those.

Just because Olshey did a poor job building a contender around Dame, doesn't mean the team should throw away the future to try and make up for it. All those prior Olshey moves are sunk costs.

The Blazers have had 7 lottery picks since 1984... these aren't assets a small market team in Portland can just send away for a veteran that may or may not help the team build a contender as in the Afflalo/Roco/Nance trades. If the Blazers send that asset away, they have to be very sure it will make them a contender.

 

Everyone remembers this "win now" trade. Gerald was an all star and 1st team all defense in 2010.
In 2012 he was traded from the Blazers to the Nets.

"Gerald gives us some great defense, versatility, he's a hard worker and he'll provide leadership," Nets general manager Billy King said in a Thursday night conference call, hours after the 3 p.m. trade deadline passed.

King said it was difficult to give up the pick, but "in meeting with our scouts, we felt the player that we may draft beyond the protection would be somebody that would probably take a couple years (to develop), and at this point, we're trying to speed the process up a bit and start winning (more).

 

And I’m out. I guess since they aren’t having it in Portland, he has no problem going. I assume they are paying him. I know he has no problem taking the teams money

 

Super exciting!

 

You mean Roy just cost me the chance to finally meet my favorite poster on this board after all these years?! Dang it.

 

I am hoping it's going to look like this:



I am worried it'll end up like this:


and this:

 

I sense sarcasm, but I’m taking it as a compliment, nonetheless

 

Well I guess the first new member of the broadcast team is, wait.......you guesed it! Brandon Roy!

 

So has a place been selected?

1080 is doing one a Brix.
620 is doing one at Illani.

Do we have a separate place?

 

Mom's basement....

 

Plane from Hawaii.

 

The one at Brix, is it at the Portland site or the Tualatin site?

 

Didn't Sly say Buffalo Gap?

 

Brix in Pearl District

 

Nope