About the best thing I can think of on a day like this is that I can’t think of many situations where a team was in a better position to deal with losing an All-NBA PG than the Blazers are. Ant has 4 years of experience as Dame’s backup and Scoot looks to be a stud. I won’t say that it doesn’t hurt losing Dame, but now that the bandaid has been ripped off, I’m looking forward to seeing how the team gets rebuilt from here. I just hope Joe realizes that he doesn’t have to grab his ankles on every trade.
I've not wanted to say it, but SAS has been my preferred spot since it was reported that Dame said something to the effect of "if it's not #1, trade it." Once SAS got #1 (they didn't have enough space to just take him straight off our books, but we could've gotten back some young guys and picks) it became an interesting matchup. Something like Zach, Sochan and Dougie Fresh McDermott and picks for Dame worked in the Machine.
Would love to get Sochan if we dared to send him to San Antonio. Would also take Claxton in Brooklyn.
This is the thing: for a team that is in rebuild mode, the rebuild has been going for like three years, whether accidentally or on purpose. Moving Dame isn't the first move in the rebuild, it's close to the last.
It just says they are among the leading candidates.... Shams Charania @ShamsCharania · 2h Breaking: Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has requested a trade out of Portland, sources tell @TheAthletic@Stadium. The Miami Heat and Brooklyn Nets are among leading suitors for one of the NBA’s 75 Greatest Players ever.
Breaking: Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has requested a trade out of Portland, sources tell @TheAthletic@Stadium. The Miami Heat and Brooklyn Nets are among leading suitors for one of the NBA’s 75 Greatest Players ever.
Still trying to wrap my head around it. I will inevitably get excited again down the road. Just, hard to adjure myself into a hopeful state in the moment.
I have been convinced for months that if Dame is traded, the best Blazer fans could hope for would be a meh return. That has been the historical pattern after a franchise player asks to be traded. And most dranchise player who ask to be traded do so well before they are 33 years old. And most are taller than 6'2 all those posters dreaming about giant "hauls" from a Dame trade will probably be the posters screaming loudest when the trade is announced
There is no hate. There is just no belief he is loyal to the soil. That's all. As I said, good luck to him everywhere except when plays the Blazers. It's a really simple math equation. You can't be loyal and ask out. You can't be somewhat pregnant as well. It's a binary value. You are either 1 or 0.
I gotta laugh, it's basketball and the recent version has been lousy to watch IMO. This was, is, and was likely to be a treadmill team with Dame. I have had enough of that crap. looking forward to watching the new young guys develop and play a more interesting style of ball, and some more defense as well. To each their own
I'm watching some guy on ESPN debate if the Clippers would be willing to trade Terance Mann for Dame... Goodness
