Juicy nugget from Haynes: these teams called the Blazers: Clippers Minny (around KAT) New Orleans Boston Said they were all “eliminated” EXCEPT for New Orleans.
Many people will see this and think Zion, but I'd be asking Murphy, Dyson Daniels, and a couple picks (or CJ rerouted to a third team for salary flotsam and a pick) Heck, that'd be my leader-in-the-clubhouse offer.
I think Joe is fine waiting 30 days. Would be stupid to rush this, were talking about a star here the last decade and all the assets for the Blazers next decade. The trade could also be agreed to in principle and reported as done in the media but get finalized a few weeks later.
Listening to bits of this. Haynes is obviously trying to make Dame out to be the victim of lying Joe who didn't trade the pick. If Dame stayed because of Chauncey that's loyalty to a coach, not to the team. I don't blame Dame for wanting out either, but also don't think he gets to dictate where he is traded to. It's not likely a young rebuilding team would want him anyway.
Thanks for this. I am so tired of this shill and his antics, was reluctantly planning to listening to it. Now i won't.
KAT is a much better asset than Miami's trash picks, Zion as well. I like NOLA's young talent as well. Maybe something like this
All these trade scenarios are fun, but I can see that when the actual trade does happen, everyone is going to be pissed when it is not as good as some of these unrealistic proposals.
That comes across as a bit heartless, but I'm not sure he is wrong. If we had been even close to competing for championships, it would be a different story, but we weren't. So get what you can before the skills start to diminish relevant to the contract. Reset for the next era....it's the best thing you can do even though emotionally, the loss hurts.
They both have an incredibly inflated view of their players. In Morey's case, he has often found an clueless GM to deal with and he gets back a haul. Same with Ainge. Ujiri hit one pitch hard and shipped out a fan favorite for Kawhi and won a championship. Outside of that, there has been VERY little success, but he acts like he is Pat Riley.
this hurts a lot less than Clyde for exactly this reason imho. With Clyde the fans felt like we had one more trip to the finals in us, but without him that was impossible. With Dame the number of steps to get to the finals had seemed insurmountable to a good chunk of us for a few years.
