Sorry I thought you were with "That's a big nope" but you answered someone else who posed a question that started the same way. My bad. As far as your answer to that question. Do you really think that loyalty should be unconditional? I mean especially in business situations?
"Fans are monitoring how Dame treats fans on his way out." This is going south quickly for him. From hero to second Durant.
Breaking News! -Somewhere in the Pacific "Damian Lillard has asked for a Trade" "So?" "There's lots of dissention, he's been systematically destroying his trade value, and ability for us to make trades at all." "Wait, isn't he my expensive one?" "Yes, he makes by far the most on your team, but..." "TRADE HIM for cheaper players! Stay under the Luxury Tax." "We're having trouble getting anything close to equal value, we'll probably just get mediocre players and some picks." "Picks? What are those?" "They're the rights to future players we don't have to pay yet." "Sounds expensive." "Not at all, when we do use the picks, the players we get have cheap rookie-scale contracts." "I WANT LOTS OF PICKS!" "We might have to take on Kyle Lowry." "Is he good? Is he cheap?" "He's neither, but he's an expiring contract. We prefer to get good players, but we might have to take him on." "Expiring?!? Awesome!!!" In other news... Blazer trade Damian Lillard for 5 draft picks, Kyle Lowry, and a Crumbl Cookie" Yum!
Yikes...this is gonna get ugly. I'm the biggest Dame fan here, but holy shit he needs to change the messaging, and quick! Doesn't seem likely though
I'll give you a half point because I did answer a question similar to mine, but technically a different question. And yes, honesty, integrity, loyalty are very important to me personally. I have a lot of acquaintances but keep my group of trusted people small, because loyalty, honesty and integrity are that important to me.
God I wish we had Ainge. Not only did he out Olshey in his place, he is a great negotiator. Never understood all the hate he got on this board. He is way better than Olshey or Cronin. I would love having KP back too.
Dame (hypothetically) on Insta: "Gotta keep your mind and body pure... negative thoughts only produce negative results." Fans in Miami: "Stop making Dame cry!!" Fans in Portland: "Dame's trashing the franchise!!" Dame wins either way. All he has to do is keep his mouth shut to have plausible deniability.
In one year, nobody will give a fuck about what happened. The NBA is such a fast moving product. It will be forgotten pretty quickly whatever happens
Actually have Celtics fans trying to tell me that this is a better deal than Miami (and Miami sucks) Brogdon Pritchard Robert Williams Justin Champagnie 3 picks Pick swaps That deal blows. Brogdon is arguably worse than Simons or Herro. Pritchard is garbo. Their picks will suck because Tatum is 25.
There's a reason Vulcan never bothered to interview him or anyone else for the job. He wouldn't have been the pushover Cronin is.
