Agreed, this is disgusting how much they are trying to help him. As I posted before no way Dame will be disgruntled if you trade him to a contender or one of the NY teams.
Dame's rep is taking some body blows now. At this point all he can do is go all in and put all of his chips in the middle. Bet he somewhat regrets letting folks speak for him. It's either going to completely backfire on him or Joe will cave in the end. I'm betting on the former.
I think it's "interesting" that we're not trying to get Dame to reconsider. Maybe that's because Joe was trying to push Dame to ask out the whole time. I just don't think Joe thought through the possibility that Dame would only put one team on his list and that's making it harder for Joe to do what he intended to do.
Thanks for sharing this! Seriously folks, if you want a national media member to stand up to the Heat propaganda machine face to face, this is the podcast for you! Holy mother. Howard was a professional about it, but every time those Heat honks tried to sell their side, he shut them down emphatically. It was beautiful. Seriously, everyone NEEDS watch all three segments of this podcast.
The fact is that Woj was reporting today that unlike last off season when KD asked out and the Nets tried to and did convince him to stay a little longer... our front office doesn't want to do that with Dame. It's almost like they wanted him to ask out... or maybe by continuously telling him they would get more experienced but instead just getting younger and younger they forced Dame to ask out on purpose. I bet you if we had someone who could hack into the team's servers you would find a file called "Operation The Curious Case of Benjamin Button to get Dame to demand a trade". Just a hunch.
Shams still holding a minor grudge after getting dragged by Blazers fans that actually used their brain about his misreporting of the GPII/Toradol shot fiasco.
Yeah like he or his camp/agent saying only want Miami, thanks for doing that Gettin worse and worse, now it appears he may be starting to alienate cities and their fan bases - not a good look at all
It isn't. All its doing is showing the world one of the most loyal stars in sports is even asking to leave portland. Its a pr nightmare. Not a pr dream.
It’s being reported that Jason Tatum is trying to recruit Dame to Boston. Boston just got a bunch of multiple second round picks from trading Williams.
Did you ever hear the saying "too much water under the bridge"? LOL how bout a Pacific Ocean amount of water? Way too far gone for that IMO, bridges burned
We need to start an ABM Campaign. "Anybody But Miami". In the end, i won't care if we get a sweet return but Miami won't/can't do it.
Might not be something quite as serpentine. Might have been as simple as they knew the odds were high Dame was going to ask out because the odds of getting the trade he wanted this time done. Or maybe they were sick of Dame's song and dance every time they didn't give in to his wishes. All are possibilities. The Heat have a lot more to lose for not getting a deal worked out. That doesn't mean the Blazers have a lot to gain by delaying things if a fair trade's proposed. From the sounds of things that hasn't been done yet. But dealing Dame out of the Western Conference and getting reasonable compensation is ideal. Dealing him to a team you wouldn't put over the top while both getting him out of the conference and stockpiling resources is everything you could ask for, and there's no reason to hold that up if you don't have to, it just appears the Heat don't have enough to trade back and instead of finding a way to compensate Portland they've put their chips into trying to win a PR campaign to force the Blazers to accept their terms while not gutting their bench and future assets.
