Dame has lost family members and if he's losing his marriage, the Paris/South Beach tour must have been him chasing something other than a ring...it's out of character for Dame to throw his teammates and coach under the bus as if they can never win. I hope he fixes his life and with 3 kids...that starts at home. Dame is also infatuated with boxing culture and that's a sleazy world in my view. A lot of boxers live in Miami. Talk about bad choices...Dame seems to be making them. At any point, he's diminshed his image in my world and that really sucks.
It is really not strange at all. Cronin lied to him, didn't treat him with the respect he deserves, and backstabbed him. I'm sure he loves Portland, but at some point it's very understandable that he can't let that happen without consequences.
Care to detail that further? Cus right now my emotions are dismayed, despondent, and disillusioned. #wheelsup
Cronin didn't have a chance to go after free agents, Dame demanded a trade just as we signed Grant to please him....he essentially threatened the stability of the franchise and still is...it's a chump move...GMs have to work fluidly and adapt to opportunities at the drop of a hat. Joe doesn't have to help Dame or Miami get a championship and Dame isn't a free agent or a GM..he's not working with the team for a win win...he's throwing the team under the bus to get what he wants.
As told by... Cronin. I don't believe that shit one bit. Everybody wanted Scoot He's throwing the team under the bus after the team threw him under the bus. Seems fair to me.
Dame only stayed on last year to get the max extension and the scoring title. Why wouldn’t he demand letting Nurk and Ant walk if a title with POR was so important? Cuz Ant and Nurk are the core of a contending team? No because he wanted his friends to get paid. That fact was more important than a title in POR. You might say “Dame don’t have that pull!” Wrong. Wrong. Joe signed his boy Grant. Twice, in fact. And let’s just say Grant’s deal ain’t exactly the steal of FA. He wasted, if you will, a seat on the bench for his dopey cousin.
What does "everybody wanted Scoot" have to do with Free agency? If you are talking about the draft, yes lots of people wanted Scoot, but they were not willing to give up anyone of value. OG was not worth Scoot, surely you agree with that. And it sounds like anyone better wanted Sharpe included (and Ant to match salaries) Do you think including Sharpe would have been wise?
Did the team throw him under the bus? Or did the team not find a deal that they deemed worthy of giving up the #3 pick (a player they seem to think is going to be a multi time all star) for? Like the offer that Miami has hanging out there for Dame, if the deal don't make sense for the franchise, you don't make it. You move forward with the talent that's available to you. Bad teams need talent. Scoot and Shaedon bring that. I continue to wait for people like you to give me the deal that was on the table, which was turned down by Portland, that would have made Dame happy, and been good for the Blazers.
Because that would have been completely stupid ? Letting Ant walk ? What the hell. He's one of the better contracts in the league right now.
True yet you seem to think Joe is lying about it. Doesn't it seem odd that no one has reported that someone else was offered for Scoot? Not even by a "league source"?
Allegedly, there's no market for Ant. How can he be "one of the better contracts in the league right now" if no other teams are pursuing him in trade?
If Dame is having problems in his personal life, I am sorry. He has always talked about the family and friends that keep him in the right direction. I hope he turns to them and bot to leeches and hangers on.
