Cool. So no hurry to trade him for a measly package of late 1st round picks then. Let's wait and see what we can get since the season isn't starting anytime soon.
Miami rolling out the red carpet for Dame... https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/miamis-growing-piles-of-trash-overflowing-septic-tanks-cast-pall/
can anyone decipher this verbal diarrhea into coherent thought? holy hell, the quality of writing has gone to shit.
Since the conversation took place two years ago, does that mean this whole thing has been planned? Lots of details missing.
It's transcribed from his podcast. " Two years ago, I asked Aaron [Goodwin] what Dame’s leverage was: He was a very much under contract star, and they were anticipating/considering demanding a trade at that time. There was a lot of tension and they tried to use that leverage to get them to upgrade the roster in Portland. And so I asked, “What is his leverage? He’s just gonna have to go play to make his money, right?” And Aaron said “Are you fucking kidding me? You really don’t know?” … And so the threat is to not play: the “James Harden model” and that’s what Aaron Goodwin explained to me in great detail, in specific details, saying “This front office that might want to trade for Dame? Every single one of them is going to lose their job before he ever suits up there.”
It means that when Dame was talking about asking out before the Olympics he was serious and if he would have, Dame would have been available for a supermax extension with whatever team we traded him to. He stayed here because he believed the bullshit that the front office was selling him when Olshey fired Stotts and hired Chauncey and promised to make the team better. Then we've seen what happened, we have tanked two seasons and haven't added any all star talent to the roster to support Dame. What I find interesting about the report is that Goodwin was ready to go scorched earth back then but waited upon Dame's behest and now, after having tanked only to draft a guy that obviously isn't here to make Dame's chance of winning better Goodwin has been unleashed to do whatever the fuck he has to in order to get Dame where he wants. Both Dame and Goodwin made a big mistake though by overplaying this shit and tying Cronin's hands in the process. Honestly though, I think the memo from the league only helps the situation. Now there are reports that the league would veto a bullshit offer from Miami, so unless they come correct they aren't getting anything. I still think the result will be us getting expiring contracts, 4 first round picks along with Jaquez and Jovic and that's it. I'm sure there are a thousand of other possibilities out there that I don't know about that could happen and surprise all of us but I think a three team trade with Miami sending three FRPs to us along with expirings, Jaquez and Jovic, them sending Herro to a third team and and us getting another FRP and more expirings seems to be the most likely thing right now but we'll wait and see.
I just wonder how much of this is Aaron Goodwin talking way too much shit. I think there's a possibility that he thought he could bully Joe into doing what he wants.
This has been my thoughts already which I posted a couple weeks ago: teams know that Lillard will play hard for them; his wish to play for Miami is not what is holding teams back. “Lillard doesn’t have that leverage (that Davis did) because he has four years, over $175 million left on his contract and that’s what is part of what’s holding up the trade market, that’s part of why there is not the feeding frenzy people thought there might be for a Damian Lillard trade. “It’s not because teams think that if we traded for Damian Lillard, he wouldn’t play hard for us, he’d be too unhappy here. It wouldn’t make for a good enough environment for us to take him on. That has not been the issue with teams.” It’s simply been the idea, his age and the idea of paying him over $60 million at 35 and 36 years old, the last two years of his deal.
