the dorks over on Blazers Edge tried to sneak in a Dame to Cleveland trade "rumor". (no details about trade other then Cavs have shown interest). Now I don't listen to Danny Marang dropping rose petals where Cronin walks programming, but I wouldn't be surprised if more Blazer reporters grab that fake news and run it up the flag pole.
Yep. We are under zero pressure but Miami is staring at a potentially horrible start with no depth and I’m so here for it. Just wait until Miami fans turn on Riley. Looooool.
Dame is all time great. Why would teams need to be “desperate” to want him?
Dame for Jarrett Allen and pieces would be great for both teams. I mean Mobley would be better but they’re not giving him up.
You honestly think this will drag out 6 months? In my opinion, the contenders that could potentially offer something better than Miami would have done something now, especially when they know Cronin isn't listening to Miami.
Between Dame, Mitchell, and Garland, which one comes off the bench?
Get Cleveland to hire olshey, and then one of them can just start at SF!
Open up a 3 team deal, with Dame and Nurk going to CLE, Garland to TOR, and Allen and OG to Portland. And they can both dump some salaries they don’t want on us (Rubio, Young, Porter?).
It isn’t a stagnant situation, there are likely teams that want to make an offer but don’t because they know Dame would be unhappy/demand a trade.
Yes. The best time to sell is at the trade deadline when nearly every team feels like they want to be buyers.
They don't need to be desperate. They'll just offer more the more desperate they are.
I have no idea what the source of this is because of the weird way you posted it but if we've said come with your best offer then they will offer what they think is a starting point to negotiations. Obviously when we say "best offer" it's the same as us saying you've only made laughable offers that we can't even counter to this point. The Heat have to know that if it's four FRPs it will have to come with Jovic, Jaquez and expirings. I think even if we were willing to take less than that the league might veto a worse trade than that at this point.
I don't even think that deal has been offered. I think they've offered two firsts from them, Herro to a third team for another and sticking us with Duncan Robinson. I think if they made the offer that @Rastapopoulos has posted an anonymous quote about then that would get the ball rolling on counter offers from us but I think to this point there offers have been so much lower than even this deal that Joe hasn't seen a point in countering.
But if we're willing to keep Dame (which we are) it will start fucking up their season as soon as training camp starts. I also don't think Dame wants to report for training camp here and we all know he doesn't want to lose money. So as training camp approaches Dame will put more teams on his list, instruct Goodwin to get him anywhere but here, other offers will start coming in and Dame will either end up on some team not offering anything right now or Miami for a much better offer than we've heard from them to this point.
We don't have to take their offer. We can hold out for a 2nd young player.
Probably better than trading him for scraps, in the grand scheme of things.
the NBA official memo stated clearly, that Lillard would do his best for any team that traded for him ...
I think the spectre of discomfort cast upon the idea of dame at media day and training camp is way overblown. it'll be a hotly discussed thing for a couple of days and then, like everything else, people will get tired of talking about it and move on.
rosters are set and the toothpaste is out of the tube. market needs to change before anything materializes, imo.
