When i started my new job about 9 months ago, I was asked to pick a secondary question for secure login. I picked "who is my favorite athlete" as it was an easy answer to remember. A month ago, my office started pushing a two factor authorization every single time I login to my computer. So 5 times a day I have to enter "lillard" to do any work. For fucks sake. I don't want to go to IT with this issue. But it sucks. ☹️
yeah, it's total fucking garbage if that's close to the deal, and Joe would be a blithering idiot for accepting that crap
Yuck - pathetic. If thats the case fire Joe. Would be better to bring Dame to camp and see what there is in December or February. A return like that will always be available. No Jacquez/Martin? Why only two picks if Herro is elsewhere - Miami can do the 2 picks 2 swaps on their own.
The salary coming in is fine - Hayward/Lowry are both expiring. This years salary doesn't really matter anymore and will have to be reasonably close in trade. You don't have to worry about luxury tax this year - Jody has always made sure to avoid paying any since she took over the team.
Funny to me that all this would make somebody hate a player they've loved for so long. That dude put in work for not only this team, but this city. Kinda sad how quickly people turn on somebody who didn't do anything to them personally.
Yeah, that's not ideal. That's at least one pick short. I think you wait and deal with the discomfort if that's the deal. That said, it still feels like something is missing here.
if it's just Dame going out, the most salary the Blazers can take back is 57M. This trade brings back 63.5M. Portland is 3.3M below the tax line right now
Why would Cronin have waited for that "package?" If that actually is the return for Dame your sources must be good because it makes no sense to anyone.
Not to mention that there would have to be a lot more pieces involved for it to work for each team in the deal. I think something like this could work, but there are definitely some non-neglible pieces missing here.
Hayward as in Gordon Hayward? Or Haywood as in Haywood Highsmith? If the latter, it won't be before camp.
I think a big part of the reason people loved Dame so much was his loyalty. He basically told the Blazers, and the fans, to some extent, to go fuck themselves. I get the anger, or hurt feelings
I believe they have more than that - maybe you have some cap holds or nonguaranteed amounts in there. In early July they were able to spend most of the full MLE and stay under the tax, and they spent very little since then.
Just a guess, but I think he’s hoping the package improves. It has, by the way, Now it’s up to him to accept it or deal with the circus
