Exclusive NBA Trade Deadline Thread 2024

At this point, if they took Ayton off our hands, we'd throw in Jerami for free. Trouble is, all their salary is in Luka and Kyrie and they couldn't match salaries. And the next few after that are really yuk:



I guess I could talk myself into Williams and Kleber but fuck off with Hardaway and Holmes.

 

Here's a challenge: Identify teams that could really use:
Jerami
Malcolm
Ayton
Anfernee

Never mind if they can offer us anything - just if you were God and wanted to put those players in the best place for them and their new teams.

 

I always just act like God because the CBA is frustrating.

 

They owe their '24 and their '29, so we can only get their '26 from them outright

 

Off the top of my head:

Jerami - Mavs & Kings
Malcolm - NYK & Heat
Ayton - Blazers
Anfernee - Blazers

 

Almost every playoff contender could use Jerami.....if they didn't have to worry about giving up value.
The Lakers would love to get him.

I would add New Orleans for teams that should want Malcolm

 

Agree to disagree

 

Agreed.

 

DISAGREE!

 

after watching Spencer loaf around in 2 Blazer games this season, I agree to agree with this tweet.

 

FIGHT!!

 

Mt. Tabor?

 

Brogdon has played two good games against the Nets this year. I still think he fits in with Brooklyn perfectly.
And I still would take Dinwiddie's expiring contract to land Clowney.

 

Strike about what?

 

Brogdon to Philadelphia
Jeremy to New York Knicks
Thyble to Philadelphia as well
Aton to Dallas (well, before the year started, since he’s been here, I think he’s tanked his value)
Ant-He’s not going anywhere, he’s our Dame replacement, unless someone offered something outrageous, we need him right here. We just need to draft some taller guards and wings to offset his size disadvantage. He’s the closest thing to Dame that we will see.

 

I was more interested in Clowney at the beginning of the season. Now, I think I’d rather have a pick.

I think I’d rather have forwards who have some kind of point-forward capabilities. Like maybe drafting Cody this year and drafting a forward at the top of the draft next year. Between Camara and Walker, I think we have good enough hustle guys at PF. I don’t see Clowney as a PF of the future or anything like that.

 

I'm not shitting on a win. I love it when our team wins but what the fuck are we actually doing here. We have two guys who could be very good 4th or 5th best players on a championship team in Jerami and Malcolm but them winning us games right now limits our opportunities to get championship level guys in the draft and neither seem like they will be at this level when guys like Shaedon, Toumani, Scoot, Jabari, Kris, Rayan, etc. will be ready to contribute at their best to a championship.

A while ago Joe said that we weren't interested in playoff series wins, we want championships. Either we trade for a superstar 2 or 4 and an elite starting 2 or 4 or we should just trade both Malcolm and Jerami before they get us more wins. They're not good enough to get this team meaningful wins (championships) and they're too damn good for us to have on a team that's trying to get the best draft position possible.

What the fuck are we doing? Are we trying to tread water in the mid lotto as opposed to treading water in the first round of the playoffs?

 

So Simons is our Dame which means he’s our franchise player? Isn’t that what we drafted Scoot for and where does that put Sharpe? Who leads this Blazers team anyway?

 

I want Shaedon to be looked at as the most promising prospect on the team. I think the best compliment to him currently on the squad in the back court would be Scoot. I like Toumani, Jabari, Kris and Rayan as complementary role players on the same timeline. I think we need to trade and draft the rest of a rotation that makes sense around these guys and at least one of them needs to have superstar potential.

That means I would be in favor of trading anyone with value that isn't in that group. That would mean that I want Ant, Jerami, Malcolm, Deandre and Matisse traded as soon as possible for the best prospects and draft picks possible. We could even take on bad contracts since this group won't be at it's most competitive for several seasons.

I think so many fans of this team don't have the stomach to endure the losses it takes for small market teams to get great but we have the value in win now players and current draft picks to do this rebuild correctly but wanting to build around guys like Jerami, Ant and Malcolm will end up in worse results than building around Dame and CJ. We really need drastic action and due to earlier trade deadlines, I believe Joe is capable of getting us on the right path.