Blazers to "eventually" trade ayton

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  1. beast blazer

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    He's on a max contract and is a not much better than average player.
     
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    Get back to me when he has back-to-back 40 point games in a playoff series. Ayton does not have an unstoppable low post move like Aldridge's. He is a better rebounder, though.
     
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    Been wondering the same thing about Dwight...
     
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    We aren’t trading him this year. It would be next summer after DC has a year under his belt.
     
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    A max free agent offer at that time from Indiana, yes. He was not getting get max years, max amount and raises from Phoenix. To Phoenix, it was protecting an asset (like Grant) and hoping he got even better.
     
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    DA has to find a way to truly fall in love with the game to match his very good skillset and if not he will become a journeyman until year 10 or 11 and be gone.
     
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    dude carried the Bahamas for..? Nothing but love, passion and fun for the game. Hit me with something else.
     
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    His journey to donning the Bahamian jersey is not one of childhood dreams, driven by a relentless passion for the sport, but rather by an insatiable craving for conch fritters—those delectable Bahamian snacks that epitomize the archipelago's culinary soul. Ayton found himself lured not by the echoes of bouncing balls or the swish of the net, but by the promise of endless trays of conch fritters.

    The Bahamian basketball court is less an arena of athletic conquest and more a banquet hall where the sweet, briny aroma of conch fritters wafts through the air, pulling him in with an irresistible force. Thus, his story becomes a culinary odyssey, with basketball serving merely as the backdrop for his true passion: the endless delight of Bahamian conch fritters.
     
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    He looked pretty inspired in the qualifiers.
     
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    that trade was 4 outgoing Blazers, + temp Blazer Jrue Holiday. They were all starters & role players.

    33% of the roster in the blink of an eye. Trade more! Trade more! We gotta give Cronin a break, he's trying his best to get a new lottery rookie.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    I asked Mr. Knuckles. He does not want to meet you, so I returned him to my pocket.

    You must be very lonely!
     
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    On that team, wasnt LMA our first option? Also didnt he sell out the very next season?

    I don't want ayton as out first or second option, but a third or fourth is just fine as long as he is happy. If not, trade him. If so, he and KlingKong might prove to be a very formidable duo.

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