Isn’t Deni pretty much our best player? Trading him for draft picks and some bench players would send a pretty bad message considering we are supposed to be trying to win this season.
The only reason why I could see us trading Deni is if he has made it clear he won’t re-sign here. Or if we are concerned that we can’t extend him and have to take the risk of letting him hit free agency in a couple years.
Yeah, that's where I was going with it.... if we're afraid that he'll leave for nothing because we can't really extend him so we have to let him hit free agency.
If Memphis blows it up I would kick the tires on Ja. When he’s right he’s a top 10 player imo. Not sure how we’d get him without gutting the roster though. Mil picks/11 this year/Scoot/Ant?/Future picks? Ja Sharpe Deni Camara Clingan That ^ would be awesome. We just wouldn’t be able to keep all those guys to get Morant.
Yup. There's no rush to make a decision on him. I'm just saying that if he made it clear that he wouldn't re-sign here, I could see us trying to quietly move him. But that's the only reason why I could see us trading him.
If/when we get cap space next summer or after, we can re-negotiate and extend Deni the same way Utah did Lauri
If the Blazers are hell bent on keeping Simons around, Maybe we should look at what we can get for Sharpe while his value is high? It just seems like the Blazers are always coddling players. I just want them to pick a direction!
There are other teams that can use Ant and could be interested in his bird rights. If we have to attach a couple of seconds to Jerami to offload him for expirings then I wouldn't mind that. I'm not going to speculate where, I'm just going to say that Joe better have a couple of destinations lined up for those two. That being said, now that I see what Bane fetched, I'm not ruling out an actual big swing.
Jaren has been my realistic pie in the sky guy for a little bit now. He fits in great with our current personnel and gives us a curve ball at center to play alongside our big wings. I don't think Memphis is looking to move him though
It’s Portland! How much trouble will he be able to get into? Maybe he grows up and leads us far into the playoffs? Remember, it is super difficult for Portland to land a free agent all star player. Only via trade. Gotta swing for the fences as per this thread
Good idea. I'm wondering if we'll have a bunch of Ant/Ayton/Sharpe/Camara extensions on the books by then that will prevent that though.
