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injuries do happen and theyre pretty top heavy. not applying protections for a non-allstar is wild

 

I know right. Why didnt Joe get five first round picks for Simons lol.

 

Wow! A day of family shit and I come back to see if the trade I read about earlier today was just some sort of hallucination and there it is. Desmond Bane for 4 fucking first round picks and a swap... and a fucking swap. Anthony Parker, the second best basketball player in his family to his sister, got his lunch stolen. Can you imagine being Zach Kleiman (the Grizzlies GM who I know nothing about) and just asking for that fucking swap on top of all four FRPs. Fucking ridiculous! Again, just WOW!

 

Pacers trading the pick in this draft to NOP for their own next year's pick

 

good grief, really? Has Portland's management shown a reluctance to make big trades/moves or are you just getting forgetful & bitter in your old age? I'm sure every NBA management group (not just Portland's) is making and fielding calls from every other GM. If Blazer management bides their time to wait to pull something off again akin to the Deni fleecing and also adds a solid piece in the draft, this team will be a legit contender for a few seasons.

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The last 6 transaction windows, here's players Cronin has traded for or signed outside of the "forced" Dame/Jrue trade.

2023 Deadline - Traded Josh Hart for Cam Reddish and a wasted pick, traded 2nds for Matisse Thybulle
2023 Draft - No Trades
2023 Free Agency - Signed Moses Brown
2024 Trade Deadline - Traded nothing for Dalano Banton
2024 Draft - Traded Brogdon for Avdija
2024 Free Agency - Nothing
2025 Trade Deadline - Nothing

So outside of the Dame trade which according to many "wasn't his plan" and "he was forced to take action on", the only meaningful trade or signing he's had in six transaction windows is the trade for Avdija. Which is insane considering the first three they were "trying to be really aggressive around Dame" and the last three they were rebuilding and have vets in the way of young players.

That's what people mean by "Sleepy Joe".

 

This is interesting. You think we're a Deni caliber player/trade and good draft pick away from competing with OKC?

That's awesome. I hope you're right.

 

If Indiana can compete with them, we can.

 

I love it.

 

Deni was a tremendous add that I truly don't expect to be duplicated. He got better and better as the season went along. The three youngins were also noticeably improving & Camara was just a stud of a role player. I expect the three lotto picks to continue to level up this season giving them a very solid core that (given health) should have them competing for a playoff spot next season. Adding another Deni level player to the mix for the peanuts they did seems a long shot but adding another solid player from the draft seems very likely. Change is a constant in life and the PTB are trending in the right direction

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Yeah I don't think it's likely we pull off another Deni deal either (it really was a great deal) but it would certainly be welcome.

I still don't think that would put us on the path to contender status, but I would welcome being wrong.

I certainly agree with you the Blazers are trending up. I'm just not sure we have enough talent to trend up steep enough.

Would love to see it, though.

 

Teams usually only do that when they're planning to tank. But I guess they don't exactly need a rookie right now.

 

That's a bit misleading, given that that was how we got Toumani - everybody's first-or-second-favorite-current-Blazer - when we easily could not have.

 

I think they want cap space to re-sign Myles turner

 

Deni was also the result of the Dame trade.

 

No. It unlocks all their future picks so they can make a big trade.

 

And if we can, then 20 other teams can.

 

Kevin Durant traded to Rockets for Jalen Green is interesting...