Trade Blazers trade Simons for Holiday

Calling it now. Ant 2026 All Star

 

yep...that's the big downer to his budget contract. It even declines every year so the math gets worse each year. Portland will be able to pay him the most money; maybe not in base salary, but in bigger step raises....and an extra year IIRC. But if he wants to leave for a team with the cap-space, there will be nothing Portland can do

 

that's a pretty wild theory: Sharpe being all NBA next season. Of course, he could just skip over that hurdle and become the MVP

 

Usually that’s all it takes in Portland. A video of the new guy in town with family. Automatically makes people love the guys

 

The video isn’t what changed my mind. It was taking a look back at his career, the guy does all the things a winning team needs. He’s also been a drama free professional his entire career. For the record I wasn’t anti Jrue either, just on the fence if he made sense.

 

I was a bit surprised by that as well.

 

I edited my prediction from MIP to All Star. In the East, with Tatum out, it's possible

 

is this the "CJ would be an all-star on another team or in the East" thing again?

Donovan Mitchell
Darius Garland
Jalen Brunson
Haliburton (injured)
Cade Cunningham
Desmond Bane
Trae Young
Dyson Daniels
Josh Giddey
Tyler Herro
Cam Thomas
Tyrese Maxey
Lamelo Ball

Derrick White
Jaden Ivey
RJ Barrett
Quentin Grimes

all-star selections are 2+2 guards and 3+3 front-court + 2 at large. So say there will be 5 guards. Simons isn't likely to beat out 12 of those guards. Mitchell, Cunningham, Brunson, Young, Maxey are probably locks anyway. Simons would have to have the best season of his career and do so as the #1 option. He'd need a 30% usage rate. Boston has too many good perimeter players for that to happen.

 

Simons had the keys of the offense handed to him and everyone thought he would average 25 ppg.... and then he didn't. He has been extremely mediocre since Dame left.

 

radical idea: Simons would be best as a 6th/7th man, 3rd/4th option. Him as a 1st/2nd option is going to fail

 

BOS is supposedly still looking to dump Anfernee

 

A little shoutout to myself. The sweat mop you see at the 1:14 mark is my design, sort of. It's my buddy's company that makes them, I designed the LED lights around the base with a switch in the handle. We sent them to GS, Boston, Cleveland and offered to Portland but they weren't interested (they were a free promotional deal...still said no).
I thought I found my money train, but we only sold a handful of them. So, back to being poor.
I also designed a fiber optic screen on top of the mops that could show either ingame highlights or just a cool light show (light the pregame) while the mops were out on the floor, but they were going to be a harder sell. I had one more idea but he was skeptical of it after some experimenting.

 

He'll get more press now that he's in Boston and they'll rave about his scoring and call it a resurgence year. It will be interesting to see how he and Pritchard fit. I'd take PP out of those two 10 times out of 10.

 

The problem is that he doesn't do anything at an elite level.

He had two REALLY good seasons from three, but since then he has been just.... good.

 

Seems like it might not be with the Celtics…

“I have talked to other teams who have said they are actively trying to trade Anfernee Simons," said Brian Windhorst on Wednesday's Hoop Collective Podcast. "Whether they can or not is another [thing].

Boston doesn’t even want to hold on to Ant…

 

Did I miss a press conference? Some here said it would happen during Vegas. It's been a while. What's up?

 

This was put out. I'm not sure who originally put it out but it's not on the team's YouTube page.