Trade Ben Simmons poll

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What's the most you would give up for Ben Simmons?

  1. CJ + RoCo for Simmons and scrubs

    9.7%
  2. CJ for Simmons

    62.1%
  3. It depends on our new coach

    3.4%
  4. I'm not trading for that bum!

    24.8%
  1. Scalma

    Scalma Well-Known Member

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    loll that’s pretty disrespectful of her tbh.
     
  2. Rastapopoulos

    Rastapopoulos Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, I have to agree on that one.
     
  3. SlyPokerCat

    SlyPokerCat cats rool dogs drool

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    Thanks for proving to everyone what kind of person you are once again.

    The same dude that said a reporter should have been shoved in a locker multiple times in school.

    Ladies and gents, a real winner here!
     
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    Perfect example of why we should gamble on Simmons. Last time we were a legit contender.
     
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    he had more than one blemish. Setting NBA records for T's in a season, at least twice was ridiculous. I liked the other things Rasheed did, but hated those T's. They cost the Blazers several games IMO, including at least one in the playoffs. At the end, I was glad he was traded away
     
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    Mediocre Man Mr. SportsTwo

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    Unless there is truth to it
     
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    GMs explore possible trades. That's part of their job. Simmons job is to play basketball - and very few people on the planet are being paid more for it. When did the possibility of being traded change from being part of the job to some intolerable burden?
     
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    The difference is the Sixers FO has zero to do with the Blazers other than Morey ACTIVELY HURTING THE BLAZERS by refusing a reasonable trade for Simmons. Simmons could help the Blazers were he on our team, quite a lot actually. Also, Simmons didn't go out in the media and air dirty laundry, Rivers and Embiid both did. Nothing the Sixers FO is doing impacts the Blazers at all in terms of them extracting top value helping our team. In fact, the opposite is true. They are bargaining in bad faith based on all reports and constantly floating Dame as a trade idea, which FUCK THEM, ain't gonna happen. There is a trade(s) available that helps both teams, but Morey refuses because he wants to skin the Blazers alive, not just come out with good value. How anyone is on Morey's side is what blows my mind and does anyone truly think we can get any player approaching Simmons caliber other than by trading CJ + assets? What Morey is asking for is more than Simmons value, PERIOD. That's the issue. I don't care at all how Simmons is behaving because we've seen variants of this many times by now AD, Kawhi and Harden all spring to mind. Simmons was loyal and played hard (yes he made a huge mistake in the playoffs, but how is CJ stepping out of bounds any different?) despite being on the block for a full year. Then when he most needed the support of his coach and fellow star they chummed the waters for their toxic fan base. People seem to ignore all that to demonize Simmons, who again, is in NO WAY harming Portland. Morey helped push and float Dame rumors all summer and fan the flames there, he's ACTIVELY hurt our team, MOREY is the enemy, not Simmons.
     
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    And Kawhi forced his way out and then promptly left to LA. We're right and you can tell by the number of votes our comments are getting compared to the tumbleweed blowing through your zero likes comments.
     
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    right, because you are losing it, badly.
     
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    Kawhi Leonard obviously never had an incident quite like Simmons just did, but there were reports/rumors that Leonard, at the behest of his uncle, was faking concern over his injury (that team doctors said was healed) in order to hold out and force a trade. It created ill will within the Spurs franchise and Popovich was obviously frustrated and angry.

    Players use whatever leverage they can when they feel that their relationship to their current franchise has run its course. Teams do the same thing when they can and no longer want a player. It's a business, not a family.
     
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    4,000 posts, 600 likes. Looks like you're wrong a lot huh?
     
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    Fair point turns out people can be wrong, like 31,000 times upvoting someone who comments like you have throughout this thread.
     
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    i listened to it, was a cringeworthy take from a has-been reporter. it's interesting because she has reported heavily on guys' mental health in the past and you'd think she'd be more sensitive.

    they also dedicated a few minutes to our supposedly disastrous preseason. Both admitted they didn't watch a single minute nor did they listen to Billups at all but found it alarming that Simons was our leading scorer.

    what a joke.
     
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    Clueless journalists reporting on something they have no idea about or are biased towards? The hell you say.... :biglaugh:
     
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    That's not what other players from Kawhi to Anthony Davis to Melo to Vince Carter have done.
     
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    That's an odd fit in Toronto with Scottie Barnes. Great defense but can you afford to have two of your best players be non-shooters?
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I would like to point out that the number of times Kawhi hasn’t stepped up and led his team far outnumbers the one time that he did. And that team had Lowry as the real leader of the squad. Hot take - Kawhi isn’t a true number one. He can’t lead a team. He didn’t with the spurs when Duncan retired and he hasn’t in LA.
     
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