Trade CJ McCollum to New Orleans

I'd vote "depressing". OTOH, we're definitely not a treadmill team anymore. I figure it will take about 3-5 years to rebuild to treadmill status.

 

After ALL of our CJ trade speculation over the years, and this is what we got?

#Sad!

 

I thought I read we got Trey Murphy. Now I realize we didn’t even get him. Yikes.

 

The ticket prices will go up. With the lower demand, they need to make up the difference in margin..

 

The Golden Ticket Returns!

 

Who do you trust in this organization to make the Blazers contenders? Jody? Bert Kolde? Joe Cronin? Why would Jody even continue owning the team if its going to suck? She just got it as an inheritance from her brother. My theory is she wanted to see if they could win a championship around Lillard, but that ship may have sailed. If they trade Lillard, there is absolutely no reason for her to keep the team. Shipping out talent for cap flexibility and future draft picks is a signal that the team is for sale so the new owners can shape a new franchise from the ground up.

And a new owner. If the new owner is not local, why would they keep the team in Portland? The Team is more valuable in a bigger market. Plus, a place like Las Vegas, a Billionaire would actually maybe live there versus Portland due to various reasons. Why be an absentee owner for an NBA franchise? It worked for Paul Allen because he was essentially retired and didn't have much going on, but someone who is still working and running companies, to go fly to Portland to watch games?

The best chance for the Blazers is that a local ownership group steps up, but unless its Phil Knight, they will probably be outbid by a billionaire.

 

depends on the pingpong balls, but Hart + lottery pick + 20 mil TPE is not nothing.

 

And why did they clear money? Also, how do you know our team isn’t gonna be better? Or do you think this gonna be our roster heading into next season? So far all Cronin has done is dumped players that didn’t fit with Dame while clearing the books.

 

oh boy

 

Olshey had a great history of making something like that nothing. Cronin was tutored under Olshey so don't count him out on making it nothing as well.

 

He’ll be one of my favorite non blazers. I’ll probably appreciate him more from afar.

 

I figure Nance = Hart, generally, and then we got a huge tpe, NAW, expiring, a 1st and 2nds for cj. That's a decent return for him, imo.

 

hart isn’t as good as CJ so it’s an L bro.

 

i think I'm gonna be far more interested in the play-in results than expected. As long as NO finishes 9/10, we get that pick (unless they have ridiculous lottery luck).

Maybe it makes sense why we just made LAC so much better now. Cronin playing 4d chess.

 

Who?

 

Wise words here.

 

Remember NBA is about playoff roundball and only 25% of the teams are legit contenders from one year to the next. The other 50% battle for playoffs and the last 25% laggards.
Like many industries there are numerous competitors and markets a only several may have significant market share.
Foe 40 years I cover the 13 Western States and our distribution breakdown and gross sales, as a percentage against the rest of USA was about 17%. Other regions had much larger markets most driven by population.

 

9 yrs with the team is a LONG time. He played a huge part in fostering our culture here (which was until recently lauded as among the best in the league).

dude never took practices off, and played HIS game. He won a play-in game with a fractured back. That needs appreciation.