Damian Lillard meets with owner Paul Allen over team direction

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    If Pops really wanted to cement his legacy as the greatest coach ever he would welcome the challenge of turning ET and Meyers into all stars.
     
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    Why don't any of our local media guys get these scoops? Does Chris Haynes still have a better relationship with Dame and his camp than anyone still in POR?
     
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    I thought I heard Lebron loves Shabazz? True?
     
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    You need to get a hobby homeboy.
     
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    No kidding. If I owned the team I'd make it a point to have one-on-one meetings with all the players. Do NBA owners not do that?
     
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    We'll address that after the trade deadline.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    That would completely let Aldridge off the hook. He could say, "see, told you I'd retire a Blazer, ya know".

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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Although, Aldridge would love playing next to Nurk. While in Portland, he had his best years playing next to RoLo, and hated playing next to the undersized Hickson. He loves to have a big body on the floor to do the dirty work, so he doesn't have to.

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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    Star with:

    Kawhi to POR
    C.J. to CLE
    Love to SAS

    That actually works salary wise (and gets us under the luxury tax threshold, too). Throw in role players and picks as necessary.

    But, if you can get Kawhi Leonard, the hell with worrying about the luxury tax. You do whatever it takes.

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    Dame wants Boogie!
     
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    We know you have inside info your not sharing.
     
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    Bro! NOBODY trusts the local media!
     
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    After seeing this leak last night on the flight home and reading this thread, one thing I noticed that nobody is mentioning.......

    WHO leaked this info and WHY?

    Seriously, if the meeting with Mr. Allen had gone well and Dame got the answers he wanted to hear...... why leak that this meeting even happened? What can you gain from a meeting with the team owner is put out to the public? A lot of things to take from this. He didn't use the chain of command either and went above Neil's head, so does that shed some light on their relationship?
    There is nothing about "meetings" with the owner of a team, but it being leaked kinda' changes everything.
    I don't know anything about any of this, but these are a couple things that I thought of right away when seeing Chris' tweet.
     
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    Why did you leak this?
     
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    I mean, would you trust Quick?
     
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    Since I’m almost 100% sure this is coming from Dames camp, considering it’s Haynes, I think the point was to put pressure on Olshey. Also to reaffirm that Stotts is his guy, and if one of them has to go, it should be Neil.
     
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    So how long until Woj releases some counter propaganda from Neil's side to try to offset the damage this Haynes story appears to do to his image?
     
    PtldPlatypus, Jan 23, 2018
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    I know Stotts get's blasted by many on here, but I think it's great that his star player went straight to the top and went to bat for him. Looks like Milwaukee didn't even ask Antitumbkoumbatoco what he thought about Kidd.
     
    THE HCP, Jan 23, 2018
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    Hindsight has nothing to do with how poor this trade was. Some of us were saying it was a bad trade when we made it initially.
     
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