Rumor Damian Lillard Would Like Blazers To Acquire Deandre Ayton

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  1. illmatic99

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    Ayton's longest absence came from his suspension for taking a banned substance. He's been relatively healthy so far. He would definitely be an upgrade over Nurk in many different ways, but his position is not the priority when we have gaping holes on the wing and at forward. He's a low priority target for me for those very reasons.
     
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    Agreed. I'm fine if we don't get him. We need a damn wing.
     
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    Need a damn good 3 and a damn good 4 to compete. And luck health wise.
     
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    wut is nate jones talking about?

    sure looks like he is suggesting that Portland can add 70M in salary, and that's after hard-capping themselves with the Ayton S&T. Add 20M for Ant and Portland adds 90M to 75-80M meaning they are 10-20M over the apron...which is the hard cap line.
     
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    so of course the Blazers are alleged to be thinking about adding a C who might be at the bottom edge of top-10 for his position (or not) for 34M/year. At a time when the value of C's is in the toilet
     
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    Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm ok with upgrading at center as long as it doesn't take away from us upgrading the 3 and 4.

    I don't see any way to do that and get Ayton. But I don't think Ayton is necessary either...

    Would be happy to have him though...
     
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    not at 30-35M/year. Blazers finally got free of CJ's albatross contract. Why dive back into major inflexibility?
     
    wizenheimer, Jun 14, 2022
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    I don't care what Nate Jones thinks... His player evaluations are crap.
     
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    He was completely wrong about Aaron Gordon.
     
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    Has Wiggins ever been All NBA? Klay and Green weren't this year. Smart has never been All NBA. Has Brown?
     
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    I believe Dame liked a tweet about Ayton coming here. So we did hear it from Dame himself.
     
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    Lavine is All Star. Why wouldn't you want him?
     
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    For anybody who's making fun of the rumor did you guys saw the Instagram story by Lillard in which he quoted the news? That makes you a believer? Or isn't even enough if Lillard himself says it lol
     
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    Re: value of centers, Robert Williams 3 has probably been the Celtics most impactful player in the Finals thus far. Warriors wouldn't be here without Looney. And Ayton was in the Finals just last year.
     
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    Yay an all star! A championship must be next.

    No. He's awful.
     
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    We need to surround Dame with All Stars. How is Lavine awful?
     
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    I think you missed the point with Dame. He wasn’t agreeing with the reports.
     
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    Damn there is some serious overrating of Nurkic in here. Ayton >>>> Nurkic all day. Assuming he gets paid fairly it’s a no brainer
     
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    Do you think Dame and Ayton alone are a contender? I think we'd have to give up Simons, and all of our expirings and trade Nurk. So we'd end up keeping 7 as well (since we'd have to renounce the expirings to make the Nurk for Ayton deal happen).

    So you'd basically have Dame, Hart, Ayton, #7... And the scrubs we had last season.

    Do you think that would be worth it? Seems like that could theoretically be a pretty potent team if we hit on #7... But we wouldn't have any money left over.
     
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    To be clear. As I’ve stated before- with Lillard there is no championship here. So it’s who would I rather watch. And it sure as shit isn’t Nurkic throwing half ass passes and missing layups
     
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