Meeting between Dame and Cronin today

https://web.archive.org/web/20230629213132/https://twitter.com/droppingdimes20

 

The timing and accuracy — this account has to be a front office employee or a former employee

 

Or an agent or a player.

 

I was thinking of someone at an agency like an agent's assistant or just an assistant with a lot of info at CAA or Klutch. If it is an agent or someone at an agency they're taking a big risk because they have really restrictive confidentiality clauses and have to sign a bunch of proprietary shit. Any time I think of the word proprietary I get this visual.

 

This is what I believe with all my heart.

Dame sincerely wants to be here and win as a Blazer.

The only thing that will make him change his mind is if he thinks Cronin is lying to him.

I believe when Cronin says he wants to build a winner around Dame, he is telling the truth.

Drafting Scoot, Kris, and Rayan at first glance looks like Cronin is lying to Dame.

Oh, he used the picks instead of trading them for veteran players to help Dame win now.

Cronin explored trades (for Mikal) and the price is too steep that it would be a mistake to bite and so he did not do it.

I truly believe Cronin when he says drafting Scoot, Kris, and Rayan is a step to building a winner around Dame.

My prediction is we will have our big move in Feb trade deadline [Bam or Mikal, or Joel, the Heat/Nets/Phila will underwhelm and decide to rebuild]

This summer we will resign Jerami, Matisse, and maybe get OG or Jakob

 

I do believe Cronin when he says I am trying (Jennifer) but I don't think Dame is going to wait until the deadline. So it has to happen in the next 10 days.

 

The drama is trash

 

Disagree. Dame won't want to go anywhere that we could actually get proper value back.

 

The Lao Dame Tao Te Ching

 

“Drive”? Clearly, he’s requesting to be driven to the airport to his new team.

we fucked, FAMS! (Same thing I say about Mrs. HCP weekly, FAMS.)

 

Windhorst on ESPN just now and is so confounded by this situation that he wouldn't even venture to guess what the outcome might be when pressed by Malika Andrews. This shit is crazy. That's what these guys do for a living is make wild guesses but he doesn't even have one of those.

Who knows what is going to happen with Dame? Probably only Joe Cronin because very likely Dame and his agent told Joe what he'd have to do and only Joe knows if he can or is willing to do what it takes to keep Dame... then again maybe Joe doesn't do what Dame said needs to be done and Dame stays anyway because he loves it here so much. Crazy times!

 

That's because, for the most part, nobody is acting logically.

Almost zero 33 year old superstars in the prime of their career would stick around on a rebuilding team.

Almost zero teams would hold onto a highly paid 33 year old while they just drafted a potential superstar at the same position.

This whole situation is completely outside of the history of the league. This kind of thing never happens.

 

CJ is the Player President. Wonder if he will have some people pissed at him?

 

In other words we are being so stupid right now by neither committing fully to Dame and building a winner around him or trading Dame and starting the rebuild. Well, there's still time. The more I don't here about us making major moves or being connected to major free agents, the more I kind of feel like Joe is trying to make Dame ask out and really does just want to do the full youth rebuild. That being said, I'm completely talking out of my ass because I have no fucking clue what this roster is going to look like when training camp starts.

 

I think everyone is just comfortable. Dame doesn't want to leave because he has a huge mansion and he loves our city, but he wants to win.

I complain about my job all the time, and I think I'm underpaid, but my job is chill and I get to work from home so I'm unlikely to leave. I think Dame is feeling the same way. He's annoyed that we have a crap team and he wants to win, but he's also comfortable and he's paid insanely well.

But the media doesn't know what to do with this. Most superstars demand trades. Someone posted that Harden/Kyrie and Durant have requested 7 trades in just the past three years or something like that. The media loves this stuff. They look at Dame and they're dumbfounded.

 

So you think no matter what Joe does or more accurately doesn't do that Dame never asks out?

 

I think it's possible that he starts the season with the team to see how we do, and then asks out at the deadline.

But it's hard to say... loyalty is so deeply engrained in Dame's DNA, and if he feels like the team has done him wrong, I could see him asking out.

 

I think Dame already asked out