Notice SI: McCollum for Wiggins Trade Should but Won’t Happen

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  1. jlprk

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    Is Wiggins still available?
     
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    For the Jazz? Good to see you back even though you've been a Jazz fan this season dude!
     
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    You unlike some others think outside the box.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    I prefer to think outside of the bot.

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

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    For C.J.? I'm sure he is. Why wouldn't MIN trade a guy who shoots .340 3FG%, .574 FT%, for a guy shooting .523 3FG% who led the league in FT%?

    Wiggins doesn't play defense and does nothing else except score (as indicated by his 15.0 PER). C.J. scores more and does so much more efficiently.

    MIN would do this trade in a heartbeat. They would start C.J. at SG next to Butler at SF and MIN would be a top 4 team in the West.

    The question is, why would Portland want to make a division rival so much better?

    BNM
     
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    You know what trade that should and won't happen?

    Klay Thompson + Iggy + Jordan Bell + 1st rounder for LeBron
    (works salary-wise)

    LBJ will not win a championship this year in Cleveland.
    LBJ will be leaving Cleveland next year.
    Cleveland has almost zero pieces to begin a rebuild.
    Works for Cleveland.
    Works for GS
    Works for LBJ.

    The only ones it doesn't work for are Klay and Iggy (and the rest of the teams in the league), but that's the business.
     
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    I guess if Dan Gilbert wants to be murdered, this trade would be a great way to get that going.
     
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    I was pissed off after McCollum lost us the game again.

    My former new team is boring. I'm taking applications for a new new team.
     
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    I feel as if Wiggins is basically the next Kevin Martin - a guy who would be an "asset" his entire career, going around the league a few times because GMs will always sign\trade him in hopes of trading him for a real star.

    It wouldn't surprise me to see Daryl Morey going after him at some point.
     
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    SIeepwalker The lone sane poster

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    Plenty of space on the warriors bandwagon
     
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  11. jlprk

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    I'm too picky for prima donnas. I like Tonya Harding-like losers. The Blazers have suffered a breakdown since the Nate McMillan seasons of 25 wins, which I loved.
     
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    Be a Knicks fan. Everyone loves Porzingas, and since Melo's departure, they have a significantly lower prima donna factor than in seasons past.

    Or, since you're a so high on McMillan, perhaps the Pacers would tickle your fancy. 6th in the league in scoring (so perhaps more interesting than the Jazz), and full of players looking to prove themselves.
     
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    Boob-No-More Why you no hire big man coach?

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    If you like 25 win teams, I nominate SAC. For the last nine seasons, they have won between 17 and 33 games, for an average of 26 wins per season.

    They look to be on track to win 20-something games again this year, and every year for the foreseeable future.

    With their current owner and GM, you shouldn't have to worry about switching teams again anytime soon.

    BNM
     
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    Look no further than the G league!
     
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    I agree that would be really appealing for both teams, with the only caveat being that Golden State doesn't really need to make this trade to stay on top, and what do they pay LBJ next year. Trade makes Golden State unstoppable for the next 4-5 years or more.
     
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    The Knicks are like the Yankees. Big city glitzy. I'm not high on McMillan, I'm low on him. I was happy when the Blazers were striving to improve, not like now when all we have to look forward to is the status quo for years until Lillard retires, because Olshey lacks Whitsitt's talent to make changes. Besides, who wants to live in Indiana besides Larry Bird.
     
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    Sacramento is dirty when you drive through, an eternal construction zone, and the capital of an evil empire, California. It's just a big dusty Bakersfield.

    I'm surprised you didn't suggest Elkhart, Indiana. That's Shawn Kemp's hometown.
     
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    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    What about Orlando? Too good in the early season to capture your fancy?
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    You may have something there. I'll look up the worst team in the G-League standings.

    https://www.basketball-reference.com/gleague/years/2018.html
    https://www.basketball-reference.com/gleague/

    The Delaware 87ers are 0-3. What an unpronounceable name. Delaware! Everyone wants to live there! Now, to find my new favorite player, the worst player on the worst team in the G-League...it's James Blackmon Jr.

    https://www.basketball-reference.com/gleague/teams/DEL/2018.html

    And 35-year-old Emeka Okafor is a starter! I got it made. Thanks, guys! I'll start a long game thread on the Blazer board for each 87er game, and tell the board how you got me to do it.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    The opposite corner of the country from here. Mosquitoes. Florida is one of the few states I've never been in. On the other hand, then I could fly to see space launches and itemize it as a basketball deduction. Hmm.
     
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