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Dame asks out
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So overwhelmingly Dame is getting love on twitter. Unbelievable imho. People wanted Zion over Scoot and matching salaries so they could make a run with Dame. I hope Scoot transcends Lillard and makes fools out of all of them.
Only teams I am calling if I am Cronin are OKC, DET, and HOU.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
How about Toronto for OG and a pick or two
If I'm Portland my ask is Scottie Barnes, Christian Koloko and two firsts.
They might actually be close to having a team with that deal.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
I don’t think Toronto would trade Barnes but
Dame
Dick
OG
Siakam
Poeltl
That’s a good 5.
It would honestly give Toronto the team a lot of Blazers fans were jizzing their pants over in a trade pick 3 scenario, and it would give Portland a squad in 3-5 years time with a Scoot-Sharpe-Barnes-Grant core and Koloko instantly the second best big after the players they let go.
oh also, on the F Dame front, now that Portland is a rebuilding squad, they could use Watford. Eubanks too.
The Effort Police
Starter
Literally after he said he wanted Grant too.
Just went from his city's move beloved star to probably the most hated overnight. Wild.
he's not though, twitter is defending this guy to the end. lol
YOU FAILED HIM!
Ozymandias
All-Star
This is so dumb btw, to pursue a star level return instead of not just trying to get draft capitol and expirings n sensible things.. Portland has the inside track to the best tank next season if ya ask me.. They cant possibly keep their heads above water out in this western conference without Dame.. No single star will save them other than like Joel Embiid which isnt ever gonna happen.
The move is just go absolute full rebuild mode this season n then you look to ramp the rebuild up quickly after that.
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I think you can look at that like they want a star now vs. a star tomorrow package. I guess I assumed the latter, which is why I was thinking someone like Scottie Barnes level, a 2nd or 3rd year guy who might get the designated rookie extension a year or two from now and is on the Scoot/Sharpe timeline.
Obviously you need picks back too.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
looks like Jimmy's tampering did the trick, right out of the Bron playbook
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Wait until the deadline. The deal will be Grant for Barnes/Huerter, haha.
Uh . . . Everyone is out of cap space now.
SLAB
Hall of Famer
I’m pretty sure it has something to do with tanking the rebuild effort with a 160 million dollar albatross.
serbiangoat
Starter
All these players sign massive/max deals than cry when the team can't get them enough help yeah no crap you take a massive chunk of the cap space.
The narrative with my peers up here is that Dame was loyal, team failed him, they owe him whatever he asks but Russillo and Trysta have it right. Team has nothing to gain by acquiescing to Dame and no matter how coy Dame is being (yesterday he opened a "what did I do wrong" dialogue) he went from just get me the pieces to demanding a trade to one destination.
Also maybe that destination has tampered.
Insomniacal Fan
Starter
Rename the Heat to the "Miami Agents"
AaronPDX
Bench
I'm up here too, and as the days go on, I really don't think Lillard is going to like where he lands, which unless Miami REALLY steps up their offer, will not be Miami. End of the day, it's a business and they're not in business to give assets away.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
it may not make the news as official but I firmly believe that Jimmy and possibly Bam had a private word with him and persuasion, among many other considerations, is one weakness of the human psyche
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
And Dame gave the franchise a nice little F U on the way out by getting his boy Grant paid. I'm buying the idea that Dame waited for his bud to get the $$$ and then was like oh yeah, by the way, lol.
there's a rumor he informed Cronin on Monday but I'm inclined to believe they wouldn't have paid Grant like that if they knew. And it seemed Dame was still recruiting Dray during this period, so likely Dame somehow thought he could lure FAs to Portland. They're a worse destination than we are historically. They poached Brian Grant from us in the 90s and their only other notable signing in FA like pretty much ever is Evan Turner.
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