Wow if that's true Joe should just tell Miami to fuck off for good, tell Goodwin to give us a handful of other teams or plan on Dame being here for the next three seasons.
I guess I could see them offering Lowry, Duncan Robinson, Jovic, Jaquez and the FRPs in 2028 and 2030. I've heard and read from multiple media outlets in Miami that the Heat should try to get this done without giving up Herro. Again if I'm Joe I tell them that I'm done with them when it comes to Dame because those are not good faith offers.
If the Blazers can be accused of "lying" to Dame, then the Heat can sure as hell be accused of not making offers in good faith.
Barry's such a starry-eyed fan the Heat might not even need to feed him narratives. He just writes what he wants to be true.
Yeah as things have cooled I think it's crazy to say that the team lied to Dame or that Dame lied to us. Am I sure that Joe told Dame that the plan was to use the pick we got from tanking in a trade for proven talent to help Dame win now... of course I am because Joe said so. Plans changed. I'm also sure that Dame planned on spending his whole career here but when plans changed in our front office Dame's plans changed too. The fact is that Dame gave an unrealistic demand that gave one of the most cutthroat guys in the history of the game a perceived upper hand and that guy (Pat Riley) has chosen to abuse this upper hand that is in actuality non existent. We don't care what our record is next season and the Heat have wasted this off season playing a game of chicken with us, subtracting from what they had last season and putting themselves in the position that if they don't make a trade to land Dame they will be worse than they were last season. Through inaction and the action of letting rotation players walk when combined with the fact that the Heat have designs on winning the championship next season and we don't, they've given us the upper hand.
Wow hard pass then - just trade Dame elsewhere or let him come back to PDX. Thats probably worse then us offering 3/Ant for Embiid or Giannis. How can anyone consider that a legit offer? Only scenario I can think of is Heat are planning to give us their real offer as a take it or leave it eve of training camp and trying to spin that as better value by offering so much shit for the months prior. Hold firm Joe and don't fall for it!
yeah, as mentioned, you forgot Robinson and I'm pretty convinced Riley is demanding protections on at least one of those picks
It was well before draft night that it was reported, and it was by Eric. The guy on Twitter could be repeating that reporting. As far as Eric, he legitimately heard that. I know people will pretend like they know exactly who Eric does and doesn't talk to, but he vets stuff, Dame and Jerami are close with JB (all three of them played on that Olympic team), Boston might've preferred Scoot+Simons over paying Brown a supermax, and Brown was rumored to be unhappy in Boston and could've leveraged the final year of his contract. I fully believe that was an option that Portland didn't explore because they wanted to go the young (and cheap) route and move on from Dame, and that explains Dame's recent comments about not wanting the same thing.
