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I would love to see them get AD then spin him off to Boston in the summer for the supposive big package they are willing to give up for him. Tatum and whatever is a great start in my book. What to give up for AD? As long as it isn't DL (and it wouldn't be), then all good. It won't happen, but time to get creative Neil.
 
Id want to give 28-29 year old Dame the best shot of winning you can, building around AD and Dame is way easier than Dame / CJ and Nurk as evidenced by AD and Co beating them in the playoffs 4-0. If AD leaves its also the year half your team is FA’s you can rebuild you’re going to have to anyways. If they do get to them WCF or something your chances of keeping AD go up.
Would I put Nurk on the table to start? no way, but if they played hardball for him Id do it.

Here's what you don't seem to get. Not many of us want to rebuild. So... No...
 
Apologies all around if this has already been covered - tonight, someone named AtlBlzr posted the following in the comments of a BE "Blazers Express Interest in Mirotic" article:

"Be ready for tomorrow. Don't know who's coming back but we have a starting PF that's packing his bags."

He goes on to say the PF was drug testing and canceled a scheduled public appearance. Anyone familiar with this person? It it likely legit? You think this means Chief is likely gone tomorrow?

Aminu is from Atlanta isn’t he? Look at the screen name....

Here’s the exchange since you shouldn’t be on that website.

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Name the trades and signings Olshey made in his Portland tenure that had you genuinely excited.

Here’s my list

Nurkic
Harkless

That’s literally it.

Here’s a refresher guide
https://www.basketball-reference.com/executives/olshene99x.html

You're trippin leaving Lopez (who he got for a bowl of STEAM) of your list.

When he arrived every Blazer starter besides him averaged a career number in rebounds and we were an actual contender.
 
No way Olshey dumps Aminu without another PF coming back in the same trade, or another one.

I could see Aminu and Moe for Mirotic and filler (ie Frazier)
 
To be honest if Aminu leaves and no PF is coming back Jake would probably start.
 
Imagine complaining about getting Anthony Davis while not giving up Lillard jfc.

Imagine keeping Lillard, not being able to build around the two in a year and a half, Davis walks right the fuck over to LA, they become champions, and we lose our whole core...

Then Dame walks...

Y'all trippin. AD 's injury prone ass isn't worth our entire future.

Yeah, let's end up rebuilding during Dame's prime....

I wanna win WITH Dame.

What's your plan to build around them both?
 
Not many of us wanna keep getting bounced in the first round either. Not many of us are happy with being regular season studs just to flame out in 4-5 games of the postseason. Change isn’t always bad.

Rebuilding probably wouldn't do us much better. We have the least opportunities around the league to obtain talent so it would take us the longest to obtain any. We could do what Cleveland is doing and obtain 8 picks in the next few drafts. But that doesn't work so often as each draft varies in value. And then you have our front office to deal with, which doesn't really believe in being that aggressive in the first place. Although I might be in favor of a rebuild at some point. I'd only do it if Olshey and Stotts were long gone.
 
Imagine keeping Lillard, not being able to build around the two in a year and a half, Davis walks right the fuck over to LA, they become champions, and we lose our whole core...

Then Dame walks...

Y'all trippin. AD 's injury prone ass isn't worth our entire future.

Yeah, let's end up rebuilding during Dame's prime....

I wanna win WITH Dame.

What's your plan to build around them both?
Is there anybody good you actually want...?
 
Imagine keeping Lillard, not being able to build around the two in a year and a half, Davis walks right the fuck over to LA, they become champions, and we lose our whole core...

Then Dame walks...

Y'all trippin. AD 's injury prone ass isn't worth our entire future.

Yeah, let's end up rebuilding during Dame's prime....

I wanna win WITH Dame.

What's your plan to build around them both?

Here is a more likely scenario - we stay as a middle of the pack team for the next 4-5 years and then Dame leaves because we need to rebuild.
 
Imagine keeping Lillard, not being able to build around the two in a year and a half, Davis walks right the fuck over to LA, they become champions, and we lose our whole core...

Then Dame walks...

Y'all trippin. AD 's injury prone ass isn't worth our entire future.

Yeah, let's end up rebuilding during Dame's prime....

I wanna win WITH Dame.

What's your plan to build around them both?

Why would AD leave Dame to play with 36 year old Lebron? He’d have something like a two year window (maybe) to win a ring, and then what? He’s back on a rebuilding team. Sounds fun.

AD is a top 5 player in the league. If you can get him without giving up your best player you do it without hesitating. And if he wants to bounce you flip him somewhere else and reboot.

Or just stand pat and keep getting bounced in the first round.
 

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