Damian Lillard is 33 years old

[Portland2014]

By the time the 23/24 season starts Lillard will be 33 years old

Every decision that will be made in this off season MUST consider this

Also, his contract is HUGE

He didn't take a paycut to preserve cap

Time flies and maybe people don't realize that he's already 33.

Not everybody is LeBron

 

[BonesJones]

Dumb thread.

You don't free up cap space if you're still over the cap.

He's not 33 already. You even implied this.

We have a bunch of threads discussing everything that could "consider this".

I actually thought me and you were both Lebron. Thanks for letting me know that not everyone is Lebron.

Stop searching for attention.

 

[RonBrewer]

So at 28 it was cool to tell him how much we loved him and would always be loyal to him.

GFO and go kick rocks

 

[AldoTrapani]

Dumb thread.

You don't free up cap space if you're still over the cap.

He's not 33 already. You even implied this.

We have a bunch of threads discussing everything that could "consider this".

I actually thought me and you were both Lebron. Thanks for letting me know that not everyone is Lebron.

Stop searching for attention.

Stop blocking people bc ppl don’t agree with u

 

[Natebishop3]

I actually am LeBron.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Obvious troll thread is obvious.

 

[tykendo]

By the time the 23/24 season starts Lillard will be 33 years old

Every decision that will be made in this off season MUST consider this

Also, his contract is HUGE

He didn't take a paycut to preserve cap

Time flies and maybe people don't realize that he's already 33.

Not everybody is LeBron

ASININE

 

[tykendo]

By the time the 23/24 season starts Lillard will be 33 years old

Every decision that will be made in this off season MUST consider this

Also, his contract is HUGE

He didn't take a paycut to preserve cap

Time flies and maybe people don't realize that he's already 33.

Not everybody is LeBron

Ridonculous

 

[tykendo]

He's not 33 yet. You said, he's already 33. Survey says "X"

 

[Pinwheel1]

By the time the 23/24 season starts Lillard will be 33 years old

Every decision that will be made in this off season MUST consider this

Also, his contract is HUGE

He didn't take a paycut to preserve cap

Time flies and maybe people don't realize that he's already 33.

Not everybody is LeBron

So you are saying Dame is old and makes too much money, yet other teams will give us value in a trade for him. I am struggling to come up with that scenario.
Can we all agree that only a contender without a good PG would want Dame? I can think of a few teams but none of them have realistic assets that they would be willing to depart with.....and we can count out any good player with a soon-to-be-ending contract because they won't resign on a Dameless Blazer team. That team will not have good draft picks and they will need to give us around 40 million back in matching salaries.

I am open to trading Dame if he wants out, but if the only reason is to get out from under his contract and pick up a few draft picks that statistically will not make the team a contender either, then I would rather enjoy watching Dame for the next few years as a Blazers.

But I am interested in hearing who you all think we can get for Dame.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

The GM is inexperienced and bad, by his own admission (multiple times) in his last presser.

The coach is inexperienced and bad by the metric is was hired for - defense.

The players are inexperienced, which will mean it will take time.

The GM has consistently brought in very young players, so we haven't been "building around Lillard" in any way, shape, or form.

I don't think it's a troll thread to state the obvious - trading for 2nd rate vets (or fantasizing about top tier vets) PROBABLY isn't going to get us where we want with an older, super-highly paid vet. The only reason fans are considering it is because of loyalty, not logic... which I'm OK with. GS is at the same crossroads.

 

[Portland2014]

The GM is inexperienced and bad, by his own admission (multiple times) in his last presser.

The coach is inexperienced and bad by the metric is was hired for - defense.

The players are inexperienced, which will mean it will take time.

The GM has consistently brought in very young players, so we haven't been "building around Lillard" in any way, shape, or form.

I don't think it's a troll thread to state the obvious - trading for 2nd rate vets (or fantasizing about top tier vets) PROBABLY isn't going to get us where we want with an older, super-highly paid vet. The only reason fans are considering it is because of loyalty, not logic... which I'm OK with. GS is at the same crossroads.

But GS won over and over again

Instead our last 10 years were mediocrity

 

[Propagandist]

Dumb thread.

You don't free up cap space if you're still over the cap.

He's not 33 already. You even implied this.

We have a bunch of threads discussing everything that could "consider this".

I actually thought me and you were both Lebron. Thanks for letting me know that not everyone is Lebron.

Stop searching for attention.

Obvious troll thread is obvious.

ASININE

Ridonculous

I'm in the keep-Dame-until-he-retires-and-beyond camp, and still I fail to see the big controversy in pretty much anything OP said. What's the freakout about? Nothing he said is even false--he got the birthday right and everything. LeBron is a symbol of durability; that's rare! We must consider Dame in all plans. Dame did not take a pay cut. His contract is HUGE. And time does fly, wowee.

 

[B-Roy]

I don't think it's unreasonable or controversial to want to trade Dame.

Whether we trade Dame or trade the pick, I'm 50/50. I just want to get good value (for Dame or the pick) for the path that we choose.

 

[Chris Craig]

The GM is inexperienced and bad, by his own admission (multiple times) in his last presser.

The coach is inexperienced and bad by the metric is was hired for - defense.

The players are inexperienced, which will mean it will take time.

The GM has consistently brought in very young players, so we haven't been "building around Lillard" in any way, shape, or form.

I don't think it's a troll thread to state the obvious - trading for 2nd rate vets (or fantasizing about top tier vets) PROBABLY isn't going to get us where we want with an older, super-highly paid vet. The only reason fans are considering it is because of loyalty, not logic... which I'm OK with. GS is at the same crossroads.

Same crossroads? How many championships did they win? The Blazers? Yeah.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Same crossroads? How many championships did they win? The Blazers? Yeah.

Their window is closing, like ours is.
It's really hard to understand. Yeah.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I'm in the keep-Dame-until-he-retires-and-beyond camp, and still I fail to see the big controversy in pretty much anything OP said. What's the freakout about? Nothing he said is even false--he got the birthday right and everything. LeBron is a symbol of durability; that's rare! We must consider Dame in all plans. Dame did not take a pay cut. His contract is HUGE. And time does fly, wowee.

The veracity of the content is irrelevant. It's the intent of the post. It fancies itself a skilled rabble-rouser, but is in fact a transparent phony.

 

[Chris Craig]

Their window is closing, like ours is.
It's really hard to understand. Yeah.

They have a very successful window so it's not as big a deal to them.

 

[Ed O]

The veracity of the content is irrelevant. It's the intent of the post. It fancies itself a skilled rabble-rouser, but is in fact a transparent phony.

I don't agree.

Maybe I don't read minds as well as some of you who want to keep Dame at all costs.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I don't agree.

Maybe I don't read minds as well as some of you who want to keep Dame at all costs.

So what are your expectations on the return for Dame?

 

[Chris Craig]

So what are your expectations on the return for Dame?

At least the return Gobert got. Maybe more.

 

[Pinwheel1]

At least the return Gobert got. Maybe more.

I don't think a precedent was necessarily set with that trade. But sure that would be something to consider if all those picks were unprotected,plus 3 young rotation players. although the Jazz only kept Kessler and the picks.

 

[Chris Craig]

I don't think a precedent was necessarily set with that trade. But sure that would be something to consider if all those picks were unprotected,plus 3 young rotation players. although the Jazz only kept Kessler and the picks.

I think a precedent was set in a way. We saw what the Suns paid for Durant. And, yeah I get Durant is better than Gobert. So is Dame.

Buy, yeah I think GMS are asking for more now. Nobody would trade for OG or Pascal because Toronto was asking too much. The asking price for players will likely die down a bit once GMs realize they are going to all get gold mine deals.

 

[wizenheimer]

So what are your expectations on the return for Dame?

I don't think some of these posters care what the return is...they just want Dame gone

 

[BlazerWookee]

I don't think some of these posters care what the return is...they just want Dame gone

And some of them just want to provoke, regardless of the situation.

 

[Chris Craig]

I don't think some of these posters care what the return is...they just want Dame gone

I think most people that want to trade...or are of the mind that we should (I'm not), believe the team will do better trading him and rebuilding, then keeping him and keep failing to build a contender. That's not a terrible reason.

 

[Chris Craig]

I don't think some of these posters care what the return is...they just want Dame gone

And some of them just want to provoke, regardless of the situation.

I don't think I have seen anyone just straight up say, they want him gone just because they want him gone.

 

[SharpesTriumph]

I don't think some of these posters care what the return is...they just want Dame gone

And some fans just want Dame to stay regardless of the return. Solid argument that both groups are stupid.

 

[wizenheimer]

And some fans just want Dame to stay regardless of the return. Solid argument that both groups are stupid.

I want Dame to stay unless he asks to be traded. If he does, the return is going to be a lot less than what people are imagining

but I'm not going to back off what I said about some posters here just wanting Dame gone.

 

[bemac]

I don't think some of these posters care what the return is...they just want Dame gone

No, just don't want to make any moves that disrupt the team currently being built. Granted, I have a short memory, but i can't remember the last time Portland had a more intriguing group of very young players. The future looks bright and the journey feels like something enjoyable to experience. Trading the future away to placate a 6'2" point guard who does not play defense and has not shown the ability to make the players around him better seems pretty unreasonable. Presenting him with the choice to be a part of what is being built seems reasonable.