Rumor Damian Lillard Would Like Blazers To Acquire Deandre Ayton

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Would You Do It and Would The Sun?

  • I would want us to do this

    Votes: 18 39.1%

  • I wouldn't want us to do this

    Votes: 19 41.3%

  • The Suns would do this

    Votes: 5 10.9%

  • The Suns would not do this

    Votes: 13 28.3%
  • Total voters
    46
Fairly-Hard said:
Kind of seems like you have gone so far into "Joe sucks" that you are fishing for ways to get out of the bog. Seriously how can all those Hypothetically Speaking statements fit into the same paragraph?

Edit- I would make this green. But i think you know i'm jabbing fun at you?
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I never do predictions, but I am willing to say, there will be a lot in here fishing for ways to get out of the "Joe Sucks" bag.
Unfortunately for them, I will remember.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
 
Fairly-Hard said:
Kind of seems like you have gone so far into "Joe sucks" that you are fishing for ways to get out of the bog. Seriously how can all those Hypothetically Speaking statements fit into the same paragraph?

Edit- I would make this green. But i think you know i'm jabbing fun at you?
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I'm just trying to make some room for hope that all of us should be able to endulge in at this moment in time while reserving my right to return to not only being dissappointed if Joe doesn't pull off some big things this summer but also pile it onto the dissappointment I still have from February. I think we all love a redemption story though and that's what I want. I want to have egg on my face and for all of Joe's words he spoke after the February trades to ring true or at least obviously be trending in that direction by the end of next month.

I definitely don't discount the possibility that Joe is a lot smarter and more imaginative than I am and can guarantee that he's more knowledgeable about the things he's tasked with.

Wade Garrett said:
Wow.....
You are almost being reasonable with Mr. C here.
Just remember, it takes two to tango. Just if it doesn't happen, doesn't mean he didn't try or want it to.
Can't praise or criticize a hypothetical, right?
Right.
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I can't praise or criticize hypotheticals but with Dame's limited window I can definitely praise or criticize how close Joe gets to his stated goals after the February trades once the chips have fallen this month and next. I can also be absolutely wrong at any time... I think I've proven that. As far as the tango goes it does take two but that's all it takes and there are a lot of dance partners out there for Joe to try and get to dance with him, so if relatively nothing happens this off season, I won't take that idiom as an excuse.
 
Wade Garrett said:
I never do predictions, but I am willing to say, there will be a lot in here fishing for ways to get out of the "Joe Sucks" bag.
Unfortunately for them, I will remember.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
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It should be really simple. I want him not to suck, so I'm in line to say I was wrong. However, I'm just not buying the ticket to that show until I see who the cast is.

A lot of hope but still a lot of skepticism.
 
Wade Garrett said:
Wow.....
You are almost being reasonable with Mr. C here.
Just remember, it takes two to tango. Just if it doesn't happen, doesn't mean he didn't try or want it to.
Can't praise or criticize a hypothetical, right?
Right.
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It's a great excuse to trot out when someone isn't able to accomplish their goal.

Thing is, that can be said about every GM in the league. And the fact is that part of the GM's job to find deals that benefit their own team and are acceptable to others'. With 29 other teams, I have difficulty believing that deals of that nature don't exist or can't be located. If our GM fails to find them, then he failed at that part of his job.
 
Until I hear it from within dames camp in some capacity I won't believe it.
 
Strenuus said:
Until I hear it from within dames camp in some capacity I won't believe it.
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nate jones has been one the most vocal fans of Ayton in nba twitter.



he has about a 100 other tweets singing his praises just from this playoffs alone.
 
cheesehoff said:
One thing I'm constantly reminded of when I read the "Dame wants an athletic center" or "Dame wants to play with Ayton" is the underlying idea that Dame doesn't want to play with Nurk. If he has made his wishes that clear, I'm not sure how Nurk will react if he's back as the starting center next year.
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...one thing that everybody should be reminded of when they read "Dame wants" or "Dame says" or "Dame thinks" is that none of it is true unless you hear it from Dame himself. Nobody else. He's proven this time and time again. All of this nonsense above is pure speculation and conjecture.
 
@Strenuus here's one more for ya.



This is about as close "dame's camp" as you get. (mind you, I don't think this means much)

Other that Fischer has mentioned in the past as guys Dame has always wanted to add to the team: Aaron Gordon, Jaylen Brown, Jerami Grant, Draymond Green.
 
illmatic99 said:
nate jones has been one the most vocal fans of Ayton in nba twitter.



he has about a 100 other tweets singing his praises just from this playoffs alone.
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That's fair. I didn't dig too deep into it to be honest.

I'm a fan of ayton. He didn't show up in big moments ala Nurk so really it's if we feel better with nurk or ayton lol.

I need to look into aytons injury stuff cause I for one am sick of oft injured centers lmao.
 
illmatic99 said:
@Strenuus here's one more for ya.



This is about as close "dame's camp" as you get. (mind you, I don't think this means much)

Other that Fischer has mentioned in the past as guys Dame has always wanted to add to the team: Aaron Gordon, Jaylen Brown.
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Gordon is blah and brown is probably not attainable.

I don't want Lavine. Eew. OG yes.
 
Strenuus said:
That's fair. I didn't dig too deep into it to be honest.

I'm a fan of ayton. He didn't show up in big moments ala Nurk so really it's if we feel better with nurk or ayton lol.

I need to look into aytons injury stuff cause I for one am sick of oft injured centers lmao.
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Ayton's longest absence came from his suspension for taking a banned substance. He's been relatively healthy so far. He would definitely be an upgrade over Nurk in many different ways, but his position is not the priority when we have gaping holes on the wing and at forward. He's a low priority target for me for those very reasons.
 
illmatic99 said:
Ayton's longest absence came from his suspension for taking a banned substance. He's been relatively healthy so far. He would definitely be an upgrade over Nurk in many different ways, but his position is not the priority when we have gaping holes on the wing and at forward. He's a low priority target for me for those very reasons.
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Agreed. I'm fine if we don't get him. We need a damn wing.
 
illmatic99 said:
@Strenuus here's one more for ya.



This is about as close "dame's camp" as you get. (mind you, I don't think this means much)

Other that Fischer has mentioned in the past as guys Dame has always wanted to add to the team: Aaron Gordon, Jaylen Brown, Jerami Grant, Draymond Green.
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wut is nate jones talking about?

sure looks like he is suggesting that Portland can add 70M in salary, and that's after hard-capping themselves with the Ayton S&T. Add 20M for Ant and Portland adds 90M to 75-80M meaning they are 10-20M over the apron...which is the hard cap line.
 
Phatguysrule said:
Need a damn good 3 and a damn good 4 to compete. And luck health wise.
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so of course the Blazers are alleged to be thinking about adding a C who might be at the bottom edge of top-10 for his position (or not) for 34M/year. At a time when the value of C's is in the toilet
 
wizenheimer said:
so of course the Blazers are alleged to be thinking about adding a C who might be at the bottom edge of top-10 for his position (or not) for 34M/year. At a time when the value of C's is in the toilet
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Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm ok with upgrading at center as long as it doesn't take away from us upgrading the 3 and 4.

I don't see any way to do that and get Ayton. But I don't think Ayton is necessary either...

Would be happy to have him though...
 
Phatguysrule said:
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm ok with upgrading at center as long as it doesn't take away from us upgrading the 3 and 4.

I don't see any way to do that and get Ayton. But I don't think Ayton is necessary either...

Would be happy to have him though...
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not at 30-35M/year. Blazers finally got free of CJ's albatross contract. Why dive back into major inflexibility?
 
illmatic99 said:
nate jones has been one the most vocal fans of Ayton in nba twitter.



he has about a 100 other tweets singing his praises just from this playoffs alone.
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I don't care what Nate Jones thinks... His player evaluations are crap.
 
Cugel said:
Ayton has All Star potential. Nurk would never get a single vote. Dame has to be helped out with all star caliber players. Look at the finals: Curry Wiggins Klay Green. Those are all nba guys. Smart Tatum Brown also all nba guys. You have to take chances. GSW took a huge chance on Wiggins and it paid off.

That said Phx would laugh at this. Why would they want Nurk?
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Has Wiggins ever been All NBA? Klay and Green weren't this year. Smart has never been All NBA. Has Brown?
 
Haakzilla said:
...one thing that everybody should be reminded of when they read "Dame wants" or "Dame says" or "Dame thinks" is that none of it is true unless you hear it from Dame himself. Nobody else. He's proven this time and time again. All of this nonsense above is pure speculation and conjecture.
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I believe Dame liked a tweet about Ayton coming here. So we did hear it from Dame himself.
 
For anybody who's making fun of the rumor did you guys saw the Instagram story by Lillard in which he quoted the news? That makes you a believer? Or isn't even enough if Lillard himself says it lol
 
wizenheimer said:
so of course the Blazers are alleged to be thinking about adding a C who might be at the bottom edge of top-10 for his position (or not) for 34M/year. At a time when the value of C's is in the toilet
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Re: value of centers, Robert Williams 3 has probably been the Celtics most impactful player in the Finals thus far. Warriors wouldn't be here without Looney. And Ayton was in the Finals just last year.
 
Portland2014 said:
For anybody who's making fun of the rumor did you guys saw the Instagram story by Lillard in which he quoted the news? That makes you a believer? Or isn't even enough if Lillard himself says it lol
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I think you missed the point with Dame. He wasn’t agreeing with the reports.
 
Damn there is some serious overrating of Nurkic in here. Ayton >>>> Nurkic all day. Assuming he gets paid fairly it’s a no brainer
 
calvin natt said:
Damn there is some serious overrating of Nurkic in here. Ayton >>>> Nurkic all day. Assuming he gets paid fairly it’s a no brainer
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Do you think Dame and Ayton alone are a contender? I think we'd have to give up Simons, and all of our expirings and trade Nurk. So we'd end up keeping 7 as well (since we'd have to renounce the expirings to make the Nurk for Ayton deal happen).

So you'd basically have Dame, Hart, Ayton, #7... And the scrubs we had last season.

Do you think that would be worth it? Seems like that could theoretically be a pretty potent team if we hit on #7... But we wouldn't have any money left over.
 
Phatguysrule said:
Do you think Dame and Ayton alone are a contender? I think we'd have to give up Simons, and all of our expirings and trade Nurk. So we'd end up keeping 7 as well (since we'd have to renounce the expirings to make the Nurk for Ayton deal happen).

So you'd basically have Dame, Hart, Ayton, #7... And the scrubs we had last season.

Do you think that would be worth it? Seems like that could theoretically be a pretty potent team if we hit on #7... But we wouldn't have any money left over.
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To be clear. As I’ve stated before- with Lillard there is no championship here. So it’s who would I rather watch. And it sure as shit isn’t Nurkic throwing half ass passes and missing layups
 
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