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
Cot Damn. Er'time i see this thread i think it's a new one.
 
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Ant, Keon, Nas for Ayton

3, Nurk menage a trade for Zion

Listen, IF Zion can stay healthy

Dame
Shaedon
Grant
Zion
Ayton

Thybulle
Reddish
free agents

That COULD be a very good team. Would literally need to add nothing but defense and rebounders in free agency

not sure if Portland has the salary to do all that, but maybe? It would have to happen after July 1 because of Zion's PPP right now

Zion + Ayton = 66M in salary

66M/1.25 = 52.8M....Blazers would have to come up with that much outgoing salary:

Anfernee Simons $24,107,143
Jusuf Nurkić $16,875,000
Nassir Little $6,250,000
Kevin Knox $3,000,000
Keon Johnson $2,808,720

about 53M!

it would have to be a 3 team trade so the Blazers can aggregate all the salaries and throw a blanket over the deal
 
I'm still extremely confused about how Zion's salary can be traded.

?

right now, he's poison pill and there's an almost insurmountable differential in trade credit imposed by the poison pill. But that vanished after July 1 and then he's just a 33.5M salary...on a fat ass injury magnet
 
?

right now, he's poison pill and there's an almost insurmountable differential in trade credit imposed by the poison pill. But that vanished after July 1 and then he's just a 33.5M salary...on a fat ass injury magnet

Gotcha. So if we were gonna trade for him, it would be after 7/1.
 
Gotcha. So if we were gonna trade for him, it would be after 7/1.

yeah, it would have to be. I'm doing this from memory but I think there's a differential between the credit the Pels would get and the debit Porland would receive of 21M. That's a huge differential and Portland does not have nearly enough filler to plug that hole
 
not sure if Portland has the salary to do all that, but maybe? It would have to happen after July 1 because of Zion's PPP right now

Zion + Ayton = 66M in salary

66M/1.25 = 52.8M....Blazers would have to come up with that much outgoing salary:

Anfernee Simons $24,107,143
Jusuf Nurkić $16,875,000
Nassir Little $6,250,000
Kevin Knox $3,000,000
Keon Johnson $2,808,720

about 53M!

it would have to be a 3 team trade so the Blazers can aggregate all the salaries and throw a blanket over the deal
Thanks for the breakdown. IF and when that team came together, they’d be good. Still hoping for Miller
 
Thanks for the breakdown. IF and when that team came together, they’d be good. Still hoping for Miller

we don't agree on Dame but we do agree on not trading the pick and my thinking is that Miller would be the best outcome for that pick
 
I think Portland keeping the pick is not the reason Dame would ask out, if he even does

I think there's still a world where we keep the pick and still add enough talent to keep Dame happy.......... but that's assuming Joe can actually make some good trades.
 
I know of two offers. Both crap

I also know of four deals we proposed. Not crap. As I said in another thread, they are trying. Who knows what they end up with though

Let me guess.....

Bulls (LaVine)

Raptors (OG)
 

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I hate the Warriors.
 
I can believe front offices are fishing. But for god-sakes, you need to use the right bait. Kuminga for #3 is like trying catch a marlin using a nightcrawler

To be fair, this is the team that drafted Wiseman at 2 and then dumped him a few years later.
 
Just to fuck with them Joe should have said "sure let's do Kaminga for 3"
 
I think if they take Miller, Dame will ask out, and we’ll get less
I think what we will get is whoever the Nets draft at 21 and/or 22, Claxton and the expirings of McConnell and Harris along with some (2 or 3) future firsts. They'll take Dame and Nurk. I don't know if it will come to that but if we do draft Miller at 3 I think it will be a very hard sell to Dame. Not cashing in that very valuable chip for a player ready to play their best NBA ball right now while we know Dame is would have to be pretty fucking frustrating for Dame.
 
I think what we will get is whoever the Nets draft at 21 and/or 22, Claxton and the expirings of McConnell and Harris along with some (2 or 3) future firsts. They'll take Dame and Nurk. I don't know if it will come to that but if we do draft Miller at 3 I think it will be a very hard sell to Dame. Not cashing in that very valuable chip for a player ready to play their best NBA ball right now while we know Dame is would have to be pretty fucking frustrating for Dame.
Sharpe
Scoot/Miller
Claxton
All those picks (Brooklyn has a ton)

Great start to a rebuild. Really great start
 
Sharpe
Scoot/Miller
Claxton
All those picks (Brooklyn has a ton)

Great start to a rebuild. Really great start
It's not an ideal situation for me because I want Dame to play every game of his career for our team but if we can't get a huge return for Ant and pick 3 then we really should move on and so should Dame.
 

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