Agree he is not worth a lottery pick. But for Milwaukees pick I think he is. He gives Dame someone he wants next year, and he gives a rookie time to develop. I say get both unless the bidding gets too high for him. But for the reason you stated....it shouldn't.
This max deal bullshit is getting so tired. The confirmed report for his asking price... not the price he's going to settle for but his asking price is 112M over 4 seasons... that's 90M less than a four year max deal would be for someone who was drafted when he was. The dude is not asking for max money. He's not even asking for CJ McCollum money and that's just what he was asking for to extend in Detroit. So to think that we could get him, if this is a preferred destination of his, for less than his asking price and a deal that started around 24M, is not a stretch.
Outside Dame, what Blazer is more dependable?
Why is "trading back" for Grant ok? It's still giving up the Blazers best asset outside DameSimons for a worse asset.
If we have a target further back I don't have as big of a problem with it. If the mission is to build a contender around Dame as soon as possible and they think that Dame, Ant and Grant are a core for doing that then they have to add complementary pieces to them. Don't get me wrong, if we're going to acquire Jerami Grant using the TPE, then I think the Pistons should have to settle for pick 36 and the Bucks 2025 FRP but when someone posts some shit about 7 for Grant straight up, I think maybe trading back and at least drafting one guy with untapped potential along with getting Grant sounds better.
Detroit would agree to that so fast. Hellz no!
Moving Simons for a role player at another position makes no sense. Simons has star potential.
After what he showed last year, I don't know why any Blazer fan wouldn't embrace the idea of him being the lead of their offensive attack.
I agree about Simons but it appears we have two different timelines going, the Dame timeline and the Ant timeline. I would rather go the Ant timeline but if management is dead set on winning with Dame I can see Ant being traded, we don’t exactly have tons of players other teams find valuable. The only way we are upgrading our front court is by trading some combination of Ant, Nas, #7 and TPEs. For the record I don’t think Ant will be traded and I wasn’t pushing for it.
Probably if it meant we were guaranteed Keegan at 5.
Why on earth would that be? Giannis will turn 30 that season and is under contract. He'll likely be the best player in the league. Jrue has an option for that season that I doubt he turns down unless he's been extended. Also, that team's management has done a great job building a contender so there's no reason to think that in three seasons they're going to let that slip away. That pick seems very likely to be in the high twenties.
Jrue will be 35 and possibly retired. Middleton will be 33 and has been having knee issues... new knees don't grow on trees. The great job the Bucks management has done building a contender has nothing coming up in the pipeline to replace their 2nd and 3rd best players. I see Giannis likely forcing his way out and the Bucks returning to be Milwaukee once their window to compete starts shutting... that might be sooner then later.
Suggestions like these are what get people all butt hurt when an actual deal takes place. Why would Detroit trade down to swap grant for little? Gimme a fucking break.
I wouldn’t trade Nas to trade up. DET likely doesn’t want Nas in a trade down with Cunningham and Bey already there.
