My Trailblazer, George Jefferson fool proof plan...version 2

[Mediocre Man]

Blazers trade Aldridge to Cavs for Thompson, Walton and unprotected 2013 1st. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=br4mvq4

Blazers trade Matthews to the Bucks for Gooden Harris and a top 3 protected 1st

Portland probably finishes top 5 with this roster. Blazers draft Gobert and Smart

Blazers sign Tyreke Evans, Carey Brewer and Jose Calderon as FA's

Lillard/Calderon
Evans/Barton/Smart
Batum/Harris/Brewer
Hickson/Thompson
Leonard/Gobert

 

[Nikolokolus]

I guess it might be an OK team given time ... maybe?

Certainly better than what we've got now.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Blazers trade Aldridge to Cavs for Thompson, Walton and unprotected 2013 1st. http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=br4mvq4

Blazers trade Matthews to the Bucks for Gooden Harris and a top 3 protected 1st

Portland probably finishes top 5 with this roster. Blazers draft Gobert and Smart

Blazers sign Tyreke Evans, Carey Brewer and Jose Calderon as FA's

Lillard/Calderon
Evans/Barton/Smart
Batum/Harris/Brewer
Hickson/Thompson
Leonard/Gobert

I have an equally plausible idea....

Portland trades for Dwight Howard, Lebron James, Derron Williams, Chris Paul and obtains the top 4 picks in the draft.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

so trade lamarcus for 3 raw backups who might be good someday or might be total garbage

interesting

 

[HailBlazers]

 

[HomerLovesKoolAid]

This makes me want to beat on Weezy.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'd think that you'd need to get back 3 things for LMA:

1) some kind of serviceable big going forward. Doesn't need to be a young stud, necessarily, depending on the other parts.
2) another top 7 rotation player (preferably on a rookie deal, still)
3) lotto pick either this year or next year or multiple firsts farther out.
additionally, you have to think about LMA's feelings on this. I don't think that you're going to get him to go to the Kings or Bucks or something.

There aren't a lot of fits for those parameters. As I said before, something like:
HOU Asik/Jones/2016 1st/2018 1st
CHI Boozer or Noah)/one of their young guys like Teague or Butler/Mirotic/ CHA2013 1st (top 12, then top 10, then top 8, then unprotected in 2016), 1 or 2 future CHI picks (probably late 1sts)
DEN Favors/NYK2014 1st/DEN20161st
OKC Ibaka/TOR2013 1st (has to be consummated after the draft this summer)
UTH Millsap (or Jefferson)/Hayward/GSW2013 1st (top 6 protected)
GSW Lee (or Bogut)/Thompson, GSW 2016/18 1st

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Thread title should be: My Trailblazer, David Kahn fool proof plan...version 2

 

[RR7]

terrible. Don't HATE the Matthews deal, Harris is definitely intriguing. As well as a pick. But like was mentioned, you added 1 new starter to the roster in Evans, who we can pursue in free agency without any of these moves. And otherwise, you traded a top 5 PF to improve our bench. No thanks. I await version 2.