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e_blazer said:
I think Sly's Batum for Durant would be a good start. It'd help if we could do Matthews for LeBron James too.
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Get it done, Neil! I read that this trade was possible on the internet.
 
To trade any of our starters after the season they've played so far is in my humble opinion...not very smart. Batum scenarios have been beaten into dust..he's about the age Lillard is. Batum has by no stretch of the imagination reached his ceiling. I'm voting an emphatic....NO! Look at Deng's performance for England and Batum's for France...well, Nico is a champion. He's a great defender. That's my 2 cents on the rumor.
 
riverman said:
To trade any of our starters after the season they've played so far is in my humble opinion...not very smart. Batum scenarios have been beaten into dust..he's about the age Lillard is. Batum has by no stretch of the imagination reached his ceiling. I'm voting an emphatic....NO! Look at Deng's performance for England and Batum's for France...well, Nico is a champion. He's a great defender. That's my 2 cents on the rumor.
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Look at LMA's leap this year at age 27. We had posters here whining about his window closing soon, how he had reached his apex last year, and how he should be traded for Tristan Thompson and a few draft picks.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
Facebook will follow the same path as MySpace very soon, so no judgement here!
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Maybe, but now that Wall Street and the White House has a major stake in Facebook, that company will just continue to buy up competitors. Kudos to the Snapchat guy who turned down $3 billion from Zuckerberg, but I have a feeling he'll live to regret that decision over the next few years. I can see Facebook eventually partnering with Twitter and Google, but since all are big-time Obama supporters, don't expect a federal lawsuit against it.
 
Trading a starter for a marginal at best upgrade is just silly. Just plain silly.
 
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cleveland could have easily had

kyrie
oladipo
terrance jones
jonas
drummond

in the last 3 drafts, unbelievable
 
Snap chat dude is a moron, cash in for gods sake
 
3RA1N1AC said:
Snap chat dude is a moron, cash in for gods sake
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He's only 24. He thinks he's the next Zuckerberg. Snapchat is for teenagers and college kids, though. I agree it was idiotic, but he didn't want to accept Wall Street money for his website. He and Shawn Fanning can hang out in 10 years and talk about how awesome they were before they turned down real money.
 
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PapaG said:
Maybe, but now that Wall Street and the White House has a major stake in Facebook, that company will just continue to buy up competitors. Kudos to the Snapchat guy who turned down $3 billion from Zuckerberg, but I have a feeling he'll live to regret that decision over the next few years. I can see Facebook eventually partnering with Twitter and Google, but since all are big-time Obama supporters, don't expect a federal lawsuit against it.
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I don't think Google will do that. Facebook is nothing compared to Google.
 
PapaG said:
He's only 26. He thinks he's the next Zuckerberg. Snapchat is for teenagers and college kids, though. I agree it was idiotic, but he didn't want to accept Wall Street money for his website. He and Shawn Fanning can hang out in 10 years and talk about how awesome they were before they turned down real money.
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i just think you cash in on the stupid idea before you end up wiith nothing, its a fucking dick pic app :lol:
 
riverman said:
To trade any of our starters after the season they've played so far is in my humble opinion...not very smart. Batum scenarios have been beaten into dust..he's about the age Lillard is. Batum has by no stretch of the imagination reached his ceiling. I'm voting an emphatic....NO! Look at Deng's performance for England and Batum's for France...well, Nico is a champion. He's a great defender. That's my 2 cents on the rumor.
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Batum is a champion? Not in the NBA he's not.
 
3RA1N1AC said:
i just think you cash in on the stupid idea before you end up wiith nothing
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Yup - take the money and use it to do something real. That's what Elon Musk did - he's actually doing world-changing things with the money he got for Paypal.
 
That link said it was an all cash offer...wow, the fucking balls on that guy, goodluck to him I guess
 
So I should be looking at snap chat for trade rumors instead of Oregonlive and facebook?!?
 
oldmangrouch said:
Hmmmm. NBA trades made on the basis of comparing dong pics. Might create a whole new fan base.
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Greg Oden should create a dong shot/trade rumor site. It would net him more money than whatever is left of his NBA career will bring him.
 
bemac said:
Better at what? Statistically, nowhere to be found. Sure, he does take more shots a game than Batum, so has higher point total. Not sure those shots are available here.

Defensively? No. Definitely not in play making. 3pt shooting? Nope.

I can't find anything.
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Deng is a much better defender by a significant margin
 
My $.02

Deng is very consistent. What you see him average is pretty much what he scores or rebounds every game.

Deng absolutely can get you a game with 10 assists. He's done it. I wouldn't look at this year as an example of his skills. He's never been a primary scorer, but played that role for the Bulls.

Deng can shoot the 3, but he scores a lot at the rim. If you're living and dying by the 3, he's something of an antidote for that.

Deng is an outright lockdown defender. When a player would get hot against the Bulls, Thibs would switch Deng onto him and he'd disappear. He'd guard the quickest of PGs and was the man who guarded LeBron. His defense might be a key consideration for trading for him, if you think defense wins championships. His defense doesn't show up in the stats.

I believe the odds Lu would sign with the Blazers over the summer are near 100%. Nobody can pay him as much or for as many years but the team that has his contract. Why would he want to leave a contender? Where is he going to go? LA sucks, NY sucks, does anyone have the cap space who'd matter to him?

I think he's a PF playing SF. He has the size of Ibaka or Taj Gibson. He's a very strong rebounder for a SF. He blocks shots with the game on the line, but not in volume.

He's an ironman. He's been leader or near the lead in minutes played.
 
Denny Crane said:
My $.02

Deng is very consistent. What you see him average is pretty much what he scores or rebounds every game.

Deng absolutely can get you a game with 10 assists. He's done it. I wouldn't look at this year as an example of his skills. He's never been a primary scorer, but played that role for the Bulls.

Deng can shoot the 3, but he scores a lot at the rim. If you're living and dying by the 3, he's something of an antidote for that.

Deng is an outright lockdown defender. When a player would get hot against the Bulls, Thibs would switch Deng onto him and he'd disappear. He'd guard the quickest of PGs and was the man who guarded LeBron. His defense might be a key consideration for trading for him, if you think defense wins championships. His defense doesn't show up in the stats.

I believe the odds Lu would sign with the Blazers over the summer are near 100%. Nobody can pay him as much or for as many years but the team that has his contract. Why would he want to leave a contender? Where is he going to go? LA sucks, NY sucks, does anyone have the cap space who'd matter to him?

I think he's a PF playing SF. He has the size of Ibaka or Taj Gibson. He's a very strong rebounder for a SF. He blocks shots with the game on the line, but not in volume.

He's an ironman. He's been leader or near the lead in minutes played.
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You are a Bulls fan Denny? I like Deng, but not as much as Nico.
 
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