Take pity on Dame and trade him

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TBpup said:
True....but he knows he has a massive audience and knows what the reaction to something like this will be. He is smart and doesn't just randomly post stuff like this on a whim.
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We literally signed all his guys... Unless we decide we want to suddenly duck the tax or something, that kinda attitude from dame is unjustified
 
Mediocre Man said:
They really should have moved him. We are not winning with him. AS GREAT AS HE IS
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Eventually the Blazers will.

He will be worth more when he comes back strong after this surgery and plays at even another level we haven't seen.
 
Mediocre Man said:
They really should have moved him. We are not winning with him. AS GREAT AS HE IS
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Maybe they floated it with a KD available...we'll never know. I do no believe we are not winning with him...I think we're one piece away from winning with him..he's that great.
 
Somebody said the bridge pictured in his post is the Brooklyn Bridge. A shot at KD?
 
What did the tweet say? Did anyone take a picture?
 
We are light years away from competing with this roster with Dame. We honestly should take pitty trade and rebuild. Really wish we got Duren instead of Grant. We are just being set up for disappointment with Dame.
 
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Lillard just shared this story on his IG lol
 

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Lillard just shared this story on his IG lol
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Even if we will be hard capped, it is still possible to make deals. NOP acquired CJ after they were hard-capped. If this is what Dame really wants (2 separate IG posts today), how could it be done? Cap gurus like @hoopsjock and anyone else who can definitively specify how this could happen ....I'm talking to you.
 
illmatic99 said:
He needs a refresher on the hard cap. Feel bad for him tbh. Putting himself out there to recruit when it is almost completely impossible
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You would think he would have had enough discussions with Joe to know if it was possible. Has Joe outlined a way it could happen?
 
illmatic99 said:
He needs a refresher on the hard cap. Feel bad for him tbh. Putting himself out there to recruit when it is almost completely impossible
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Don’t think he’s actively recruiting. But either way, he better hope the Durant trade gets postponed until the season starts.
 
TBpup said:
Even if we will be hard capped, it is still possible to make deals. NOP acquired CJ after they were hard-capped. If this is what Dame really wants (2 separate IG posts today), how could it be done? Cap gurus like @hoopsjock and anyone else who can definitively specify how this could happen ....I'm talking to you.
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Definitely no cap guru but the gist is this.

We effectively cant use the Bledsoe 19 mil to bring equal salary back so to make up for Durants 44 mil, we would have to trade like 5 players. And after acquiring KD, we would not have enough room under the apron to sign minimum deals to meet the minimum roster requirement.
 
B-Roy said:
Don’t think he’s actively recruiting. But either way, he better hope the Durant trade gets postponed until the season starts.
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I just hope he doesnt spiral when the deal is announced.
 
illmatic99 said:
He needs a refresher on the hard cap. Feel bad for him tbh. Putting himself out there to recruit when it is almost completely impossible
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Technically Portland could renege on GPII & get the deal done.
Obviously there are some ramifications for that
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Technically Portland could renege on GPII & get the deal done.
Obviously there are some ramifications for that
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that would blacklist us from ever signing a FA again. you know portland has reached out to BK already. We heard reports of it last week. They only went forward with the rest of their plan after getting rejected.

someone needs to communicate that to dame.

or maybe... he's doing this to make it seem like he's trying to recruit, but the team didn't help him land KD, so he has grounds to leave now. lol, 5d chess.
 
TBpup said:
Even if we will be hard capped, it is still possible to make deals. NOP acquired CJ after they were hard-capped. If this is what Dame really wants (2 separate IG posts today), how could it be done? Cap gurus like @hoopsjock and anyone else who can definitively specify how this could happen ....I'm talking to you.
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Pels had enough space below the cap to make the deals. Right now Portland is projected to be ~$4M under.

The easiest solution would be to go back to GPII & tell him we can only pay the tax-MLE. It would be a black eye for Portland's reputation, but it would allow Bledsoe + Hart to e included in a Durant trade
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Pels had enough space below the cap to make the deals. Right now Portland is projected to be ~$4M under.

The easiest solution would be to go back to GPII & tell him we can only pay the tax-MLE. It would be a black eye for Portland's reputation, but it would allow Bledsoe + Hart to e included in a Durant trade
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That was one of the biggest issues I had with the GP2 signing. Nice piece, but unless something changed, there aren't many minutes for him and it hard-capped us. Didn't seem worth the cap bind it put us in.
 
Maybe just maybe Kevin Durant doesn’t want to come to Portland and he’s let it be known.
 
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