Trade Idea would you trade ant & sharpe for lebron

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would you do it

  • yes

    Votes: 5 8.2%

  • no

    Votes: 56 91.8%
  • Total voters
    61
I would assume those who have always said this game is about trying to win a championship and nothing else matters, would say yes. LeBron would increase the odds of us winning a title (though we wouldn't be the favorites).

I'm in the camp of wanting a longer-term competitive team and avoid the 4-5 stretches of being awful. For that reason, I say no.
 
Mr. Robot said:
i know man, but come playoff time , hell be ready (if they get there)

guy is an absolute animal
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Used to be. He's in his 20th year for fucks sake.

Not even sure why I'm debating this...this isn't the middle of the off season!
 
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oldmangrouch said:
Nothing will guarantee a ring. Any approach to winning a title can fail - but not all have the possibility of success.
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I do not see that as anymore of a possibility than grooming what we have now. But lbj severely crimps our future.
Ant/Sharpe/Dame could be lethal in a couple years.
Shiiit. By end of the season even!
 
Mediocre Man said:
Who voted yes?
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Raises hand.

A trade like this means you have a chance to win a title in the next couple of seasons, followed by a painful rebuild. You are better off in the short-term, while being at least marginally worse off in the long-term. There is no guarantee you win a title, but there is also no guarantee Simons and Sharpe become the kind of stars that could lead to success down the road. If you really have absolute faith in Simons&Sharpe becoming that great, then you would trade Dame and build around them.

OTOH, if the calculated risk pays off - that banner hangs in the rafter as long as the team exists.
 
I would, he the Blazers had LBJ and someone else had Ant and Sharpe.
 
If this were LeBron from 3 years ago, immediately yes.

But LeBron has missed significant time due to injury the past 2 seasons. No matter how much he invests in his body, Father Time will always win. For this reason only, I say no.
 
BlazerBender said:
I do not see that as anymore of a possibility than grooming what we have now. But lbj severely crimps our future.
Ant/Sharpe/Dame could be lethal in a couple years.
Shiiit. By end of the season even!
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Yup. Plus absolutely ZERO point to bringing him here if he doesn’t want to be here. If he wanted to be out of LA, he wouldn’t have extended for two more years.
 
bigbailes said:
Says basically everyone not on a Blazers message board ... major improvement still doesn't put them on the 1st tier of teams. I get everyone is hyped by a 4-0 start but if you get the chance to make a real deal and put yourself in that conversation, you do it. This would be like adding Pippen to that 2000 team.
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Sorry my man, but this is just so wrong on soooo many levels.!!!
LOL.
(41-5).
(46-5).
 
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oldmangrouch said:
Nothing will guarantee a ring. Any approach to winning a title can fail - but not all have the possibility of success.
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May i ask what possibility lacks in keeping them vs trading for a Lebron?
If you KNOW their ceiling then that is one thing. But then you would have to also KNOW LBJ will remain healthy and dominate.
I don't see that as any higher of a chance than our core growing and contending.
 
oldmangrouch said:
Raises hand.

A trade like this means you have a chance to win a title in the next couple of seasons, followed by a painful rebuild. You are better off in the short-term, while being at least marginally worse off in the long-term. There is no guarantee you win a title, but there is also no guarantee Simons and Sharpe become the kind of stars that could lead to success down the road. If you really have absolute faith in Simons&Sharpe becoming that great, then you would trade Dame and build around them.

OTOH, if the calculated risk pays off - that banner hangs in the rafter as long as the team exists.
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Simons and Sharpe sounds like a law firm.
 
ABM said:
Simons and Sharpe sounds like a law firm.
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Simons & Sharpe Ralph Lawler Law firm

“It’s the law!”

Edit: Dude only missed 3 games in his 40 year career. I know some people weren’t Lawler fans, but he was probably my favorite non-MB/MR announcer.
 
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All this talk of "titles" "championships"...I get it.
It is the ultimate goal.
But, as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: "Life is a journey, not a destination."
Four games in, I'm havin' a blast with this team, and I am not alone.
Ol' Ralph was on to something.
Trading Anfernee and Shaedon for LBJ, cheapens (ruins?) the journey, for me, anyway.
 
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