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
Bingo Bango said:
I hate LeBron James, but you’re looking at this the wrong way. NBA titles are extremely hard to come by in Portland. We haven’t won one in 45 years. If trading for a superstar like James can get you that title, you do in a heartbeat. You do it yesterday. Who cares if you don’t win another title for 10 years? Who cares if you’re a mediocre team for a long time? Celebrating a title makes it all worth it. You worry about rebuilding later. The only reason Portland tanked last year was because they’ve never been able to get a player like James to come to Portland.
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True, but like you said we’ve been competitive for many seasons since then; and Free-Agents have been hard to come by here too. Which is reason 1 why I vote to keep Sharpe, Simons, and our young roster.

It’s still an if and not a guarantee it would work out. Too big of an if.

If this ever happened (LBJ to Portland with Dame) then I think yesterday would have been the day to do it. I just don’t think the Lakers wanted CJ. I think it might be unlikely that we ever see LBJ traded to any team.
 
PDXFonz said:
True, but like you said we’ve been competitive for many seasons since then; and Free-Agents have been hard to come by here too. Which is reason 1 why I vote to keep Sharpe, Simons, and our young roster.

It’s still an if and not a guarantee it would work out. Too big of an if.

If this ever happened (LBJ to Portland with Dame) then I think yesterday would have been the day to do it. I just don’t think the Lakers wanted CJ. I think it might be unlikely that we ever see LBJ traded to any team.
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There is an Aesope’s fable about a dog with a steak in his mouth on the edge of a dock staring down into the water at his reflection.
The steak is clearly bigger in the dog’s eye. So he drops the one in his mouth to bite into the larger one. All the while the real steak drops and sinks into the water, leaving the dog with nothing at all.
 
Wade Garrett said:
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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Fully agree with this. Plus, any trade for Lebron right now is hearsay, they’re not trading Bron. There should be a thread called “Should we draft Bronny for Lebron” cause that’s something I’d be more interested in.

Lebron is such a good basketball mind that I’d consider (potentially) drafting Bronny out of his draft range to get, but not good enough at 40+ that I’d give up the next 10+ years of my future star backcourt for.
 
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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While I get the sentiment, Lesuperteam is not the player he once was. Still very good, but him and Dame aren’t winning a title
 
KSF-ERIC said:
Don’t be so sure. He had AD last season and couldn’t even make the PLAY IN. LeBron would not guarantee a title and then our future is dead. Terrible trade. He’s also at an age where he could suffer a career ending injury.
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Short attention span. Seriously. You bring LeBron in with the expectation he will lose interest after a couple of seasons.....which would be all we were looking for.
 
Mediocre Man said:
While I get the sentiment, Lesuperteam is not the player he once was. Still very good, but him and Dame aren’t winning a title
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I don't want the 90% of you bitching and moaning when this team finishes as the 7 seed and is shown the door in the first round again. I totally understand enjoying the ride and the process, and this is probably the last place on earth to ask for a rational take on the Blazers, but do you really think this is a championship level roster? I understand trading for Lebron doesn't guarantee anything and the guy isn't the player he once was, but his BBIQ is off the charts and he's still a guy that would instantly make everyone on the roster better. Of course there is a risk involved that he would get hurt, but there's an even bigger risk the Blazers waste what's left of Dame's prime waiting for Sharpe to possibly become a superstar.

(Yes I get this is all an exercise to stupidity as no chance in hell LA trades him but fun to banter)
 
bigbailes said:
I don't want the 90% of you bitching and moaning when this team finishes as the 7 seed and is shown the door in the first round again. I totally understand enjoying the ride and the process, and this is probably the last place on earth to ask for a rational take on the Blazers, but do you really think this is a championship level roster?
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I don't. But then again, I don't know. I don't know if Hart averaging 10 rpg is sustainable. I don't know if Grant is happy with his 3rd-option-but-still-20ppg status. I don't know if Sharpe/Nas/Winslow are going to continue to be the best set of bench wings we've had here in decades, and if GP2 will strengthen that even further. I don't know if this strong defensive start can continue. I don't know if the rest of the league will get film on us and adjust and take us down a peg or three. I don't know if we can count on Nurk and Grant and Nas and JW et al. to remain healthy enough throughout the season. There's a lot that I just don't know.

What I do know is that I've seen things from this squad over the first 4 games that I feel like I haven't seen before in a Dame-centric team, and it gives me more hope and confidence in the Blazers than I've had in a long time.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
I don't. But then again, I don't know. I don't know if Hart averaging 10 rpg is sustainable. I don't know if Grant is happy with his 3rd-option-but-still-20ppg status. I don't know if Sharpe/Nas/Winslow are going to continue to be the best set of bench wings we've had here in decades, and if GP2 will strengthen that even further. I don't know if this strong defensive start can continue. I don't know if the rest of the league will get film on us and adjust and take us down a peg or three. I don't know if we can count on Nurk and Grant and Nas and JW et al. to remain healthy enough throughout the season. There's a lot that I just don't know.

What I do know is that I've seen things from this squad over the first 4 games that I feel like I haven't seen before in a Dame-centric team, and it gives me more hope and confidence in the Blazers than I've had in a long time.
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This is the most excited Ive been about the team since we drafted Oden before his injury. This is our best start since 1999. Our defense is by far the best its been since that brief window Oden was healthy and Id argue its much better at a team defense level. We have arguably the most clutch player in NBA history fully healthy. We have two young talents in Ant and Sharpe who have almost unlimited upside. Our bench is strong and deep at the wing and guard. We have the most hard nosed blazer since Buck Williams in Hart. Im not blowing that up for a few percentage point bump (maybe) by mortgaging the future for an aging LeBron.
 
Wade Garrett said:
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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Well said.

:cheers:
 
BigGameDamian said:
https://www.blazersedge.com/platfor...land-trail-blazers-los-angeles-lakers-2022-23

LeBron James to the Trail Blazers: A Live Possibility?

Could Portland pull off a dream deal?
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We could send all of these pieces to the Lakers but we would then need to sign two Centers (one of which would start) and another player. I actually think Ant, Josh, GP2 and AD would give the Lakers a much more competitive roster than they currently have but that would also involve trading Russ and future firsts to Indy for Heild and Turner.
 
BigGameDamian said:
https://www.blazersedge.com/platfor...land-trail-blazers-los-angeles-lakers-2022-23

LeBron James to the Trail Blazers: A Live Possibility?

Could Portland pull off a dream deal?
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