Would you trade for Lebron?

[Mediocre Man]

Question for all of you. This was asked as a question on a local radio station here in Houston, and thought it might be a fun one to ask people here.

If it was offered, Would you trade Lillard, Aldridge and Batum for James?

 

[Pinwheel1]

Hmmm, how long would his contact be? 4-5 years? Yes
Wes, Cj
Lebron, Wright, Claver
Trob, Joel Freeland
Robin, Leonard
FA, Mo

It's a player away.......and players would want to come. LeBron is still the best in the world....

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Thank God it would not happen but YES, YES I would. I feel dirty now.

 

[barfo]

I would trade Leonard for LeBron.

Then I'd trade LeBron for someone else.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

James can refuse any trade. He would say no that if the Blazers were gutted that badly. Aldridge & Batum for Lebron yes.

 

[RR7]

The difficult part to me is who you bring in afterwards. If Lebron' new deal starts at about 21 million, I think that leaves you with roughly 10 million in cap space. With no PG and no PF.
?/McCollum
Wesley/Barton/Crabbe
James/
Robinson/Claver
Rolo/Freeland/Leonard. Yes, James is the best player in the world. But that's not a good team there. It's Cleveland level Lebron team, but, in the west instead of the east. He's got Wade nd Bosh, and he's down 3-1 to the Spurs right now.
10 million isn't likely enough to steal away Bledsoe from PHX as a RFA. Maybe you give 6-7 to Gasol, and keep Mo around,
Mo/Wesley/James/Gasol/Rolo is solid.
But McCollum/Barton/Robinson as your top 3 off the bench isn't too exciting.

 

[BigGameDamian]

Hmmm, how long would his contact be? 4-5 years? Yes
Wes, Cj
Lebron, Wright, Claver
Trob, Joel Freeland
Robin, Leonard
FA, Mo

It's a player away.......and players would want to come. LeBron is still the best in the world....

All three players are untouchable. You'd have to find a way to trade our junk and make James a backup.

 

[Draco]

Lebron will be a free agent and isn't eligible to be traded.

I think it's more likely we sign LeBron for the minimum. He makes $70 million a year off endorsements and wants to be on a super team. He's not going to any team that trades away their two, or three, best players.

 

[Draco]

If you put a 30 year old tired LeBron on this team in place of Dame LMA and Nic I don't think we make the playoffs. If we do he's so worn out the team gets whipped in the first round. This is probably the worst off-season idea I've heard.

 

[Pinwheel1]

No one is suggesting this would or ever could occur. It is strictly hypothetical. Obviously it is not realistic

 

[barfo]

I would trade Leonard for LeBron.

James can refuse any trade. He would say no that if the Blazers were gutted that badly.

barfo

 

[Strenuus]

LMA and Batum I'd do it, but not for Lillard.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Question for all of you. This was asked as a question on a local radio station here in Houston, and thought it might be a fun one to ask people here.

If it was offered, Would you trade Lillard, Aldridge and Batum for James?

All three of them? We'd be just as bad as Cleveland when James was there! Yes, we'd have the best player in the game, but obviously that means jack when he doesn't have great players around him to bail him out when he doesn't get enough potassium.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

It wouldn't work.

Today's stars put lifestyle over winning.

Climate is the biggest factor with today's free-agents.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

All three players are untouchable. You'd have to find a way to trade our junk and make James a backup.

lol

 

[OneLifeToLive]

Lebron will be a free agent and isn't eligible to be traded.

I think it's more likely we sign LeBron for the minimum. He makes $70 million a year off endorsements and wants to be on a super team. He's not going to any team that trades away their two, or three, best players.

Which means he will probably be more than willing to accept less to bring in Melo. Will the other two?

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

All three players are untouchable. You'd have to find a way to trade our junk and make James a backup.

A new winner for dumbest post in S2 history.

 

[OneLifeToLive]

A new winner for dumbest post in S2 history.

Meh. He's just venting his frustrations over the forums ignorance.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Not all 3 id probably trade any pair out of the 3 with lillard being my least favorite piece to lose followed closely by lamarcus. We could get james to sign in portland if all the freeloading hippies would quit raising state taxes. Then he could sign a Nike deal and the 2 shoe companies could fight over which player gets the most commercials lillard or james. They could donate billions to the franchise and we could sign the western all star team minus griffin, kobe, and harden because they dont deserve to ever wear a blazer uniform.

Lillard/paul/parker
curry/wes
james/durrant/batum
lma/love/Dirk
MyLe/rolo/Drummond

 

[BBert]

All three of them? We'd be just as bad as Cleveland when James was there! Yes, we'd have the best player in the game, but obviously that means jack when he doesn't have great players around him to bail him out when he doesn't get enough potassium.

Just as bad? We'd be worse. So he would refuse. And so would I.

 

[BBert]

A new winner for dumbest post in S2 history.

So he beat his old record! Nice!

 

[PapaG]

Dumbest thread of the offseason thus far. Houston sports radio must be awful.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

So he beat his old record! Nice!

I would have thought that too, but I had just read the Spurs Heat finals thread and saw this one......

I think that, if the Spurs didn't exist, it could have been a Blazers/Miami finals, and it would have gone 7 games. I stand by my insane assertion the the Spurs this year would have stopped any of the Jordan championship teams. They're on a mission.

 

[Mediocre Man]

the only thing dumb about the thread is your post, papa.

Ad for some others, this is strictly hypothetical. Basically the question is if fans think LeBron is worth your 3 best players.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I would have thought that too, but I had just read the Spurs Heat finals thread and saw this one......

I'm flattered.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

the only thing dumb about the thread is your post, papa.

Ad for some others, this is strictly hypothetical. Basically the question is if fans think LeBron is worth your 3 best players.

Then no. And it would be a very hard decision for our top 2. Now if you could package lma with a scrub or decent player like matthews and scrubs. Absolutely.

 

[Pinwheel1]

I thought it was an interesting question. The reason I qualified my answer to include a contract for 4-5 years is because he pretty much guarantees we would make the finals. He did it in Cleveland for gods sake with crap. I am not a LeBron fan, but I respect him as the greatest basketball player in the world right now. A player that other good players want to play with because of his unselfish play on the floor.

I usually hate hypothetical questions (especially the ones that slam our current players) but it is interesting to think about how much you would give up to get him. The remaining players, plus the right MLE FA, would be just as talented as his Cleveland teams that won around 60. But the key of course is who would look to join him after a year. I think that list would be decent.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

LeBron made it to the finals in the Leastern Conference with way more Good Mo than we ever got last season. Our bench is like an episode of Hoarders, just a bunch of junk leaned up against a wall. You trade LMA, Batum, and Lillard, and you're basically starting:

Barton, Matthews, LeBron, Robinson, and Lopez.

I respect LeBron's status as the greatest active player, but dang that's rough. You basically have to play Bron at the point again. You have to hope TRob blossoms under LeBron, and playing next to Robin. It seems pretty bonkers to me. But I'm biased, and holder of the dumbest post in S2 history.

 

[Pinwheel1]

LeBron made it to the finals in the Leastern Conference with way more Good Mo than we ever got last season. Our bench is like an episode of Hoarders, just a bunch of junk leaned up against a wall. You trade LMA, Batum, and Lillard, and you're basically starting:

Barton, Matthews, LeBron, Robinson, and Lopez.

Yeah I probably would not do it, but damn it would be tempting.........We could still add someone like Sessions or Vasquez or Livingston, or even Stuckey this year with the MLE. Has James ever played with a real PG? Chalmers has sucked in the playoffs this year, but he would even be an option since he has played with him.

Again this is purely hypothetical, and I have been against starting over as a general philosophy and still am. (With Rookies) But if you were ever going to do it, you would do it with the best player in the world. I would say he would make us contenders within two years with his ability to attract other good players to the team. Rookies don't carry that kind of weight, but super stars do. Unless you are Kobe and no one wants to play with you.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I appreciate the opportunity to have a thought exercise.

And man, I hope the Lakers get what's coming to them. Kobe, Love, and Melo would be hilariously bad.