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One Brow said:
We don't need to. Westbrook comes off the books, and we can absorb a large portion of what Lillard makes with no compensation on salary.
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This. We actually could absorb his entire contract if we wanted to. If Clarkson signs somewhere else and include Sexton in the deal we could still have max cap space after the trade.
 
YoungJefe said:
What incentive do the Blazers have to trade away their franchise player unless they're getting back a kings ransom that includes 1-2 good young players and multiple FRPs?

You guys think we're getting a top 15 player for 2 picks and Agbaji, lol.
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They have no cap space and not a lot of assets to get better? They also have two young guards who could take the reigns after a Lillard trade.
 
Elizah Huge said:
They have no cap space and not a lot of assets to get better? They also have two young guards who could take the reigns after a Lillard trade.
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Portland isn't exactly a FA destination though so having cap space doesn't really change much for them. If they trade him they're going to get a nice haul of at least 1/2 young players and multiple premium picks. I just find it hard to believe that they'd be thrilled about a package where Agbaji was the best player coming back to them unless they're also getting 4 unprotected FRPs.
 
YoungJefe said:
Portland isn't exactly a FA destination though so having cap space doesn't really change much for them. If they trade him they're going to get a nice haul of at least 1/2 young players and multiple premium picks. I just find it hard to believe that they'd be thrilled about a package where Agbaji was the best player coming back to them unless they're also getting 4 unprotected FRPs.
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I would assume if it happens it would be a draft day deal and they would be taking our first two picks. Guaranteeing two of the picks are lottery or near lottery is a pretty good deal. Obviously there would be other compensation. I would also assume that only Kessler and Lauri are off the table player-wise.
 
framer said:
I would assume if it happens it would be a draft day deal and they would be taking our first two picks. Guaranteeing two of the picks are lottery or near lottery is a pretty good deal. Obviously there would be other compensation. I would also assume that only Kessler and Lauri are off the table player-wise.
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Unfortunately outside of those two we really don't have any players outside of Agbaji that have a ton of trade value. Portland already has their own pick (should be lottery) and the Knicks pick this year, I don't see them wanting to bring in 4 rookies.
 
YoungJefe said:
Unfortunately outside of those two we really don't have any players outside of Agbaji that have a ton of trade value. Portland already has their own pick (should be lottery) and the Knicks pick this year, I don't see them wanting to bring in 4 rookies.
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You were the one insisting they would want young players. With four sub 20 picks, they should be able to consolidate for a better pick or sell a pick for future picks.

I'm having a hard time understanding why you are so butthurt that the Jazz might want to pursue Dame should he become available. Of course they would have that discussion and would be very interested in the guy that was rocking the Weber State jersey last week.
 
framer said:
You were the one insisting they would want young players. With four sub 20 picks, they should be able to consolidate for a better pick or sell a pick for future picks.

I'm having a hard time understanding why you are so butthurt that the Jazz might want to pursue Dame should he become available. Of course they would have that discussion and would be very interested in the guy that was rocking the Weber State jersey last week.
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You guys are convinced that a small market team is going to trade away their top 15 franchise level player for scraps so they can have cap space.

I'm not butt hurt, I'm just realistic. I don't see how Dame to the Jazz makes sense for either side when we can't offer them any good young players / even with Dame we wouldn't be close to contention and would likely have to gut a good chunk of our premium draft assets. Danny literally just blew the team up because we had 2 stars without enough around them to contend and he'd immediately put us back in the same position with an older player that has a crazy contract?

That's cool that he wore a Weber State jersey during the 3P shootout and lived near SLC for a couple of years. Doesn't mean that we should trade for him.
 
LoPo said:
Who said championship?

I think the odds of being relevant with Donovan Mitchell are as good as being relevant with all these draft picks. There's no telling what can happen.

You can keep taking shots at crunch time, but he's still the best playoff performer we've had in a long time. It's too bad we built it all around some limited center instead of clearly a star.
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So that's the problem, you're happy with relevance. Obviously the franchise is looking for a ring. Don wasn't going to get us there.
 
There is no way i put that amount of money on a 33 years old guys. Does not fit at all for me with the current strategy. Get a guys in the rangef of Lauri age and build around that. Lauri-Kessler-Sexton-X is a good start.
 
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