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Is down 3-0 to NO and the Blazers got blown out last night. Speculation in Portland is that Paul Allen is going to blow the team up and start over. Perhaps there could be a really talented player like Dame or CJ McOllum up for grabs.
 
Or......

The Chief

Al-Farouq Aminu!!!!!

It happened when he was on the Mavs it's happened a few times now when he's on the trailblazers, their stars don't show up in a playoff series and Aminu plays the best on the whole team..

He shot 37% from 3 on 5 attempts per game, and IMO fits Utah in a need capacity in a major way because he is versatile as hell... He's a plus defender and rebounder at the 3 4 and 5


The consensus in that draftee's thread is they want some type of 3/4.... This is that dude.... he's one of those old young dudes like Rubio too, born in the 90's, hes still just 27.

Excellent teammate, excellent lockerroom guy, far from an idiot. He'd fit in seamlessly here, im certain.
 
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Problem is Nurkic and Napier are RFA's and Allen is committed 50+ mil to Dame and CJ.

And he's is stuck with two bloated, untradeable multi year contracts in Leonard and Turner who are due almost 29 mil combined next year. Good luck "blowing up" that pile of manure.

Aminu is probably low of the list of dumps - he has a very reasonable, expiring deal.
 
It sounds like Dame and CJ might be the first ones out the door. It's the old adage that they are smallish guards and we can't win playoff games with that.
 
candrew said:
Problem is Nurkic and Napier are RFA's and Allen is committed 50+ mil to Dame and CJ.

And he's is stuck with two bloated, untradeable multi year contracts in Leonard and Turner who are due almost 29 mil combined next year. Good luck "blowing up" that pile of manure.

Aminu is probably low of the list of dumps - he has a very reasonable, expiring deal.
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If Allen wanted to blow it up, Dame and CJ will fetch a ton of value in trade value. It'd be very possible to unload the bloat as part of any deal.
 
I think they'd trade Dame and play CJ at the point if they could get a decent small forward or something out of him. I would think that Dame has way more trade value than anything we'd be able to offer.
 
I think they could trade CJ if the right deal came along... they nailed FA in the Aminu Ed Davis year then got too cocky and started handing out contracts like effing Oprah hands out cars.

The Turner deal is the death knell.

They are headed into the tax and need to hit a home run on a pick if they want to raise the ceiling of this team.

They’d get more for Dame but not sure they’d get enough to make up the difference in skill. I’d move CJ if I was them and could get a big improvement to the front court. Neither guy will be maximized playing together.
 
David Stern said:
If I'm the Spurs, I'm calling to gauge Portland's interest on a Kawhi for Lillard swap.
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This sounds crazy but if I’m Portland and all the weird **** going on with Kawhi.... I wouldn’t do that deal.

I’m like 90% sure that if he’s not on the spurs next year that he will be a laker.

I do think that deal would make sense if it weren’t for the nonsense surrounding Leonard.
 
They're not trading Dame - he's a legit star and a solid citizen. Allen would be nuts to let him go.

They might trade CJ. Not sure what good he'd do Utah - they have a rookie SG who is showing a lot of promise.
 
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