Giannis/Luka and Dame are just not the same conversation.
Dame is a great player, but he has always had serious - maybe catastrophic - warts in his game, but now he’s at a dangerous age and is scheduled to make, what, more than any player ever?
I just think anyone trading for Dame is desperate and we have no reason to be desperate. And if it trade four picks or whatever then we just botched the rebuild.
It’s weird to me that we’re really gonna watch how the last year played out where the Jazz looked like geniuses for snatching two bags of assets for flawed star players, only to turn around and throw a bag at another flawed star but older and more expensive.
And when does team success start to matter? The Blazers had a flukey run to the WCF where they got thumped and have been so painfully mediocre, what, every other year? At best? When does Dame have any culpability for that?