yeah, if there was any doubt that he was staying (there wasn't) this seals it.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 12:12 (three years ago) link
just feels like the whole thing is over whether kawhi stays or goes, just the idea of winning a championship with a team built around kawhi/pgand how do they even attempt to move forward? unless I'm reading this wrong they don't have a first round pick until 2027https://fanspo.com/nba/teams/Clippers/13/draft-picks
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
i think that's right.
when i saw this news i was trying to think of any scenario in which it makes sense for the clippers to move on from kawhi and i don't think there is one. this is going to end up like a middle-aged couple going through the motions.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 12:30 (three years ago) link
Why wouldn’t Kawhi just sign an extension
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
iirc his camp was trying to maximize his earnings by waiting until he was a 10-year veteran
― class project pat (m bison), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
Clippers could trade pg for a big package and then try and retool around Kawhi once he comes back.
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
They could trade PG back to the thunder for their pick
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
paul george is going to make 49 million dollars in 2024-25
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 July 2021 14:53 (three years ago) link
just throwing that out there as an interesting fact
lol what
"I don't talk about who's on the payroll." - Mark Cuban on whether Bob Voulgaris is still employed— The Kobe Beef (@TheKobeBeef) July 15, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:40 (three years ago) link
i assume that's a yes?
― ciderpress, Thursday, 15 July 2021 16:53 (three years ago) link
this story doesnt seem to be going away
An OPB investigation finds that the Portland @trailblazers did not contact several primary sources in their probe of a 1997 rape allegation against head-coach hire Chauncey Billups, despite saying they did everything in their power to vet the incident: https://t.co/W2g22zO4GC pic.twitter.com/zShInNy4IK— OPB (@OPB) July 13, 2021
― lag∞n, Thursday, 15 July 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
Is Gary Ridgway on the payroll?
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 15 July 2021 23:45 (three years ago) link
i’m trying to imagine how this could be going worse and… idkhttps://www.wweek.com/sports/2021/07/15/the-trail-blazers-private-investigator-shared-pornographic-images-on-twitter-in-april/
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 July 2021 16:15 (three years ago) link
On April 2, Hallman retweeted into his feed two GIFs, or short video clips, from a Twitter account called “Cuck helper (online).”
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
oh my god
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 July 2021 16:28 (three years ago) link
the rest of the stuff in that article is more damning, but ffs what is it with cops and cuc*s
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
yikes.
lots of dame is leaving rumors today and nurk out there tryin got shoot them all down.
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
oh hes outta there, portland needs to blow it all up
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 16 July 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
if portland actually has to trade dame i’m not sure i could come up with an example of a deeper self inflicted wound. i would be dumbfounded
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 July 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
cracks really starting to show with the weird sister of the weird deceased owner who is planning to sell the team.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 16 July 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
all these sources seem bad
Damian Lillard would like to be traded to the Philadelphia 76ers or New York Knicks, sources tell me.— Quinton Mayo (@RealQuintonMayo) July 16, 2021
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
76ers with dame instead of ben seems like a great fit
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
i agree it's all randoms
i also don't understand why the blazers would appease his destination requests if he's blowing town w/ 4 years left on his deal or w/e
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 July 2021 18:12 (three years ago) link
yah theyll take the best deal possible. does he have a no trade clause, tho?
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
getting so many panicked text messages today from the casuals and I’m like chill out, idk if going from a ceiling of 5th in the west to being bad for a decade is that big a deal, get into hockey or something
― Clay, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
dame always gives you a reason to watchyou take it for granted until that's gone
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 July 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
since this fiasco of an off-season began (which has been, like, worst possible decision followed by worst possible decisions) my pov has been trade dame. they’re going nowhere, he’s 31, get value at the peak. I hope he requests a trade! but the franchise is doomed until olshey and the Jody Allen management team are all gone. There’s no vision, it’s all short-term ass-saving and nepotism. burn it down time.
― Clay, Friday, 16 July 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
dame is too special of a player i would never not want him on my team
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 July 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
yah
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
—-if you love someone let them go—-
― Clay, Friday, 16 July 2021 20:23 (three years ago) link
I'd trade him but then again I always want to trade everyone
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
dame in new york would be a sign of the apocalypse but i would certainly welcome it
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
Damian Lillard: "I don't disagree that maybe Chauncey can change our team and make us a better team. But I think if you look at our team as it is, I don't see how you say 'this is a championship team, we just need a new coach.'"— Sean Highkin (@highkin) July 16, 2021
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 July 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
"The drama isn't coming from me," Dame said.— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) July 16, 2021
i too, quite famously, hate drama
― Clay, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Washington’s hiring of Wes Unseld Jr. will fill the last of the NBA’s seven coaching openings. Six went to Black coaches. Boston: Ime UdokaDallas: Jason KiddIndiana: Rick CarlisleNew Orleans: Willie GreenOrlando: Jamahl Mosley Portland: Chauncey Billups Washington: Unseld— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) July 16, 2021
― pure rim rest (Spottie), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
tried to think of the funniest dame trade and landed on this one
https://imgur.com/a/allu7xj
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
embed didn't seem to work: https://imgur.com/a/allu7xj
https://i.imgur.com/e4Y75cH.png
here ya go
― Clay, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:08 (three years ago) link
bless
― bart harley-jarvis cocker (voodoo chili), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link
If lillard is adamant that it has to be a contender then it’s really difficult to do this
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
philly for simmons+maxey+picks is probably the best package
― class project pat (m bison), Friday, 16 July 2021 22:48 (three years ago) link
my gut tells me he'll stick it out one more miserable year and then push for a trade next summer
― Clay, Friday, 16 July 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
I’m so sick of those situations. Just get it over with
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 July 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
That’s what she said
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 17 July 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link
the thing with simmons to portland is that it probably leaves them as perennial play in contender sort of team and there’s a strong argument at that point to just go the picks route and fully rebuild in earnest instead of going the middle way. how are the blazers building a contender around simmons at any point if they can’t sign major FAs and won’t have high lottery level draft assets… i think nate duncan has made this point on his podcast. i wouldn’t hate the trade for portland — it would be the home run of home runs for philly — but i do think there’s a strong argument for just being bad bad if you get rid of dame. because if you’re happy with being a first round and out kinda team then just keep dame. i also don’t think maxey is all that personally he seems like a third guy are to me and not particularly a great one, if i’m trading dame he’s close to a throw in to me in terms of value
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 July 2021 01:10 (three years ago) link
simmons to portland only makes sense as an experiment playing with dame in a trade for cj+. agree that rebuilding around simmons is just a doom cul-de-sac
― Clay, Saturday, 17 July 2021 01:13 (three years ago) link
as has been pointed out before, there's just not a lot of contenders left with serious draft assets anymore, market is desaturated
― Clay, Saturday, 17 July 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link
if dame’s position is basically “this front office is run by fools, get me out of here” then i don’t care if he goes to a contender or sacramento if i’m them. what’s the point of magnanimity if you’ve already pissed him off so badly that he wants out? right now it seems like he’s trying to imply “i’m not asking out but the right thing to do would be to trade me to a better team” which puts some onus on the blazer FO to do right by him but i still wouldn’t buy that if i was them
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 17 July 2021 01:14 (three years ago) link