Blazers 'Not Impressed' With Miami's Trade Offers For Damian Lillard

[RealGM Wiretap]

The Portland Trail Blazers are "not impressed" so far with what the Miami Heat have offered for Damian Lillard, reports ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The Blazers have taken incoming calls from a lot of teams with some of those inquiries considered serious and a lot "just checking in."

"One thing so far Portland, I'm told, is not impressed with what Miami has to offer them," said Wojnarowski. 

The Heat would have to build any trade package around Tyler Herro, but the Blazers want him sent to a third team in any Lillard scenario.

Via Adrian Wojnarowski/ESPN

[YourGM99]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

[RipCityKJ]

So now they play hardball? They have insane assets to bring in another star or just some decent role players and give Dame a chance but they just sat back and did nothing. This is top 3 worst ran franchises now.

[RipCityKJ]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

The problem with this is if the blazers trade Dame they are going all in on a young rebuild, The Dinwiddie cap space is useless to them and O’Neal and Finney-Smith are at the point they don’t really fit a youth movement. I think in after a month and no traction on a trade, Dame might just stick with it and see what happens closer to the deadline like KD did last year.

[VaDe255]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

This fan fiction trades are hilarious.

The Nets are in rebuild mode themselves and are waiting till they can get off the Ben Simmons contract.
The ideal scenario for the Nets is to sign a big free agent in 2024/25 and then use their assets to fill out the roster with the missing piece(s). They are not gonna rush for Dame now, who is not on their timeline.

Portland will almost certainly trade Dame to Miami. You just don't want to piss of Goodwin Sports Management and their client Lillard for some minor better offer and be know as an unreasonable difficult to deal with organization. Not to mention how players will view you, once you do Dame dirty.

[fansse]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

This fan fiction trades are hilarious.

The Nets are in rebuild mode themselves and are waiting till they can get off the Ben Simmons contract.
The ideal scenario for the Nets is to sign a big free agent in 2024/25 and then use their assets to fill out the roster with the missing piece(s). They are not gonna rush for Dame now, who is not on their timeline.

Portland will almost certainly trade Dame to Miami. You just don't want to piss of Goodwin Sports Management and their client Lillard for some minor better offer and be know as an unreasonable difficult to deal with organization. Not to mention how players will view you, once you do Dame dirty.

No players are going to refuse to play in Portland because they traded Dame elsewhere, this is so exaggerated. And.. no, Portland didn't do Dame dirty at all. Dame choose the money over winning when he signed that extension.

[Elnegron]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

Lmao if u think those 2 can bring a 1st then herro can get you wembanyama lol. This crap laughaman, delete this

[Elnegron]

Clearly blazers using woj as a mouthpiece cause they have no other offers due to dame only playing for miami. The heat can sure improve their offer since they have not offered jovic or vasquez or martin

[fishfuego.]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

This fan fiction trades are hilarious.

The Nets are in rebuild mode themselves and are waiting till they can get off the Ben Simmons contract.
The ideal scenario for the Nets is to sign a big free agent in 2024/25 and then use their assets to fill out the roster with the missing piece(s). They are not gonna rush for Dame now, who is not on their timeline.

Portland will almost certainly trade Dame to Miami. You just don't want to piss of Goodwin Sports Management and their client Lillard for some minor better offer and be know as an unreasonable difficult to deal with organization. Not to mention how players will view you, once you do Dame dirty.

Exactly, especially this^

[Heat_team02]

Blazers are engaged in a game of chess without a Queen.

[YourGM99]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

Lmao if u think those 2 can bring a 1st then herro can get you wembanyama lol. This crap laughaman, delete this

The Nets traded a first round pick for O’Neal and it was reported teams were offering the nets 2 first round picks at the trade deadline for Finney-Smith. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to get a first round pick for 2 of the 3 at the trade deadline. Especially if a contender feels they are one player away from a championship.

[RipCityKJ]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

Lmao if u think those 2 can bring a 1st then herro can get you wembanyama lol. This crap laughaman, delete this

If your best asset is a young guard or an expiring vet guard, what good are either to a young rebuilding team that has 3 young potential star guards? The blazers need a young wing and big to fit the rebuild and a ton of picks otherwise it’s a complete disaster of a trade for your franchise’s best player ever.

[BlueHeat]

Lol Portland using Woj as a mouthpiece to improve what little leverage they have. They look so bad right now. Dame has been incredibly loyal to that franchise despite their ineptitude, and he gets repaid by a “we don’t care about Lillard’s wishes” response from the FO. Such a joke.

[RipCityKJ]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

Lmao if u think those 2 can bring a 1st then herro can get you wembanyama lol. This crap laughaman, delete this

The Nets traded a first round pick for O’Neal and it was reported teams were offering the nets 2 first round picks at the trade deadline for Finney-Smith. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to get a first round pick for 2 of the 3 at the trade deadline. Especially if a contender feels they are one player away from a championship.

So the possibility of 3 late first round picks is worth a top 75 all time NBA player? Both O’Neal and Finney-Smith have value in the right scenario but the blazers are not a team that is in position to trade their franchise best player for a hope that they get more later.

[RipCityKJ]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

This fan fiction trades are hilarious.

The Nets are in rebuild mode themselves and are waiting till they can get off the Ben Simmons contract.
The ideal scenario for the Nets is to sign a big free agent in 2024/25 and then use their assets to fill out the roster with the missing piece(s). They are not gonna rush for Dame now, who is not on their timeline.

Portland will almost certainly trade Dame to Miami. You just don't want to piss of Goodwin Sports Management and their client Lillard for some minor better offer and be know as an unreasonable difficult to deal with organization. Not to mention how players will view you, once you do Dame dirty.

No players are going to refuse to play in Portland because they traded Dame elsewhere, this is so exaggerated. And.. no, Portland didn't do Dame dirty at all. Dame choose the money over winning when he signed that extension.

Blame the guy that’s been loyal for 12 years and is the first star player to ever truly embrace the City and make it his home. The franchise did him wrong by making no effort to put a contender with him, his contract was earned and his loyalty was not demanding a no trade clause like Beal did which may end up screwing him over if the blazers do him dirty. Dame has been the best ambassador for players Portland could ever ask for and has handed the front office options to make the team better and they haven’t. Real true blazers fans know the value of Dame and most would say he’s undervalued in his contract for all that he does for the city. In 3 years his 60 million will be less of a hit on the cap with the new media deal and people will forget this was even a discussion.

[fishfuego.]

Lol Portland using Woj as a mouthpiece to improve what little leverage they have. They look so bad right now. Dame has been incredibly loyal to that franchise despite their ineptitude, and he gets repaid by a “we don’t care about Lillard’s wishes” response from the FO. Such a joke.

Look, the FO is just that, but players carry all the weight in the NBA.
Think of it as the old DJ’s network where they all selected and received their music and spread it defying the major labels.
The only power the players have (financially speaking compared to the billionaires), is to protect each other through agents and agencies as a network, and sure the players union.
Portland doesn’t want to go the route of pissing off such networks, I mean they can, but they really do not want to go that route.

[VaDe255]

The nets are the obvious choice. The can give them 3 first round picks plus players like Dinwiddie, O’Neal, and Finney-smith who can be traded later for first round picks.

Lmao if u think those 2 can bring a 1st then herro can get you wembanyama lol. This crap laughaman, delete this

The Nets traded a first round pick for O’Neal and it was reported teams were offering the nets 2 first round picks at the trade deadline for Finney-Smith. I don’t think it’s unreasonable for them to get a first round pick for 2 of the 3 at the trade deadline. Especially if a contender feels they are one player away from a championship.

You're saying DFS, who is 30 years old, shoots on a 55.7/35.7/72.3 split has 4.6 rebs / 1.4 asts for his career is worth 2 FRP?!
I wonder what a 23 year old, who shoots on a 48.4/38.3/87.5 split has 4.9 rebs / 3.5 asts for his career is worth in your evaluation.

[fansse]

This fan fiction trades are hilarious.

The Nets are in rebuild mode themselves and are waiting till they can get off the Ben Simmons contract.
The ideal scenario for the Nets is to sign a big free agent in 2024/25 and then use their assets to fill out the roster with the missing piece(s). They are not gonna rush for Dame now, who is not on their timeline.

Portland will almost certainly trade Dame to Miami. You just don't want to piss of Goodwin Sports Management and their client Lillard for some minor better offer and be know as an unreasonable difficult to deal with organization. Not to mention how players will view you, once you do Dame dirty.

No players are going to refuse to play in Portland because they traded Dame elsewhere, this is so exaggerated. And.. no, Portland didn't do Dame dirty at all. Dame choose the money over winning when he signed that extension.

Blame the guy that’s been loyal for 12 years and is the first star player to ever truly embrace the City and make it his home. The franchise did him wrong by making no effort to put a contender with him, his contract was earned and his loyalty was not demanding a no trade clause like Beal did which may end up screwing him over if the blazers do him dirty. Dame has been the best ambassador for players Portland could ever ask for and has handed the front office options to make the team better and they haven’t. Real true blazers fans know the value of Dame and most would say he’s undervalued in his contract for all that he does for the city. In 3 years his 60 million will be less of a hit on the cap with the new media deal and people will forget this was even a discussion.

He signed the extension a year ago (July 9th, 2022) and Portland was so far off from being a contender and had no assets whatsoever, if he truly wanted to win he wouldn't have signed that extension in the first place. He got his money and now time to dip.

[VaDe255]

He signed the extension a year ago (July 9th, 2022) and Portland was so far off from being a contender and had no assets whatsoever, if he truly wanted to win he wouldn't have signed that extension in the first place. He got his money and now time to dip.

During that time span they had the #7 draft pick then #3 draft pick and several other draft picks that they used instead of getting any vets or win now players, they decided to rebuild while trying to keep Lillard around.
You want to blame a guy, who wants to compete at the highest level and has no choice but to ask out? He was promised they build around him and was lied at every step of the way, they even drafted his replacement. You can do that, but shame on you. The Portland FO is still lying, claiming they are "commited to winning" with a bunch of developing players, who will struggle to win 20 games this year without Lillard.

They are probably celebrating right now that Dame asked out, it never made any sense to keep him after what they did in draft and free agency. Literally the best move for the Portland FO to trade him and get some assets back to accelerate the rebuild and Dame did it for them.

[Darthlukey]

Lol Portland using Woj as a mouthpiece to improve what little leverage they have. They look so bad right now. Dame has been incredibly loyal to that franchise despite their ineptitude, and he gets repaid by a “we don’t care about Lillard’s wishes” response from the FO. Such a joke.

Same goes for Dames and Pats camps too. Trying to box Portland into accepting what is probably the weakest offer in the market. By demanding miami Dame is **** the blazers more than his 11 years has earned him in goodwill