Case2012 wrote:Norm2953 wrote:I do find it amusing that people assume Chicago would be interested in 23 for release of the restrictions
on future picks. In all realities, we don't know if that's correct and we don't know if that was ever offered
and rejected or not.
The thing is when other teams sense desperation, the rival GM's all become more like Masai (Toronto) and
they raise their prices accordingly. In my 46 years following this team, I've seen desperation moves from
the Calvin Natt trade in 1980, Kiki Vandeweghe (1984) and have also seen the reverse in 2012 when the
Nets made that horrible trade that led Dame to be a Blazer in the first place.
It takes a lot of patience but its my experience to avoid at all costs, the desperation moves. The Josh Hart
last year was a great trade for both the Knicks/Blazers. Whether Dame gets traded or not, he's going to be
fine
Chicago didn’t have a pick this year, it’s looking likely they’re going to rebuild, so having a pick this year would have been an obvious move especially with how likely it’s looking with this drama around Dame that the pick owed could turn into a second round pick in a few years easily. I don’t know why you find that amusing, it’s pretty straight forward. We have several seconds and young players we could have added to sweeten the deal. I guess you could look at it like, if they give us our pick back then we’d use them to get a star and get back into the playoffs but there’s no guarantee Cronin would be able to pull it off. It would signal to the fans and to Dame that we are least trying to position ourselves to make a deal should one become available though, instead of looking like a holes for lying to their franchise player and their fans. I don’t find it amusing at all, I’m pretty effing pissed off rn.
Don't take it so personally for Chicago's front office is also been historically difficult to deal with.
Teams when they have another team in the position that NO put the Blazers in, have been known to
drive a hard bargain when a team like Portland wants to make what is perceived to be a desperation
move. They might just ask Portland to remove all the protections on their 2024 pick, which in Portland's
case might be a lottery pick if the win now move doesn't work and Dame still asks out. Portland needs
them to cooperate and they have every right to ask for something for their cooperation.
This has happened before for Clyde Drexler was in a similar position with Portland, and the team took care
of him by sending him to Houston which got him two rings.
