RandlesCornrows wrote:Well unless Dame is talking to Kawhi or tells Leon to go out and get another star. He ain’t coming here. 
I can see Denver, Miami, Milwaukee, possibly Dallas if they can be clever about it. 
I don’t think the Knicks make sense if he wants to win a championship. 
If that’s the case fill in the blanks? 
Assuming RJ Barrett is heading to Portland.
Dame Lillard — Derrick Rose?
Immanuel Quickley — Reggie Bullock?
???? — Alec Burks?? 
Julius Randle — ????
Mitchell Robinson — Nerlens Noel???
Does DeMar DeRozen get it done?? Idk man seems like we’d waste Dames career here
I agree but you said the factor yourself. I'm either confident he won't show up,  or that he's coming with Kawhi. Those are the two options
Thing about "gutting your team" is your also gutting yourself of offsetting salaries. So in effect we would actually have cap space. We won't have youth or picks but we could do it in such a ways that you still have money left over,  especially if you can sign and trade some guys. 
The choice is yours if you wanna play victim again and not use that money wisely.  I used to argue that fans had such a victim mentality over the Melo trade they forget that we paid Amare actually more than Melo to sit and take wine baths. Had we amnestied Amare instead of Billups we could've gotten Chandler anyway except with a healthy Billups instead who actually helped Melo get to the WCF. We did many more bad moves after the Melo trade financially. But it was easy to keep regurgitating that Melo was the reason we couldn't improve the team post trade. 
I mean even if we didn't land Kawhi, you gave great example....Demmar Derozen. Now if you ask me today I'm not thrilled about Demmar but that's because my mindset is that we got young guys he'd get ahead of and really that's not the star I wanna chase.  But now after the Lillard trade the damage has already been done.  The farm already given,  the attachments to drafted players extinguished. At that point maybe Demmar as a third star don't sound so bad. Who's really lining up to pay Demmar?