sco wrote:bad knees wrote:bad knees wrote:
Stealth tank is their best option. Who the heck knows. It’s plausible though.
Of course they just beat BKN. So really who knows. Just have to see what AKME can pull off.
IMO, POR's will end up trading Dame at either the deadline or next offseason. But even if they keep him, doing a deal with us where they get their pick back that they can pair with McCollum or Simons to bring back another allstar or near allstar is their best strategy.
Our problem in doing a deal with POR is that we'd need need to include either White or Pat because of salary matching (since we can't trade them back DJJ...unless we can make it a 3way deal).
If we trade for Nance rather than RoCo, then TBJ, Thomas and Marko will work with the trade rules and keep us just below the lux tax line. No need to include anyone else, including PWill or Coby.
With regard to their pick that we have and the possibility of them using FRPs in a big trade (say McCollum plus FRPs for Simmons), we actually have a huge amount of leverage. Because it is protected until 2028, the first FRP that POR can trade right now is its 2030 pick, which obviously is unappealing. To get in position for such a trade, they will have to give us something big to get the pick back. Or make the pick unprotected, which means that they could then trade their 2024, 2026 and 2028 picks. In which case we potentially could get a lottery pick in this summer’s draft. Just something to keep our eye on.
