Rumor: New Orleans Pelicans are considered the Dark Horse in the Damian Lillard Sweektakes – Portland is “open for business everywhere in the league” on trading Lillard.
July 2, 2023
Rumor: New Orleans Pelicans are considered the Dark Horse in the Damian Lillard Sweektakes – Portland is “open for business everywhere in the league” on trading Lillard.
24 comments
Lol them getting cj back
This is as insulting of an offer as some of the Zion + Trey for Scoot trades Trailblazer fans suggested lol
Bro they are laughing this offer off come on lol
Would need to at least throw in Dyson plus more picks. Would honestly need to include Herb or Trey if BI and Z aren’t included
Edit: Of course that depends on what other teams are offering. Star trade hauls in the recent past outside of day to day and KD haven’t been that great outside of the amount of picks included. With that being said, something like CJ, Dyson, Kira, and basically any pick that we can trade would be a pretty hard offer to beat. Not saying we do it, but we could probably get Dame for that.
We don’t need to make a trade like this honestly. We just need healthy seasons from our players.
Their demands are “a young star, cap relief, and picks.”
I would think Trey would have to be included in this. Also doubt CJ going back. Maybe a Val/ Nurkic swap for an expiring cap calculated in? Would be a poison pill contract.
Bruh…
OP been hanging around too many Lakers fans in the West Bank and came up with their own “Westbrook + THT + picks who says no”
Yeah no, I’m good thanks don’t want another guard who plays zero defence and hogs the ball like crazy
source?
Those picks suck ass and we don’t want CJ back. We have tons of guards. Delete this.
Laughable offer. Herb Jones would need to be included and probably Jonas instead of CJ along with other players
Only way this happens, is if Portland wants Z. IDK how i feel about that, but there is no other deal. We arent trading BI, they arent taking CJ, and there’s no way to make the salaries work in any other way.
Z + Dyson + Kira + picks.
If we are in the mix at all, that is pretty much the only package. Absolutely cannot trade Trey or Herb if we want to contend for a title right now- we need them as pieces around Dame, CJ, BI.
But a starting lineup that features Dame, CJ, BI, Herb, and JV with Trey, Larry, Jose, J Hawkins and Naji coming off the bench; would probably contend for a title immediately, and, for the next few seasons.
This is worse than what the Heat could offer
As long as CJ is going back
The only way this happens is if this becomes a three team trade between 76ers, Philly, and NOLA with Harden, CJ, and Dame switching teams.
Delete this nephew
Back to the lakers sub you go
Are you the source of this bullshit rumor?
We have a solid team. A team that can compete in the west without Dame. You want to trade these guys plus 3 first round someone turning 33?
I mean just ignoring everything else wrong with this trade, I’d assume if Dame had any inkling of wanting to play for us it would be to play alongside CJ
Funny
The trade you have here is one of the most insulting, ridiculous offers I’ve ever seen. You’d have to kidnap multiple members of the GM’s family for him to consider that for more than 30 seconds.
Lmao Portland ain’t trading dame to Nola for CJ and stuff. Good lord.
24 comments
Lol them getting cj back
This is as insulting of an offer as some of the Zion + Trey for Scoot trades Trailblazer fans suggested lol
Bro they are laughing this offer off come on lol
Would need to at least throw in Dyson plus more picks. Would honestly need to include Herb or Trey if BI and Z aren’t included
Edit: Of course that depends on what other teams are offering. Star trade hauls in the recent past outside of day to day and KD haven’t been that great outside of the amount of picks included. With that being said, something like CJ, Dyson, Kira, and basically any pick that we can trade would be a pretty hard offer to beat. Not saying we do it, but we could probably get Dame for that.
We don’t need to make a trade like this honestly. We just need healthy seasons from our players.
Their demands are “a young star, cap relief, and picks.”
I would think Trey would have to be included in this. Also doubt CJ going back. Maybe a Val/ Nurkic swap for an expiring cap calculated in? Would be a poison pill contract.
Bruh…
OP been hanging around too many Lakers fans in the West Bank and came up with their own “Westbrook + THT + picks who says no”
Yeah no, I’m good thanks don’t want another guard who plays zero defence and hogs the ball like crazy
source?
Those picks suck ass and we don’t want CJ back. We have tons of guards. Delete this.
Laughable offer. Herb Jones would need to be included and probably Jonas instead of CJ along with other players
Only way this happens, is if Portland wants Z. IDK how i feel about that, but there is no other deal. We arent trading BI, they arent taking CJ, and there’s no way to make the salaries work in any other way.
Z + Dyson + Kira + picks.
If we are in the mix at all, that is pretty much the only package. Absolutely cannot trade Trey or Herb if we want to contend for a title right now- we need them as pieces around Dame, CJ, BI.
But a starting lineup that features Dame, CJ, BI, Herb, and JV with Trey, Larry, Jose, J Hawkins and Naji coming off the bench; would probably contend for a title immediately, and, for the next few seasons.
This is worse than what the Heat could offer
As long as CJ is going back
The only way this happens is if this becomes a three team trade between 76ers, Philly, and NOLA with Harden, CJ, and Dame switching teams.
Delete this nephew
Back to the lakers sub you go
Are you the source of this bullshit rumor?
We have a solid team. A team that can compete in the west without Dame. You want to trade these guys plus 3 first round someone turning 33?
I mean just ignoring everything else wrong with this trade, I’d assume if Dame had any inkling of wanting to play for us it would be to play alongside CJ
Funny
The trade you have here is one of the most insulting, ridiculous offers I’ve ever seen. You’d have to kidnap multiple members of the GM’s family for him to consider that for more than 30 seconds.
Lmao Portland ain’t trading dame to Nola for CJ and stuff. Good lord.