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[Marc J. Spears] “Portland’s in a tough place where you gotta think past just right now. You gotta think later b/c he’s gonna be a HOF. He’s still gonna have an impact in the community. People there still love him. I think that plays a role in your sympathy in trying to help him out”

  • July 27, 2023


[Tweet with video](https://twitter.com/dru_star/status/1684339740202475521?s=46&t=hdMYR5VNI3D4hupTVErxeg)

> “Portland’s in a tough place where you gotta think past just right now. You gotta think later b/c he’s gonna be a HOF. He’s still gonna have an impact in the community. People there still love him. I think that plays a role in your sympathy in trying to help him out”

[Clip continued](https://twitter.com/dru_star/status/1684337627711803392?s=46&t=hdMYR5VNI3D4hupTVErxeg)

> “I think the thing that’s gonna be tough for Portland is—Dame’s gonna be in Portland. He’s gonna be there 20yrs from now, 30yrs from now. There’s no Clyde Drexler in Portland. There’s no superstar in Portland. But he is gonna have a presence there for a long time”

7 comments

  1. Portland’s in a tough place? Well you can get out of that tough place if you’d just give Dame what he wanted but oh fucking nooooo

  2. Yep. Don’t make this ugly Portland. 11 years of service to your team and city, don’t get cute. Scoot and Shaedon are watching!

  3. This sub needs to find a new topic until something actually happens. There’s 10-20 Dame posts a day and none of them contribute anything

  4. Fuck Portland. This is why I’m more and more sympathetic when players have no allegiances to the teams that draft them

  5. This is so melodramatic and stupid.

    Dame is going to be a fixture in Portland no matter how this turns out.

    All this weird stuff that keeps getting floated out there that doesn’t really have anything to do with basketball to try to put pressure on Portland is dumb and isn’t going to work.

  6. Latest rumor is that Lillard is getting irritated by Miami for not taking this seriously. Apparently he isn’t totally opposed to staying in Portland after all?

  7. Feel like Miami giving Portland all future assets would be best for Dame if he plans to be a part of Portland after his playing days. I don’t think fans in Portland will care how ugly it gets. I think they will care if he is traded for dog shit. Whereas if Portland gets some good prospects and future firsts that end up being good fans will be more understanding.

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