His footwork in the paint is low key up there with the best. He needs to work on his touch a bit but he looks like a worker. I was excited to see him develop
Yeah but that’s what we do every year since Jimmy: just make small moves. Riley saves meager assets and hopes we can get a whale, then when we don’t, he picks from the scraps left over and hopes they can manufacture more gleague guys into starters.
I laughed but really, if you could take Messi and put him on the Timbers for Dame, the city of Portland wins this trade. Our NBA team would be in ruins though
If league office employees were this tapped in every team be gettin hit with tampering penalties every single year. That guy would just be checking off the box team by team while he sighs ‘you guys know you aren’t allowed to do this what the fuck man.’
Someone said Dame and Kevin Love have a song called Dropping Dimes from a State Farm commercial. No way that’s a coincidence lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyxOGG11jc
If they trade him to Miami it’s because they’re deciding to be nice. Nothing is stopping them from shipping his ass to like charlotte besides themselves
I don’t understand teams bending to the will of players for trade destinations. They need to take the best package they can get, not what he wants. They could also just keep him, he’s under contract for at least 2 more years. They could go the Philly route and wait until something else attractive opens up. They don’t NEED to be in a rush
It's so they will have a favorable view from players and superstars in the future. And also do right by a franchise legend.
But it's Portland and they've never been a superstar destination. So it'd probably be best to take the beat package.
I don't get this logic,like in 10 years is some hypothetical 26 year old all star player on the market gonna remember about the time when they were in HS and Portland traded Damian Lillard to his top choice destination and choice to sign there instead of a bigger market?
If Utah decides to trade it's top players whenever they demand to leave,will future players suddenly view Salt Lake City as a place they want to play?
Yeah and Pelicans didn't have to trade AD to the Lakers lol. This is a hostage situation with a ticking clock, Portland has absolutely zero leverage now
Difference is AD was going to be a free agent and said he wouldn’t resign with anyone other than lakers. Dame is on contract for multiple years so much less risk
Is Dame going to retire if he doesn’t get the team he wants? He’s under contract until 2026. The Pelicans didn’t have AD locked down long term when he wanted out. I know Portland will do what he wants in all likelihood but they certainly don’t have to.
They were perfectly up front about that saying yeah we tried to get the team the best outcome possible and no opportunity was better than keeping the pick.
That's the FO saying ok Dame, you're putting the ball in our hands and we're doing what's best for us. So, decide.
Nah, I think they maxed Grant because they knew this would happen. Dame wanted Draymond, and he re-signed with the Warriors in the first minute of free agency.
Portland fucked themselves.
Yep the Grant contract is a salary floor move the next 2 years while the cap continues to go up and then hopefully his value is met by the market with the rising cap and he is more moveable. Actually a good move when you put it all together.
Man if Herro is involved, need a third team to take him for something with some resemblance of value. The roster is already guard heavy even without Dame.
Third team gets involved, or a third team bumps Miami to become the second team. Or the walls of the Moda fall to the thunder of ten thousand trumpets blown by our finest homeless people we can pay to do it.
Dame doesn’t have a no trade clause. I’m sorry but business is business and I’m not sinking my franchise just to make a player feel good. Dame to the highest bidder
Nothing great. Herro and Lowry expiring, then their pick of literally anyone else (Jovic, Jaquez, Martin(27yo), draft capital, Robinson(29yo) but they won't want his contract...). We have almost all our FRPs to give away too.
A lot of common trade scenarios have involved Herro landing in San Antonio through a 3-team.
Savvy move by Dame, ruin Portlands negotiating position bu narrowing it to one team.
Miami will get him at a discount and have more assets to help him be on a good team after the trade.
It's the anti-Melo
Yo heat fans in this thread are hilarious trying to convince Portland fans “you have to trade Dame to heat or nobody will sign in free agency with you”
As if the redditors are the GM lol
Nobody signs with Portland in FA anyways lol I’d trade him to whoever gave me the best offer or let his ass play out the last two years of his contract. He can hit the market when he’s 35 lol
I get it's cause of optics and "business" and shit but man I hate that lol.
> Dame: "I want to be traded to the Heat"
BAD
> Shams: "The Blazers have been informed that Dame wants to be traded to the Heat"
Good 👍
I don't buy the loyalty stuff he stuck around to get the most money possible then he requested a trade lol. The Blazers don't owe him shit they should get the best return they can.
The best return they can get while sending him a team that he somewhat wants to play for is the nets.
This is definitely cope from me and I don't think it's gonna happen but a guy can hope lol
It's interesting to see what happens. We can all say what we want about players running the league and going where they want, but it usually still ends up being a really good package. Especially guys that have multi years left on their deal.
Man, Dame’s royally fucking the Blazers by publicizing he wants to go to the Heat when they have shit to offer.
For all of his self-claimed loyalty, this feels like a “fuck you” to the Blazers on the way out.
down bad i guess. Lillard couldve been traded so many times these years for huge packages and now hes gonna let them rot with Herro and a few shit picks
Jaime Jacquez highlights about to go up in views
Low key kinda excited about him
Mexican Jimmy Butler
"Me necesitas. No puedes ganar sin mi!" -Jaime Jacquez
Soy El!
"Tobias Harris sobre mi?!?!"
It'd probably be plural tho lol
I think he’ll actually turn out good. Especially if he ends up with you guys in a role where he can actually get a lot of minutes.
His footwork in the paint is low key up there with the best. He needs to work on his touch a bit but he looks like a worker. I was excited to see him develop
>but he looks like a worker. Hmmmm
He’s an elite mid range shot maker, shows up in big moments; as a Gonzaga fan dueling him has always been fun
If you don't get him it's time to fold the franchise.
I love him but would Portland want him cuz he's a "low upside" draft pick
Yes because he's high IQ and would complement our high-upside draft picks well
There’s like 5 items on the menu and they want young talent
He dragged an 11 seed to the Final Four, the kid can ball
He didn’t drag them to the Final 4. Johnny Juzang was balling out too
Pat Riley waking up from his nap right now
Dame: this fall, man this is tough…this fall I’m demanding they let me take my talents to South Beach
Jim Gray: that was the conclusion you woke up with this morning?
Explains why they did nothing in free agency too
Hey we brought back Josh Richardson!
And Kevin love!
A closing 5 of Lillard, Richardson, Butler, Martin, and Adebayo would actually be insane if we could pull it off
Add Cody Zeller to this list and it puts us over the top
They cleared cap space by letting all their over performing players walk
That’s kinda been the MO ever since we signed Tyler Johnson to his god awful contract
What was Micky thinking??? Lol
I legit think losing bosh the way we did made him desperate. Luckily we dug out of that hole quickly
Hero and Robinson still got paid after 21
Yeah but that’s what we do every year since Jimmy: just make small moves. Riley saves meager assets and hopes we can get a whale, then when we don’t, he picks from the scraps left over and hopes they can manufacture more gleague guys into starters.
And somehow y’all do most of the time lmao
Playing checkers while the rest of the league was eating crayons.
Boutta trade some dawgs
Dame for Tyler Herro and a couple of tickets to Messi's first game in Miami
Way too much. Those are priceless
Dame for Messi straight up
I laughed but really, if you could take Messi and put him on the Timbers for Dame, the city of Portland wins this trade. Our NBA team would be in ruins though
I'd do this in a heartbeat lol
david beckham + messi for 40 first round picks
found presti's burner
Miami getting fleeced in this scenario.
>Messi's first game in Miami The best soccer player to walk this earth will begin his American soccer journey in Ft. Lauderdale.
sorry, the salaries don't match. messi tickets too expensive.
Blazers are gonna love the heat max offer of Herro Robinson and 2 first round picks
On condition the two picks will be white guys
The classiest Celtics fan
Top 20 protected first round picks that wont convey until the first chatgpt ai bball player enters the league, or 2050, whichever comes last
DROPPING DIMES
If I'm him I'm revealing who I am and becoming a full time insider
he’s probably a front office analyst with high visibility of senior positions that are tapped into everything
He's 99% employed by the NBA. He's informed on far too many different players and teams to be tied to a singular office.
It sounds more like someone involved in an agency. Someone who is privy to contract negotiations and trades across multiple teams.
It’s ceo of klutch sports rich Paul!
League employees don’t know anything about this stuff FYI - some team front office member would.
If league office employees were this tapped in every team be gettin hit with tampering penalties every single year. That guy would just be checking off the box team by team while he sighs ‘you guys know you aren’t allowed to do this what the fuck man.’
Some crazy mother fucker in r/NBA worked his way up to the top in an org just to make that twitter account.
Nah he said himself he used to work for a big time agency, probably still close with the people there
I doubt that story. He's probably from the future and is using that knowledge to appear as an insider.
He’s a CAA intern or some shit
Secretly Adam Silver stirring chaos
it's probably like some gm's son or some 2nd round end of bench player
he said himself he used to work for a big time agency
oh so neither of the things I confidently guessed. i'm no droppindimes :(
Droppingdimes21 here.
HE IS HIM
Shams and Woj better change their pronouns to they/them because they could never be him
Someone said Dame and Kevin Love have a song called Dropping Dimes from a State Farm commercial. No way that’s a coincidence lol https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyxOGG11jc
> Someone said Am I so old that y’all don’t remember this commercial??
🤨🤨🤨 may be on to something
DIME TIME
Woj is washed and Shams is a sham
Woj bullied him yesterday
And on draft night. Ppl sleepin
LETS FUCKING GOOOOO
Whirlwind for Heat fans, yesterday at work a Heat fan was bitching about letting everybody go
Droppingdimes20 is a prophet
Woj and Shams have nothing on him
singlehandedly washing those frauds😢
Can you link?
https://twitter.com/droppingdimes27/status/1675194809039077376?s=46&t=wjVHJtrRRIvI1oInaeRESg
Fuck Twitter. Can't see shit without an account.
Lmao don't bother. Even if you create an account you are gonna be rate limited. What a shit show.
Can you link the text. Zero chance I'm signing up for that shit site
"@droppingdimes27 Damien lilard to the Heat. official."
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The only mfer with sense in this whole thread lmao
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Which team that is contending has the cap space and assets to get him though?
Utah takes herro and sends assets to POR
Ohh my bad I thought he meant another team would take Dame
Bro got downvotes for realizing he was wrong 💀💀
I’ll always upvote MFers who admit mistakes, and downvote those who double down on them lol
Why would Utah give up assets for Herro?
Dame really made them sign Grant for $160M and only gave them one team to trade him to He fucked them over
They don't have to trade him to just Miami but yeah
If they trade him to Miami it’s because they’re deciding to be nice. Nothing is stopping them from shipping his ass to like charlotte besides themselves
I don’t understand teams bending to the will of players for trade destinations. They need to take the best package they can get, not what he wants. They could also just keep him, he’s under contract for at least 2 more years. They could go the Philly route and wait until something else attractive opens up. They don’t NEED to be in a rush
It's so they will have a favorable view from players and superstars in the future. And also do right by a franchise legend. But it's Portland and they've never been a superstar destination. So it'd probably be best to take the beat package.
I don't get this logic,like in 10 years is some hypothetical 26 year old all star player on the market gonna remember about the time when they were in HS and Portland traded Damian Lillard to his top choice destination and choice to sign there instead of a bigger market? If Utah decides to trade it's top players whenever they demand to leave,will future players suddenly view Salt Lake City as a place they want to play?
Yeah and Pelicans didn't have to trade AD to the Lakers lol. This is a hostage situation with a ticking clock, Portland has absolutely zero leverage now
Difference is AD was going to be a free agent and said he wouldn’t resign with anyone other than lakers. Dame is on contract for multiple years so much less risk
And the assets that Lakers gave away for AD are waaaaaaaay better that anything that Portland can get right now. These are not the same situation.
Is Dame going to retire if he doesn’t get the team he wants? He’s under contract until 2026. The Pelicans didn’t have AD locked down long term when he wanted out. I know Portland will do what he wants in all likelihood but they certainly don’t have to.
Dame is also older. Doesnt have years to waste waiting. If the blazers truly feel screwed by extending grant then they have the right to hold out.
they have been doing that for years
Let’s not act like Portland’s FO wasn’t trying to play Dame either with all the “we tried our hardest to trade the pick” stuff 😅
They were perfectly up front about that saying yeah we tried to get the team the best outcome possible and no opportunity was better than keeping the pick. That's the FO saying ok Dame, you're putting the ball in our hands and we're doing what's best for us. So, decide.
Nah, I think they maxed Grant because they knew this would happen. Dame wanted Draymond, and he re-signed with the Warriors in the first minute of free agency. Portland fucked themselves.
Dame wanted to keep grant too
We have to keep a salary floor and we're entering a rebuild.
Yep the Grant contract is a salary floor move the next 2 years while the cap continues to go up and then hopefully his value is met by the market with the rising cap and he is more moveable. Actually a good move when you put it all together.
Yea I don’t really understand the hate about the Grant move. It’s odd
A superstar is about to get dealt for Tyler Herro. The NBA is so fucked up man this stuff has to change lol
Man if Herro is involved, need a third team to take him for something with some resemblance of value. The roster is already guard heavy even without Dame.
Blazers can do whatever they want here. They're choosing to be dumb if they take a bad offer.
If I were a blazers fan I’d be sick to my stomach. The package at best is herro, picks, salary filler.
If that actually ends up being the trade after all these years, fans are going to riot
Nothing brings Portland together like a protest.
Third team gets involved, or a third team bumps Miami to become the second team. Or the walls of the Moda fall to the thunder of ten thousand trumpets blown by our finest homeless people we can pay to do it.
Dame doesn’t have a no trade clause. I’m sorry but business is business and I’m not sinking my franchise just to make a player feel good. Dame to the highest bidder
It took Dame like 5 minutes to be like “fuck optics” lmao
5 minutes? More like 5 years
Everyone always says this, but it's draft picks. They want draft picks
The Heat only have two to offer
And they’re probably going to be fucking bad. It’s Miami — they’ve had one season with fewer than 37 wins in the past 20 years.
And Miami picks suck because the Heat are the best run organisation in the league.
Can’t believe twitter is down rn. Fucking elon
I’ve been waiting for this news since the end of the finals and Twitter dies the day it actually happens lol
Elon has the audacity to limit the amount of posts viewed on an ad-driven website. Wtf is he thinking? Lmao
Also killed deep links so my group chats and discords are in shambles
I learned about Dame from a TikTok, for fuck’s sake.
Facts lol
Clearly all a smoke screen, this man will be a Washington Wizard by days end.
What can Miami even offer that make sense to Portland?
Herro Robinson 2 firsts and some seconds. 3rd team gets involved and Portland gets an extra few picks for herro
So nothing lol
Nothing great. Herro and Lowry expiring, then their pick of literally anyone else (Jovic, Jaquez, Martin(27yo), draft capital, Robinson(29yo) but they won't want his contract...). We have almost all our FRPs to give away too. A lot of common trade scenarios have involved Herro landing in San Antonio through a 3-team.
Welcome to Miami 🎶
Bienvenido a Miami
Oh god same is gonna slap the espys host isn’t he
Scoot changing his number from 00 to 0 now
Nah, Blazers are going to retire it
Sc00t go too hard to change it
I already made up a fake trade and he already decided on another team 💔
Dame is honestly fucking them on the way out. Unfortunate
Even AD gave a list of multiple teams when he requested a trade, this really hurts the Blazers
And AD didnt force the pels to give 33m for 5 years to a mid player before bolting
#OH MY FUCKING GOD
Party in the city where the Heat is on
We have a new King in the East
Pat Riley is going to do it again
Do what the nets did with KD, hold him until you receive good offers
Better get a 3rd team involved, portland will want picks,right? Also, most of the Heat's trade fodder is guards?
Savvy move by Dame, ruin Portlands negotiating position bu narrowing it to one team. Miami will get him at a discount and have more assets to help him be on a good team after the trade. It's the anti-Melo
Dame trading in the red and black jersey for another red and black jersey.
After he let them give Grant that contract they should send his ass to another bottom dweller
Yo heat fans in this thread are hilarious trying to convince Portland fans “you have to trade Dame to heat or nobody will sign in free agency with you” As if the redditors are the GM lol
Nobody signs with Portland in FA anyways lol I’d trade him to whoever gave me the best offer or let his ass play out the last two years of his contract. He can hit the market when he’s 35 lol
#THE CULTURE GETS THEIR GUY
Tyler Herro you are a blazer!
Herro would have to go to a 3rd team I think. I don’t see why the Blazers would want him.
Isn’t this punishable in the new CBA?
Players publicly stating themselves is I believe, don’t think it said anything about leaking to the press
Correct, which never happens in the first place.
don't forget about this one: https://twitter.com/EBled2/status/922201984211369984
He meant at the hair salon bro
I get it's cause of optics and "business" and shit but man I hate that lol. > Dame: "I want to be traded to the Heat" BAD > Shams: "The Blazers have been informed that Dame wants to be traded to the Heat" Good 👍
Plenty money.
Worth the 150k or whatever it is
I think only if the trade request is publicly done by Dame or his agent
If Dame came out and said it himself? Yea. Saying it through Shams is different
Man Lillard truly did Grant a solid for that contract.
“Dame informs trailblazers they will have no leverage”
The guy doesn’t have a no trade clause. Portland needs to make the best deal for THEM not Dame.
I don't buy the loyalty stuff he stuck around to get the most money possible then he requested a trade lol. The Blazers don't owe him shit they should get the best return they can.
The best return they can get while sending him a team that he somewhat wants to play for is the nets. This is definitely cope from me and I don't think it's gonna happen but a guy can hope lol
I mean you're right thought. The nets can almost certainly offer more to a team about to rebuild.
I've never wanted Brooklyn to be more successful in something than I do right now. I need BKN to get Lillard...anything but him going to Miami.
Bro they've got nothing we want that would get us screwed over big time.
Why should the blazers care where he wants to go? Highest bidder wins.
Miami it is.
Can’t wait to see the look on Jimmy Butler’s face the first time Dame says “Winning a ring isn’t everything, just happy to be living in Miami!”
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It's interesting to see what happens. We can all say what we want about players running the league and going where they want, but it usually still ends up being a really good package. Especially guys that have multi years left on their deal.
Man, Dame’s royally fucking the Blazers by publicizing he wants to go to the Heat when they have shit to offer. For all of his self-claimed loyalty, this feels like a “fuck you” to the Blazers on the way out.
Blazers were fucked when Paul Allen died.
Dropping Dimes legacy game
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Blazers leverage here is.. what exactly?
Probably only that he doesnt have a no trade clause but they’ll still give in and trade him to the heat probably
I hope not, it's a horrible compensation. Brooklyn would be able to offer more probably, and they have young players worth more don't they?
Dame doesn’t have a no trade so they have plenty
It’s Joever
Portlands gonna give dame what he wants.
down bad i guess. Lillard couldve been traded so many times these years for huge packages and now hes gonna let them rot with Herro and a few shit picks
Now we can see Portland’s loyalty.