I think there is a lot of weed being puffed if people think we can get LMA. I would eat a hot steaming pile of dog crap if we did though
Seriously, the more I think about it, the more D-Mo, Capela, and a pick or two is a great haul if I'm Portland as opposed to letting him walk. Maybe I'm overrating our guys but that would be one of the better sign-and-trade hauls that I can recall.
It will be a sign n trade to either the Rockets or Spurs. If Aldridge wants to win a championship(s), he chooses the Rockets. Rockets are still young. Spurs are way too old. Duncan 39, Ginobilli 37, Parker 33 and slowing down. Kawi Lenord is a good player but he's no James Harden. This Rockets team with Aldridge would be head and shoulders better than everyone else.
Do EVERYTHING and ANYTHING to get LMA to Houston. Harden + LMA Pick and Roll game would be one of the hardest covers in the NBA.
I don't know why clutch fans wants LA so badly . He is a good player but is going to be 30 this season and is not worth gutting the team over. We arguably were the second best team in the nba last season . Why shake things up so much ? It is rare that a contending team has a chance to have some continuity and build chemistry over the offseason . We have an outstanding mix of veterans and youth . I think people remeber what Aldridge did to us in the playoffs a few years ago and think he is that level of player all the time . Outside of those first two games he really wasn't that spectacular the rest of the series much less the playoffs. If GS winning this year has taught us anything it's to go for depth over top heaviness. When you commit so much to a few players like cleavland did when one of them gets injured it kills you . Plus Cleveland has Lebron . By the stats last year . LA was not a top 20 nba player . He might not be top 30 . This is not a dude I would gut the team for . Now if he is willing to take a one year deal for low money sure sure why not but he is going to get paid big time and we cannot pay him without giving up substantial assets. I like our young bigs dmo and Capela more than most and Portland would certainly ask for them in a sign and trade. Let me ask clutchfans what our record is once we gut the team to get Aldridge and end up starting KJ as SF . Oh and Howard misses about 30 games and Aldridge misses 10 too . Health is important and in absence of extreme durability depth is needed. Howard has a few good years left but with harden we have a potential 10 year window if we can turn dmo / clint into top 10 bigs which both have the potential to be . Also llull and other Pg's we can pick up have high potential . If Johnson learns how to shoot he will be a better Beverley which is a top 15 pg . We have so much to work with Already , don't throw it away to take a 1-2 year gamble on Aldridge and Howard's health .
Does anybody else think that LMA announcing his decision to leave the Blazers this early in the process is to give the team acquiring him enough time to make the necessary moves to clear space to sign him? Or to help Blazers to sign and trade him? It is draft day after all. Most guys wait a bit longer to make their intentions known.
I think they've known for awhile hence the Batum trade. Now it's up to LMA to decide and as soon as he names a team the Blazers will likely take whatever they can get in a sign and trade. In other words it's not a matter of coming up with the best trade package it's about being the team that LMA wants.
Lebron , love , Kyrie unbeatable ? Not if they aren't healthy and with Howard's track record it is a risky thing to bet on his health. I'm all for taking shots to contend but we are already a contending team . We went to WCF last year despite missing two starters . Give this current team another offseason to gain chemistry and make some marginal upgrades like getting llull and they have just as good of a shot at a title as a team with the proposed big 3 . It's all luck anyways , but spreading out talent across depth gives you a bit of a cushion if injuries do happen.
My sister is old friends with lmas baby momma. They are still good friends and she is a spurs fan but still onviously is very involved with lamarcus as they share a child. My sister just texted her asking what Lma is going to do and she said back that he is leaning towards the lakers. The info is real but she might not know what she is talking about but apparently he owns a house out there
