re: Scoot Wants to be in New Orleans & Zion is Available, per Chris Haynes

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cobbling together a lot of stuff to make a desperate Minnesota and Portland both take a loss to get close to what they want. That's the only way it happens though, by having 2 desperate teams in the right place at the right time.

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If this opportunity presents itself it's great we still have so much draft capital to throw out. Matching contracts becomes the calculus, though.

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If Portland would take KAT and Minnesota didn't want Scoot because they feel he's too redundant with Ant, I could see a way the Pels could be the 3rd team and walk away with the best player by cobbling together a lot of stuff to make a desperate Minnesota and Portland both take a loss to get close to what they want. That's the only way it happens though, by having 2 desperate teams in the right place at the right time. Even then it seems unlikely.

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Yea, this is what I was getting at. Using young players + picks to facilitate getting another star or quasi-star from another team. It's a longshot, but a small possibility

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Yea, this is what I was getting at. Using young players + picks to facilitate getting another star or quasi-star from another team. It's a longshot, but a small possibility

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This is why i think helping facilitate a PG trade to Portland would be ideal for all. Clips can get Simons, Dyson and Herb and still have salary left to add another star player along with all the picks we would be sending them, or they keep everyone and have a damn good young team built around Kawhi without him having to go through rookie growing pains.

True, BUT SA has a history of being very good with player development and patient, provided you don’t jerk off in front of your psychologist.

When you don’t have an all time great like Duncan or Robinson anchoring you, it is harder for those diamonds in the rough to really shine.

Some of these trades are unrealistic.
How much does portland or Charlotte want an often injured player? not as much as you think. Oden, Bowie, Zion ?

Here's what i believe. Griff is willing to trade Zion to Charlotte for scoot and some other stuff b/c it fixes 2 things.

He doesn't really want to trade him to portland or a west team.

Scoot is an all star caliber potential player that will be cap friendly until CJ is gone. The unknown product on the court will also be gone.

But in the end i give it 20% chance of happening.

I just saw Dame liked a tweet of Zion rumored to coming to Portland. Dame really putting the blazers front office feet to the fire to get deal done or he knows one is already done.

Or he liked a tweet because he knows Zion is an other worldly player and would like to play with him

Yeah but doing that still has the effect I talked about- It will likely put pressure on portland getting deal done. I know we keep saying the chances for a deal are low but I don’t know man I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re just trying to rough out edges- granted that can still stop a deal but instead of going away its just getting louder and louder. Again with all that being said nothing can happen and Griffin can act like hes running it back.

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I’d hope nobody is getting their hopes up thinking this is going to happen

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Something’s happening. It’s a question of what, not “when is this trade happening”.

Too much smoke not to be something in the works one way or another, it is a question of who is misdirecting who about their plans.

We could be trading back instead of trading up. Portland could be trying to get someone else by using Zion and BI as potential players they end up with in order to up the bidding from others. Etc.