ezrathegreat
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Signings like these are the reason Portland will never win a championship.
Signings like these are the reason Portland will never win a championship.I mean, are you a treadmill team if you go from losing in the first round to losing in the WCF in a year?I want bruhs to get the bread but shyt like this is why they will remain a treadmill team and will never have a ring or Finals appearance.
a fixed max gives team no choice. You either pay it or watch him leave for a team who will.yeah, I will never hate on a bruh getting his money, but 50 million for lillard![]()
swap any player you want for dame.$ the blazers still wouldn't be a good enough team to get that ice ha*
That’s not what I’m sayingwho are the players that have won titles in recent memory as their teams best player? Bron, KD, Kobe, Chef, Wade, Kawhi, Dirk, Duncan, Shaq, etc
That's a short list of guys, you can't operate under the mindset of scrapping everything and continuously starting over until you're able to draft/sign an all-time great. Especially when you just reached the WCF with an incredibly flawed roster.
When you reach the Western Conference Finals, are you really a treadmill team or have we lost all sense of what that term means?

and God forbid they win a lottery, then it’s “who wants to live in Portland? Trade him to the Knicks!”As opposed to what? Starting over and tanking in hopes of maybe in 5 years, making the WCF like they did this season while missing one of their best players?
Portland isn't a free agent destination and their GM sucks.
Might as well ride their current success out and hope to get washed by the warriors again for the next few years while selling a ton of tickets
Only a handful of teams have won a title over the past 20 years, it's not the end all be all for the majority of the league.
Y’all gotta stop this shyt. Y’all get mad about players recruiting others to win rings but then shame players who aren’t ring chasing. Not every player is going to win a ring.I want bruhs to get the bread but shyt like this is why they will remain a treadmill team and will never have a ring or Finals appearance.
I want bruhs to get the bread but shyt like this is why they will remain a treadmill team and will never have a ring or Finals appearance.


This is one of the worst thing about the NBA fan base.When you reach the Western Conference Finals, are you really a treadmill team or have we lost all sense of what that term means?
That’s not what I’m saying
Dame is a scoring PG who doesn’t play great defense, the Blazers clearly hit the ceiling for this team they made it to the WCF and got swept by a worst iteration of the 2015 Warriors
You can supermax him at 29 but you can’t supermax him then live with complacency with the rest of your roster, because the past couple years should’ve showed them they need more to contend then an elite scoring backcourt we’ve seen this story before

I don’t know but I don’t think you can win a title in this NBA with Dame as your best player
I guess it all just depends on what’s important to you as a franchise