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Blazers must use trade deadline steal to help dump Jusuf Nurkic’s salary



Blazers must use trade deadline steal to help dump Jusuf Nurkic’s salary

by zwtor

19 Comments

  1. TravisDemers

    From the completely clueless about a teams plans department…

  2. crab90000

    Article just says to use the Knicks pick to dump him, no mention of replacements

  3. stumpcity

    If there’s two things I know about 23-24:

    Billups gotta go

    Nurkic gotta go

    For real how long do either of these two have to under-deliver at a profound level before the homerish love-affair wears off?

  4. GuyIncognito211

    As much as I’d love us to move on from Nurk, it makes way more sense to free up the protections on our picks with the Knicks pick

    We’re probably stuck with Nurk until he’s an expiring at the earliest

  5. So dump Nurk with the Knicks pick so we can have Drew Eubanks and Trendon as our full time big man rotation. Ripcity project is so braindead.

  6. MavetheGreat

    This is really dumb. Replace him with who? Look at the other centers in Nurk’s talent range, (10-20 best in the league) he makes less than most of them. Using a pick to dump Nurk is so short sighted with no way to replace him.

  7. JarenAnd

    Why? Nurk isn’t even prob #1-5. Just wait another year and his contract will become tradable. Only reason it’s not RN is the length of contract. Next summer w 2 years he will be tradable.

  8. Arr0wmanc3r

    This is incredibly stupid, wow. Even for those among you who hate Nurk, are we really going to GIVE UP A FIRST ROUND PICK just to get the guy off the team? That’s utterly ridiculous.

  9. asmara1991man

    Ohhh nooow we want to dump Nurk. I said it last summer when we signed him to that dumb ass deal why is he that expensive? Smh

  10. PM_ME_UR_SKILLS

    Nurk needs to go. I love him but all we do is make excuses for his poor play. “He’s coming back from injury” or “remember the 20 20 5 5 5 game??” I’m over it. Get me a center that actually rebounds or has the ability to finish at the rim.

    I’m not asking for much. I want Nurk to succeed but I’m looking at reality too. How many years has it been now?

  11. jrances1

    I understand the frustration with Nurk but this article has no substance and adds nothing.

  12. BrklynDragon

    RipCity project is garbage, can we please stop posting it here. it’s a casual fan with a hundred bucks to spend on a domain name and website design.

    Use an ASSET to salary dump our only good big man because he doesn’t fit the scheme Chauncey’s bottom of the NBA defense wants to run??? Getting rid of one of our only big contracts that can be put in a trade package for a star? For what? To free up cap space we still won’t have?

    Just a dogshit idea clearly generated for hate clicks.

  13. LooseLingonberry2204

    Can’t trade for vuc he’s a free agent after the season

  14. We need to give Watford and Eubanks human growth hormones

  15. peccaryiaye

    If only we could find the person or persons who gave him the contract…

  16. It reminds me of the “fire Stotts” bandwagon.
    We’re sooo much better with Billups…

  17. licorice_whip

    Ripcityproject needs to be blocked. Besides having the worst takes, their website is ad-riddled cancer on phones and computers, which is by design given the click-bait bullshit they pump out.

    Funny enough, when I set up a home network-wide ad blocker (Pihole), this was one of the sites I used to test out the efficacy.

  18. gerrard_1987

    Portland should target a guy like Mo Wagner in free agency. No real need to give up a pick with Nurkic, unless it’s for a healthier, younger center with as much upside as Nurkic once had.

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