I think the Blazers wouldn't have any hesitation and would have agreed to a trade with the Heat a long time ago if the Heat front office included either Butler or Adebayo in the deal. Obviously, that's not going to happen, as the Heat want to build a super team by keeping those two guys and getting a player like Lillard by trading only role players for him.

Top 10 center in the league he says, haha.
Didn't this guy see him play in Taiwan? I saw him play, live in the arena 3 times. Even in Taiwan he can't dominate in the paint and had problems with some guys, so how would he in the NBA.
Also, at GSW he would also just be the backup center. How would he be a backup as a top 10 center, smh.

Nobody could force Portland to make that trade if they do not want to, Dame was the one who accepted such a huge salary that he deserved but also a very long one. He is signed until 2026 or so I think, which means that when he was signing that deal, he knew that he would not be able to leave, and he had to accept it as a fact that Portland may not trade him at all. I feel like now him wanting out is not fair, they have paid him so much because they agreed on the money but also the term of the deal as well, maybe they would have offered less if he wanted a 1-2 year contract, who knows? Maybe they found it worthy because he agreed a long term deal and they made their decisions based on that? If he wants to leave, that's his right to want to leave, but if they want to keep him, then they have every right to not trade him.

Agree to that, it will affect the overall performances of the team if your main alpha is not playing at his best, along the way maybe Portland will find the suited offer for Dame then trade him to that team who will give them the best offer.

We can't dictate what will happen as there are many factors that may affect the trade and knowing this league
surprises are no longer new. We never know what will be the plan and how it will be executed.

Wow that's pretty cool you saw him play in Taiwan?  Did you see any other former NBA players when you went to watch? We rarely hear about where x-NBA players go to play after the NBA.  I honestly had no idea that he was playing Taiwan.  Every once in a while I hear about an x-NBA player playing overseas and always suprised about it. 

I bet he wat still fun to watch no?

Dwight has a lot of memes on twitter about him playing in Taiwan during the last Playoffs since he is the only one that stop Joker during his time on Lakers before while Nuggets dominates Lakers on the last playoff with no one can guard Jokic.

He is having the best time of his career on Taiwan since he dominates the game there. I think is he the only popular NBA player playing in Taiwanand the rest is on China and other lower asia league.

Kawhi Leonard, Ben Simmons, James Harden, Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving.

They're just a few players who have contract, but they still wanted to get traded, and got approved. He knew that he would not be able to leave? Yes he can. Just not play for the whole season, then the team will be forced to trade him especially with that huge contract of his, the Blazers will be forced to trade him because it will be a burden for them paying that huge amount, and yet he wasn't playing for them. Like he said, I think that he only wants to play in Miami uniform, and base on Woj, a few teams are contacting them already for a potential trade. What's good as well is that, the Suns are rumored to be the 3rd team that will get involved into a trade that includes Dame. The question is which team they are contacting with right now.

He's the main player of the team, so obviously the team will give him a near-supermax contract. He's the main guy on the team. Like I said above, they have the right to keep him, but if you're the GM of the Blazers, will you keep a player who isn't interested in playing with your team, but on the other hand, you are paying him since it's on the contract?

On the other hand, Commissioner Adam Silver must have a solution with this types of situation. It seems like the player has the power on this kind of scenarios where they will just request a trade whenever they feel they need to.

I think you are right I'm not sure if there is any other big time players playing over there right now.  Honestly I haven't even been watching, what was his stats while he was over there?  I can't see him not dominating the paint in that league.  I don't have hate against the guy it's just he is a 37 year old big man who bangs down low.  His carrier is pretty much done at this point.

This is what they've got letting those star players do what they want when they are popular and become stars in the team, it's become a norm now because they are afraid to lose the money they paid when they don't agree with their star players as long as it makes sense what they are doing. but the problem is, that they are being taken advantage of due to the fact that they can't really do anything about those players. there should be a lifetime ban concerning these types of acts in order for players not to cause the same problems again.

For sure he is enjoying his stint in Taiwan, he even won the MVP during the All-Star game there, with a huge 37 points, 13 rebounds, and dished out 8 assists. But I guess the ultimate goal of Howard is to return to NBA.

And he really did to play, as he had problems with his Taiwan team as they are offering like a pay-cut for him. So most likely he will not be going to play for next season. Unless he opted to go to Europe League to test his skills there.