I mean it's at the Blazers expense but letting players dictate what they want and when they want it after signing a deal is a bad precedence. This only encourages other stars to behave like this when you don't get what you want. If I was the Blazers I'd play this game of chicken. The flip side is they can flip Dame into a bunch of young pieces to go with Simmons, Sharpe and scoot and build for the future.
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.