Joe Cronin Press Conference | 2025 NBA Trade Deadline | Portland Trail Blazers
Trail Blazers General Manager Joe Cronin speaks with the media following the NBA’s Trade Deadline.
𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 » http://www.instagram.com/trailblazers
𝗧𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 » http://www.twitter.com/trailblazers
𝗧𝗜𝗞𝗧𝗢𝗞 » https://www.tiktok.com/@trailblazers
𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 » http://www.facebook.com/trailblazers
🖥️ Visit our website for the latest news, videos, podcasts, photos and more: http://www.trailblazers.com
🎙️ Listen to Trail Blazers podcasts: http://www.trailblazers.com/podcasts
📺 Watch Trail Blazers games on Root Sports https://northwest.rootsports.com/trail-blazers
🏀 Subscribe to NBA League Pass: https://rip.city/LeaguePass
📲 Download the Trail Blazers mobile app: https://www.nba.com/blazers/app
🎟️ Buy game tickets: https://www.nba.com/blazers/single-game-tickets?utm_source=youtube
👕 Rip City Clothing : https://ripcityclothing.com/
50 Comments
BOOOOOOOOOOO
Holding back the young guys for jerami grant rob will and ant im so heated
Booooooooo
Press conference for what? He didn't do anything.
The guys at Blazers Uprise predicted what he would say right on the dot🤣
Pos gm now fs Shae is leaving in free agency and scoot mostly likely as well…
11 minutes 30 seconds of 💩
Cronin is awful
Jerami grant is still on the roster Robert Williams is still on the roster so you failed
Get this guy out!
Rip City Standing Pat!!!
U think chauncey has done a great job… im sick to my fucking stomach dude
You can’t tell me 29 other teams had no good offer for Grant
The lip service this guy continues to give. He’s a puppet. I feel sorry for anyone that still listens to this front office and thinks they are different from the previous front offices.
Unbelievably stupid decision making. Hope Shaedon does not extend if they don’t start him soon. Scoots next the way this bullshit is going
There’s gotta come a point where you put the vets on the back burner and let the young guys go and develop. We are way past that point
🫡 keep grinding FO. We on the right path.
They’re hot right now, fun to watch.
Awful
Man you can be excited about these guys AND be competent enough to realize tanking for a top guy in this draft would take it to the next level…contender potential. Cronin wanting us to go for it and win shows how bad of a GM he is or him n Jody just want good enough. 🤦🏻♂️
“The sky is the limit with this team”. This man is on meth🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭
In Joe we trust 🙌🏻 he makes smart trades, he doesn’t just force a contested shot. I like this guy a ton.
Shae and Scoot are developing just fine. They don’t need to play 40 minutes a night, and the older players have helped the team put them into a position to succeed. With Deni and Tou, they’re growing a defensive identity, and Grant has only added to that, being one of those long wing defenders. Clingan probably needs to play a little bit more, but that’ll come. I love what you’re building here, Joe. Thanks for not settling for a bad trade. Don’t listen to this overly negative fan base. Most just have Cooper Flagg stuck on their brain.
So is Cronin finally the bad guy instead of Chauncey?
This man has done an amazing job building a competitive team. Portland is in good hands.
Same BS talk
This guy is a true car salesman
Wow, the arm chair GM’s on this comment thread are ‘hilarious’. Sit down. Geez. None of you have any idea what being a GM takes. Every effing year you all are the same. Wait until the end of the year and then you all can cry foul. Meanwhile, just enjoy the remainder or perhaps find something more productive. Bring on the trolls. 😊
Great GM. Keep holding for the right trades, Joe.
6minute = ant
Not trading Grant and Ant is organizational malpractice, this winning streak is a flash in the pan, a good GM needs to prioritize the big picture over a handful of meaningless games in January. Leaning on the vets to get these wins is fools gold. The smart fans understand our best chance for competing for championships is getting talent in this year's draft and are not fooled by this desperate attempt for Billups to save his job as indicitive of the potential of this roster as it currently sits.
Dude found Toumani and y'all wanna hate, FOH
Anybody remember Joe saying he didn't want to short circuit this rebuild? Well, looks like that is exactly what he is doing pushing for the play in! This roster doesn't have anywhere near the talent required to win a playoff series let alone a championship with the vets we have. The correct decision was to cut your losses on Jerami and move his contract last summer or this deadline. Instead we get to see this team play itself out of another high lottery pick to get stuck in mediocrity of being satisfied with just making the playoffs.
I've read so much criticism of Cronin of late by fans who want us to trade Simons, Grant, Ayton and Williams for peanuts. I love the team synergy during this winning streak and would welcome playoff basketball. Let Scoot, Sharpe and Clingan contribute in that context. There are still good minutes for those guys.
Should have moved Jerami Grant to Cleveland. Beneficial to both teams.
Focused on the big picture……. your three top picks are coming off the bench………IN A REBUILD. He talks so much bs it crazy.
FIREEE CRONIN
Moves will probably be made in the offseason. Just too many players and not enough minutes
People saying below this team is hot so dont make a move. Sure if you wanna get stuck in mediocrity. You see teams like the cavs just made a move even though they have a top record. This FO and GM is incompetent.
You all should be PISSED they have made zero effort to improve the core and acquire talent. Last summer they should’ve moved Grant but he’s declined too much to move now. Scoot and Sharpe NEED to play 40 min a night because they are the FUTURE. Bunch of dumbases this team is going nowhere
This guy is not a perfect Gm but his last statement I loved and this team has good vibes.. I ❤love our Lord savior Jesus Christ and I am happy with the blazers development.. I loved the sky is the limit comment and he didn’t want to take a chance at the play in away ❤❤ Cronin from my discernment sounds like a good person
This team sucks and is going absolutely nowhere. Send Scoot and Sharpe to a team that will actually rebuild around them
Lot of armchair GMs who think Cronin can force teams to trade with him and take guys we don't want
I love Joe, very smart guy.
what a bum
"Fairly close on a few things" so you asked for too much. Joe doesnt know how to do his job fire him and sell the team. On the road to no where
Looking for contact info for blazersedge mods (other than timmy) if anyone has them. Preferably corvid. Thanks for any help.
The team looking great right now im glad that they not breaking up the team
let him cook.
How do build a sustainable winner if your vets are getting older and are overpaid? How do you get young players on a good contract? You draft high or trade picks. How do you get picks, you move your vets for expiring contracts and draft captial so you can take on bad contracts and get picks for doing so.
Alan Dershowitz represented Jeffrey Epstein, Lex Wexner, Bill Gates, & OJ Simpson. Simpson got pulled from the League. Hernandez kept playing. Bill Billichek #1