i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

really hoping one or more of those mediocre east teams w/ bunch of talent steps forward next year (bucks, pistons, the orlando magic theory)

tho obv the west equivs are all better (jazz nuggets twolves) since the east isn't allowed to ever have the prospect of being the good place

i think the pistons could take another considerable leap, in no small part stemming from possibility that hack-a rules will get changed but also bc the basic core of that team is sound and still young - no reason to think drummond, jackson and tobias harris won't get better

yeah also they have the stan factor

manu opted out

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http://i.imgur.com/LfMRru6.jpg

:[ xp

i know ive said it before but lakers executing the sixers tanking process better than them and receiving zero flack for it is really something

kobe masked anything else they were trying to do

letting kobe play a zillion minutes of low efficiency bball for a couple years was a brilliant tanking mechanism+cover-up all in one

+hiring byron scott

whats funny is its still unclear if they were doing it on purpose lol

they were 1 million percent not trying to tank on purpose

ya i tend to agree the tell being their repeated failed attempts to sign free agents

tho tanking cldve been their backup plan

trading for roy hibbert and signing nick young and hiring byron scott will def go down as the most successful accidental tanking plan of all time tho

it was pretty genius. probably faked that j randle injury too. let the man sit a year and don't f him up having to listen to kobe/byron for an extra year

Brian Geltzeiler @hoopscritic
Hayward has expressed his unhappiness in Utah and the Jazz are attempting to accommodate him per league sources...
5:57 AM - 22 Jun 2016 · Livingston, NJ, United States

Brian Geltzeiler @hoopscritic
League sources tell http://hoopscritic.com that the Utah Jazz are actively trying to trade Gordon Hayward.
5:56 AM - 22 Jun 2016 · Livingston, NJ, United States

didn't really see that one coming

wonder what the dramz is

whoa wut

prob doesnt want to play on a team that has to burn the first 10 seconds of the shot clock waiting for an extremely large frenchmen to lumber down the court

decided utah was too white

saw some tweets suggesting that dude might not be the most reliable of sources but fuck it tweets >>>>>>> facts

yeah i think mark stein said the jazz weren't trading him lol

damn i want drama

drama! trades! drama!

yeah that hayward stuff is straight bs

sad

Teague to pacers

TRAAAAAAAADES YES

wow alright

Jeff Teague to Pacers in 3-team deal w/ Hawks, Jazz.
Hawks get No. 12 pick, George Hill to Utah. (via @TheVertical)

hawx in full rebuild that quick?

basically exactly the type of player the pacers need

Watch the Hawks flip that pick to the spurs, watch

I like handing over the reigns to Schroeder but I figured we could do better than the 12th pick

Well done Larry. Happy for Teague to play in his hometown

apparently they can sign 2 max players now

harrison and ezili

ha

omg

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojVerticalNBA 13s13 seconds ago
Knicks and Bulls are in advanced talks on a deal to send Derrick Rose to New York, sources tell @ShamsCharania and me.

that's a joke right

whoa big trade

K.C. Johnson Verified account
‏@KCJHoop
The Bulls are sending Derrick Rose, Justin Holiday and a 2017 2nd-round pick for Robin Lopez, Jerian Grant and Jose Calderon, per source.

praises be to the basketball gods for this bounty of messy trade drama

Rose on the Knicks sounds fun

former mvp traded for the lesser lopez brother, what a tumble

*whispers* i like this trade for both sides

the knicks buying into an aging point guard's twilight years.... what a time to be alive