I'll need this thread soon enough, lol.
― This machine bores fascism (PBKR), Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
the offseason comes for us all eventually
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
lmao
― Spottie, Thursday, 20 April 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link
ahhh lmao
The Houston Rockets are hiring Ime Udoka as their new head coach, sources tell me and @KellyIko.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 24, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
Def need to bring in harden now
― Spottie, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
has to happen
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 April 2023 21:32 (one year ago) link
nets, timberwolves, clippers: welcome to the nba offseason
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
two of those three teams seem utterly fucked
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
timberwolves id say are only medium fucked theyve got ant maybe they trade kat idk
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
ant is great. i'm not sure he's so great that he will just be able to lift any old team past the first round. at least in the next 3-4 years. can he impose his will on a playoff series and put a team on his back and just drag them up the mountain? maybe he can't do that until he's 28 (seven years from now)? so we'll see
i think they have to play their KAT card but it feels like a copy of the trae young conversation where you're looking for a team that is willing to give up significant assets to acquire a massive contract for a one-way player who is prob not good enough to take his team past the second round (or first, shit) w/o significant help and/or luck. an elite big man shooter is easier to fit into a team than a ball hog PG but KAT isn't being paid like he's brook lopez. and the wolves essentially fucked their franchise trading for a guy to play his position bcuz KAT doesn't really have anywhere to play on D. so idk. but if i was them i'd be looking to get off that contract tomorrow if i could
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
I have to assume Rudy is almost untradable now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Best case for Rudy-dumping is trading him for another maxed-out or nearly-maxed player who's on a shorter duration contract, but is generally less playable than Rudy. I wonder if Kawhi would qualify?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:14 (one year ago) link
I mean, I don't think the Clips even think about that would they?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
ummm no
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:04 (one year ago) link
haha no way in hell
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
damn rudy has a player option in 2026…
the wolves aren’t in an idea situation, but they have a budding superstar who’s 21 and a guy in KAT who should be tradeable despite his obviously limitations; he’s still on the team that drafted him and I don’t think there’s precedent for a guy with his pedigree not finding a suitor to give him another shot in a new situation. the clippers are a disaster but then playing in LA makes things a little easier to swallow…even still I’d probably rather be the wolves
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
I don’t think there’s precedent for a guy with his pedigree not finding a suitor to give him another shot in a new situation
we also don't have precedent for players getting paid $50m+ per year. if you trade for KAT you're taking on salaries of $50m, $54m & $58m for the three seasons *after* next year (he gets paid $36m in 23-24) right as the new CBA rules that hammer teams for going too far into the tax kick in. now, the CBA does incentivize teams to go some way into the tax, but if you're paying KAT $55m you're presumably trying to compete in a real way while operating under an effective hard cap. and you know that KAT has to be, at best, your second best player if you're going to be a title contender. so then you gotta find another guy making a similar salary or even more, while also filling out your roster & you're down assets (presumably) bcuz you traded for KAT.
all of which is to say again if i'm the wolves i'm trying to get rid of KAT immediately. the future on that contract looks really bad & i don't see how his value increases the closer those $50m salaries become to reality. i think he can play better in the playoffs w/ more experience (he just does a lot of dumb shit) but he's also a 27 year old who has been in the league for 8 years. i think we probably know what he is at this point.
i'm really curious how teams look at guys like dame, beal, KAT etc who could be out on the market but have the insane extensions that from my perspective look even worse given the new CBA landscape
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:33 (one year ago) link
KAT is a much better player than just being a "salary dump" but if i could salary dump that contract & get nothing back except some roster clarity & future salary cap space i'd do it
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:37 (one year ago) link
he also missed 2/3 the season. and extremely untimely injuries to 2 of their top 6 players. i think theyll be a top 4-6 team next year if everyone stays relatively healthy.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
are you talking about the t wolves
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
Yah
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
Kat entering his prime. Ant, Jaden another year older. Full season w Conley instead of DLo
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
putting denver aside on one end and houston, san antonio, portland & utah aside on the other end you could plausibly tell me that any of the other 10 west teams could finish between 4-6. but i still see the wolves as an 8-12 team
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
the biggest thing that sucked about KAT being out for so long is it provides this blank space where you could project anything, we went through a whole year and still don't really know. i could see management going either way, get out from under KAT get back some picks or - which I think is plausible - what Spottie just said, run this back and it can only get better.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:22 (one year ago) link
are they willing to pay naz reid is another question. their tax bill is gonna start hiking real quick
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
I just don’t think a team with edwards, gobert, and either KAT or what KAT gets flipped for is a real threat to finish out of the play-in. they’re probably closer to 6-8 than 4-6 imo tho
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:43 (one year ago) link
― Spottie, Wednesday, April 26, 2023 3:37 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think they are going to let him go, hopefully to the jazz so him and walker kessler be the twin towers of wolves regret
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:47 (one year ago) link
feels like ant will eventually be good enough to earn a top 4 seed for whatever team he's on, but also feels like that team isn't gonna be minnesota
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
they need to can finch. he clearly has no clue.
― micah, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
the more I think about it, given Ant's and Jaden's progression it would be nice - had the Rudy trade not happened - to have the option of trading KAT, getting another good player and picks, having a Naz Reid and Walker Kessler as diet KAT and Rudy but way younger and cheaper, then keeping some of the intriguing young pieces like Alexander-Walker, Josh Minott, Luka Garza and being in the same zone as OKC
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:12 (one year ago) link
uhh....ok?
Anthony Edwards could face legal action,per @DenverSportsCom“A law enforcement source said Edwards picked up a chair & swung it, striking a security guard…A source confirmed the incident and said both employees were injured & asked to file charges.” pic.twitter.com/gtSYeMA5YR— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 26, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:32 (one year ago) link
I mean... c'mon
im not seeing much there but idk.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
i think we can all agree it should be legal for ant edwards to do wrestling moves on ppl and arena employees sitting courtside
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:38 (one year ago) link
I keep watching that clip and wondering what I'm supposed to be seeing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
well he's swinging a metal chair in a crowded space while running which isn't wise but it's not the ideal angle to know what the hell happened
― Clay, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 22:43 (one year ago) link
a better angle
Had this sent to me, Idk original source. Credit to them. It is unreal how something as harmless as moving a chair can get the assault label and ensuing fallout.Everyone involved is a joke. pic.twitter.com/IbOL04ptz1— Jackson Lloyd (@JacksonLloydNBA) April 26, 2023
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:36 (one year ago) link
Unbelievable
Lol also as more and more phone videos of this are going to surface and studied like the Zapruder film
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
very serious stuff call the cops
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
i mean he clearly hit the blonde lady in the back. that would hurt
― micah, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
video got sent to us
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link
yeah kinda hard to tell still but the tip of one of the legs coulda dinged her pretty good. reckless and dumb from the kid.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:43 (one year ago) link
lad,
― Clay, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:46 (one year ago) link
extremely normal thing to do with a metal chair
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 23:49 (one year ago) link
dont worry im sure both employees are going to get a nice little check for calling the police
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:01 (one year ago) link
if thats what file charges means in the first tweet maybe its just some hr shit if so fine please stop swinging chairs laddy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link
although it does saw law enforcement source i guess
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:05 (one year ago) link
does acab include security guards
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link
surely the team will cough up a bag of cash to get them to not press charges that's just how this works right
― Clay, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
💰
― ciderpress, Thursday, 27 April 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
yeah read that piece, pretty classic too much too soon situation. i hope he gets over himself.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 October 2023 19:33 (eleven months ago) link
a guy who is constantly beefing with randos naming his boutique streetwear brand “my brothers no others” seems a little too on the nose
― circles, Sunday, 22 October 2023 20:08 (eleven months ago) link
Hopefully he’s not in too deep
― infinite wiggles (Spottie), Monday, 23 October 2023 02:35 (eleven months ago) link
Signing Rose to mentor Ja is like, uhhh...
― Jane Eyre Jordan (Leee), Monday, 23 October 2023 02:53 (eleven months ago) link
will derrick rose be the first NBA MVP *not* to make the HoF y/n
― mookieproof, Monday, 23 October 2023 04:52 (eleven months ago) link
he should be the first for many, many reasons
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Monday, 23 October 2023 11:06 (eleven months ago) link
westbrook should be the 2nd
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 October 2023 12:43 (eleven months ago) link
jk i don't particularly care about the whole hall of fame thing
― ciderpress, Monday, 23 October 2023 12:46 (eleven months ago) link
“It was anything to go against what I would have wanted,” Lillard told The Athletic, “That part was irritating. Just based off how it was happening, I knew (it wouldn’t be Miami).
“(The Blazers) hadn’t talked to Miami. So once it started happening like that, then I started hearing about all these other random teams, I was like, ‘I’m probably not going to Miami.’ So I wasn’t holding on to that too (much).”
What he had done, though, was green-light a message to Milwaukee in mid-September that would have everything to do with what came next.
When Lillard was convinced that Miami was off the table, Goodwin wanted to know if the Bucks were among the teams in serious pursuit of his seven-time-All-Star client. They weren’t.
But when that backchannel blessing was given, with the Bucks learning that Lillard would be excited about a possible partnership with the Bucks, the chase was on. And so the work began for Horst and his small group of trusted front office associates.
https://theathletic.com/4982925/2023/10/23/bucks-damian-lillard-trade-giannis-antetokounmpo/
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:07 (eleven months ago) link
btw hes not shams level but sam amick is a really bad writer
A businessman who was part of the group that bought the team for $550 million in 2014 and sold at a valuation point of $3.5 billion nine years later.
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:11 (eleven months ago) link
the nytimes should give the athletic some editors just an idea
https://i.imgur.com/a430Ioi.png
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 23 October 2023 14:16 (eleven months ago) link
seems like a lot
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Jaden McDaniels has agreed to a five-year, $136M contract extension, his agents Nima Namakian of @InnovateSports and Bill Duffy of @WME_Sports tell me and @JonKrawczynski.— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 23, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:21 (eleven months ago) link
One year for each finger he broke when he punched the wall and fucked his team's playoff chances
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 23 October 2023 18:37 (eleven months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:41 (eleven months ago) link
ok who’s starting the new thread
― k3vin k., Monday, 23 October 2023 18:49 (eleven months ago) link
2023/24 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "THANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"
― lag∞n, Monday, 23 October 2023 18:57 (eleven months ago) link
last of the stashing - hawk's extend Okongwu's rookie deal, 4yr 62mil but do not extend Bey who will now be a free agent this offseason
― Heez, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:22 (eleven months ago) link
that could be a steal of a contract for okongwu
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:24 (eleven months ago) link
agreed he fits a whole lot better in Snyder's scheme. replacing Collins and Capela with Okongwu and Johnson is going to make the hawks really fun
― Heez, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:32 (eleven months ago) link
locking up a young guy on a cheap deal usually works out pretty good if theyve any promise
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:41 (eleven months ago) link
i guess thats not totally a cheap deal but it seems pretty reasonable
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 02:46 (eleven months ago) link
in *this economy* thats a great deal
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 03:01 (eleven months ago) link