stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

cld see the heat doing it hes exactly what they need

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 14, 2023 3:24 PM (five minutes ago)

same and have to imagine they're on the list of beal's approved spots. the issue is butler has a 3/146 extension kicking in this season & you're getting close to bam extension time w/ the possibility of an all NBA hanging out there for him. the heat are renowned for their cap maneuvering, they've houdini'd out of worse situations than what this would prob be. but they don't have a hugely wealthy owner & very rarely pay the tax

the only team i can think of that is feasibly w/in contention and where beal would actually be an upgrade over their projected second best player is philly. which is prob why bill simmons said on his podcast the other day that philly is the team he'd be watching on beal.

heat, celtics, lakers are not getting better if they swapped their second best players for beal. and adding beal to their top 2 players seems untenable financially

two others that definitely won't happen but would possibly be upgrades would be scenarios where the kings or hawks acquired beal at the expense of re-signing sabonis/dejounte

maybe there's a scenario where the bulls move on from lavine and get beal but who wants lavine it can't be washington

i guess the lakers could carry beal's salary bcuz lebron isn't going to be there much longer. but i believe they have quite literally nothing to trade?

herro and robinson make almost exactly the same money as brad for the same length (robison has one year less) so its kinda same diff from a tax perspective

do it for the white out

projected starting lineup next season?? pic.twitter.com/AOqT5cr0Va

— wizards updates (@WizardsReddit) June 14, 2023

herro and robinson make almost exactly the same money as brad for the same length (robison has one year less) so its kinda same diff from a tax perspective

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 14, 2023 3:38 PM (four minutes ago)

the problem is that they prob wanna cut salary and not be deep into in the tax at all as opposed to finding a way to pay the same tax bill w/ a different combo of players

whatre you gonna do you know sometimes you gotta go out and get a brad beal

The Kuminga rumors make me wonder about the Warriors' draft acumen (unless he was another Lacob pick, sigh). Looney is basically the only guy to really stick, though hopefully Poole gets it together next season.

dynasties are generally good for attracting causals especially if theyre lead by great charismatic players

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 14, 2023 2:00 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I welcome the sea of casuals

no one will say it

“When my time is up and I retire… there will be people that say I changed the game.”

- Karl-Anthony Towns

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— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 14, 2023

KAT could probably fit all those people into a compact sedan.

kat's legacy likely to be that he's the most unremarkable and least interesting of the crop of contemporary hoops unicorns. that and maybe the most cringe public persona of his day

to be fair, he didn't say which game he was gonna change

i love KAT deeply

something mustve happened with kuminga, the org has to be over him completely to give up on him like this. he was a big part of the back half of the season and then made one mistake in an early playoff game and was yanked indefinitely. maybe he said some magic words. dude is crazy talented.

yeah kerr said something that inferred he wasnt happy with him

warriors whole org and vets probably has little patience for a malcontent rook but its probably something they should work on

it makes a ton of sense for them to reset the clock on a rookie scale contract and get rid of him before an extension is even a discussion, but the rest of the league is well aware of this

yeah its hard to get anything for a guy youre giving up on

i think kuminga is a player. the warriors are as specific a situation as any in the league i’d like to see him get to a place where he can just play a bit more freely.

i would have thought his bird rights etc would be valuable to the warriors with the new cap and all

i guess new cba makes it tough to spend above the second apron even if it's on guys you have bird rights for

If they give up on him then that’s two highly valuable assets they completely flubbed away and should’ve traded to bring in depth. At this point they’re better off just continuing to develop him he does a lot of things they need and at a good price. Tough spot

well it seems like they’re seeking a highly valuable asset in return which makes no sense but based on that report it’s not like they’re just raffling him off

Kat is a strange strange person

Karl Anthony Towns just said the Minnesota Timberwolves making the playoffs last year was more impressive than the Denver Nuggets winning an NBA Championship this year 😭 pic.twitter.com/JkpZJB5ry6

— Wes (@6ManYT) June 15, 2023

let him cook

that's real nerd voice KAT

kat’s agent or best friend or life coach desperately needs to intervene and tell him to stop expressing his hoop opinions in public

its funny how athletes love to go on podcasts and says stupid shit, theyre just like us

aaron rodgers being the ultimate example

i am being 100% serious when i say the wolves should use this as grounds to trade him

they should trade him

gobert has no trade value, ant is untouchable, kat is redundant and still has some value, honestly if i were minny i'd be asking about the simons+#3 package from portland for kat as the foundation.

maybe then dame would finally demand a trade

a win-win

watched some of the espn talking head shows and windhorst was talking about pels wanting to move up (presumably to get scoot) and how that meant zion was maybe up for grabs?? wild.

is scoot really going lower than 2

this is not an original point but the act of being willing to trade zion lowers his trade value quite a bit.

i cant understand the logic of drafting miller over scoot at all but this is the hornets we're talking about here

a less-valued zion is still probably enough to get #2 or #3 tho right?

looking at the beal situation and its strange, i kind of file him in the t-mac category of guys who are ridiculously good scorers with really short playoff resumes. maybe he's a perfect fit in miami! or maybe he's not that impactful in playoff situations and now you're on the hook paying him $57M when he's 33 or whatever.

i cant understand the logic of drafting miller over scoot at all but this is the hornets we're talking about here

wing over guard + they already have a star PG... if their evaluation is wrong & scoot is the next dame it will be a bad move but i don't think it's illogical, exactly. in reality i think the issue is that taking miller is almost too logical, for them. they're being blinded by the logic

in theory beal is pretty much the perfect third player on a contending team... but of course that is just theory

wing over guard + they already have a star PG... if their evaluation is wrong & scoot is the next dame it will be a bad move but i don't think it's illogical, exactly. in reality i think the issue is that taking miller is almost too logical, for them. they're being blinded by the logic

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 15, 2023 1:55 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i get the positional fit issue, but the comparing miller's ceiling to scoot's makes this seem very easy. just pick scoot and figure out how to make two ball-handlers work. miller seems fine as a player, but i dont see him being a #1 scorer (save this post for owning me later ofc).

seen some skepticism of scoot as a tru bucket getter out there

but hes got muscles

he is a total beast

in theory beal is pretty much the perfect third player on a contending team... but of course that is just theory

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 15, 2023 11:55 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

cant have your third option being paid 55M plus is the main issue of course.

seen some skepticism of scoot as a tru bucket getter out there

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 15, 2023 2:16 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think those ppl are high af

idk he cant shoot and people are questioning his "wiggle"

bag twitter is coming for him already?