stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

crazy fact I just read - outside of Bucks/Suns in 2021 every Finals since 2011 has included either the Heat or the Warriors. and yet they never faced each other.

hope someday we see a team with a kobe and lebron playing side by side, bringing harmony to the universe

People around the league expect the Pelicans to move Zion Williamson by Thursday, per @BillSimmons

“The Zion thing is a real, real, real, subplot. I had somebody tell me yesterday—that I trust—that he will not be on [the Pelicans] by Thursday.” pic.twitter.com/CXZAgpr2kr

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 19, 2023

good

gotta be a deal to charlotte for the #2

I feel like Scoot Henderson is going to go before Miller partially because his name is so cool

developing a new orlando magic theory

melo-zion could be crazy if either of them ever play in games and learn defense

2 big ifs!

some pretty major ifs

one might say the biggest ifs

were i building a team i would prob not do it but as a fan i am willing to watch

they prob should just trade melo to celtics

isiah in the mix

NEW: Sat down with Chris Paul this morning for a lengthy chat in NYC. He said he found out about the trade via a text message from his 14 year old son. Cited multiple times that that Mat Ishbia and *Isiah Thomas* wanted to go in a different direction. https://t.co/bGSfNUge0d

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 19, 2023

james jones easiest job in the league right now

in some ways, but easiest =/= most job security

In the interview, Paul seemed caught off guard by the trade. He said he spoke to James Jones yesterday. pic.twitter.com/IF4xMI5wCP

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) June 19, 2023

Does Isiah actually have a job with the Suns organization? Or is he just tight with Ishbia? I'm thinking it's the latter, unless something has happened recently.

CP3 is 38. His salary for the next two seasons when he'll be 39 & 40 years old:

- 2023-24 = $30,800,000, with $15,800,000 guaranteed, becoming fully guaranteed on 6/28/23.

- 2024-25 = $30,000,000, non-guaranteed, becoming fully guaranteed on 6/28/24.

Surely he understood from the start that those terms always meant he'd be standing on shaky ground after this season ended, unless he was playing like a top ten player.

i spent a bunch of today driving around listening to various reactions to the beal trade, which was interesting. a lot of the more positive takes make 2 points--1) they aren't any more screwed now than they were before as far as the second apron and punitive things down the road and 2) they turned chris paul, who they were going to wave, into beal and how can you argue with that?

i get these points and i guess it was a very unique situation with beal's no trade and the need to do this now before the new cba kicks in, so maybe taking issue with the on-court fit is missing the point, but i feel strongly that it's a rough fit. when you're saying things like this will help free up kevin durant to put more effort toward defense and rebounding, which is something nate duncan actually said, you're getting a little galaxy brain and not just stating the obvious which is that the suns are spending like 90 million on identical shooting guards.

the other thing is that yeah this team will have a great offense, but i'm not sure it's that hard to have a great offense? the sacramento kings just finished a season as the best offense in the nba, their best player is maybe the 20th best player in the league?

defense is still somehow underrated in the league

the other thing is that yeah this team will have a great offense, but i'm not sure it's that hard to have a great offense? the sacramento kings just finished a season as the best offense in the nba, their best player is maybe the 20th best player in the league?

― call all destroyer, Monday, June 19, 2023 9:27 PM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is very true, and also due to having a playmaking guard (fox) paired with a passing big operating at the top of the key (sabonis) which is pretty much the nugs formula for generating offense.

yeah I’m not sure I see it, with beal you’re committing yourself to more years and sort of capping your medium-term upside for a guy with a redundant skill set. and the amount of passing talent on that team is pretty concerning imo

i bet their offense won't even be tops

their main guys are not going to play enough!

as i understand it the suns are going to be in the second apron for the next two years basically no matter what, then they'll need to be out for the three years after that to avoid the really bad stuff, i'm sure that will have no unexpected implications lol

i’m not even a suns fan and the whole situation makes me feel anxious

it feels like james edwards is very confident that ausar thompson is the pick at 5 pic.twitter.com/va6CamtUHZ

— dope ™️ (@dopeisalive) June 19, 2023

having a pick from like 4-10 feels like a total crapshoot

wild how every single team situation KD's gotten himself into since the Thunder has been deeply strange on some level

gm lebron >> gm kd

having a pick from like 4-10 feels like a total crapshoot

i'd say you have to draft for need in a year like this but every guy is a 6'7" wing who purportedly does the same stuff give or take

yeah no guards, no centers, it definitely gets subjective quick

i dont know that this is true tho, amen and ausar are literal twins but amen is coming in as a big PG and ausar is a wing. anthony black will be playing point in the NBA. jarace walker is ostensibly a big if not a C. lively could go as high as 10 to dallas as a rim-protecting center. hendricks is a sharp-shooting stretch 4.

i think a lot of teams could address needs if they decide to draft for fit, i guess i'd chalk some of this up to teams that are trying to figure out if they have a meaningful core to build around or need to keep swinging for all-star scoring upside (DET and HOU esp) are followed by teams who definitely need to swing for all-star upside but are going to eat the leftovers of the lottery (IND, WAS, UTA) unless they trade up.

gm lebron >> gm kd

― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Monday, June 19, 2023 8:41 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

GM durant vs GM bron: a hoops poll

its a good poll

we'll have some new data to crunch by end of next season for sure

not convinced kd was involved in this one

I just talked to him he said he did it

well then

passive aggressively forcing dame to demand a trade

"Blazers have started to maybe indicate that they won't trade the No. 3 pick... Dame does not want a youth movement, he wants to play with veterans... [Portland] is causing a bit of an issue there with Damian Lillard."

—Brian Windhorst

(@GetUpESPN)pic.twitter.com/TjLCuptwvo

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 20, 2023

one good prospect isnt really a youth movement

simons sharpe #3... whoever they can get for dame, whoever they can get for their other vets

add #3 pick to simons and sharpe and that's a youth movement

is dame dissatisfied with simons and sharpe

they do have a lot of guards i guess

seems like dame is maybe going to get traded

portland has always had a lot of guards

they should check out: forwards

great position imo one of them best

almost as good as center