2023 nba draft thread: starring victor, scoot... and more!

simons avg'd 21-4-3 on 45-38-90 splits last year playing next to dame, he's gonna be a scorer for someone but b/w dame and scoot and sharpe he's the odd man out

dallas asset management never is trustworthy (d.a.m.n.i.t.)

― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Thursday, June 22, 2023 9:07 PM (forty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

hahahah well done

Mavs just traded their pick that they tanked for lol.

lol at the fans booing silver then cheering when announced a trade

okc getting cason is good, though i guess they are planning for him to be a backup for a while

seems like a very okc guy

The Mavericks are trading No. 10 and Davis Bertans to the Thunder for No. 10, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 23, 2023

picturing woj blind typing this as he’s on the air

seems like a pretty fair trade

woj was on russillo's pod and said he was going to try to lay off tweeting except for trade stuff. that's how quick the muscles can atrophy.

tbh dumping bertans’ deal to move down from 10 to 12 is a pretty good move, the difference in expected value between picks 10 and 12 is basically nil

the fashion stuff is tough too a bunch of kids with the same stylist and different favorite colors

maybe cason wallace will be amazing but okc’s “guys” in the draft often suck lol

tbh dumping bertans’ deal to move down from 10 to 12 is a pretty good move, the difference in expected value between picks 10 and 12 is basically nil

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 22, 2023 9:12 PM (sixteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah particularly if they’re targeting someone they figure will still be there

tbf theyve drafted like 20 guys in the last 5 years, a bunch of them will suck

xp

wow hollinger had jett howard ranked in like the 50s lol

lmao orlando!!!

orlando going for the nepo baby backcourt with cole anthony

reaches are almost as cool as trades

tbf theyve drafted like 20 guys in the last 5 years, a bunch of them will suck

xp

it’s crazy gradey dick is falling this far teams never learn

vecenie had him 25, yikes

it took him forever to get to the stage bc he was way in the back lol

rough scene when your hype tape is narrated with "your dad was in the nba and was good so thats gotta rub off on him right?"

*his dad, whatever

cam whitmore is slidiiiiiiiing

― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Thursday, June 22, 2023 8:04 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

did something bad come out in his medicals or something? this is weird.

probably medicals yeah

allegedly hes not great in interviews (shy boi), and also he never passed in college (averaged 0.7 apg last year lol)

Cason Wallace can take criticism

yeah whitmore apparently has a weird game too

By shedding Davis Bertans, the Mavericks now project to be able to use the non-taxpayer mid-level exception and bi-annual exception.

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— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) June 23, 2023

okc probably gotta hit the salary floore

i like lively he’s obv going to be a complete menace on the defensive end. but my god the mavs are absolutely obsessed with centers what is their deal

hollinger was a big fan of lively's defense both as a rim protector and switch guy

cubes is an alpha and respects the height-based status hierarchy

sometimes i think about how the mavs made the west finals by essentially playing small forwards at center & then think about everything they’ve done after and wonder if i was part of some sort of mass public hallucination

i mean when you can get a center that can't score or rebound you gotta do it

do the celtics have a late 1st now i forget

they have #25

howard can shoot but that’s it, really an atrocious rebounder for his side, incredibly slow and non-focused on defense

duke is one of the only teams i saw like 5+ times this year, i came away really impressed by lively. he seems like a much better athlete than a lot of the bigs that have come out of there lately

Jett thanks all the people who doubted him!

did cuban write presti a $2 million personal check under the table

Mavs will now have the full midlevel exception, as well as a $17M trade exception. Full MLE should be particularly useful in adding a rotation player.

(I double-checked with @BobbyMarks42 before tweeting.) https://t.co/MEIqQnhhBK

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) June 23, 2023

xp ty i will watch through that pick then

sigh, the best shooter in the draft falls right into masai’s lap

they’re saying this guy has a great basketball IQ

we know what that means!

pronounced ick

Don't forget the "want-it factor"

lonzo and lamelo get traded to toronto asap