stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

that’s a good question. it definitely was fucked up last year but i hadn’t read that it was a longterm issue

i wonder if chris haynes & dame have a shared gmail calendar

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard and his agent Aaron Goodwin are meeting with the team today to discuss the franchise’s direction, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @BleacherReport. pic.twitter.com/mUgEDzEbsw

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 26, 2023

ainge was prob just like "free guy" re john collins

yeah you’re probably right. they must have exhausted other options for that cap space & decided this was the best move. i just don’t buy the idea that they’ve acquired a versatile frontcourt piece to pair with their two stars or whatever such nonsense

i can't say i buy that either but he's not untalented and i think they may just want to take a shot at rehabbing his value

i thought bey looked good for the hawks last year. this roster construction — two guards, two centers, everyone else — makes a lot more sense, even if the talent itself still doesn’t give me tons of hope that they can be more than first round cannon fodder

ainge was prob just like "free guy" re john collins

― lag∞n, Monday, June 26, 2023 11:19 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

his contract isnt like insanely bad either, def a good number to throw in the mix for bigger trades

the blazers better act conscience-free when the dame trade demand comes.

Remember how often teams have cited the "repeater tax" as the reason they had to cut salary when they weren't even on year 1 of paying the tax? The dreaded "second Apron" is going to justify a lot of cost-cutting moves for teams that were never going that high in the tax anyway.

— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) June 26, 2023

it's such a scary apron

youre like one apron ok makes sense i think i can deal, but then boom a second one

depends on if they want to send dame to where he wants

it helps ease the pain a bit that Miami doesn't play against the blazers in the west. not sure how the heat can match salaries without tossing in end-of-bench players the blazers don't really want. and their picks are consistently in the non-lottery tier.

if this is a bradley beal type situation where he’s like “yeah miami or brooklyn whatever works for you guys” i think dame ends up in brooklyn. but if he says “i want miami” i think they’ll do what he asks

it was entirely predictable but also funny that the two teams who went all in on going big last offseason are now having their summers defined by whether they can trade one of those bigs to balance out their rosters

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 26, 2023 12:10 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait whos the other team besides min

who is the new CBA supposed to benefit?

big apron

owners who dont want to spend a lot

owners who dont want to pay tax but also dont want to be the ones blamed for dismantling a good team. now there is a scapegoat (aprons)

yeah thats honestly the only subset it helps.

cool cool cool

i feel like in a month or two i will have read/heard/used the word apron more than in my entire life combined, if i haven't already.

why did they choose that word why not a more normal one

it was entirely predictable but also funny that the two teams who went all in on going big last offseason are now having their summers defined by whether they can trade one of those bigs to balance out their rosters

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 26, 2023 12:10 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait whos the other team besides min

oh ok they were even bigger before last year though

who is the new CBA supposed to benefit?

Chief among those gains was an expansion of Basketball Related Income, which defines the revenue pie used to determine the share players receive. For the first time since the inception of the salary cap system 40 years ago, team and league licensing revenue will be included in the BRI calculation. This is expected to add roughly $160 million to BRI for the 2023-24 season and should grow annually.

BRI will be expanded further with respect to the treatment of complimentary tickets, team watch parties, barter expenses, plaza naming rights and equity transactions. These changes are projected to add an additional $90 million to BRI for a total of $250 million next season, according to someone familiar with the CBA term sheet who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The previous CBA guaranteed players between 49% and 51% of BRI, and the players received 51% each season except for 2020-21 due to the impact of COVID-19. In the new CBA, players are expected to receive 51% of BRI throughout the agreement under the negotiated formula for “forecasted BRI.” The next NBA TV contract will greatly impact league revenue and player contracts, but players are currently projected to earn between a total of $45 billion and $50 billion in salaries and benefits during the seven-year term of the CBA.

a lot of the stuff the second apron is preventing won’t result in players losing money, i don’t think, so much as it will result in talent being more evenly distributed throughout the league. which is why to me it’s more a question of whether this CBA is good for the consumer

um, parity* not parody tho let’s see how close we get to the latter…..

when the cap bumped and they didn’t smooth it there was a handful or two of guys who really really benefited but i don’t think there was much of a negative ripple effect for the rest of the union. the real issue was that it paved the way for durant to GS which made the league pretty boring to watch for three seasons. i’d expect this to be kinda similar in reverse — there will prob be a handful or two free agents who don’t see the kinda offers they want — but for the union in total it will all come out in the wash. and then we’ll see what it does for the “product”

hawks finally traded him lol

― lag∞n, Monday, June 26, 2023 1:49 PM (one hour ago)

WE DID IT!

lol ok dame

Chris Haynes says Damian Lillard doesn’t want to play for a ‘stacked’ team

“He doesn’t want to be on a team where it’s just 3 All-Stars or 3 superstars… He just wants a team that has a shot.”

(Via Bleacher Report) pic.twitter.com/Tmjl3dWLoD

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 26, 2023

so...miami

lmao “make it look good”

dame way to concerned with how hes gonna look coming out of this, no one cares any more dude just let go and move on

"definitely DO NOT trade me to the cities with hot babes, i absolutely hate that, and DO NOT trade me to any city that doesn't have HARSH, BRUTAL WINTERS which supplies the rage i need to succeed at this level of competition"

the team in a major city with no all stars and a bunch of great role players still makes all the sense in the world….

yup

he wouldnt be HEATED to head south, and you dont need to be phillip glass to see that dame would be einstein on the beach

i don’t understand utah’s motivation for doing this with nothing attached as a sweetener

― J0rdan S., Monday, June 26, 2023 11:00 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

another question... is collins better than Kelly O?

At sick alley pop dunks, yes

yes if he's healthy

His sick ally oops didn’t really suffer last year. His 3 point shot was fucked and the man can’t get post position to save his life

Man it’s CLOSE in a lot of categories

https://stathead.com/tiny/wS89e

But I’d value Kelly Os shooting, playmaking and defense over anything Collins does besides sick jams

the thing with Collins is that he's got really nice touch around the basket, but he's really not smart in the post. he sucks at getting position and often takes way too long to make his move. when he gets it in a good spot and goes, he's really effective. he's also a solid defender, but doesn't have the best reach. the sick dunk thing was kind of a joke but him and trae really did have a nice pnr game. i wish him the best

sorry for egregious reallys

well as with many things it depends on what you need, if you're a good team looking for a backup offensive big man the answer is kelly all day but if you're a building/developing team you'd obviously take a chance on collins rediscovering his 20/10 form.

Statement from Blazers general manager Joe Cronin to me:

"I met with Dame and Aaron Goodwin this afternoon. We had a great dialogue. We remain committed to building a winner around Dame."

— Sean Highkin (@highkin) June 27, 2023

according to sam amick of the athletic, dame would like one (1) jerami grant to be re-sign AND one (1) draymond green signing sounds totally reSonable why wont the blazers do it hmm makes u think thateyre acting in bad faith i guess i have no choice but to be traded to miami

the “all i need to be happy is jerami grant and draymond green” thing is one of the best examples you’ll see of why players should never be GMs

i say this every time one of these types of reports comes out but yes, i too want a lot of different things. we all do.

if you have the opportunity to give a quarter billion dollars to jerami grant and draymond green you have to take it

im trying to think of a precedent of a player drawing out this "i *wink* want *wink* to remain *wink* loyal" shtick as long as dame has done this