stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

the warriors thing was a total blip but the basketball gods got their retribution in 2019

The idea of the dame extension on top of his supermax wasn't just,'hey, let's reward him with a nice gift', but also 'let's be in control of keeping him in the corral until he's cooked'. Didn't turn out to work that way. But it's weird to see dame giving the the team his middle finger via proxy when their major sin was failure to move his buddy CJ to another team right after making the WCF, so they could theoretically sign all those free agents who didn't want to come to the blazers and kept going elsewhere, like always.

idk a star player trying to dictate his next team isn't very weird. pretty standard actually

It has become more commonplace after Harden bolted from Houston. Much less so before that. Free agency was supposed to take care of letting players move about more freely, but the CBA has gone in the direction of "golden handcuffs" for star players, who have, in turn turned to a subdued form blackmail to implement changes of team.

supermax should have come with having to stay in place for at least like 75% of the contract terms

the players never would've agreed to that

correct

you know one way for front offices to convince their players to stay is to be better at their jobs. anyone wanna guess how many all stars dame lillard played with in his career after lamarcus aldridge left portland in 2016

the teams also want the ability to trade their guys, trades trade demands likely one of the parties is gonna be unhappy but they still want to be ability to do it when they want to

the only thing that i thinks in poor form here is dame demanding to be traded to one team he should have a list like a normal guy and let the blazers find a good deal, the timing where he waited until they maxed out grant was bad too tbh tho grant prob liked it lol, the other stuff with as far as staying with the blazers forever and being weird about it is just dumb and annoying but ultimately not an offense

there's conflicting reports about whether dame asked for the trade before or after they did the grant deal. i think the blazers see grant as a fit on the wing next to their young guys & think he's now a tradable asset under their control. but maybe that's all a lie and they only did it to appease dame idk

giving grant a max deal seems insane but also i could see a team thinking it was good so idk

just checked and had no idea he had such a good season. 47/40/82 splits

that is nice

congrats to klutch sports ceo rich paul

Atlanta Hawks All-Star Dejounte Murray and CEO of Klutch Sports Rich Paul are finalizing a four-year, $120 million veteran maximum extension with the franchise, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Deal includes a player option.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 6, 2023

interesting!

that feels low for him, he must really want to be in atlanta dang. he took the same exact deal as tyler herro. $87m less than desmond bane!

the wings at Magic City are a major draw iirc

says its his maximum, dejounte probably couldnt get a huge deal based on bird rights bc his original deal was so modest is my guess

prob cause its an extension too mb get more if he played his contract out

yeah imo the main thing with Dane here is the years and years of clowning on his peers for asking for trades to competitors and then doing exactly that in the narrowest of fashions with an nba finals team. I’m pretty sure he recorded songs about it &c. there’s some ass-showing and hypocrisy of high order here.

it’s his max from the hawks but he could’ve gotten whatever offer in the UFA market

Wow, I'm surprised. Thought Murray could possibly have made quite a bit more as UFA next summer, but takes the immediate security of the bag instead. New extension rules (40% raise, extra year) helped grease this. https://t.co/8h5w34ZD8B

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) July 6, 2023

yeah id prob just take the $100m+ im kind of conservative like that

he had a major, major injury as a young guy that could have derailed his career, i wonder if that played into him grabbing this extension now

apparently the dillon brooks deal w houston is becoming a fairly complicated multi team trade in which houston is sending out 5 second round picks. one senses the front office there feels like they’re getting fired if they aren’t in the playoff mix this year

THREE second rounders to OKC??? That makes it a total of FIVE second rounders going out in order to facilitate a Brooks S&T that (currently) doesn't even help generate much extra cap room!

This team BETTER make some good use of the extra cap room before the S&T is completed. https://t.co/oOivkD6fhh

— David Weiner (@BimaThug) July 6, 2023

then why are they getting dillon brooks haha

i mean if you have to go from worst team in the league to in the playoffs in one off-season or lose your job you just have to take an 80 million dollar flyer on the most annoying guy in the league who everybody hates also he isn't very good and you definitely send out some picks to do it, this is common wisdom

PICKS TRADE: The Memphis Grizzlies are trading three second-round picks to the Phoenix Suns for two first-round pick swaps (2024 and 2030) and Isaiah Todd, sources tell ESPN. The seconds are 2025 via Pels, and Memphis’ 2028 and 2029 picks.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 7, 2023

damn woj did isaiah todd dirty

i still think brooks is a good fit on that houston roster but they’re going thru a lot of trouble to acquire him…

I don’t know if the rockets are going to be good, but I think they should be a fun league pass team this year

idk they are less exciting to me than most of the other basement teams

orlando and detroit have several more interesting guys than them, spurs are interesting now too obv

I don’t know if the rockets are going to be _good_, but I think they should be a fun league pass team this year

I have zero interest in the houston rockets

signing a few real NBA players will actually make them more watchable but that’s my least fav young team in the league… tho amen seems pretty cool actually

pretty baffled by this coachella ass poster for nba con.....like what is jaxson hayes, nick nurse, or "jason of beverly hills" going to be doing exactly?

The First Ever NBA Con Line-up 🔥🤯👀 Last minute tickets still available at https://t.co/vKoUNezue5, link in bio. pic.twitter.com/xXrLtNzNcM

— NBACon (@nbaconofficial) July 7, 2023

it's a con

nick nurse would’ve been no 1 on my power rankings of who in the NBA would show up to something called nba con

what a trip

Good morning pic.twitter.com/eLSuzXRO5i

— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) July 7, 2023

ball

wtf they did it!

ime knows ball

Ime Udoka reportedly had zero interest in coaching James Harden, per @SteveBHoop

“Ime said, ‘It’s not going to work here.’” pic.twitter.com/Nx9YvTLwhr

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) July 7, 2023

talking myself into hunter tyson, NBA rotation player

gen z ass name

hmm

Report: Blazers seeking 4 1st-round picks and 2 quality players for Damian Lillard https://t.co/KdJfRkr4kD

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) July 7, 2023

If Damian Lillard lands with a team other than the Miami Heat, he won't report to training camp, per @MarkG_Medina

"‘He just wouldn’t go,’ a person familiar with Lillard’s thinking told Sportsnaut. ‘He just wouldn’t report.'… ‘I don’t think the other team would trade for him… pic.twitter.com/ETxLoXRUMH

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) July 7, 2023

i think they need to have a talk

feel like he’s probably bluffing

the blazers should hire ainge as a ghost-gm to work this trade out

poor roll out by dames team they shouldve at least come up with some even shittier trade options than miami, like say hell play for the clippers too, now hes out there looking bad

like the spurs that was a good idea why did they drop that one the spurs are never gonna trade for him anyway theyre rebuilding