stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

herro is already much better than redick so i guess the best case scenario is herro

desmond bane also notoriously has shorter arms than his height, maybe he didn't get measured at the combine or something so he wasn't included but from what i see he's 6' 6" w/ a 6' 4" wingspan. so maybe the best case scenario is him

we need the full wingspan data set what are they hiding from us

just measured my wingspan too and I'm also not in the dreaded short arm club, unlike famous basketball player tyler herro

banes arms look like theyre 6" shorter than his height

the great part about working from home is you don't have to work you can spend time having your daughter help measure your wingspan because of a ringer article

slightly higher than my height, analytics guys love me

heard the wolves have a 15th roster spot open for you

already in talks w/my agent

I’m slightly below average height but according to my measurements I have the same wingspan as wembanyana? weird that I never noticed

Luka Doncic dropped a triple-double in Slovenia’s win today 🔥

🔹34 points
🔹14 assists
🔹13 rebounds

He’ll face USA on Saturday 👀

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he always looks skinnier in europe idk why maybe he just starts chugging bbq as soon as he gets to texas

seems like shams is saying that miami is putting its best offer on the table but theres still no traction, i guess theres no harm in portland waiting for now but i was thinking maybe miami was holding out trying to finesse a better deal

Where things stand with Damian Lillard: As The Athletic reported last week, there still is no traction from the Portland Trail Blazers on a Lillard trade, and the All-NBA star’s mindset is steadfast toward desiring a trade only to the Miami Heat. Ever since early July, sources involved in discussions who are unauthorized to speak on the matter said the Heat have been prepared to offer the Trail Blazers a package including three to four first-round picks — with Tyler Herro going to a third team for assets — expiring contracts, a young player such as Nikola Jović and potentially second-round picks and draft swaps.

The Blazer GM will almost certainly capitulate and accept Miami's offer before training camps end, but by sitting on the deal he's signaling as hard as he can that he has absolutely no choice in the matter and can't be blamed for not getting a bigger haul.

funny thing is miamis offer might be the best out there even without dame throwing a fit, it also might not be tho, feel like team dame couldve tried to play the angles a lil better

what would be really interesting is if the blazers are actually mad and feeling vindictive, very unlikely but not impossible

feel like team dame couldve tried to play the angles a lil better

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 9:07 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

getting publicly reprimanded by the league was not ideal

my read is cronin thought the gobert trade equivalent would simply materialize and it ... has not

it would be nice to get a gobert trade of ones own

how about a trade FOR Gilbert? 🙂

any hint of vindictiveness would only backfire on the blazers. pdx already is seen as an undesirable destination among nba players. why add a reputation for vindictiveness to that? especially since dame's reputation around the league for team loyalty is sky high.

i'm not sure dame's reputation for team loyalty is what it once was

agreed that trying to fuck dame over wouldnt be the smart thing for the blazers to do, but sometimes people just get mad

i'm not sure dame's reputation for team loyalty is what it once was

maybe among management, but players would see it differently.

the other aspect that could work in concert with being mad is thinking they can wait dame out until he agrees to go somewhere else for a better deal

i dont know why he just didnt make a list of teams he was willing to go to of which miami was able to make the best offer, it might not have really changed anything but def wouldve been better pr wise, couldve said clippers suns mavs bucks heat or some such

it seems like they looked at what durant did and said oh yeah we should just do that, ignoring that phoenix had a bunch of attractive stuff to trade back

yeah that was a flaw in their plan

thereve been a number of huge star trades recently and im sure teams are thinking that its the new normal but theyve all or at least mostly been bad trades so it could just be a kind of fluky thing or maybe teams will wise up, like gobert kd and harden trades were all objectively bad, and mitchell also maybe a bad trade

heat would prob be giving up too much for dame even except it kinda makes sense for them to go all in since jimmy is old too

miami media including le batard on his podcast the other day have flat out said the heat are lowballing the blazers because they’re not going to bid against themselves. i don’t think shams has sources in miami tbh.

i’m not even sure what that paragraph is saying tbh. the heat “have been prepared” to make the offer? what does that mean…

it is kind of mysterious

charitably i would say shams and the miami media are saying the same thing — the heat aren’t making their best offer — but shams is using his weird coded language where he basically says nothing

what would a better offer than that from the heat look like?

i haven't heard much gurgling around about this supposed third team that will flip picks/young dude(s) for herro who is this why would they do that

yeah is there some indication that they should be throwing in Bam or something?

any way you look at it this is a pretty sad end to dame's tenure in portland... he missed his chance to make this move at the point in his career when people initially would've expected him to, therefore establishing this extreme reputation for team loyalty, only for him to finally pull the trigger in a way that makes him look much worse than an earlier trade demand ever could have

i haven't heard much gurgling around about this supposed third team that will flip picks/young dude(s) for herro who is this why would they do that

― Clay, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 10:30 PM (nine seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

ringer herro article upthread said they were having a hard time locating the team

they misplaced the team

i'm sure it will turn up though

i mean they could def get a 1st for him but 2 firsts? seems a lil steep

could imagine a real incompetent FO like the Kings of 5-10 yrs ago doing that, not sure there's anyone now

agreed that trying to fuck dame over wouldnt be the smart thing for the blazers to do, but sometimes people just get mad

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 8, 2023 9:22 PM (one hour ago)

I don't think viewing this as portland trying to fuck dame over would really be a fair reading...it's not like it was a mutually agreed upon trade request

maybe dame will just come back and play and everyone will forget this like the time kobe demanded a trade or duncan almost jumped to the magic

i think that's what's gonna happen with harden atm

idk Harden kinda gets away with it because he doesn't really seem like the kind of guy who cares a lot about basketball in general. you know how Shaq's said he hasn't touched a basketball since he retired? I bet Harden won't even watch basketball. though now that I think about it I've seen Shaq touch basketballs plenty of times in Icy Hot commercials!!

i think that's very likely with harden, who has absolutely played himself.

i could see lillard coming back and playing up to the deadline, it probably would suck and be awkward but that's ok

yeah hardens in a tough spot prob just shouldve taken whatever extension philly was willing to give, whos supposed to pay him when hes a free agent next year

seems like when players demand a trade their agents should do the legwork to figure out if a trade exists first

it's funny because there is an entire media apparatus that will basically get anyone 85% of the way there, we're not even asking agents to do that much work

its also funny that harden thinks he can demand a trade every year and things will continue to be cool