stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

theyre just trying to pay someone to deal with it

there cant be any disciplinary action voiding of contract etc until the league finishes its investigation iirc

this is the type of thing you finish doing before the media reports on you doing it

so dumb theres no way anyones going to trade for him anyway

They formatted his contract for like basically this exact situation just cut him immediately it’s not hard

honestly from a pure basketball spectacle standpoint would love to somehow get dame on the giannis bucks

― Clay, Wednesday, September 13, 2023 4:20 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

hmm yes I would be down for this

balance of power in the west just shifted

https://x.com/Twolves_PR/status/1702404716678836406?s=20

Let the Krejčíaïssance commence!

Kyrie stepping into a SAS Terrell Owens social media beef cos why not

https://x.com/kyrieirving/status/1703131258270949824?s=46&t=mohDpDAFl5F45rFjzYedvA

#Therearemoreimportantthingstodo

classic instigator whos pretending to above it

https://x.com/ClutchPoints/status/1703849817925943528?s=20

hard to see someone beat miamis offer without dame being into it, tho maybe theres some deal/player that the blazer could be unreasonably stoked on

i think dame would be down if the team was good

i wouldnt be surprised if his resolve was weakening tho we did just get that leak re him not showing up for other training camps so idk

nba news is in the dumps right now i really cant get myself to care about this very much. if this happened a couple/few years ago it would be way more interesting.

its the same story every offseason we need new writers

dame's agent has been issuing plenty of double-talk on the question of whether dame would honor his contract if he's traded somewhere that's not miami

nba news is in the dumps right now i really cant get myself to care about this very much. if this happened a couple/few years ago it would be way more interesting.

― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Monday, September 18, 2023 4:50 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

its the same story every offseason we need new writers

― ciderpress, Monday, September 18, 2023 4:56 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Seriously, I needed something mindless to listen to while I was doing some housework today, and I put on the Hoop Collective with Windy and the Tims... the storylines they were trying to get themselves excited about were just going through the motions to an intolerable degree, sounded like AI

Free agent G/F Kelly Oubre Jr., is expected to sign a one-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, sources tell ESPN. Oubre — who averaged 20 points for Charlotte last season — could get significant opportunity on the wing with the uncertainty around James Harden.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 18, 2023

embiid will stay now

Yes, for instance, the Blazers want Lillard to stop leaking every six days that he won't report to camp unless he's traded to Miami, and he doesn't want to do that. https://t.co/IBpXft38y3

— Yaya Dubin (@JADubin5) September 19, 2023

a fun game to play whenever one of these posts gets a lot of angry replies/QTs is to check the location and/or team loyalties of the people replying. for all the shit we hear about the regressive politics of the state of florida, there seems to really be a groundswell of pro-worker sentiment!

ha

there seems to really be a groundswell of pro-worker sentiment!

Eh. Pro-worker sentiment is better spent on disputes of substance, like pay and working conditions, instead of who gets to gratify his ambition for a trophy.

The whole idea in giving Lillard that super-max contract and extending it out to the bitter end of his career was that it ensured Lillard was well-rewarded for his frequently announced intention of ending his career as a Blazer. The idea that the Blazers didn't hold up their end of the bargain because the CBA rules put them into a strait jacket in regard to trades and the luxury tax (and small, white city vibe) make it extremely hard to compete for FAs is something of a stretch. But athletes like Lillard operate in a different world and under different rules than ordinary workers or even ordinary NBA starters, so to totally misapply a famous quote, "when you're a celebrity, they let you do it".

The entire Miami media and fanbase has become That Guy in your fantasy league who writes long emails telling you why trading him Giannis for Desmond Bane is good for you if you just think about it the right way.

— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) September 19, 2023

these pro management takes are getting out of control!

Huge addition to the James Dolan canon here for serious SPHERE Heads (Joe Lhota calling it Dolan's "baby," a live feed of the SPHERE is beamed into Dolan's office, the strong implication that Dolan sucks at blackjack, etc.)https://t.co/1wkEXJ94H6

— Christopher Robbins (@ChristRobbins) September 20, 2023

Something is going on

https://x.com/Richard448877/status/1705059565241237641?s=20

Richard448877 rarely misses

Doooh I'm dumb

u just got richar'ed bro

a little disappointed that's not happening tbh someone get on the horn

since i know everyone is dying for another injection of dame gossip, everything out there right now is the likeliest deal is lillard to toronto for OG, gr8080 dick, cap filler, and a grip of draft picks. i love it tbh

wow yeah that would be good for the blazers

masai would totally trade for dame even if he didnt want to be there too

siakim barnes* and lillard would be pretty sick to watch too, they'd need to fill out the roster with god knows what is out there

* if last year was a fluke, idrk what the story is there

confidential to massai: do it bro

meanwhile

The Miami Heat offered a trade package that included Tyler Herro and two first-round draft picks for Damian Lillard, per @MarcJSpears pic.twitter.com/hZEB9BBjtX

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) September 25, 2023

that's not as good i don't like that as much

*imo barnes is very talented but he has to develop necessary actual basketball skills like shooting and defense, he was "bad" last year cause the raps asked him to run the team and hes a young guy who doesnt have all the skills, im sure if they had him in the same role as his rookie year people would still be stoked on him warranted or not

potential trend of trading guys to toronto when they want to go to the sunshine palaces is good stuff

wonder it miami has switched to get giannis mode

that toronto deal doesn't feel much better than what miami could offer though i guess it all depends on what they can route anunoby for vs. herro, i mean surely they wouldn't be serious about keeping anunoby around

getting toronto picks >> getting miami picks

og has mega value last year someone offered 4 first for him fwiw, type of guy everyone wants big wing who can fit in any scheme/roster

if miami is topping out at two #28s near the end of the decade and a guy portland can't do much with you pretty much take any other offer imo, the raps one is significantly beefier. not to mention everyone seems pretty high on dick and og is very very good and if he clicks with the young dudes why wouldn't you extend him xp

if dame doesn't go to miami this season (narrator: he won't) then at the least he should fire his agent, who seems very bad at his job.

if it's true that OG has been pushing for a bigger offensive role in toronto i wouldn't be confident in him being cool watching scoot and anfernee simons and shaedon sharpe figure things out while jerami grant also expects touches

yeah he really should be on a good team anyway hed be a ceiling raiser for a contender, tho maybe not in an increased offensive role way

OG is also a FA after this year. part of the reason why teams were offering 4 firsts for him is bcuz he is on a very cheap contract. but the 1 year $18 million left on it would be wasted on portland who is going to be bad regardless. his value on a $200 million contract is a lot different. they’d also be paying grant at the same time. i think their justification would be that sharpe and scoot are on cheap deals for a while so they have money to spend. i’m not sure what you’re accomplishing with that team, or trying to accomplish. maybe OG has a mikael bridges like jump on a team where he can get more touches.

gradey feels pretty comparable to the young guys miami has so it comes down to how many firsts you get with OG and if you like that more than herro and presumably a greater number of firsts from miami.

getting toronto picks >> getting miami picks

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, September 25, 2023 9:39 PM (yesterday)

not really. go look at where toronto has drafted under masai. they picked 9th one year (took poetel) and tanked in the cade/mobley/barnes draft, got lottery luck and ended up w/ the 4th pick. otherwise it's all picks in the late lottery and 20s. and then you're trading him dame.

doesnt seem like miami really cares if they get dame but that might just be bargaining posture, lets see if a bidding war breaks out, toronto can easily beat miamis best offer but who knows if they want to

le batard said this morning that the heat don’t want to overpay for dame given the final two years of his deal when they already have jimmy’s contract going in that direction too. he said this while wearing a heat mouthpiece just to drive the subtext home

i do think the heat have a level of justification for the feeling that as much as the blazers can wait it out to the trade deadline, so can the heat. they have real assets to improve their team in some fashion if this all falls apart. they would be underdogs in a 7 game series vs boston, milwaukee and philly right now and maybe it’s hubris that the heat would say they would beat them all anyway but they have beaten each of them in the playoffs in the last row seasons. and none of those teams is looking markedly better on paper