stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8hNxxMp/

This guy is gonna need his own thread tbh

lol thomas bryant shook

excited for the Jalen Johnson era in atlanta

https://x.com/IQfor3/status/1713306078526521828?s=20

Way too many Jalen’s I can’t keep up

It's weird to see Brook and Robin on the same team again

Wemby Eurostepping at the three point line which of course ends in a dunk

still so stoked that the Spurs got him and not the Hornets or whoever

guess this is done, i dont really understand the dynamics of this trade but whatever

The Houston Rockets are trading guard Kevin Porter Jr., and two future second-round picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder, which will immediately waive Porter, a team source confirmed. ESPN first reported the news.

The Rockets are acquiring Victor Oladipo and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl in the deal, while the Thunder receive a 2027 second-round pick via Minnesota and a 2028 second-round pick via Milwaukee.

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The Rockets re-signed the 23-year-old to a four-year, $82.5 million extension in October.

OKC using a woman getting beat up to leverage a salary dump & pick acquisition trade is leaving me feeling very icky

couldnt the rockets just waive him idgi

i think this is so they don't have to pay him the money

wouldnt okc also not want to pay him tho theyre only getting two seconds, i feel like they must be pretty sure that the league will let them void his contract or something

per woj, no

https://x.com/wojespn/status/1714319448088195418?s=20

https://x.com/wojespn/status/1714320821987004527?s=20

ugh sorry

Adrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn
The Thunder are acquiring a 2027 second via Minnesota and a 2028 second via Milwaukee in the deal, sources said. Porter Jr., is facing assault charges based on an incident with a girlfriend. OKC is essentially buying the two picks and releasing Porter Jr.

Adrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn
Thunder will have to pay the $16.9M guaranteed left on Porter Jr., contract as they waive him. OKC gathered four second-round picks in acquiring and moving Oladipo's $9.5M expiring deal this offseason. OKC has 15 first-round and 22 second-round picks over the next seven years.

between this and the bertans deal the thunder have taken on a shit ton of money this offseason for extremely marginal draft assets. it's not my money but i don't really get it, & this one has a sinister air to it...

what happened to the four year extension tho

i guess it just wasnt guaranteed idk anyway good riddance to that guy

Essentially, the deal allows the Thunder to gather up draft assets and requires them to pay the $16.9 million of guaranteed salary left on Porter's new four-year contract -- and saves the Rockets $5.5 million in salary.

The Thunder also received two future second-round selections when they took on Oladipo in a salary-dump deal with the Heat earlier this offseason, so they’ve essentially added four second-rounders by taking him on from Miami and then flipping him to Houston.

King shit

yeah the porter jr deal was structured specifically so that he could be cut at any point, here is an old shams tweet on it

Shams Charania
@ShamsCharania
Kevin Porter Jr.’s four-year extension is only guaranteed for $15.86 million, all in Year 1, sources said. The contract includes June trigger dates after first season, but the Rockets can essentially release Porter at any point without further pay up to the $82.5M.

ah there you go

still doesnt really make sense that houston wouldnt just waive him tho

what i bet happened is that the front office signed KPJ to a longterm deal over the objections of ownership and after it predictably blew up they were scrambling to save face so that they don't have to go and tell fertita that he has to light $16m on fire

in reality they only saved like $5 million because oladipo makes almost $10m per year. fertita is cheap but i'm not sure he's that cheap

i guess OKC didn't really take on much more money in exchange for the picks, but was it really worth the appearances of it all?

It theoretically improves their 2023-24 cap situation. Oladipo's contract is ideal salary ballast for a trade if they can find a building block at the deadline. I don't think they could afford to keep Porter for the same purpose.

yeah true

While professional and engaged when present, James Harden has not attended any of the 76ers' preseason games and has participated in just one team practice scrimmage over 14 days of training camp, sources say. @Stadium NBA season preview show: https://t.co/m5FuxyMu1U

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 17, 2023

professional and engaged when present (never present)

guys i shoot better than james harden when i am present at the 76ers' team practice scrimmages, hand to god

just thinkin bout the nba and dame-giannis is one of the alltime great offensive pairings right considering talent and fit

like you can just not do all the sub optimal giannis possessions theres no reason anymore for him to do a bunch of dribbling into some dumb mid range fade away at least while dame is on the floor giannis can just play a big man game, that pick and roll will be completely unstoppable

oh, they're absolutely unstoppable in what is as yet an imaginary future. the truly fun thing is that we can watch it unfold month by month and it will be interesting to see no matter the outcome

standard health cavats aside i cant see them being anything less than great on offense together, bucks defense and supporting cast has some questions marks tho

dame beasley backcourt is pretty flamable tho they do have giannis-lopez behind them which is good

maybe dame will try to play defense

just thinkin bout the nba and dame-giannis is one of the alltime great offensive pairings right considering talent and fit

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 17, 2023 7:10 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

like you can just not do all the sub optimal giannis possessions theres no reason anymore for him to do a bunch of dribbling into some dumb mid range fade away at least while dame is on the floor giannis can just play a big man game, that pick and roll will be completely unstoppable

― lag∞n, Tuesday, October 17, 2023 7:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

ya it seems like it would suck to be in the eastern conference (;

tho like all these super teams they’re very dependent upon the health of their main dudes, both of those dudes have been pretty healthy but the thing about health is that it gets worse with age so previous success is no guarantee. I’d still rather be the celtics tbh

I like the Celtics better too. More balanced, better defenders, younger.

idk im not sure gonna have to see it for myself

one thing i was thinking is the bucks are a nightmare matchup for the nuggets

one thing i was thinking is the bucks are definitely winning another championship. you heard it here first folks

frogb(elieve)s

Gonna be keeping my eye on deandre Hunter with the way Bey’s been playing. Might need to move on

hawks running into a “too many guys” problem?

was just thinking about guys like hunter draft reaches described as "low ceiling high floor" and ive decided thats just not a thing if you have low ceiling thats because youre less talented which also means you have low floor

i think its a real thing with 4 year guys you just have so much more info about their game to work with, high floor just means a low chance of busting out of the league completely

hunter isnt one of those though so idk what people were on about

the hunter pick was a case of trying too hard to be perfect…like worrying about who fits w/trae young way more than just finding the most talented player.

yeah like you can see why they didnt take garland as hes so similar to trae but they wouldve been so much better off if they had

feel like groupthink is another big reason teams reach for supposedly solid guys high in the draft, theres an accepted list of high upside guys and if theyre all used up so you take a solid guy at 6 and then devin booker goes 13th, teams are afraid to break with orthodoxy, personally if im drafting 6 im the gm the big guy and all the sure things are off the board im taking a shot on a guy i think has a chance to be great

i’m laughing at the idea that a team that’s gone 84-80 over the last two seasons might too *many* guys

i don’t think hunter was a case of being too cute about fit. in their minds they thought they were drafting the kinda 3/4 wing 3 and D player that fits on any team regardless of the roster. the problem is that hunter is a pretty average player & they compounded the mistake by giving him an extension

i won’t kill them for not taking garland bcuz i don’t think that’s a viable backcourt. i will say tho that the entire league except one team whiffed on cam johnson and if the hawks had taken him instead they would be in a much better place. he’s not the lockdown defender the hawks thought hunter would be but that’s pretty much the player they wanted to get