nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

then porter tapped out early in the game with a flare up of an existing injury

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

Ah thanks goon. Don’t really see the gambling thing going well but what do I know

the vibes are vile but im sure the nba will make tons of money off it, which is nice for them

big games tonight for who will not play the celtics and who will maybe play the celtics

rooting for 76ers to not play the celtics

i really don’t think the heat will win tonight but sticking boston w/ philly is prob the most damaging thing they can do in these playoffs

the one bright side i guess to playing philly now is getting embiid so soon off injury

This game talk is for the INS, not for those of us already languishing in the OFFS EASON.

oops my bad

cracking up at lagoon making two imperceptible thread titles and then being the first one to screw it up

hoisted with my own petard

it’s driving me nuts lol they’re right next to each other on bookmarks too and are indistinguishable on quick glance

heh

it's the eason for the season

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, April 17, 2024 3:26 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they could def go for paris texas status, they already have wemby and sidy cissoko (played mostly g league, but should probably get more time in the big club this year). theres not only sarr but risacher and tidjane salaun likely going in the lottery. i think risacher would be a great fit if he's as good a shooter as he seems, sarr im less convinced would work as a non-floor spreading big next to wemby.

wim wenders player intro hype video

Spurs would have the no. 1 pick with the "Gold Plan":

Thanks for continuing to champion the Gold Plan!

Here's the NBA version, with the Spurs running away with a second straight #1 pick by playing hard down the stretch.

We'll ask again, how's that not better?#PorVida pic.twitter.com/HpmvkmO69L

— Chuck (@ChuckSportsApp) April 15, 2024

im sorry i will never support anything with this obamacare exchange ass sounding name

lol it was invented by a guy named Gold!

which is kind of Obamacare-esque really

ha

what a coincidence that the guy who made obamacare was named obama

I didn't realize that Jontay Porter is Michael Porter Jr.'s brother, or that his other bro Coban was about to do eight years in prison for drunk driving/killing a lady.

damn rough times for the porter family

in this clip you can’t see woj blinking out the morse code for D-O-N-O-V-A-N-M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L with his eyes

Adrian Wojnarowski says that the Miami Heat are well-positioned to potentially acquire a star who aligns with Bam Adebayo's age timeline

(h/t @ohnohedidnt24 )

pic.twitter.com/xrJGy6HYF6

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) April 19, 2024

*shein influencer saying “okay” video*

Woj: "It's gonna be a different summer in the NBA. I think there are gonna be a lot of guys entering the NBA portal and I think there's gonna be a lot more player movement this summer." pic.twitter.com/sQpf6neTto

— Oh No He Didn't (@ohnohedidnt24) April 19, 2024

entering the portal

portal check

portal rico babyyyy

hes prob right, hawks gotta trade one of trae or dejounte, gsw could shake things up, lebron could leave la, bulls might finally blow it up, the aforementioned d mitch, utah might go full tank 4 cooper and trade lauri, who knows who might flame out in the offs early and panic trade we could be seeing some deals folks which is almost as good as the games

woj and shams secret conspiracy to destroy the english language via nba rumormongoring

shams should actually be forced to use AI to write for him, he would be more legible

they're too busy entering portals to learn how to write or hire an editor

the nytimes bought the athletic as a way to save on editing their sports section

FX has released the official trailer for “Clipped,” the docudrama about former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. It airs June 4 on Hulu

Ed O’Neill plays Sterling, Doc Rivers is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne, J. Alphonse Nicholson is Chris Paul pic.twitter.com/pA4V0hIs1k

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 25, 2024

does blake griffin play himself?

Funny how Al Bundy is doing a voice but not Fishburne -- when did Doc's voice go?

Shams was ready

Inside the waning voice of Frank Vogel, offensive issues around the Suns and their Big 3, and what comes next for one of the NBA’s most expensive rosters after a first-round sweep — with @DougHaller at @TheAthletic:https://t.co/HCS0dJGrso

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 29, 2024

beal wrote that in the cms

Absolutely haha. Whole team got the memo were blaming Vogel and gonna give this another shot with a new coach next year and it will all be different we promise

Denver should draft Bron Jr just for giggles

lebron, welcome to the offs eason

lebron leaving la and letting the lakers empire crumble, lets gooooooo

There’s gonna be a lot of big moves this offseason I think

New Orleans Pelicans, welcome to the offs eason too. Sorry that you have to play Farrah Fawcett to the famous Lakers of Los Angeles

what can lebron really do it's quite the conundrum

LeBron on if this was his last game as a Laker: "I'm not gonna answer that. I appreciate it."pic.twitter.com/i3MVZAaJcF

— BrickWrld (@BRICKW0RLD) April 30, 2024

there is not an obvious pick here, he could always say fuck it round 3 in cleveland and thatd be fun. knicks would be fun but i think thibs would murder him with 40 mpg. gs might lure him to their retirement home with the promise of free tech stocks. or maybe he really will go to whomever drafts bronny and suffer in utah or something, i mean d wade kinda owns part of the team.

but the real answer is spurs, he'd be great with wemby

you’d still like an upgrade on jericho sims and make him the deep bench guy rather than someone they need to rely on

precious is also an unrestricted free agent, so randle might be the only 4 on the roster at the moment

unless we’re counting anunoby as the other 4, which i guess he functionally will be

yeah og is good at the 4 maybe his best spot

and yeah sims as a third center makes sense getting a second string 5 is prob easily doable

crazy that the knicks started sims at first when robinson went down last year, they didnt know what that had in ihart

k3vin's post is all "hey they got better you can't prepare for everything what are you gonna do" but the knicks were already pretty deep w/ 3 and D wing players -- OG, dante, hart is already at the point where you can patch the rest together w/ cheaper players especially in the playoffs when you need fewer guys. so the decision to place even more weight on that player type at the expense of i.e. acquiring a more dynamic scorer, shoring up/diversifying their bigs is an intentional choice and not a function of the CBA making it hard to cover all your bases

they def went deep on the big wing theory, going for more of a legit second option mightve been better, not sure who was out there tho, and you cant relly go for a guard since youve got brunson already, really good offensive centers and wings are tough to find at least ones who can defend too, maybe markkanen

is bridges good enough to be a second option? he was miscast as a #1 in bk but i kinda feel like he can carry some offensive load as the #2

if there is roster imbalance, they at least have a surfeit of good players that could potentially be moved for a better fitting piece if the situation calls for it

brunson-bridges is not a championship level 1-2, like i said i think they could maybe work with it by playing really good team offense but idk asking bridges to create offense deep into the playoffs

a lot of this is overthinking, getting the villanova guys together was at least as much of a priority

basically everything is solved (besides how to guard giannis and embiid) by randle stepping up and being good in the playoffs

regular season randle is probably a championship level number 2, but can he do that when it really counts?

he cant do it just cause even when hes good hes not getting easy buckets everythings contested, physical, then against good playoff d those already difficult shots just become too hard

yeah randle will expect to be their second option

also og can play at the 5 for stretches. hes a big dude

don't think thibs is that kinda guy also OG is made of glass prob shouldn't be playing the 5 that much

i was on here after the trade saying i thought the framing of it as an overpay was hyperbolic so i'm not trashing the trade by any stretch i'm just saying the potential flaw in the roster construction is quite obvious

roster def has its flaws but most do, i like this knicks team theyre prob second tier contenders, they could win it all if everything breaks right, theyve also got some room to make more moves who knows what randles contract + picks could bring at the deadline

I honestly feel the biggest matchup issue with the Knicks is the doctor's office. If they're healthy and energetic they can best anyone with a bit of luck.

Still think the trade was a pick or of an overpay

Pick or two of an overpay

https://x.com/i/lists/1660029465223655433

was kinda hoping he'd come back to sa, this is a good value signing though

fuck, wrong link

Golden State is sending Minnesota a future second-round pick swap and cash in the sign-and-trade, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/9i80B3I0qE

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 2, 2024

curious how this affects their pursuit of lauri

warriors trying the age old strategy of “signing some guys”

might as well

Just In: The Golden State Warriors are in serious talks on a sign-and-trade deal to acquire Buddy Hield, league sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Warriors and 76ers have been in deep discussions, working to finalize the deal for one of the NBA's best three-point shooters. pic.twitter.com/s3sajpWx69

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 3, 2024

more guys!