nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

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

confirmed

He needs Trae by his side in LA

Maybe consider Milwaukee

Would he make sense in Philly? I think he would, but doubt that's the kind of market or team he is looking for.

The local newspaper reports who the Blazers are inviting for pre-draft workouts. I find it interesting that the Blazers have both Ayton & Time Lord under contract along with Duop Reath, the 27-year-old rookie center who played big - and credible - minutes for them all last season, but they've invited a surprising number of centers to work out for them.

Not many (any?) teams would be interested in taking on Ayton's contract, but it feels like Williams could be moving on soon. Reath should stay. He's too valuable as a young bench guy with lots of in-game experience on a very cheap contract.

ty lue re-ups for 5 years 70 milly

REPORT: JJ Redick is already calling around the league looking for assistants for his staff. Expect an announcement by the Lakers AFTER the nba finals which Redick is announcing on ABC, via @TheSteinLine pic.twitter.com/IKAUoypxmT

— 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐞 (@SixthManJake) May 29, 2024

"I will be very surprised if their next Head Coach is anybody but JJ Redick. Everything that I'm hearing is JJ Redick. From what I know he's doing some background, calling some assistant coaching candidates who might be able to join his staff."

-@ChrisBHaynes on #Lakers next HC pic.twitter.com/XipwSlN6wo

— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) May 29, 2024

The Lakers hiring JJ Redick feels pretty imminent. It's more a matter of "when" vs. "if" at this point. pic.twitter.com/qUZYnR0YYz

— Anthony F. Irwin (@AnthonyIrwinLA) May 28, 2024

what will happen to the pods

I don't follow the Cavs that well so maybe there was other stuff going on, but it's still a bummer that JB Bickerstaff got fired, he's universally loved here in MN from his college and Wolves assistant coach days, supposed to be a great guy and from afar seemed like he was doing a good job.

like what if the brackets were different and he lost to the Celtics when the Pacers did? Would that have been considered a good job then?

i guess its just that mitchell doesnt love him theyre gonna try to bring in someone he does like so they can resign him

likely they trade garland and allen too, which tbf makes a lot of sense

One of the reasons they were in the position they were was because they tanked their last game for positioning in a pathetic fashion.

Not sure whose call that was but some of the players seemed embarrassed about it.

Also not sure who fed all that whining to Shams in the Athletic postmortem article but that shit was ready to print as soon as they were eliminated.

Gilbert is just one of those 'loose cannon' owners who wants to feel in charge.

you can tell whos gonna be fire based on if theres a shams hit piece, vogel same thing

one of the podcasters pointed out that in their post series interview all the cavs described the season as difficult even tho it was pretty successful none of them were like we made the second round something to build on etc so it seems like it wasnt the most harmonious team

but sounds like theyre going to resign mitchell which didnt seem likely for most of the year get a new coach and maybe do some trades thatll balance their roster out, could work idk

i’m pretty sure there were times during the season where the players called him out in the postgame press for his coaching decisions

idk i’m not too much into “deserve” with coaches. most of them are interchangeable. the cavs could easily find a better coach. sometimes everyone agrees the guy is a good coach but also that they want a new boss

yeah most coaches wear out the welcomes pretty fast

the thing about building around mitchell and mobley is mobley isnt a very good scorer so where do you get more scoring from, idk if garland and allen are going to get you enough in trades, if you want to be good you need a #2 quality scorer, its kind messed up cause if he gets traded to the right team garland could start playing like that guy immediately but hes just not a good fit with mitchell

they need a big wing with a dynamic offensive game haha get in line, maybe brandon ingram tho

coaching really is just a personality matching game with your best player(s)

rip aaron gordon's brother.

https://sports.yahoo.com/former-76ers-player-drew-gordon-older-brother-of-nuggets-starter-aaron-gordon-dies-in-car-accident-at-33-033314867.html

the nuggets players are really going through it with their family stuff. feel awful for AG

wow i don’t think he deserved this

Breaking: As Trajan Langdon’s tenure as Detroit Pistons President of Basketball Operations begins, the franchise and general manager Troy Weaver are planning to part ways, sources tell me and @ShamsCharania.

— James L. Edwards III (@JLEdwardsIII) May 31, 2024

not even sure why they went through the dance of pretending he would stay

weird org