nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

Need Steven Adams to retire early to take Chuck's place.

He's got peak charm, but would it translate to television and would he have chemistry with the others? I don't know but want to see it

someone is gonna offer barkley like a $200m contract there’s no way he retires imo. he’s either just saying shit or is explicitly trying to drive his price up

hes prob just feeling dispirited re the whole tnt sitch

cld also be trying to save nba on tnt

Barkley said he would not move to another network, no matter how the NBA decides to parcel out a new package of rights it has largely negotiated with NBCUniversal, Disney and Amazon. Warner Bros. Discovery’s contract to show NBA games expires after the 2024-2025 season. Warner is hoping to carve out a small fourth package of games, but that bid is seen as unlikely. Warner is also examining its right to try and match the bids put forth by some of the others involved in the bidding, according to people familiar with the matter.

i believe your theory bcuz chuck has been pretty public about how close they are with a lot of the crew etc. i don’t believe that, at the end of the day, he won’t go to another network for an ungodly sum of money

why cant they just give tnt the small fourth package of games, as a treat

also simmons said on one of his pods recently that the whole carving out a fourth package thing for TNT is complete BS coming from turner to save face. bill usually knows his stuff w/ this kinda macro rich ppl gossip

ha thats so silly do they think people are gonna be like well at least they tried to get a small fourth package of games

yes, i will be walking around saying that to people

guys guys please calm down dont be so hard on warner discovery after all they did try to carve out a small fourth package of games

the fourth package joining the second apron in essential hoops lingo

lol

fourth package
third eye open
second apron
first round pick
jfk blown away
what else do i have to say

I’m am so dreading this draft

there can't always be a Wemby in the 1st pick swag bag

No there will be someone better than Wemby. The next great NBA player, a HOFer, a true legend is in this draft. The hawks will pick the other guy

ive been checking the hawks reddit, most ppl there like sarr

I do too but the curse

(i do not think much of sarr)

not going to pretend i’ve broken down alex sarr tape but the things ppl say about him when they’re being optimistic about his potential reminds me a lot of the things ppl said about james wiseman

its not that far off base. a lot of squinging to see a guy who will be an athletic helpside big, but im like...what else can he do? he doesnt rebound, hes not going to handle the ball for long if he cant shoot (which he cant yet), its a play for the long term, a low floor high ceiling bet

i really struggle to see the immediate fit in atl with jalen being a big wing, okongwu trying to be a bam type 5, they really need a stretch big which i guess if you think sarr's shot can develop he could be.

rumor is that snyder likes clingan as a gobert type 5 (remember his utah days) so thats why theres some scuttlebutt about atl trading down so someone can trade up for risacher.

quin down bad

my only prediction in this year's draft is chaos, gonna be a lot of teams who value guys differently and we'll see guys who are mocked top 10 fall to the 20s and some randos are gonna get called up early

and probably a lot of trades, esp 2nd rounders to 2nd apron teams

i don’t see why any team would trade up in this draft

certainly not into the top 5 or 10 or anything that would cost real assets

if i’m atlanta i’m either taking a project or a big man but i am not taking a project big man. if the argument for clingan is that you’re confident he can be a good starting center and you just want that certainty then cool. otherwise i’m going for whoever i think is most likely to be a top 2 ball handler/scorer on a good team. simply from a value perspective i think that’s the swing you have to take

taht guy might not exist in this draft, but u might be describing future #1 pick reed sheppard

the logic of trading up is i guess if you're like the knicks (#24 and 25) and you dont want to try and work in two rookies onto a team thats trying to compete now, and maybe you feel more certain about a guy who'll be off the board by the time it's your turn. portland and sa should both by taking their two lotto picks bc they need as many spins of the wheel of talent as they can get.

you can’t make an nba defense out of sheppard and trae young

they would trade trae

i also don’t think there’s gonna be many teams looking to take on multiple players in this draft either. i think it will actually be a pretty static draft at least thru middle of the first round bcuz i don’t think teams asking for future assets are gonna get them

i wouldn’t trade trae just to get a younger guy who might share his problems

don’t really like any top draft prospects this year but i have optimism that rob dillingham can become a jamal crawford type

reed sheppard as no 1 overall pick just doesn’t pass the smell test to me regardless of the team

im looking at guys like risacher, castle, jalen williams brother, buzeilis

nobody in this draft is a #1 pick archetype tho, right now it's sarr (can he even play) and risacher (will never be a lead ballhandler, might be a cam johnson or mpj type at best) getting most of the attention, imo teams should not care about reaching and just get guys who will fit with their current stars or are versatile enough to fit in multiple schemes

spurs fans are salivating over castle, i dont see it yet. spurs spacing is so bad right now, and he'd be a project.

buzelis is interesting bc he's the sort of athletic big wing that every team needs, i just dont know if he's good at basketball haha

g league route is gonna be less and less common if the prospects are perceived to not develop and they can make more money at duke

exactly, NIL killed the ignite (this is praise)

literally

spurs fans are salivating over castle, i dont see it yet. spurs spacing is so bad right now, and he'd be a project.

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he shot 75% from the line which implies that he could get to dece three point shooting, but his whole game is kinda like that squint at him and he looks like a really good nba player but his upside is prob more likely solid starter, on the other hand everyone in this years draft is like that

how about williams at 4 and topic at 8

should be interesting to see what the market is for these tier 2 or 3 level stars

The New Orleans Pelicans are unwilling to pay Brandon Ingram an average of $52 million annually, per @cclark_13

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feel like topic could be a steal guy who put up numbers in europe at 18 years old, seems like a bad 3pt shooter (30%) but could possibly be a very good one (88%ft!) and is dropping due to a torn acl an injury that players tend to recover fully from, has elite feel for the game and an elite skill (passing), great height (6-6) for his position (pg)

not going to pretend i've broken down castle tape but one thing that intrigues me about him is that you usually don't see the best play from, or the full games of, young ball handlers on loaded college teams, especially ones w/ dominant big men. this is largely why so many kentucky guards over perform in the NBA. uconn had three perimeter players who, from what i can tell, are borderline NBA prospects take more shots than castle.

i watched some castle clips and the thing that made me think hes not going to be a star is he wasnt getting those easy buckets against a set halfcourt defense that make it obvious hes just much better than the guys hes playing against, he was effective but it was more of a craft thing working his way to the basket with multiple dribble moves, and his shooting isnt great, athleticism prob nba average, good but not overpowering size, almost certainly a guy who will get minutes in the nba but i dont see the high upside there