nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

All they did was win consistently all season without a lot of drama. But Joe Mazzula showed up calling LeBron a soft little boy, so that was good.

Ooops! Ime Udoka, not Joe M.

Lakers putting up the IST banner is high comedy, in the season that the Celtics passed them

otm that’s great stuff

There is a clarity in the organizational flow chart that was murky in the past. Cuban, despite his claims after selling the majority share of the franchise midseason to the Adelson and Dumont families, no longer has control of basketball operations. Harrison reports to new governor Patrick Dumont, who is kept informed but has shown trust in Harrison to handle roster personnel matters. Dumont rewarded both Harrison and Kidd with multi-year contract extensions during this playoff run.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40373806/nba-finals-2024-why-luka-doncic-kyrie-irving-mavericks-future-title-contenders

so cuban is basically a fan with a really good seat now

yup

ESPN Sources: After one season, the Detroit Pistons have dismissed coach Monty Williams — who leaves with five years and $65M-plus left on his deal. New President Trajan Langdon will move to make his own coaching hire now. pic.twitter.com/QHKivQS5o2

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 19, 2024

that golden parachute is crazy

wow

lol

the 65 million is a nice consolation, but it's still that sad Monty can't live out his dream of coaching the Detroit Pistons for the next 5 years

just embarrassing for everyone lol

perhaps constantly running out bench-heavy lineups with the worst roster in the league was part of a 'the producers'-like plot

the optics of leaking this on juneteenth are…less than ideal

potentially one of the most important days in the careers of cade cunningham and jaden ivey…

pistons taking up the mantle of truly awful org god bless gotta have at least one

they should interview Dan Hurley

monty making like 75 million+ between the suns and pistons to not coach is the best thing. dude won

so cuban is basically a fan with a really good seat now

and they paid him $3.5 billion to sit in that seat. i'd take that deal!

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5573962/2024/06/19/gary-payton-warriors-player-option/

GP2 reups, which has some repercussions on resigning Klay.

dude won

for any nba head coach that's just a consolation prize, but it's a hella good one!

Woj reporting JJ signing 4 year deal to be Laker coach
Let the drama begin

Is JJ going to bring Tommy in as an assistant?

lol the coaching search has finally completed, hope everyone can rest and recover

The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly completed their coaching search and JJ Redick will be the 29th head coach in franchise history. @LakersSBN https://t.co/xEmcSuQ186

— SB Nation NBA (@SBNationNBA) June 20, 2024

our nations first podcaster coach god bless

they should start searching for their 30th coach, get a jump on it

maybe a tiktoker

a thing to watch with jj is hes pretty fascinated with mazzulla he talks about him all the time on the pod has interviewed him, now why would jj be so interested in joey mazz, i think its because he did nerd basketball more fully than anyone else has and obvs had great success with it, is jj gonna go full analytics and if so how will bron and ad feel about that

Owning 27% of the team and still being in the seat for team decisions seems like a good deal for how much money Cuban made. The partners are all tied up in gambling money, I’m sure keeping Cuban was partially to keep it seeming a bit more legit and from player and team management angles- Dallas seems to be pretty well run for all pro sports in general.

wonder why he sold maybe just profit taking would make sense but sounds like hes out on day to day dallas mavericks stuff big question is did he retain jumbotron replay privileges

fwiw dallas under his watch was definitively not a well run team, major scandal, weird personnel decisions, all sorts of behind the scenes dysfunction

is jj gonna go full analytics and if so how will bron and ad feel about that
probably the most entertaining this team will be is in the drama department so bring it on. Not like they are anything more than a second round playoff exit at best.

xpost - I read Cuban has some new pharmacy company maybe he wanted some dough for that

when was the last time a player went straight into head coaching (like no assistant exp, no college coaching, etc) and it worked?

BREAKING: The Chicago Bulls are trading two-time All-Defensive guard Alex Caruso to the Oklahoma City Thunder for guard Josh Giddey, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/V3t12MA3Uo

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 20, 2024

TRADES

wow nice get for okc

when was the last time a player went straight into head coaching (like no assistant exp, no college coaching, etc) and it worked?

Technically Kerr, right? If we're saying that GMing != coaching.

you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me

I was going to say Larry Bird but he was a front office guy before he coached

nice Trade

chicago does not want to rebuild, theyve got all the duct tape they need to keep this engine purring

Technically Kerr, right? If we're saying that GMing != coaching.

― Scott Baculum (Leee), Thursday, June 20, 2024 4:18 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hm good pt, though kidd and nash are the parallels im thinking of

(i file them under "it didnt work out" for the record)

nash was a special assistant with the warriors before he coached

thats not a real job

wow that caruso deal. okc should have legit title shot if everyone stays on current trajectory. dort/caruso gonna be hell for opposing guards/wings

not a ton of offense from those two tho

thunder need to hoist more, much more, is how i break it down to an extent

how did the bulls get no picks lmaoooo

not a ton of offense from those two tho

― lag∞n, Thursday, June 20, 2024 2:52 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

both over 40% from 3 last year but yeah no one fears them when the games matter most