nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

J Will and CHet need to take another leap

dont see any reason they shouldnt, doesnt mean theyll be ready next year but thunder are in a great spot regardless

yeh

every team wanted that guy cant beleive the bulls settled for giddie strait up

its pretty funny bulls continuing unwillingness to come to grips with the fact that their team is not good is something

i mean if you thought giddy was good then hes better than the two picks people were offering but idk whyd you think giddys good he just got played off the court in the playoffs

giddey will be a restricted free agent next year but basically both guys are on expiring deals for roughly the same number.

inexplicable

Depressed bulls fan. Send me flowers.

bright side for the bulls they traded old for young maybe this is the start of them blowing the team up

the reason they got no picks is the same reason they turned down two picks at the deadline, which is that the owner values present players over future picks

they made the butler trade on draft day that year, getting two players and one future pick they used that night. the vuc trade was young talent and future picks for present. even derozan was a sign and trade w/ a future first involved. one connecting thread is ownership

granted all that to not get one of okc’s bad firsts as a throw-in still feels like malpractice

otm

they have so many

a mere second perhaps?

ESPN Sources: Free agent G Malik Monk intends to sign a four-year, $78 million deal — including a player option — to return to the Sacramento Kings. Monk had career-bests of 15 points and five assists on his way to the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year runner-up. pic.twitter.com/J8KuOwPl0H

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 21, 2024

Seems like a great team deal

been scouting the draft (watching youtubes) and i think this is gonna be one of those years where the best player goes in the middle of the draft, teams at the top talking themselves into guys even they admit dont have star potential sarr clingan castle then there are bunch of flawed ballers who will go later topic ware holland one of who will end up not actually being flawed

reed sheppard is pretty fascinating hes small with short arms but on the other hand hes one of the best shooters ever coming into the draft has elite feel for the game and is super athletic, one weird thing is youd expect him to have a better handle maybe he can still get there idk

if he had a better handle ability to break his man down you could see the vision but if hes not a great creator idk maybe he can do steph stuff where his three is so dangerous that it opens things up for him but thats asking a lot

i havent factored in the kentucky guard tax tho maybe hell win mvp

some people saying hes not that athletic but he measured a 42" vert at the combine and averaged 3.2 stocks idk what people want guess maybe his lateral movement on d isnt that great

possible that his shooting a lil overrated since he took a bunch of open catch and shoots where youd like to see more movement and off the dribble shots but on the other hand he shot 52% from three and his shot is very quick and looks perfect

I have no mental energy to figure out anything with this draft.

man you gotta put in the work navigate to youtube.com

i resubscribed to th3 athl3tic just so i could read the vecenie's draft guide. he ranks guys in tiers (1-7) with 1 being all-nba, 2 being all-star, etc. most drafts have 3-4 guys in the top two tiers, this year there are none. handful of tier 3 ("high leverage starters") and a lot of guys in the tier 4 ("starter/all-star tool swings"). so yeah, this is kinda like 2013 where giannis at 15 was the best guy (definitely a "tool swing" guy if there ever was).

lol no top two tiers, rough

i listened to vecenie on russillos pod the best part was how disgusted they were to cover bronny

Nba trading cards should have an associated game like pokemon

bronny's attack would be "call dad"

lmao

that vecenie russillo pod was great highly recommended just abject horror at bronny even being associated with the nba, they could barely string words together

hes never gonna play a meaningful role in the nba, i feel for him bc he is so clearly getting nepo babied into getting drafted and signed to a guaranteed contract. he's going to have to dodge questions about his right to be there and his almost certain eventual flameout for so many years

yeah hes getting put in a jackpot just cause his dad thinks it will be nice

like i get that bron wants to his son a solid by using the leverage of his free agency to get him a job, its just he couldve used his influence to get him a role on an hbo show or something instead of something hes clearly not qualified for (nba player)

nobody should be in the family business

bron basically scouring front offices to see if any eugenicists are in their analytics departments

i haven’t gone through many of the guys yet but sure seems like sheppard is the only guy at the top of this draft who has like tangible offensive upside.

buzelis or williams could be nice

dillingham has a bag, but he is so small.

thats really the thing about this draft, the lack of anyone who reads as a #1 scorer on a team. i think there are a lot of guys like risacher and sheppard that look like high-level complementary players, clingan is being billed as a gobert/kessler type big. sarr seemingly has the most upside but he'll need to go to a team that can really develop him (he wont)

a guy i want to have a record of me saying will be good so i will look smart in the future if im right: tidjane salaun who looks like he could be like peak batum? or he could be terrible?

I too feel bad for bronny but because he died!

Oh man forgot about that... Seriously, he probably shouldn't be playing hoops after that shit.

sarr wont work out for the hawks trying to force his way to the wizards, i dont understand

ok man

In his newest mock draft with Givony, ESPN's Jeremy Woo laid out why Sarr might see Washington as a more attractive fit.

"He is thought to be comfortable coming off the board one spot later, with the Wizards' younger roster offering a clearer path to playing time and an opportunity to grow into an expanded role," Woo wrote.

givony on hoop collective talking like hes just speculating but maybe he knows something idk said sarr has a better shot at a max contract on the wizards cause theres fewer guys in line, and players have been avoiding the hawks due to drama

Also rumors about the spurs trading up for the first pick

need to make sure they get at least one french guy