nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

lakers will not make the nba playoffs

― ciderpress, Wednesday, July 3, 2024 8:57 AM (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

sorry but which playoffs are you referring to? idk if you're aware but there are now two

they will win the nba cup every year regardless of roster

rest of the teams should let them win it as a goof

That would be crazy if they did win it every year. What a legacy that would be.

I feel like JJ has a lot of potential for being entertaining when things go south, he's got that peevish, self serious smug thing that won't take criticism well

he so arrogant man this is gonna test his ability to be normal

lakers didnt get any of the guys on brons list

― lag∞n, Wednesday, July 3, 2024 9:51 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you sure about that?

Bronny James has signed his rookie contract with the Lakers, per sources: Four years and $7.9 million. Team option in fourth season. https://t.co/NcgV8tgpnW

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 3, 2024

Not life changing money for Bronny, but hopefully he’ll be smart with it.

different list bronnys from the list of lebrons sons

I know this is stupid to say, but I can’t believe they gave him 4 guaranteed years. that’s insanity, malpractice, things of that nature

sorry 3 guaranteed years

whole affair is shameful

yall will be ruing the day you doubted bronny when he's torturing the santa cruz warriors with a 2/5 from 3 night

lakers picking up bronny's option when lebron is not even on the team anymore but still hanging around the franchise and possibly still shadow GMing will be funny

different list bronnys from the list of lebrons sons

buss family 🤝 klutch/james family
nepotistic incompetence

Bronny will be traded to Vegas by that point.

where are the fucking glasses come on man

ESPN Sources: The Los Angeles Lakers are hiring Nate McMillan and Scott Brooks as top assistant coaches on JJ Redick’s new staff. Redick gets two longtime head coaches with a combined 1,189 victories to surround him. pic.twitter.com/zRtTNlroFp

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 3, 2024

no glasses = sign of deference (dont want to look too smart in front of the boss)

also lol at jj hiring his eventual replacement candidates

fake coach hiring real coaches, good idea for everyone except the fake coach

did jj hire them or did the lakers

lebron hired them

he shd put his other son on the coaching staff

https://clickhole.com/which-one-of-my-garbage-sons-are-you-1825124556

― Clay, Wednesday, July 3, 2024 12:22 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

possibly the most influential piece of writing of the 21st century

buddy hield's a warrior

a new splash brother for a new era

If Hield was an UFA, why send Philly a pick?

The Buddy Hield deal will be roped into a five-team trade, per sources, stemming from the Klay Thompson move to Dallas, which now makes Kyle Anderson and Hield the combined return to GSW for Klay. https://t.co/1lNH1nWbwB

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) July 4, 2024

they couldnt just sign him due to being over the cap and already using their exception on melton i guess

Not to speak afoul of the nice folks who negotiated the CBA but it is extremely inane

next level lawyering

CBA complexity feeds the NBA ecosystem. Tasty content

the CBA is like the most complicated board game ever invented, where it takes you months to learn the rules before you can get down to playing it

hopefully he can remember how to shoot

ESPN Sources: Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner has agreed on a five-year, $224 million maximum rookie contract extension – a deal that could become worth as much as $269 million. pic.twitter.com/uWrTFV6hrm

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 5, 2024

good lord

i kiiiiinda get it if u think franz is an all-star at some point in the length of that contract and the fact that with cap numbers going up it wont be THAT much of a share of your cap space by the end and it's orlando so you're not likely going to be able to attract big free agents i the future anyway BUUUUUUT sheesh

i can see why they like him he a huge lead ball handler, but is he actually that good, its unclear, plus he forgot how to shoot threes last year when you really wouldve like to see him improve from there

his stats last year were better than i thought except for the three point shooting (57% on twos!) but this one just doesn't feel right

The San Antonio Spurs are trading guard Devonte Graham and a second-round pick to the Charlotte Hornets, sources tell ESPN. The Hornets will waive Graham, allowing him to become a free agent. pic.twitter.com/khvOdlyrDy

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2024

clearing cap space to bring in either huerter or barnes from the kings who are trying to sign and trade derozan

not sure why sacramento wants demar considering sabonis and fox are notoriously not huge floor-spreaders, but hey, its not my money

The Charlotte Hornets are waiving Davis Bertans, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Bertans, an eight-year NBA veteran, shot 38 percent from 3-point land last season. He had a partial guarantee on his Hornets deal.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 6, 2024

got a huge payday after one great season in washington and then became cap filler trade fodder, health got away from him. hope he lands someplace on a vet min.

signing pure shooters to big deals is fraught its so hard to shoot really good from three every year on high volume when you dont have any off the bounce counters teams can just play up on you and you end up taking all really difficult movement shots youre super vulnerable to variance etc like look at duncan robinson hes at 44% one year then down to 37 a couple years later did he get worse at shooting no its just a tough way to make a living

and to your point he was essentially dropped out of the rotation for an entire season until he remade his game to include far more ability to score on his own at the rim, break down the defense and pass the ball etc

Free agent F Miles Bridges has agreed on a three-year, $75 million deal to return to the Charlotte Hornets, sources tell ESPN. pic.twitter.com/8uQ2fLaDDC

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2024

nba's informal dv policy is to wait a year and then act like nothing happened

yeah

and to your point he was essentially dropped out of the rotation for an entire season until he remade his game to include far more ability to score on his own at the rim, break down the defense and pass the ball etc

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, July 6, 2024 2:38 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

def nice work work by him, i think hes still vulnerable but not as much, could be some bad playoff matchups for him where the original vision is more we get this guy and just let him bomb away but its never that simple, then by the time that you get a guy who can totally hold up well that guys a star

his skillset is an inherently flawed one and over the span of 3 seasons teams were able to eventually get him to the point where the flaws were being really highlighted at the expense of the good stuff. the heat’s response was to bench him, and then his response was to add enough back into his game to get back into the starting line up. these days the margins when your skillset is overwhelmingly dominated by one attribute be it athleticism, shooting, passing, rebounding, post scoring etc are just really thin

and if you zoom out on duncan’s whole life story from D3 to michigan to g league to rotation player to starting line up to huge contract to benchwarmer to rotation player to starting line up … i think he posses some ability to continually refine/improve his game that exceeds that of even a lot of other nba players. his arc as a player is not normal

wonder if with the transfer protocol well see more guys go from obscure schools to big schools to the league now, like the guy the celtics took with the 30th pick this year baylor scheierman started at south dakota state who have produced 3 nba players ever then transferred to creighton and got drafted in the first round