nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

theres always next year

Glad this is search proof so my terrible Sixers takes can't be found.

license to post wild takes granted

feeling mildly excited about the spurs draft opportunities this summer. nobody really screams all star at this point, but there are a lot of really good guard prospects.

yeah you know theres some good players in there just gotta hit, which the spurs have historically been good at

They should try drafting a french guy... seems to work well for them

they did really well finding gems like derrick white and dejounte murray at the end of the first round when they were still a competitive organization. their guard selections since then have been much spottier. branham continues to baffle me as he made basically no growth from one year to the next as an inefficient shooter with no other discernible skills. wesley still can’t shoot although he at least looks like a serviceable defensive point guard. and then there’s primo.

vassell is definitely their 2 guard moving forward and tre jones is at least a good backup, so it hasn’t been all bad news.

they need hoisters badly tho, hoping one of the kentucky guards will be available.

Per league statement: The league’s investigation found that prior to the Raptors’ March 20 game, Porter disclosed confidential information about his own health status to an individual he knew to be an NBA bettor.  Another individual with whom Porter associated and knew to be an… https://t.co/6oKyi0Fhty

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) April 17, 2024

already posted elsewhere but for posterity’s sake: lifetime ban for jontay porter

yeah the drafting hasnt been up to spurs standards over that period, they did get wemby lol, tho one or two of those guys develop well and its looking a lot better xp

will cherish the many memories i have of jontay porter. farewell sweet prince

At first I was like "whoa, Otto Porter has a gambling problem?" and then I was like "siri, who is Jontay Parker?" end of an era

pretty lucky for the league that this story is dropping right as the playoffs are starting and not like in October

will at least be a good example for future players that the league is looking out for this sort of thing and has computers

welcome to the ‘eason

eason down the road

yeah the drafting hasnt been up to spurs standards over that period, they did get wemby lol, tho one or two of those guys develop well and its looking a lot better xp

yeah vassell they hit but besides that its looking pretty rough, 3 lottery picks bunch of others and one guy to show for it, tho obvs theres still time for the others to get there

pretty lucky for the league that this story is dropping right as the playoffs are starting and not like in October

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:19 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

REALLY lucky it was an nba nobody and not some hall of famer vet or something in between, get to drop the hammer on a scrub

a good player's little brother

Thanasis better not mess around

thanasis seems like an MLM guy for sure

I’m sorry if you changed your bet based on jontay porter. Such valuable info

Hawks have 2 first rounders to help turn things around before years of handing their picks to the spurs. Kind of the the Duke wite would be a good fit

it was a player prop

an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet with an online sports book, to win $1.1 million, wagering that Porter would underperform in the March 20 game

then porter tapped out early in the game with a flare up of an existing injury

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

Ah thanks goon. Don’t really see the gambling thing going well but what do I know

the vibes are vile but im sure the nba will make tons of money off it, which is nice for them

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

trae gives them more of what they need shooting and playmaking but zion and trae together on defense might be a non starter

thing about dejonte is hes best with the ball in his hands but hes still not that good and now hes dominating the ball, idk not a big fan, his defense has slipped too maybe he can get it back but it seems like he might think hes a star now whos above all that

he made one injury replacement all star team and signed to klutch, v much a case of a guy who thinks he's better than he actually is

No team had EVER dropped from 1 to 5 in the history of the NBA Draft Lottery…

It’s now happened to the Detroit Pistons TWO years in a row.

Incredible.

— Ryan Field (@RyanFieldABC) May 12, 2024

lottery used to be just top three so its only been possible to do that in the few years since they switched to top four

still gotta be long odds of doing that tho

theyve only done the top 4 lottery since 2019

its a bum deal for detroit, but the worst record has a 48% chance of #5, definitely bad luck to happen twice but just under 1 in 4 odds bad luck

its one in four if youre the worst team two years in a row

honestly odds are better that the pistons get a star in this draft bcuz four teams ahead of them screwed up than they would be if they had the no 1 pick themselves. it’s for the best

been out so i'm catching up with news now and lol at this being the year that a team hits the bottom of lottery to #1 jackpot move-up, too poetic

well it's not that everyone understands precisely how to order the top 5, that's not the point. teams still mess up all the time. but for instance that tatum draft was considered to be loaded and it looks that way now. it's just that people thought it was gonna be fultz and lonzo who were the stars not tatum and fox

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Sunday, May 12, 2024 3:39 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i mean there are big misses in the top five every year

― lag∞n, Sunday, May 12, 2024 3:41 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it was nate duncan who actually said this fwiw, the idea is not that there’s a hard cutoff at 5 but just that the confidence in your evaluation (and/or a player’s chances of making it) decrease more or less linearly with draft order, which is kind of self-evident

What would Trae Young and the No.1 pick get you in a deal?

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) May 12, 2024

the replies are great

I think it was nate duncan who actually said this fwiw, the idea is not that there’s a hard cutoff at 5 but just that the confidence in your evaluation (and/or a player’s chances of making it) decrease more or less linearly with draft order, which is kind of self-evident

― brony james (k3vin k.), Sunday, May 12, 2024 6:19 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah i mean they know something about who the good players are its not random

trae + the first pick isnt going to get you anything the teams that want trae doent want the first pick and vice versa

yeah teams that want to win now want trae, teams that wanna develop want the #1 pick

interesting inflection point for the hawks they could tear it down they could move the first pick for guys they could carry on with the trade one of their guards plan and use the first pick

Jalen and okongwu should be the main keepers because of contracts and because they are good. Hunter’s borderline mostly due to contract I think but they could really use and upgrade there. Capela should be gone regardless then it’s Trae and Dejounte

I will say the nice thing about Dejounte is that he closes games whereas Trae tends to piss them away

they should trade both of them and rebuild around jalen johnson

trae is only 25 - i thought he had been around for forever

the tough thing with Trae is that you can have one of the top 3 offenses in the league with him but can you actually have a functional defense with him on the court

read a landry fields quote that they are not interested in trading the pick which is exactly what someone who wants to maximize trade value would say, but maybe they just keep it and roll the dice with sarr.

there’s 0% chance anybody is trading for the no 1 pick in this draft

personally don’t think their young players or this pick project to be good enough for the hawks to rebuild around them unless they wanna be bad for like 5 years

yeah could get pretty dicey

sarr seems fine whatever. him, trae and jalen could be cool. tbh i had no idea sarr existed before today

yeah i think thats prob the way to go*

*idk if sarr is the guy there or what

i have been reading about sarr for all of 10 minutes but my goodness there has to be someone with more upside than him

im v v excited that the spurs could pull off both their starting lineup vacancies with these two picks. i dont think they need to necessarily start both players right away. despite their various flaws, there are PGs i like (sheppard, topic, dillingham) and wings (risacher, buzelis, holland). i watched sam vecenie go through a mock where theyd get risacher at 4 and dillingham at 8 which would be really fun.

well ok

shams: Bronny James, the son of NBA superstar LeBron James, is expected to stay in the 2024 NBA Draft, league sources said.

...

The younger James’ decision comes ahead of a big one for his father, who has to decide whether to opt into his $51.4 million player option to remain with the Los Angeles Lakers for 2024-25 by June 29. Team sources said last month the Lakers are very open to the prospect of helping LeBron fulfill his dream of playing with Bronny by potentially drafting him.

lol pleaaaase

Gotta draft him in the first round to make sure you get him!

Bronny James, listed height of 6'4" on every roster he's ever played on, measured just a half inch over 6'1" at the NBA Scouting Combine.

6'1" guys who averaged 5 points a game in college usually don't get drafted. I sure do wonnnnder what's different in Bronny's case...

— Calvy J (@CJRealHoops1) May 13, 2024

lol

oh man

I believe that belongs to Mr. Gilmore! https://t.co/qkOyL1SALS

— Brian (@BrianJNBA) May 13, 2024

lol that bronny is even going through this process tells you the lakers are going to take him

they should make sure they take him in the first round just in case

they should trade up

Drafting Bronny is just a ploy to get the Thanassis for Bryce. Nothing to actually do with Lebron.

Year 5 of every sentence about the Pistons being worse than the last one pic.twitter.com/SxxKkrsp1U

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) May 13, 2024

this is a truly cursed excerpt

the league needs to intervene and rescue that franchise

lebron getting his podcast partner hired as coach would be so funny, it would be the crowning off-court achievement of his career

Brian Windhorst said NBA executives were sending him the famous "now why is that?" meme of himself after LeBron showed up at the Cavs-Celtics game in Cleveland last night. pic.twitter.com/JFSatt6XTU

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 14, 2024

"The Jazz have expressed interest in bringing Bronny in for an individual workout and could be interested in him with the 32nd pick, sources told Yahoo Sports," Peek wrote. "The franchise has been patiently rebuilding behind the leadership of Danny Ainge, and bringing in Bronny with the hopes of luring a superstar like LeBron could be the jump owner Ryan Smith is looking for to add a spark to the Jazz."

Ryan Smith on crack

wade feeding that man a sack of lies lol

"The biggest message I want you to hear is that I would coach this team if it was on the moon," Budenholzer said, grinning. "I would coach this team if it was in Alaska. If these players were in Denmark. ... I would go anywhere to coach this team."

26 other franchises would go to the moon to coach this franchise

"i would coach this team if it was in the fourth circle of hell" c'mon bud let's put some real stakes on this thing

denmark is really nice, I would coach any NBA team there