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

what was it

chronic tendinitis iirc

they did try to resign him but he was already sick of them by then

― lag∞n, Thursday, October 17, 2024 6:00 PM (thirteen minutes ago)

it always seemed pretty half-hearted even until the end

yeah they def werent showing him the love

And why would they lol. They shoulda traded both those guys after like 3 weeks of solid play at any point in the last 3 seasons.

sure but they did resign kawhi

yeah declining to pay PG was not crazy in of itself, but saddling yourself to kawhi first made no sense

for all they gave up to get PG they shoulda at least sign n traded him or something.

Part of the Bucks interest in trading MarJon Beauchamp (as @JakeLFischer reported earlier) is to open a roster spot.

Milwaukee has some interest in re-signing locker room favorite Thanasis Antetokounmpo, a league source told @spotrac.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) October 19, 2024

haa

yeah i mean whats the difference

Thanasis Antetokounmpo is expected to miss the season to rehab from a torn Achilles' tendon, but his locker room presence is prized by the Bucks, and his brother Giannis Antetokounmpo.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) October 19, 2024

Lmao just make him an asst coach for a season or something

doesnt pay enough

some contract extendos:

jalen green - 3/109
moody - 3/39
trey murphy 4/112

green went on a sick run at the end of last year that has everyone going what if only problem is he was shooting like 45% on eight pullup threes a game, just blatantly not repeatable

yeah his numbers skyrocketed without sengun something will have to give there im sure

damn, suggs 5/150 just now

magic betting that jumpers real

shams trying to sell the short deal as a win for team green but idk looks more like houston hedging their bets, nice he brought his agent rubbing ways to the worldwide leader jesus christ

Jalen Green is the first NBA player to successfully negotiate a 2-plus-1 rookie extension on a nine figure deal. Green became a pioneer as the first NBA G League Ignite signing in 2020. Now lands the most unique rookie extension ever. https://t.co/xw2SlsGbez

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 21, 2024

re suggs; 21% to 33% to 40% is a crazy climb id be side eying that. but he seems like a great 'winning mindset' guy, will make a lot of all defense teams too im sure.

hes a good player basically a marcus smart clone but even with the good shooting he scored 13ppg last year kinda doubt hes ever going to be a big scorer type of guy you would def like to get on a somewhat smaller deal

yeah pretty big gamble that he's going to continue to rise

friends the ball is near

hearing rumours that ball is looming?

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Hawks extended Jalen Johnson for 5yr 150

great deal

BALL

i don’t know what a good deal is anymore

not a knock on jalen who is v promising i just see all the extensions now and think money isn’t real

is that the max

i do like jalen johnson theres a good chance he outplays that contract at some point doesnt seem exactly like a steal but youve kind of got to give promising guys that fun max or at least thats been the conventional wisdom maybe thats changing or will change under the new apron regimes idk

people seem to think most of these guys took pretty team friendly deals. at the beginning of a new CBA i think it’s hard for us laymen to really grasp what is a good or bad contract. but $30m a year is not gonna be that huge of a salary, i guess

jts not that hard to grasp just wait for spotrac to update the info and look at % of cap

sure but i think at this juncture in a new CBA there is a lot that is unknown about how things are gonna play out in a macro sense, what team behavior may end up being in a few years, what the free agency & trade markets might look like etc in this specific case how the aprons are gonna change the league. just a lot of moving variables where i think ppl who study this stuff may have better educated guesses but those people are wrong about lots of stuff too

The Sixers annouce that Joel Embiid will not play in any games this week, that Paul George will miss Wednesday's opener against the Milwaukee Bucks, and that Jared McCain's availability will be announced later today.

— Tim Bontemps (@TimBontemps) October 22, 2024

ah, well, nevertheless!

whatre u gonna do

the new structure with the aprons def adds some uncertainty but i think the calculations with these rookie extensions are prob not that different signing guys who are on the upswing of their careers usually works out pretty well and even if it doesnt youre only allowed to offer them so much, thing that might be more affected is those second max deals the real big ones, already seen kat get traded cause that contract was just too big, will be interesting to see if teams are as willing to hand them out, also were already seeing changes at the low end teams not using their midlevel exemptions only carrying 14 guys players like lonnie walker or gary trent who in years past who at least couldve gotten a piece of a mid level deal are signing for the minimum or dont have deals at all yet

this embiid situation seems really bad preseason youve got nothing to do but get ready for the season he only played one preseason game and still couldnt do it his knee might just be cooked

i mean is there an injury reported whatre we looking at here

I don't think he played any preseason games, which supposedly was always the plan. Last year he only played a single preseason game.

I mean it's not good, but if they keep him on ice the early part of the season and he is healthy for the stretch and playoffs that might be better than what has happened the last x number of years.

progressing well and ramping up ok

76ers: Joel Embiid and Paul George are out for opener vs. Bucks on Wednesday. Embiid is progressing well and ramping up, scrimmaging this week. He will not play this week. George will be re-evaluated later in the week. pic.twitter.com/oDFyAx1mbz

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 22, 2024

lets goooooooooooo
2024-25 NBA Regular Season Thread – Capture the Flagg or King of the Hill?

That PG photo looks like he is out for personal reasons (high as fuck).

It’s not the end of the world that Embiid is missing the first couple games of the season, but you can’t just go “THIS IS ALL ACCORDING TO PLAN” and never explain what the plan was or why this is the plan.

He played in the Olympics 2 months ago. Why hasn’t he scrimmaged since?…

— Mike O'Connor (@MOConnor_NBA) October 22, 2024

the part i still don't understand about this entire idea is that embiid famously can only stay in adequate NBA shape when regularly playing NBA basketball, and yet the plan is for him to intentionally play in fewer games, so that when he gets to the playoffs, he is 100% and ready to go. this makes me feel like i somehow have watched embiid's career more closely than the people actually running the sixers, which isn't true and isn't possible, and yet!!

He didn't look great in the Olympics and he shouldn't have played, but I think that was an Embiid call, not a Sixers call.

Agreed that they could maybe be clearer, but they did announce a load management plan (not going to play any b2bs this year) at the same time they said he wasn't going to play in the preseason. So I think it is "some highly calculated long term load management regimen" even if they haven't explicitly said that and maybe/probably it's not going to work.

teams are allowed to hold players out of international play for injury reasons fwiw, obvs there are more interpersonal political reasons for the sixers to let him do what he wants tho

That PG photo looks like he is out for personal reasons (high as fuck).

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, October 22, 2024 12:31 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol