Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

lowe's column sez celtics & nugs having talks about ty lawson- intriguing

huh wow that is intriguing

this whole cap jump situation btw idk why saleries arent just denominated in % of the cap seems p obvious

like some of them are even calculated that way then converted to dollar values

assuming that smart, james young and maybe kelly o are off the table, who does boston deal aside from picks? I would assume thornton or bass, because even denver isn't stupid enough to take the albatross that is the gerald wallace contract

idk man math baffles me

ya seem like itd be vets just to match contracts then picks as the real value but i guess they cld throw in a young player instead of a pick too

a poem by amare

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9_KBsaIEAA-Qva.jpg

if your smart, you can meet leaders of every
nation

wonder how much a contending team will spend on him, money can't be a huge issue given that he was bought out

I can't figure out who "Anna" is

wintour prob

http://i.imgur.com/VyFRBLF.jpg

was hoping it was chlumsky but you're probably right

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12318808/the-philadelphia-76ers-radical-guide-winning

Their would-be star was a hazardous fit -- sometimes even literally. One day, memorably, the rehabbing big man parked next to Aaron Barzilai, DiLeo's newly hired director of basketball analytics, in the parking lot of the team facility at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. As Bynum shuffled inside, Barzilai noticed something on their would-be star's custom black Ferrari and called after him. Bynum, it turned out, had driven away from a gas station without removing the pump's nozzle and eight-
foot rubber hose, which he'd dragged, pythonlike, through the street.

nice

http://www.nba.com/blazers/damian-lillard-raps-sway-sirius

bars tbh

these trade possibilities are really fascinating, as is Larry Sanders hitting the FA market

amar'e to the mavs

you know what would be an interesting big man combo? Enes Kanter and Larry Sanders.

isnt that substanially the same as kanter/gobert?

gonna be hard to get them on the same team because kanter is gone

he might not be, albeit only because of his reps' unrealistic expectations

read someone saying its unlikely sanders will sign/play this year

ya sanders should probably just chill

re: kanter, woj sez utah want a solid young player and a first rounder at least, so actually they're being more unrealistic than he is...like in what world is enes fucking kanter worth that much if he can't protect the rim particularly well

it's good that Amare already planned an exit - i hated him being injured and sucking up salary cap space but he can be good on a team with less pressure on his role

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGLYD91Oi1M

what the heck

did not know it2 was close to the chopping block, the draymond thing is also interesting http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--suns-determined-to-sign-dragic--barring-blockbuster-trade-offer-195235888.html

Remember: beware the intersection of woj and Pistons sources

This long break is not cool at all

Otm, very depressed rn

ya terrible idea

i checked the sched to see if there were any games tonight and it just said "lol right"

"as if" it said

"no games... ever (until thursday)"

http://nyloncalculus.com/2015/02/17/looking-at-rpm-improvements/

how about Tyreke Evans? His box score numbers are very very similar to last year’s and yet he’s had one of the large improvements in his RPM. So what gives? Well, a little digging and you find out that Evans has played the most minutes on the Pelicans with Anthony Davis7. So that ought to help a bit.

um isnt the whole point of yr stat

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA · 7m 7 minutes ago
Goran Dragic's agent informed the Suns tonight that Dragic will not sign an extension in Phoenix this summer, league sources tell Yahoo.

dragic on the move?

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 1m1 minute ago
The Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat and New York Knicks are among preferred destinations for Goran Dragic, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

lol goran all about living his best life

lol go to the lakers bro have fun w that

he's either a complete moron or is looking for scrill rather than rings

seems more like he just wants to live in a cool city

tho those are also the teams w the worst point guards

and all but miami are going to be irrelevant for the next 3 to 5 years

Phoenix is cool :(

miami will prob be good again in not too long but the other two are cursed for their past sins and rightfully so imho

any team has an opportunity get good real fast w the coming salary cap jump, the thing holding ny and la back is their tendency to make bad decisions, which maxing dragic out wld be

free isiah thomas

so do they keep dragic for now, letting him walk later, and deal it2, or deal dragic for fuck-it reasons? or stand pat