2017 NBA OFFSEASON

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lol "needs to extend shooting range" "3pt% 41.3" theyre reaching to find a single flaw

i think it lays out for the celtics perfectly for them to just not really do anything. they're the second best team in the east and can also set themselves up to take the throne once lebron eventually tails off. i still don't see the point in rushing it.

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That lottery was a best case scenario for Indy/Chi if they want to trade George/Butler - could they just play LA and Celts off each other?

ok this needs to stop right now neither of those guys is enough value for the 1 or 2 in this draft

that makes no sense to me. the lakers are not giving up the chance to take lonzo.

2 i cld see, i dont think any other players are "slam dunks" so to speak

tho yeah lakers gonna take ball its destiny

i think it lays out for the celtics perfectly for them to just not really do anything. they're the second best team in the east and can also set themselves up to take the throne once lebron eventually tails off. i still don't see the point in rushing it.

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:13 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah p much agree w this tho they wld still have a lot of work to do, a lot of their guys are peaking now

tho fultz-brown prob arent bad building blocks

jordan otm, i came to this position a while back. be as good as you can for as long as you can.

lmao https://www.instagram.com/p/BULMby2g4J0/

scal!

I'm no bball expert, so someone plz explain why this Celtics/Nets trade was not a violation of the Stepien rule.

casue on alternating years they traded not picks but the right to swap picks, so this year the nets will get the celtics pick (27th) and the celtics will get the nets pick (#1!!!), next year the celtics get both their own pick and the nets pick, lol

yeah p much agree w this tho they wld still have a lot of work to do, a lot of their guys are peaking now

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 9:24 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark

it's not a slam dunk or anything, but assuming the next are top 3 bad again next year, the celtics in 4 years (when lebron is 36) could have three top 3 picks with 3+ years of experience under their belts. i just don't see how you can pass that up.

the nets*

given their record of finding complementary talent late in the draft or around the league it seems like a good place to be

yeah def cant complain

wonder if danny feels any urgency to try to turn the current squad into a contender

i'm sure he wants to b/c he's danny but it's such an insanely hard needle to thread with the two elite teams out there.

everyone should look at toronto this year and what happens when you push your chips in with the wrong team. they're probably fucked for the next several years.

gordon hayward says hell sign with you if you can acquire deandre jordan, the clippers say they wont trade him for anything less than the #1 pick, wyd?

that would be an awesome team, i'd think long and hard about it

that said this is the nba and top-5 talent is like logarithmically better than aggregating top 20-5 talent

so if you think fultz can ever be top 5 you stay the course

i think fultz absolutely has top five potential but theres no guarantee hes not young lebron

agreed. i just keeping coming back to how the top 3 teams are holding (arguably) 4 of the top 5 players in the league. most surefire path to contention is finding a steph, a kd, a kawahi, a james harden who doesn't have weird dark secrets.

on another note i look forward to lonzo ball being a tantalizing but frustrating talent, none of the other young lakers turning into stars, and a couple of 35-win seasons

unless the warriors get broken up somehow i don't really see the argument for trying to win in the next 2-3 years unless you have no other option

right now the lone formula for beating this current iteration of the warriros is "superhuman performance from perhaps the best player of all time", to say nothing of getting past that guy in the first place

yeah its true im usually skeptical of worrying over specific other teams but when theres two of them it becomes harder to ignore

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2017/05/marcin-gortat-may-seek-trade-from-wizards.html

id be mad if mahimni got that big ass contract too

Lakers could have a Ball with 2nd pick, but @TheUndefeated explains why it's best to go big baller with Paul George. https://t.co/MCsXyW9sPo

— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpearsESPN) May 17, 2017

it's honestly a testament to the level of NBA discourse at the national level that an article as bad as this can provoke such surprise. trading the pick for george is probably the dumbest idea i can think of

gotta have that convo lol

haha you obv are rooting for them to do it

i would say the celtics should probably "offer" the first pick to indy to use that as leverage against the lakers and encourage them to make that trade but really that helps an in-conference opponent at the expense of an out of conference opponent, even if it is the lakers

i actually want the lakers to take ball i support the ball dynasty

me too lol

they shd attempt to acquire all three ball brothers imo

also the dad shd be the coach

ass coach more like it

LaVar is a legend. pic.twitter.com/eXiRF2ywLD

— Ry (@JustRyCole) May 17, 2017

big baller brand

It would be amazing if they didn't take ball but...they're taking ball

I fully support it, the next year is going to be an hour of Stephen a smith screaming incomprehensibly with/about/at lavar on espn every day

At least after melo gets traded for peanuts and p jax decides to retire

lol that whole clip is perfect

ha nice

Lavar Ball: "Jason Whitlock can't comment on anything but snacks."

— Marcus Mosher (@Marcus_Mosher) May 17, 2017

omg don't make me unironically like lavar ball

big baller brand will be successful due to irony

too pricey for an ironic purchase

that just makes it more ironic

i need some big baller brand knockoffs

this is unlistenable

LaVar Ball (@Lavarbigballer) to @KristineLeahy: stay in your lane. Says BBB doesn't market to women (they do) & takes shot at @WhitlockJason pic.twitter.com/bUhutjtZKL

— Def Pen Hoops (@DefPenHoops) May 17, 2017