2017 NBA OFFSEASON

if my reward for trading paul george is jordan clarkson's longterm deal and the option to give julius randle his first max extension i might just decide to tank

pacers shd just trade paul george to anywhere but the lakers out of spite

i just wonder if anyones gonna offer enough to force them to put one of their key dudes into the mix or even if they do if the lakers wont just say fuck it and wait to sign george next year, tho as described in that article the lakers wld have to give up a lot to sign him cause they screwed themselves by giving moz n deng free money

ha bradley-crowder is actually a better deal than clarckson-randle, yeah the lakers might be screwed

they cld still wait it out tho

prob wldnt be that psyched to have paul experience a year of winning basketball while the lakers win 25 games tho

IT-george-horford is...a team i guess

honestly would rather have bradley and crowder instead of george

celtics need another creator bad

i mean maybe they want to keep bradley idk i just made up that trade

also they have room to sign another max guy if they shuffle things right

ill take paul george

the ideal offseason wld be to sign hayward and trade for dre jordan but thats prob insanely unlikely who knows if either of those guys are even available

celtics cld easily look like

horford
griffin
george
brown
thomas

to start next season, which is a lot of talent but also kinda dubious fit wise

blake is scary

for sure

i would not want to sign blake to a long-term/big money deal at this point.

reasonable def

hes played 7 seasons and only 3 of them were more than 70 games + he missed his rookie year altogether

gp 0 82 66 80 80 67 35 61

I can only imagine how unhappy pg would be to be taken prisoner by ainge and this is a dude who is so unhappy anyway that he busted up his own team once and wants to play for a trash laker team and subjected me to the lamest Gatorade commercial over and over these playoffs, don't do it Danny

I would love Blake if he weren't made of glass, I think that guy is primed to get our from under cp's constant heckling and has a few monster years left, but it's just not a good gamble w his health

I'm in he Hayward / butler or bust train to complete this group, two durable dudes at their peaks

Ha whoops looks like butler usually plays high 60s for games with a couple of full years, not that durable I guess

I can only imagine how unhappy pg would be to be taken prisoner by ainge and this is a dude who is so unhappy anyway that he busted up his own team once and wants to play for a trash laker team and subjected me to the lamest Gatorade commercial over and over these playoffs, don't do it Danny

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Sunday, June 18, 2017 5:07 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty compelling argument tbh

between the celtics and the sixers all of the capital being exchanged at the top of the draft was acquired by making trades with insane, desperate teams making immediately ill-fated moves

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Was told last week that the Cavs are one of the only teams that won't care about George long term. That is the threat IND needs to get LA in

i was thinking also but a. if it's true that lebron has his eyes on LA, i'm not sure bringing him and PG together a year early in a diff city is a great idea b. the cavs have exactly nothing to trade except love, and trading him for just 1 season of PG would be a bit crazy i think

lol if lebron bullies the cavs into trading for pg then elopes with him to LA a year later

wld make the decision look like a big picnic

yeah maybe that's their longterm lebron strategy. "if we trade for PG he couldn't possibly leave with him for the same team a year later right?"

i believe in the 'celtics actually want tatum' conspiracy now

jaylen brown + jayson tatum + gordon hayward could be pretty legit on the wings

why do people keep talking like hayward is already on the celtics when he is going to re-sign with the utah jazz

I feel strongly that rumors about lebron going to LA are complete bullshit

agreed

mayeb but i also don't think he'll just drain his career away in cleveland out of perceived loyalty to the city

the biggest obstacle for me is that moving to the western conference makes no sense at any point in the near future

mayeb but i also don't think he'll just drain his career away in cleveland out of perceived loyalty to the city

― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 18, 2017 8:02 PM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh yeah he will

there's no precedent for lebron leaving cleveland

they shd trade him

he is 32 years old and has nothing left to accomplish on super teams

how is making the finals every year for the foreseeable future, plus complete control over the team, draining his career away?

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how is making the finals every year for the foreseeable future, plus complete control over the team, draining his career away?

― k3vin k., Sunday, June 18, 2017 10:49 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i should have clarified that this statement is operating under the pretense that lebron would only leave bcuz he believed that he had a better shot to win elsewhere

i don't think lebron would leave just to "play in LA". this is the same reason people assumed he would just end up on the knicks and he never considered them.

i do think that he would leave cleveland if he felt like they were not able to put the best team around him to win

no one in the east is really in a position to put together a better lebron team than the current cavs

also lebron is the gm of the cavs and will always be looking too make deals

i've always been on down on the lakers' core, and lebron has never been eager to play with young players. so it doesn't really make sense to me either. i don't think deangelo russell-lonzo ball-brandon ingram-paul-george-lebron james is beating the warriors.