2017 NBA OFFSEASON

"New York offered Carmelo and Sasha Vujacic to the Clippers in exchange for Jamal Crawford, Paul Pierce and Austin Rivers, a deal to which Rivers ultimately said no. That event led Paul to feel that keeping his son on the roster was more important to Doc than improving the team."

OMG

WOOOOOOOOOW DOC IS AN IDIOT (if true)

paul leaving some breadcrumbs on his way out the door lol

some of the circumstances are just kinda random like bron wanting to be in cleve, steph signing a contract right in the middle of an injury scare then turning into an mvp and so forth

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 3:07 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah the giant cap jump is a big part of it too, just a lot of different things happening around the same time. and it can take up to 4 years for the league to reset each time someone breaks it, which is a long time.

hahahah, im just boggling at doc right now. bc if you want to coach while your son is in the league, probably a good idea to avoid coaching him due to conflict of interests

doc: fuck that, im trading for him

ok then just be careful bc there may come a time where the interests of your family and your profession will be at odds--

doc: fuck that, i will not trade my son for melo

lol doc really did right by austin kids got himself a nice lil nest egg

doc scrambling to make up for being a crap dad earlier in his life. fair enough.

oh damn that is a juicy little fact

have we ever had a team with two of the top five assist leaders from the season before?

the doc/melo/austin story is the greatest shit i've ever heard

^^^^^

How can you not instafire doc if that story is true

its incredible

dics kinda gotta be fired anyway just based on the state of the team particularly if blake goes

wonder if hes got ballmer thoroughly charmed tho u know what they say abt salespeople loving to be sold

https://media.tenor.com/images/312c04f7fc2c28eec9545f9a21e4565c/tenor.gif

the doc/melo/austin story is the greatest shit i've ever heard

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 28, 2017 3:49 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

― 龜, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 4:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i seriously groaned aloud reading it

The market has changed huh:

The Houston Rockets would have had to trade Ryan Anderson if they would have signed Chris Paul outright in free agency instead of trading for him.

The market for Anderson, who has three years and $60 million remaining on his deal was incredibly soft.

At least two teams were demanding two first round picks from the Rockets in exchange for taking on Anderson and his contract.

yeah, teams that want to contend have so little margin of error that they're (correctly) scared of taking on a guy that can be played out of key playoff matchups. i'm already tired of ppl saying "two-way players" but it's a real thing if you want to play against golden state.

its good to be able to do all the basketball things (almost no one can)

prob has something to do with why all players are 6-8 now

the doc/melo/austin story is the greatest shit i've ever heard

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 28, 2017 6:49 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^

― 龜, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 7:08 PM (four hours ago

i honestly can't believe this is the way CP went out

:/

Sources: Warriors' luxury tax moving forward is concern for Golden State and owner Joe Lacob in re-signing Andre Iguodala.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 29, 2017

interesting

wow that would be super lame if iggy got squeezed out because of that

I think they're tinkering over a 3rd year on the contact is my predic. They want flexibility in two years when klay is up

i think some of the more plugged-in media suggested that luxury tax may be a problem for them sooner than ppl thought. not getting that new arena money for a couple years.

Sources: John Calipari reached out to NYK through intermediaries to express interest in presidency. More: https://t.co/dLt8AMV9MP

— Ian Begley (@IanBegley) June 29, 2017

uh lol

update: knicks weren't interested

to all knicks management employees who lurk on this website, i would also like to express my interest in the presidency. please webmail me through the interface provided by ilxor.com

i think i wld be good too / am willing to work with clay if necessary promise not to trade zinger

hi knicks org huge fan of the city u do business in, my name is jill faxon and i am a beautiful lady and also a basketball mastermind with 11 championship rings if i could have your attention for a few minutes

I propose we rule the knicks as a triumvirate

its settled then

yes, i jill faxson will play your adolescent affections for me against each other as i wrest back control of the team, i mean run the team for the very first time

have we ever had a team with two of the top five assist leaders from the season before?

― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:24 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In 1981/82 Magic Johnson and Norm Nixon were top five assist leaders on the same team (though only 23 teams compared with 30 now). This has twigged my interest - I'll look to see if there are more recent occurrences later.

Steph and Dray have been top 10 but not 5 I think

Likewise LeBron and Wade were top 10 in 2009/10 before the Heatles formed.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/29/kawakami-my-2017-nba-no-defense-team-starring-isaiah-thomas-andrew-wiggins-and-many-more/

Wiggins being so bad surprised me ^. Sure, I don't watch a lot of Wolves games, but with Thibs and his athleticism I would have thought he would have absolutely no excuse for not being at least mediocre.

one wld think yes

Hopefully Butler taking some offensive load will let KAT and Wiggins improve on defence, really want to see this Wolves team do well.

crazy that bringing on the defensive genius tom thibodeau actually hurt both wiggins and kats numbers and their numbers were already very bad, not a great sign for this regime

if kat ends up just being a one way player that wld be very sad

bill turned back the clock for this one lol good plan imo https://theringer.com/2017-nba-free-agency-11-step-guide-to-fixing-los-angeles-clippers-steve-ballmer-lebron-james-5be49018c062

in short: rebuilding mode + move to seattle

resign and renounce the sad legacy of the clippers forever, start anew as the "very sonics"

i dont really agree with the lebron stuff, by 2019 him and his friends are going to be too old to keep up in the western conference imo

clippers should definitely become the sonics though

ya agree