2017 NBA OFFSEASON

the eastern conference is a world of transience

Oh my lord Jaylen Brown just buried some dude on the Blazers 💀 pic.twitter.com/GeZ6oV4LUr

— Rob Perez (@World_Wide_Wob) July 10, 2017

wow that is terribly rude

Also Griff pulled out of the running for the knicks gm job. That org is toxic. Maybe the people will revolt again now that the microscope is back on Dolan.

the people need to gofundme a hostile buyout of the knicks.

lol everyone hates dolan and hes so bad but he wont sell

at some point dont u just get sick of failure take yr 3 billion dollars and go home

hasn't happened to me yet

been meaning to talk

Ha. But for real Dolan just cash out and move on. Start your own music festival and headline it, people will forget your failures.

I'm stuck on Markelle Fultz being wheeled around with his head in a towel after an ankle sprain every basketball player has had 400 times

its summer league tho, abundance of caution and shit

btw bryn forbes is lighting UP summer league and i have no idea if the spurs have room for him

I don't like this CJ Miles trade for Toronto at all

I think they're focusing on getting under the tax or whatever

Maybe fultz has never done his ankle before?

I don't like this CJ Miles trade for Toronto at all

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, July 10, 2017 12:52 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I don't get it basketball twitter is falling over themselves to worship Masai and I'm like you p much brought the band back minus two fairly useful guys in Patterson and tucker and your answer is cj miles

It's ok to keep winning 50 games but they have major problems in the playoffs and there's a big gap between them and Cleve and Boston and maybe even the wiz now

Wolves sign Jamal Crawford. 9m, 2years.

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Sunday, July 9, 2017 8:42 AM (yesterday) Bookmark

he's gonna be 39 when this contract is up lol

agent hibachi otm

masai is not good

if he's an above average GM in the league its only because the bar is low

that's all way too harsh imo, they retained lowry without getting into his riskiest years and shuffled some bench depth. this is life with a capped out team. they're still one of the best 4 teams in the east and still positioned to take advantage of cleveland injuries/issues if there are any.

thing w gming in the nba is those with near total job security, ainge riley pop, have such a huge advantage

like masai made some risky desperate moves but he prob had ownership breathing down his neck

i can't blame masai for pushing chips to the middle last year, that was very likely the end of lowry's prime and he was a ufa.

if the raptors best players were capable of being good in the playoffs he wld be looking at lot better right now lol

i think masai has done pretty well. some teams just have to be the kind that hit the second round/finals ceiling... those teams are necessarily as common as the dynasties. this raptors team is more like the paul george/roy hibbert era pacers than like the c webb kings or 7 seconds or less suns, just in terms of aesthetics and meaning to the game, but they've all sort of accomplished the same thing regardless. the derozan and valanciunas contracts are not my favorite but like, what is this raptors team if they let those guys walk?

they don't have an outrageously bad contract -- i don't even think demarre was *that* bad -- and it seems like he's done stuff on the very margins that people like... norm powell, etc. cory joseph was a good signing. i would still trust him w/ my team.

jordan and lagoon otm

if the raptors best players were capable of being good in the playoffs he wld be looking at lot better right now lol

― lag∞n, Monday, July 10, 2017 10:46 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea really cant be said enough

i wonder if they could trade derozan to one of the l.a. teams next offseason

masai also partly responsible for making basketball vastly more popular in canada than it was five years ago, which is a big deal.

true the raptors r a thing now

they the norf

toronto has become too americanized imo having a sense of self esteem and so forth

there's also legitimate longterm benefit to having a team simply as good as the raptors in a city that is passionate about the team. it can build longterm loyalty and i bet they're making good money.

lmao isiah was clowning zbo for being the worst practice player ever and zbo was cracking up he loved it

this kings lakers game was an actual good game buddy heild hit a 3 on 3 consecutive possessions but then air balled one to tie on the 4th at the buzzer

kings might be kinda fun to watch this year

kings, yeah, not a playoff team more than likely but a goodish young core and some decent vets, they should win 30-35 games i bet!

30 would be good

that's all way too harsh imo, they retained lowry without getting into his riskiest years and shuffled some bench depth. this is life with a capped out team. they're still one of the best 4 teams in the east and still positioned to take advantage of cleveland injuries/issues if there are any.

― call all destroyer, Monday, July 10, 2017 1:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yea Masai is def good and there's definite value in how he's keeping the team together with the option to tear it down in a couple years, I personally was more reacting to the weird hyperventilating GENIUS reaction of the non-ilh hoops internet reaction to trading for cj miles who is perfectly fine but not like a stone cold playoff killer

If I were the raps gm I'd be calling everyone interested in Carmelo and trying to sell them on derozan tho, I'm convinced that he's a very good player in precisely the wrong era

On @SportsCenter right now, @IanBegley says both the Knicks and Carmelo are confident that "this thing will get done" with the #Rockets.

— Ben DuBose (@BenDuBose) July 11, 2017

giving derozan a big contract is the main reason i was down on Masai, i feel like you can't invest that much in a player who doesn't do anything without the ball in 2017

Well he can do stuff w the ball. It's that his game doesn't translate to postseason success is the biggest knock imo. He really needs to chuck away behind the arc too.

yeah the complete lack of a 3pt shot is the biggest problem with his game - if he was league average there then he looks a lot better

Lee Jenkins piece on Paul George
https://www.si.com/nba/2017/07/11/paul-george-thunder-trade-kevin-durant-lakers-pacers-russell-westbrook

KD w some nice things to say about the thunder franchise

yeesh

tatum with the cross pic.twitter.com/i1a9iHdpK3

— LØØPSØØP (@vineydelnegro) July 11, 2017

I'm so excited for celtics fans. Great vets and great young stars, great coach.

Honestly at times Tatum looks like melo with defense. Maybe some mcadoo too.