2017 NBA OFFSEASON

doesnt he have to make an all-nba team?

lol nothing matters, about the only stance I can manage as a cavs fan this summer

i won't count out any team that still has the bron james on it

punt on the possibility of making the supermax

heres a little more

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20124505/kyrie-irving-seeking-trade-cleveland-cavaliers

Selfishly, I always wanted to just show everyone in the whole entire world exactly who I was every single time."

With this in mind, Irving considered requesting a trade after the Cavs' championship last season but decided against it, sources said.

people pretending like kyrie beating people 1 on 1 in the playoffs means he's a great player led to this

― J0rdan S., Friday, July 21, 2017 3:45 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

yep

apparently the Bucks and the Suns have already called about him

not sure how a trade with the Bucks makes sense. would have to give up Jabari who won't be available until midseason and likely wouldn't much help the Cavs chances this season.

Life is amazing. No complaints. Things are a little peculiar. But no complaints. Now go kick some rocks 🙌🏼 https://t.co/Tz62YyGeYt

— Kevin Love (@kevinlove) July 21, 2017

this offseason has been singularly and spectacularly beautiful

if i'm being generous it's less about being the #1 guy than not dealing with bron drama for another year, losing in the finals, and watching bron walk.

if the cavs had been able to improve the team this summer i doubt he's asking for a trade.

he's only under contract for 2 more years tho, so if bron left next summer he could just demand a trade then saying he's gonna walk anyway and they'd pretty much have no choice but to do it

not playing out this season doesn't really make any sense

the only two explanations that make sense to me are:

1. his ego has driven him to delusion
2. the max for a player coming off his first contract that kyrie signed was much lower then than it is now, and as the cap jumped he ended up playing for a pretty low salary relative to what he could've got in the open market. so maybe he wants the super max in 2 years in order to cash out as much as possible and feels like he won't put up the numbers to make an all NBA team next to lebron. but that would mean he would have to be traded to a team he would re-sign with.

Can't make the super max if he leaves the cavs. Has to be with the team who drafts you

John Wall just agreed to that supermax. 207 mill

GET IT

kyrie is a moron, most ppl dream of playing with the bron. and if he wanted to play for the twolves so bad he should have made a move before they signed teague

Good stuff from woj
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/20125888

when i saw this on the ESPN front page...

Top Headlines

Sources: Kyrie seeks trade to evade LeBron

...my heart skipped a beat

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c6/15/a4/c615a484daa12c138518a2fe3a6f4be7.jpg

lol

Lebron is the king of the league and monarchs can be hell to live under.

ok this in the woj article is lol

The Cavaliers are constructed to play a slow, half-court game around James, personnel ill-suited to transition into an up-tempo style with Irving as the centerpiece.

I support Kyrie

heh tom thibodeau rip, killed in a zach lowe drive by

Minnesota has only 11 players under contract, meaning a 3-for-1 deal would leave them with half a roster. Maybe that is Tom Thibodeau's fever dream, so that he can play everyone 40-plus minutes.

^forgot the formatting but that's a quote from lowe's article analyzing who could trade for kyrie

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Portland has traded Allen Crabbe to Brooklyn for Andrew Nicholson, league sources tell ESPN.

i guess the nets really want allen crabbe

that evan turner contract remains an abject disaster

guess that frees up some money for the blazers? crabbe was their best bench player

PDX is waiving nicholson and gonna stretch his contract

bobby marks

Portland will see their current luxury tax bill drop from $48.3M to $4.4M with the Allen Crabbe trade

did not realise portland are into the luxury tax lol

love that move for PDX's bank account

weird

Brandon Knight torn ACL out for the year

lol how many times have i heard about paul allen and the blazers infinite budget?

i guess that only comes to pass if they're competing for rings

fair tbh

pretty sure if any team were dropping an extra $40m on the luxury of having allen crabbe around they'd slough him off on an also-ran asap

if brooklyn's willing to be a parking garage for some shit contracts i've got a few wings to sell them

― Clay, Saturday, July 8, 2017 9:51 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

anyways i still have a couple wings left

somehow lamar odom is alive and sober https://www.theplayerstribune.com/lamar-odom-done-in-the-dark/

oh damn i forgot his kid died of sids at 6 months. feel for lamar, hope he can stay away from his addictions

that dude needs to stay away from toxic + famous families, at the end of that run there he was being used for dramatic purposes for a tv show and gossip rags.

javale back. swaggy and javale what could go wrong

Manu Ginobli turns 40 today. Can you spot him in this photo? pic.twitter.com/yXPSxHxEXg

— SI Vault (@si_vault) July 28, 2017

front and center, right?

think so.

Ya

confidence levels high

man, July-August is brutal, i miss basketball (any sport).