2017 NBA OFFSEASON

kyrie is our god now

lol winning a chip made cavs fans soft

Ok Cavs fans you know what to do.. pic.twitter.com/pZMI6SX8Hb

— tony hartman (@tony_hartman) August 22, 2017

lot of ppl on the twitter seem to think the celtics way overpaid but kyrie having two years left on his deal makes it pretty different than past disgruntled stars wanting out situations, also his age

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 22, 2017 10:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

if he re-signs it was more than a fair trade.... assuming he's actually good of course

been thinking about it and i think ainge is going to trade horford before the season

theyre so young now and hes old and doesnt really fit what theyre trying to do but still has a lot of value

that seems insane. do they even have a frontcourt without him

i think that would make them pretty toxic for other FAs.

i don't see what they could be trying to do in which horford doesn't fit, he's a very all-around player

i think ainge is going to trade horford before the season

you are now on the record with this opinion. brave man.

in answer to yr rebuttals

1 they wld have to trade him for a front court player, or players as part of a bigger trade

2 this is a reasonable point re free agents

3 al is really good but he doesnt rebound or really protect the rim which is what they need also hes older than everyone else and his foot speed is deteriorating which cld make him a defensive liability before his contract is over, hes already hopeless defending power forwards

4 wow call the police

addendum: hayward is 27 so he might not be that psyched abt a total youth movement right when they signed him, maybe theyll go the other direction and move some of their youth to get another in his prime player idk its just a tough time to do so cause of mostly the warriors and a lil but the cavs, i mean theyll prob stand pat since trades are hard to do but al kinda feels out of step w the rest of the team to me

also ainge wld total do it right i mean

maybe next year def not right now

ainge said something in his press conference for the kyrie trade that made me think he was looking to make another move someone asked him how he felt about the state of the team and he said lets wait til the end of the summer to have that discussion, obvs he cld just be talking abt smaller complimentary moves or just saying that as a matter of course but if he were to make a big move al is the only big contract he has left to trade

http://imgur.com/a/gDtTE

problem solved

oops
http://i.imgur.com/VlwC0by.png

lmao yes please

lol o no

addendum: hayward is 27 so he might not be that psyched abt a total youth movement right when they signed him, maybe theyll go the other direction and move some of their youth to get another in his prime player idk its just a tough time to do so cause of mostly the warriors and a lil but the cavs, i mean theyll prob stand pat since trades are hard to do but al kinda feels out of step w the rest of the team to me

― lag∞n, Wednesday, August 23, 2017 7:45 PM (one hour ago)

how do we think kyrie is going to handle potentially being part of a big 3 again and potentially being the worst player of the 3?

i think itll be fine cause hell be the primary ballhandler scorer

yeah most likely true

i mean hayward shd be a solid 1b option but realistically kyrie is more of a pure bucket getter

Likely there will be a sorting out period for the first two to four months, as the Celtics figure out 'whose team' they are.

hayward and horford are both guys who play off the ball a fair amount so it works in theory

kyrie is not worse than al horford and the idea that he's worse than gordon hayward is a little challopsy too, or at least based on a single season

kyrie being worse than hayward is prob a legit idea with the right metrics but in the nba hierarchy kyrie is unquestionably ahead.

that said i don't think there are many fit questions in boston, kyrie will play within the offense most of the time and he'll get crunchtime buckets when it makes sense.

curious to see if stevens can screw kyrie's head on a lil straight

ainge is curious about that, too

i believe in Beautiful Brad

yeah i think theres a good chance brad gets through to him especially considering hes never really been in a good stable coaching situation

re whether hayward is better than kyrie i do think gordon is generally a little underrated just cause the jazz played the slowest pace in the league and didnt have a lot of guys who could break down the defense so his looks were tougher than average half court slog type situations, hell be getting a lot easier baskets on the celtics

problem solved

― Clay, Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haha I knew what was behind the broken graphic before I even scrolled up, well done

Yeah thinking about Stevens piloting an offense with kyrie and Hayward and lots of neat parts got me more psyched about this trade

Brad is definitely one of Boston's bigger assets.

ainge-stevens prob the best gm-coach pair in the league outside pop-ovich

Shams Charania‏ @ShamsCharania
Manu Ginobili has signed a two-year, $5 million deal to return to the San Antonio Spurs, league sources tell The Vertical.

Seems reasonable. He might be able to average 5 effective minutes a game, but even if he can't, it is a small price to pay for a man who gave them so much. Go, Manu!

manu is a bit cooked

I want to harm you.

lol

he is parboiled

Many is good about once a month at this point. But essential to the Spurs culture so it's good.

y'all know i love manu. but like the top of his head, he is hard-boiled at this point

Manu is about to average 30/6/5 bc of this slander

http://www.slamonline.com/nba/nerlens-noel-turned-down-mavericks-17-5-million-year-offer/#ZTBgY2E2vEBSiIop.97

yo someone tell nerlens it's not last offseason. that's a generous annual number for a guy who hasn't done much in the nba.

yeah seems like a pretty reasonable number for him

coach nick on kyrie celtics fit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gr9KqaPfSw

seems like the stuff the celtics were running for isaiah will work good for him, better than what he was getting in cleve, tho obvs hes not gonna have the benefit of the D keying on bron

Kurt Helin‏ @basketballtalk 1m1 minute ago
Kyrie Irving leaves $1,668,172-$5,845,172 on the table by waiving trade kicker

was really not feeling the cavs

love to leave $1,668,172-$5,845,172 on the table

1. put $1,668,172-$5,845,172 on the table
2. leave it there