2018 NBA OFFSEASON

most likely tho is he opts in and they cut him

posted it to the other thread by mistake but Miami and Portland will both want to shed salary

Pacers looking good going into the offseason. Haven't really thought too much about what pieces they should add ... kinda intrigued to see if this team can just grow a bit. They m/l have everyone signed through one more year, then basically all of their olds (Bojan, Jefferson, Joseph, Collison, Young/Lance) are up, with the youngs Domas/Turner/Oladipo on team-friendly contracts. Glenn Robinson III in a weird spot ... was supposed to be the starting lock-down SF this year and kinda got derailed (and the Pacers were probably expecting to commit some money to him after that). Hope they figure out a way to sign him on a short deal this summer. Also unexpectedly fell in love with Trevor Booker as a bench dude, would love if they had a spot for him as well.

Kinda wish they'd managed to develop Ike Anibogu to the point where they could use him defensively in the playoffs. Really excited to see him and Edmond Sumner get playing time next year; both are more intriguing bench dudes than TJ Leaf. Wouldn't mind Leaf, Joe Young, and Poythress cleared out.

They will be paying Monta Ellis through 2022.

john wall wld like to be traded

With season over, John Wall calls out teammates, calls on front office for changes https://t.co/bXUjfsztG6

— Post Sports (@PostSports) April 29, 2018

i think actually he wants everyone else to be traded

clearly hates beal and gortat, probably finds oubre useless, may be ok with otto porter.

yeah he's getting his ass traded

his contract is a disaster

"i am you franchise player and you were playing pretty good without me, also most of my teammates are ass imo, get me some better players and we'll be good what do you mean ive been traded for aaron gordon--"

sorry john wall but yr gonna end up on the suns it is destiny

a fair takedown or rwb
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23364202/zach-lowe-russell-westbrook-oklahoma-city-thunder-nba

*of

steven adams to the celtics confirmed

hot take: okc should trade westbrook

kawhi for russ confirmed

*extremely italian voice* FAWK YOUUUUU

if anyone could be the russ whisperer it would be pop

russ is too far gone i think

also russ is not a horse

now, after winning his mvp, russ will never change his game just to suit a coach. any team willing to pay rwb's contract is in too deep to let their coach alienate him. the coach would be let go first.

someone mentioned it previously but these albatross supermax contracts are gonna be a problem

Someone coined a saying a while back to the effect that, if I can't make the payment on my $10,000 auto loan I have a problem, but if I can't make the payment on my $50 million business loan, the bank has a problem. once you give out a supermax contract, the player's ability to deliver on it becomes your problem, not the player's.

indeed

it seems like whenever the owners try and slant the CBA in their favor there’s always an unintended consequence that ends up screwing them. a lot of these owners are going to get stuck with albatross contracts or end up having to trade the stars the CBA is supposed to funnel to them for fear of the albatross contract (i.e. boogie cousins)

nellie is the best
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/style/don-nelson-nba-weed.html

ha that url

Pot-farming Hawaiian Don Nelson is a very graceful ending.

this fuckin' guy

I built this place next to me. It’s not a wedding chapel, but they have weddings there. My daughter Lee runs that. She’s an interesting story. I had that daughter out of wedlock. I knew nothing about her for 29 years.

This whole interview

this kawhi piece is pretty thorough given the hush nature of it all
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23366667/inside-tension-kawhi-leonard-spurs

The Kawhi article went on at great length, but in the end it didn't seem very enlightening. There were lots of facts, but how they connected or what they meant was totally unclear. It raised a lot of questions that seemed entirely based in rumors and innuendoes, then talked around them without resolving anything. Which means it summed up the Kahwi situation perfectly, by being completely opaque and unsatisfactory.

you youve gotta draw your own conclusions on this whole thing for now. but there is at least some context around everything.

https://okcthunderwire.usatoday.com/2018/05/02/the-thunder-would-very-much-like-to-get-rid-of-carmelo-anthony/

lol i bet

they should just tell him they won't play him next year at all and and least make him think about not opting in.

poor melo lol

can't wait for another summer of hoodie melo's intense workout sightings

the tragedy is no one saw this coming

nuggets will win the *checks warriors contracts* 2021 nba playoffs

lmao dont change your tune now cider

The Phoenix Suns are hiring Utah Jazz assistant Igor Kokoskov as their new head coach, league sources tell ESPN. Kokoskov, a native of Serbia, will be the first European born head coach in the NBA.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 2, 2018

huh how bout that congrats igor

first non north american head coach apparently

steve kerr was born in lebanon but i guess that doesn't count

cool?

He's coached Doncic before, but that dude probably won't be around at pick 4

never know this draft is pretty stacked at the top

huh i thought blatt was israeli but i guess he just spent his whole adult life there and was born in massachusettes

yeah weird.

cool hire by the suns in that it's not a boring pick ala jax/kidd/delnegro/etc. Bud to Bucks rumors are heating up.

seems like a match to me, bud prob wants personnel control tho

might not be a bad move? they need roster help. but those things usually end poorly as we've seen.

yeah hed be a great hire as a coach but imho never give a coach gming duties, like he shd have input but not final say