2018 NBA OFFSEASON

except now kawhi doesnt even want to play w lebron lol

i'd take ingram kuz 2 firsts as the spurs

kawhi not making a great case that hes not a headcase rn

also whos bidding against the lakers we all know the celtics arent gonna give anything near what the spurs are asking

yeah it's all a v weird heel turn

there has to be some factor we just don't know about none of it has made sense from the start

like maybe celtics do kyrie + the lesser of the sac/mem picks

i think kawhi just might be a headcase + has the wrong ppl in his ear

kawhi should get traded to the lakers for a bunch of stuff and then sit out another year in protest of who knows what, that to me would be ideal

i support this proposal

kawhi should do anything other than hamstring one of the only orgs that can build good non-superteam teams

man brow wore yr jersey in the allstar game bro

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Report: Pelicans offered DeMarcus Cousins two-year contract near $40 million after injury

not even gonna try to fathom the mind of boogie

players are really out here scheming these days, often to their own detriment

the best recent self own has to be nerlens noel turning down $70m only to instantly fall out of the mavericks rotation thp

damn that is extremely uncool of boogie

who really knows but assuming that contract offer came during the season then boogie’s agent (or whoever) must’ve decided he could do better in free agency which... during the season ppl still seemed to be talking about the possibility of him getting a big contract so idk but clearly they gambled wrong

pr big roll of the dice when you just shredded your achilles

if he was really offered 2/40 after the injury that seems like an absolute no-brainer to take. it isn't breaking news that there wasn't a lot of cash and there were a lot of centers this summer.

yeah there’s not gonna be a single UFA who gets $20m this offseason on any contract longer than 1 year?

if he comes back healthy it’s possible he gets 3/60 or something next offseason and it all kinda works out but it’s also possible he never makes more than 10-12m per year for the rest of his career

yeah there’s not gonna be a single UFA who gets $20m this offseason on any contract longer than 1 year?

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, July 3, 2018 10:34 PM (twenty-one minutes ago)

other than lebron and cp3

there's just an unbelievable number of 1-year contracts out there now. next summer is going to be a mess.

cp3 was a fake UFA but yeah

there's just an unbelievable number of 1-year contracts out there now. next summer is going to be a mess.

wasn't the salary cap supposed to keep exploding up and then it .... didnt do that

there's a passage from a zach lowe podcast that's burned into my mind where he forcefully argued that all those portland contracts from '16 were good because they would be tradeable as the cap increased. i think about it every time i am looking at free agent stuff. i love zach but that was extremely wrong.

and the funniest part is that the cycle is going to repeat itself next summer even without the cap spike because so many teams are on the same space/no space schedule. i've heard a few arguments for locking in multiyear deals this summer where it makes sense for the team and player but it doesn't seem like anyone is up for that.

there's a passage from a zach lowe podcast that's burned into my mind where he forcefully argued that all those portland contracts from '16 were good because they would be tradeable as the cap increased. i think about it every time i am looking at free agent stuff. i love zach but that was extremely wrong.

anytime you can sign meyers leonard and evan turner and allan crabbe to 8-figure salaries you have to do it

many xps

kawhi is perfect for the clippers bc he can still be in la and kinda be lowkey bc lebrakers will suck up all the oxygen

i wonder if crabbe is going to opt into his $18.5m player option next summer

he'll only be 27, could he take the 18.5 mil and try to get a nice contract in 2020? there's supposedly a meaningful cap increase then!

A source close to #LeBron tells me that Bron had zero contact w/#Lakers head coach Luke Walton throughout the Lakers’ entire recruitment process. “LeBron never met Luke at all,” source says — and they still have not met. Walton will be James’ seventh full-time NBA head coach.

— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) July 4, 2018

was just thinking that the other day

gotta be weird for luke. went from raising the young pups to lebron/rondo/lance/mcgee

i really and truly cannot wait for that insanely toxic mix of dudes to be mixing it up together on national tv 78 games a year

They’re gonna be interesting for sure. And what, maybe a 6 seed as currently constructed?

i think as presently constructed it's...
gsw
hou
sas (this with kawhi, obv going to be different when he's gone)
lal
okc
uta
nop
por
den

3-9 will still be close.

uhh lol http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/24003187/lakers-signings-part-magic-plan-nba

kevin pelton’s projections have the lakers as currently constructed as a 50 win team and around the 4 seed i believe. i would take the under on that.

thats about what i was figuring. old lakers 35 wins plus lebron and vets are good for another 15

fwiw they were playing better than a 35 win team by the end of the season

still its just a weird roster idk

weird roster + young coach with been-there vets that he won't be able to tell what to do + LA expectations + Kobe probably secretly sabotaging things + Magic being new to the job + fuck the lakers = nah

Kobe probably secretly sabotaging things i get the hate but come on this some fan fiction

u get the hate but u dont get the jokes, not my problem

you know you believe that shit it wasnt a joke don't be disingenuous

*puts left hand on the Bible, rasies right hand*

i solemnly swear that i dont think kobe is secretly sabotaging the labrakers in this or any other season

i take that back, like the last two years of his playing career he was sabotaging them