2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

hard to say bc they do such a poor job developing their talent.

lmao i cannot believe hornets were paying FIVE guys more than kemba last season, jesus christ

Miles Bridges had a nice rookie year but he'd have to make quite a leap. maybe it could still happen for Malik Monk too, but I'm even less optimistic. and that's the end of the list of "promising" Hornets.

their payroll finally looks okay by 2021, and they might be able to get some decent players if they deal some expiring contracts, but daaaaaaamn they got batum on the books for two more years for over fitty million daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

that could be the worst contract in the nba, non-wall division

absolutely, that last year is a player option which batum would be foolish to opt out of

they're picking 12th too, and idk if there's a donovan mitchell lurking in this year's late lottery

there are always a couple of players that can be p special in the middle of the first round

in retrospect, Charlotte definitely should have moved Kemba sometime in the past year when he was still fantastically underpaid and they could've maybe gotten some picks or young guys in return. the fact that they didn't would seem to suggest they are going to offer him the supermax, unless they just never thought he was going to qualify for it and now that his price tag has gotten even more exorbitant, they're going to back off. either way, I think sadly their best bet now is just to let him walk and start trying to rebuild from the ground up. they're constrained for a year or two more by these other bad deals but if they re-sign Kemba I don't see any path to them even getting into the top 4 or 5 of the East in that timeframe anyway, plus if Kemba got seriously hurt or just declined they'd have to hold off rebuilding even longer.

yeah, i can see that. rip the band-aid off.

but its mj the exec so theyre not gonna do good shit.

xpost -- def true about missed opportunities, in four of the last five drafts Charlotte could have easily walked away with SGA, Mitchell, Myles Turner or Devin Booker, and Nurkic.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26987545/there-too-much-damn-turmoil-unsettling-vibe-surrounds-rockets

"CP3 just doesn't let anything go. He just keeps pestering and pestering.... Sometimes J has had enough -- and not just him. That's what makes CP3 a winner and also what keeps him from being a big-time winner. He's got to temper that."

"Chris wants to coach James," says a source familiar with the stars' dynamic. "James looks at him like, 'You can't even beat your man. Just shut up and watch me.'"

According to sources, Paul was also frustrated by what he perceived as Harden's tendency to ignore unglamorous details that impact winning -- such as moving when he gives up the ball to help spacing -- and wasn't shy about expressing those concerns.

...theyre both right lol

we need oscar from the office/state farm to intervene and mend the fences

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9Rwz9pXoAEOZS3.jpg

disturbed by the apparent warmth of that bottle

back to the hornets
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/CHO.html
i think jeremy lamb was their 2nd best player last season and he's a FA.

i think malik monk is a lost cause too. bridges could be good tho. but the outlook on the rest of that roster is dire.

in my long decades of seeing images of victorious athletes celebrating with champagne, their interactions with the noble beverage never rises above the level of barbarity

https://i.imgur.com/UwxEh7V.png

he is smiling because he made a wager with his own players that they are bad and he is the only actually good player

fondly remembering bullying kwame brown out of the league

CPS really IS going to be a fantastically shitty coach some day though. like all the worst parts of Skiles, Kidd, and Thibs blended together.

CP3 I meant.

CPS = Coach Paul Shitty

lmao

Biggest story of the offseason

r/nbastreams has officially been banned.

It has been an absolutely honor watching illegal streams with all of you. pic.twitter.com/v6RTx57G1C

— William 🌴 (@SpecificNY) June 17, 2019

daaaaamn that sucks

that does suck.

honestly surprised it lasted so long. i got a perfect stream for all of the finals games i watched and they never got taken down, kind of baffles the mind honestly

fd up

The GM just blew by Premier Ford in 2 seconds flat. I'm not sure he even knew who Ford was. pic.twitter.com/5kkQ4UK9eT

— Dean Brown (@PxPOttawa) June 17, 2019

RIP r/nbastreams

It's been a pleasure, I Love Hoops it really has....
don't know what ol' UMS is gonna do now

theres some suggestions within the comments of that

had to look up who that ford guy was. lol

yeah those things don't just disband because their reddit index got shut down

https://streamable.com/ddazu

damn

it was just nice to have a centralized location w/ links, and for once reddit's upvote system actually fit the system well because the good streams would float to the top

fwiw it's pretty easy to search twitter for streams, just not sure how uh 'safe' that is

it will all be on the Discord now as well

even better was the boo'ing ford got when they announced him on stage.

theres no way the rockets can keep CP now that the owner has openly expressed his regret to signing him in the first place... right? how many first round picks are the gonna have to dump to get off that contract?

Gasol knocking out a bottle of wine in one gulp is some crazy shit

it was probably water

Knicks gonna have a big offseason https://t.co/iwfjZ1fJqN

— LIFELONG PELICANS FAN MAN 69☭ (@Riffs_Man) June 18, 2019

lmao

Kyrie Irving plans on meeting with the Celtics this week to discuss his future, via @ShamsCharania.

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) June 17, 2019

Kyrie coming back after the Celtics gave up on Davis because they thought Kyrie was leaving would be the most Kyrie move

— Brian Pickett (@BrianPickett) June 17, 2019

lakers davis deal not final btw *waggles eye brows insanely*

just kinda realizing now that he's not a laker i'm a big lonzo fan. feels like a scrappy underdog with a quirky jumper who's escaping from an abusive father's grasp, go lonzo