2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

i just have a feeling about adams. he makes me nervous.

and xp it was extremely obvious that the lakers didn't understand the cap when they agreed to the reported version of the davis trade. rob pelinka is an idiot.

How has he kept his job idgi

amazing there are like 50 million amateur cap experts online and yet the gm of the nbas most famous franchise has no idea

Seriously just drop like 10k for one of those twitter nerds to consult with you for a few weeks lol

i forget what pod i was listening to but it was saying that the lakers have cap experts on staff and pelinka probably just never checked with them.

as y'all were discussing above, really interested to see what NOP does with the #4. I think this draft is a crapshoot after Zion and maybe Morant so I'd rather have just about any really good established player assuming he doesn't cost a ton. I really don't understand why everyone is suddenly excited about this Darius Garland kid. maybe he'll be great but he played like four games in college and he was the #16 recruit in his class coming out of high school:

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/class/2018/order/true

I've heard people point out that Kyrie only played a handful of college games too, but he was a much more highly touted recruit. not sure what I'm missing here, I guess he crushed the combine or something.

haha this shit doesn't surprise me in the least! Palinka is a disaster

garland was a five-star recruit, number 2 PG in his class (behind Tre Jones). Kyrie was the #1 overall player, but still, Garland was a hugely hyped recruit.

my point was that he was #16 in his class, played 4-5 games of competitive basketball, and now he seems to be trending towards being the consensus #4. like, Coby White made a similar leap, but at least he balled out for an entire season.

it's a combination of a weak-ish class past #3 and lots of teams needing PG help. i'd take white over him personally, but i'm not an nba scout.

whether youre the 3 or 15 rated guy on rivals isnt that relevant to the nba really, nbas gonna make its own judgements

i dont understand what the celtics are up to

Boston has offered center Aron Baynes -- $5.4M expiring contract -- into salary cap space elsewhere, league sources tell ESPN. Without Kyrie Irving and Al Horford on the books, moving Baynes without taking back salary could get the Celtics to $23M in space.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 20, 2019

flailing perhaps

im reading twitter replies to boston sports writers to lean all the best information now

There must be somebody in play for something near that salary they could trade a few picks for. Maybe Steven Adams?

woj thinks there will be trades

horf for capela is rumored

celtics want the 4 pick, im learning alot

woj would think that

xxp

woj knows that trades are good

trade man likes trades

https://i.imgur.com/R83bGK5.png

i support taking steven adams into space, he is an excellent astronaut

ppl r talking abt vucevic too which no thanks!

#Celtics have picks 14/20/22 in first-round of tonight's #NBADraft,@GwashburnGlobe reports Boston's trying to trade up to take Vanderbilt PG Darius Garland (compared to #Blazers' Damian Lillard).

C's also targeting "major draft night deal" for #NBA vet. https://t.co/NPQ65uGziv

— Adam Kaufman (@AdamMKaufman) June 20, 2019

major draft night deal!

huh I don't like this but who knows

New Orleans boss David Griffin trying to get another first-rounder and also a player on a good contract for the No. 4 pick. Told there have been discussions between Pels No. 4 pick and Minnesota involving No. 11 and Robert Covington.

— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) June 20, 2019

kinda weirds the wolves timeline but from a talent perspective cld be good i guess, i am anti-cov tho

pretty cool to have no idea what danny is up to for the first time in a while

the intrigue is back

ppl talking about "DeAngelo Russell" to the celtics idk, adding him and adams wld make them a solid playoff team i suppose

s&t kyrie for dangelo and put adams into outer space

is that due to celtics interest though or just 'if kyrie goes to bkn he'll be displaced'

he doesn't strike me as a danny guy

like i said im reading twitter comments

i dont like russell too much but in todays nba u pretty much "need a guy like that"

DUN DUN DUN

WHY IS HE HERE pic.twitter.com/tyZy8DMf6A

— maggaggie (@88mugsy88) June 20, 2019

losing horf and kyrie those are their two best playmakers after that theres like what hayward and smart eesh

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i tried to post "lol xp" and somehow just posted "p" seems like a bad case of draft mania

they could check out "ricky rubio"

naww, u need to be able to get buckets baby! thats life in 2019

if they added adams and rubio they wld prob be the best defensive team in the league tho, and a pretty bad offensive one

you need to be able to get buckets, defend, shoot threes, and "be tall"

xp

what if not getting buckets has become a 'market inefficiency'

ah some moneyball type shit

not sure tbh if rubio is the defender he once was tho xp self

it's the next step in the rockets' master plan, trade harden and get beverly back

celtics shd trade horf for harden

i wld welcome the weird guy with open arms, try to understand him, have brad teach him a leadership skills seminar for life goals success wins