2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

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Free agent Julius Randle has agreed to a three-year, $63M deal with the New York Knicks, CAA agents Aaron Mintz and Steve Heumann tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2019

wow that is a lot of money for tobias harris. one of my best friends played on his HS basketball team, I should see if he can get him to pay my loans

middleton also got big bucks

As of now, the only players to ever sign for more than Middleton's $178M deal are Russell Westbrook (5 yrs/$206.8M) and Stephen Curry (5 yrs/$201.2M).

Middleton was the 39th overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft, making this the largest contract for a 2nd-round pick in NBA history. https://t.co/KKJgAaxQ86

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 30, 2019

so much for the kincks only blowing their cap space on 1-2 year deals

nice player movement all around this is what i like to see

lets get that jazz nuggets wcf

kawhi, butler, horford still out there

there was buzz on horford staying with the celtics wasn't there

it's been reported and denied but he's running out of places to go. i wonder if he's waiting for kawhi.

wld make sense

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-WSPbRWsAAIHfY.jpg

could just as easily see a world where KD signs a full max with the knicks, is never the same player, and they get roasted for that in 3 years too

if the knicks do it, it becomes a bad move

yeah it's just like after all the dumb shit the knicks have done.....*that's* the line in the sand?

the whole thing is pretty goofy and irrelevant and also funny

D'Angelo Russell and Karl-Anthony Towns were huddling as recently as yesterday, league sources, while the Wolves have been canvassing the league to make the trades they need to make that can seal the former Nets All-Star as the new point guard in Minnesota

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) July 1, 2019

what’s russell’s market otherwise? lakers?

yup.

given what rubio and rozier got, he's gotta be looking at a 4/100 type deal

russell and towns is a really nice fit

That seems a little low for Russell, I think he could get 30+ per

his max is only $27M

russell and towns is a really nice fit

yeah i'm strictly talking on the floor. in theory towns covers for a lot of the gaps in russell's offensive game

Just making the playoffs in the west next year is going to be a bloodbath. Suns and Grizz are the only teams I would bet my life on not making it.

still not sold on the kings or mavs but yeah

Wow that Brogden pickup, esp on that money compared to some of the 5 year / $$$$$$ contract some of his peers got. Gonna take a bit to wrap my head around the new Pacers roster (RIP Thad RIP Bojan), although just as pumped to see how the summer league squad looks / hope Alize, Sumner, Goga and Holiday all play productive minutes this season. Team looking like one of the deeper in the league.

At some point they’ll move Sabonis, too, will be curious what they get.

it's an impressive pivot. i wonder if their interest in rubio which had been taken as truth for weeks was a smokescreen or if they were surprised late that they could actually land brogdon.

jimmy to the heat is done apparently

nice

Miami is finalizing a sign-and-trade with Philadelphia to acquire Jimmy Butler, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

josh richardson going back which is decent consolation. still a rough day for the sixers.

and just like that. al horford to the sixers.

Does philly have room to get involved with DLo? Because right now they have like zero shot creators

if Rosas can get Russell and ditch Wiggins he's already the best exec in Wolves history

i don't think i get embiid, al, tobias, ben simmons, and josh richardson as a team?

Haha nm didn’t see the Horford news.

Weird team!

wtf

Philly is gonna win and lose a lot of games in the 80s

it is a.....large group

can you really play embiid and al horford together?

they're enormous

can you really play embiid and al horford together?

― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 30, 2019 9:12 PM (thirty seconds ago)

why not? al can shoot and defend 4s can't he?

he can for now. i don't think he'll be able to defend 4s for much longer

Looking forward to everyone trolling embiid for his team adding the guy he couldn’t score on in the playoffs

the heat declined to trade josh richardson to the wolves for butler, i was wondering if they would be able to get the trade done w/o him in it

I have never seen matt barnes punditing before but his voice and overall demeanor are completely at odds with what I would have expected. he sounds...well spoken, deliberate, thoughtful?

seems like miami just got itchy to do something

xp yes, barnes is very good on this!