2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

yes this seems nuts to me

They have to be trying to flip him, right?

Can't until next year

are the warriors a playoff team next year??

Free agent Bobby Portis has agreed to a two-year, $31M deal with the Knicks, agent Mark Bartelstein tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL FUCKIN KNICKS

celtics still have no bigs do they

knicks didnt want to invest in a max contract for KD so now theyve dumped ~$35M/year on julius randle and bobby portis

Good thing they cleared all that cap space by trading Porzingis, amirite?

lmao i forgot they got taj gibson what the HELL

nets collecting assets (a small pile of bottle caps)

i meant the KNICKS

good lord this is exactly what we all expected the knicks to do

The hornets are going to suck even worse than the knicks next year but at least they’ll do it quietly

As for the celts and bigs, their best option left at this point might be cauley stein

5/170 for jamal murray. that’s a lot

wait what happened. it’s really early, am i dreaming?

im so anxious about 🥝

so a LOT more sign and trades are happening than i expected. i did not think that every team that was losing a star playing would elect to take on random assets rather than just losing the guy.

5/170 for jamal murray. that’s a lot

― k3vin k., Monday, July 1, 2019 1:03 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow, yeah, especially for a guy who is not a shoo-in to develop into an All-Star.

everyone seems really hyped about the Sixers now but idk, I still just don't see it. what did we not just see in the playoffs but the fact that you have to have a guy who can generate buckets? just look at the relative successes and failures in different series of Kawhi, Giannis, Dame, Jimmy, Jamal Murray, and so on. maybe i'm just suffering from recency bias but it seems pretty important!

sixers are less balanced than last year in the direction that they were already imbalanced

Man I really had bought into the delusion we could ditch Wiggins somehow and get Russell....

I still don't get the deal - what is Brooklyn getting?

The Knicks have reached a deal to sign free agent wing Reggie Bullock to a two-year, $21MM contract, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (via Twitter).

-- so I guess the prevailing wisdom is now these are all 2 year deals and they are gunning for Giannis when he's a free agent in 2021

Zach Lowe threw out the Hornets making a play for Wiggins in a column a few days ago and honestly i'm so hopeless at this point that it seemed like a decent idea. that's also why i was on board with the idea here of doing a sign-and-trade for Hayward (ugh, not for Rozier though). Charlotte is so destitute at this point that I think their best bet is to just take fliers on guys with pedigree whose stock is really low and hope a change of scenery works some magic.

The Knicks have reached a deal to sign free agent wing Reggie Bullock to a two-year, $21MM contract, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic (via Twitter).

-- so I guess the prevailing wisdom is now these are all 2 year deals and they are gunning for Giannis when he's a free agent in 2021

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 1, 2019 9:54 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Harden and Westbrook too. also Embiid, Oladipo and McCollum, though I imagine they all get extended.

Man I really had bought into the delusion we could ditch Wiggins somehow and get Russell....

I still don't get the deal - what is Brooklyn getting?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 1, 2019 9:53 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you might have heard of this guy kevin durant

This isn't the free agency that New York fans imagined, but Knicks gathering group of serious-minded, professional players: Ellington, Bobby Portis, Taj Gibson and Julius Randle. No stars, but Randle's young and talented. It's a hard-playing, competitive group for David Fizdale. https://t.co/UtU78pwCE8

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

i wonder who woj is trying to please when he says stuff like this, or if he's actually being serious

rubbing salt in the wound

good thing the knicks signed some professional players to play in the professional basketball league

especially when that list includes a dude who jaw-jacked a teammate.

its true, by definition they are professionals once they sign those contracts

if im being generous, the only contract i laughed at was bobby portis', and the rest are mostly 2-year deals. randle...could be p good in a lead role, but theyre not gonna win games.

xpost but I thought kd already signed as a free agent?

yeah but officially its going to be a sign and trade kd signs with the warriors, russell signs with the nets, then they get traded for one another

yeah it's a sign and trade

I guess I knew this already but just looking at their history in the post-JVG Knicks era is insane — since he left they’ve had two winning seasons. One of them was 42-40. Reverse Spurs.

xpost but I thought kd already signed as a free agent?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, July 1, 2019 11:04 AM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

none of the contracts are official for a week, teams have time to fiddle around the edges, or kidnap dandre jordan

yet MSG is constantly packed with people still buying overpriced tickets xp

knicks fans are masochists. knicks will only change when ppl migrate to the nets en masse.

cld happen soon....... except they just maxed out a guy w/an exploded achilles

Nerlens Noel has agreed to a deal to return to the Thunder, league source tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2019

Free agent Nerlens Noel has asked OKC for time to re-evaluate their earlier commitment on a new deal, and sides are continuing discussions, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

this is who the celtics shd get imo

Barclays Center is kinda horrible imo though xp

its exponentially a better experience than MSG

no doubt ,it's still going to take a lot to get people to really buy in over there . I hope it does though.

they def do not have a strong fanbase but start fielding some consistently winning teams while the knicks flounder and thatll change

going to arenas (unless you're in a luxury box) pretty much always sucks tbh, getting in and out is a pain in the ass, the layout is an ikea maze, and they gouge you for everything while you're there

tho making it a ~brooklyn~ team was kinda dumb imo

why brooklyn is cool

also its literally where they play also more teams should be named for boroughs

brooklyn is cool is the world not in new york