2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

all the arenas are the same plastic and concrete stores to sell u $10 beer who cares

msg is kinda cool for being shitty and olde timey i guess

xxxppp re: bk/ny, im just sayin, the dallas cowboys to my knowledge have never played in dallas and yet every asshole in texas would cut their left dick off for box seats, its crazy

yeah theyre not named after some neighborhood in dallas

OAK CLIFF COWBOYS WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER NAME

theyre named after city AND the metro region, the name which ppl from the suburbs identify with and so forth

also naming the team brooklyn at the height of brooklyn marketing mania was corny and shortsighted

my point is most ppl from dallas dont actually live in dallas just like most nyers are not from brooklyn but that should be an obstacle to #growingthebrand

yes yr argument is not understanding how these names work

SHOULDNT

i understand i just think its dumb!

i think the brooklyn name is good

boroughs in new york are rivals, where the name new york is identified with geographic areas much larger than the city itself

the mets should also become the Queens Mets

wow everyone lets change the local culture cause some guy from texas thinks its bad, also then the dumb team name will be good

also the name nets is just awful

finally, some recognition

how do you feel about the new england celtics

its a wicked pissah

what if, work with me, the brooklyn nets changed their name to the new york knicks and every night you get surprised about which knicks team you are going to see, the good one with kyrie and kd or the bad one with dolan, then at the end of the season, one gets relegated to the d league

Nets Mets Jets

how do you feel about the new england celtics

― ciderpress, Monday, July 1, 2019 11:52 AM (five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i do not like that, begging ass marketing bs, just do the normal thing and call them the name of the city

https://i.imgur.com/cYGRNF1.png

why are we limiting our market to a narrow metro area anyway, all teams should just be the Planet Earth Yankees for maximum brand penetration

the yankees shd just play the cowboys in the world cup every year

play-by-play: the yankees are down 8-2 to the yankees in the 1st
arena PA: let's hear it for our home planet yankees!
crowd: *cheers*

players from both teams feel supported and play their hearts out

i do agree that the nets is a bad name and they would have to change it if they rebranded to new york

hornets are just strictly better they have more letters

they shd def be called the new york hot dogs

what if they were nyfd and ppl are like is that some euro sporting club affectation but no, coming down a pole in barclays are 15 fire fighters

I can't be the only one who thinks if the firefighters wanted to they could put together a basketball team and dominate the NBA.

they could but DOLAN is keeping them out

Miami is finalizing a trade to send center Hassan Whiteside to Portland for Mo Harkless and Meyers Leonard, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

Portland gets a starting caliber center on an expiring deal as it awaits Jusuf Nurkic's return from a serious leg injury. Blazers offseason: Whiteside, Kent Bazemore, retain Rodney Hood and draft Nassir Little. Another Western contender loading up.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

west gonna be weird next year, could be pretty flat at the top between like 4 or 5 teams

if the lakers dont get kawhi now theyre gonna be in a tough spot

apparently this gets the butler trade done... i'm sure the heat aren't gonna change their roster but to go from giving up some combo of dragic/olynyk/derrick jones and instead giving up whiteside and getting back harkless and meyers leonard seems like a pretty good outcome for the heat

i wonder if any picks were involved in that portland trade or what

i'm sure the heat aren't done changing their roster is what i meant

to go from giving up some combo of dragic/olynyk/derrick jones and instead giving up whiteside and getting back harkless and meyers leonard seems like a pretty good outcome for the heat

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 1, 2019 12:50 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def

also seems pretty fine from portlands pov, bad whiteside vibes aside

yeah whiteside is def not useless esp on an expiring and it did feel like the dame/cj pairing proved itself in these last offs but that the role player situation prob needed to be switched up

nets get s pick for just not signing kd outright

Deal will include Golden State sending a protecting future first-round pick to Brooklyn, league sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/BndEZPRblo

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019

warriors jazz nuggets lakers rockets blazers thunder

no clue which of these teams is much better or worse than the rest

if kawhi does end up on the clippers then add them too

so gs effectively gave up two picks for the right to max dangelo out

basically punting on this season then try to do some trades that build around steph-klay, prob all things considered is their best option, but its not a good one, theyre in a tough spot, carrying two big max contracts with majorly depleted depth makes it not very easy

midseason dray trade seems not out of the question

they should trade dray for more guards

get an all guard team then merge with the sixers and move to montreal

i do agree that the nets is a bad name and they would have to change it if they rebranded to new york

― ciderpress, Monday, July 1, 2019 11:03 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they did start off in the ABA under the name New York Nets

i feel like the warriors took a look at the west and were like, well damn we could still make the finals this year if we replaced klay. and to their credit i guess they did walk to the finals this year w/o KD, so i could understand why they'd be like "let's get d'angelo russell and see what happens"