2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

the knicks seem like a better destination imho

Heat remains at forefront of teams linked to Westbrook, and Miami would still have some flexibility even if it takes on his contract: https://t.co/jVq2fVd3TX

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) July 7, 2019

miami loves big names huh

The Heat could help the Thunder reduce future cap obligations by trading the expiring contracts of Goran Dragic ($19.2 million) and Meyers Leonard ($11.3 million). From a cap perspective, including Justise Winslow ($13 million) would be enough to complete the deal from Miami’s perspective, but that would increase the Thunder’s payroll by nearly $5 million this season.

Attaching Bam Adebayo or Tyler Herro in place of Winslow wouldn’t satisfy cap requirements in this scenario because the Heat would surpass the hard cap that it must play under for a year after acquiring Butler.

Also, the Heat wouldn’t be positioned to send OKC any draft picks for the foreseeable future. OKC acquired Miami’s unprotected 2021 first-round pick and protected 2023 first-round pick in the deal that sent Paul George to the Clippers late Friday night.

a. its funny that okc already has miamis draft picks b. wonder if those expirings + 2 of the young guys mentioned there wld get it done, doesnt seem like much for a recent mvp but the word might be out on russ, gotta think theres teams still in love w him tho

coach nick on nu clips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NR8QEt3-vk

his prediction of shamet going nuts from deep was something i hadnt thought of but makes sense

Shamet is already a positive player. Shot 42% from three for a rookie that’s insane. 45% after trade to clippers on 6 attempts.

yeah his shot is pure and he knows how to get looks

Clippers roster makes so much more sense than the lakers at this point.

clippers rotation is insanely good lots of perfect role players

Just remembered the Lakers — reportedly — elected not to trade assets for Paul George when he was with Indiana because they’d just get him in free agency.

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) July 7, 2019

Lmao

Delon Wright 3/29 to mavs

my favorite tidbit from the Kawhi signing was that he moved the location of his meeting w/Buss and Pelinka so he could be closer to where he was meeting PG after that to discuss the Clippers.

yeah paul george has ruined 2 lakers offseasons in the past 3 years now

salute

The process of becoming a saint begins after an individual's death.

According to the Vatican's official news service, the new category has five main criteria:

The individual must freely and voluntarily offer their life in the face of "a certain and soon-to-come death"

There must be a "close relation" between "the offering of one's life and the premature death of the one who offers it."

The person must show Christian virtues, at least to an ordinary extent, before and after offering their life.

They must have a "reputation for holiness" at least after their death.

They must have performed a miracle. This is a major difference from the "martyrdom" category, which does not require a miracle.

Kyrie and KD need a duo nickname even their posting is starting to sync up:

oh no, is it starting? pic.twitter.com/DvxuEettbs

— KICK HIM OFF (@LENism) July 1, 2019

wait. KD had this shit planned the whole time... pic.twitter.com/jqEqSXJh0b

— jackson williams (@badackobackup) July 7, 2019

I’m already over Durving

were not gonna even get to see them at full strength for two years if ever really whole sitch cld easily bust

Very high bust potential but maybe they’ll find inner peace and everyone else will be the losers in this scenario.

bless

Scalabrine VS Greg Oden is the video we didn’t know we needed 😂😂
pic.twitter.com/6NFTF5ZxDG

— Brad Ballislife (@BradBallisLife) July 7, 2019

oden is 31 crazy to think abt

he’s a guy I’ll never stop worrying about

he's the saddest and worst of my many sons and yet blood is thick u kno

i understand

Kinda incredible that the big 3 is working.

its a great idea, i wld murder a randomly selected person to get a 3on3 league of current nba stars

or even better it cld be a mix of 3on3 2on2 1on1 horse 21 etc

with the players betting each other obscene amounts of money too

wld be interested in watching fullcourt 4on4 on a short court too

1 on 1 tourney would be so fun but none of the players would agree to it or try hard.

thats why u need the betting

post play thriving in the big 3

Oklahoma City Is trading F Jerami Grant to Denver for a 2020 first-round pick, league sources tell ESPN. Deal brings OKC it’s sixth future first in past week and saves Thunder $39M in salary and luxury tax.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 8, 2019

Great move for okc.

the thing about asset collection is that the nba is prob the one sport where there's such a thing as too many picks, and i wonder how OKC will feel about the picks-for-player trades down the line given how PG just did them

i'm confused about what denver plans on doing w all these bigs

Definitely, okc is gonna have to avoid what ainge did and remember to cash in on a big name.

pfft

Kyrie didn't count?

nuggets just rescinded Trey Lyles offer so he is out.

jamychel green 2/10 to stay with clippers. another solid player for them

i'm confused about what denver plans on doing w all these bigs

― J0rdan S., Monday, July 8, 2019 10:22 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmark flag link

they just let trey lyles walk, so they seem to have a stable 4-man rotation of jokic-millsap-plumlee-grant with bol bol sitting on the bench.

just seems weird to me to give up a first for a guy who might play crunch time for you... but maybe they feel like they don't need that pick at this point

they also have juancho hernangomez... idk jerami grant is more established but i feel like the trey lyles experiment was a lesson in having too many bigs in this day and age

if you assume murray-harris-millsap-jokic are locked into denver's crunch time 5 barring injury, i'd have been looking to deal a first for someone who could upgrade on that will barton spot but maybe they think grant can play enough wing to do that. he is good i just think the fit is odd

juancho is a wing, isn't he?

maybe the same deal as grant, on the 3/4 line