2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

Rich expecting he can get all his clients that Tristan & JR money now.

Nerlens turning down that big contract a couple years back will haunt him his whole life

yeah that was dum

looks like tillman fertiti might not be about that life after all

Per @ShamsCharania: “The #Rockets are still not comfortable and have been resisting toward going that deep into the luxury tax to acquire Iguodala in a potential sign and trade....Their tax bill could rise upwards of $20 million by trading for Iguodala.” https://t.co/IEBciBgu7i

— Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) July 15, 2019

neither of those teams shd want him lol

ur crazy what team wouldnt want him?

if you're a team who is just building a roster for the playoffs you'd def take iggy

i think fertita got really offended by this notion that he wouldn't pay the tax... in that tim mcmahon story about the rockets he was very adamant about this. it feels like he's dying to overcorrect.

good news for either L.A. team

The last few years have been a whirlwind for Dwight Howard. He’s headed toward playing on his fifth team in five years — and seventh in nine years — after the Washington Wizards traded him to the Memphis Grizzlies.

It seems increasingly likely that the Grizzlies will have to release him instead of finding a trade partner, which could again give Howard the choice of his new home. And if Howard had his druthers, he’d rejoin an old team.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Howard said he’d be open to returning to the Los Angeles Lakers.

“I don’t know what's going to happen, but I do love L.A.,” Howard said. “Staples Center is going to be rocking this season. When I played there it was rocking every night. The atmosphere is crazy, not just for the Lakers but the Clippers, too. I just think all the hard work they’ve put in is paying off now. They’ve always been viewed as the Lakers’ little brother, but they decided to stand out and be different and you have to thank guys like Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul for laying the foundation for this team, and then what Doc [Rivers] has done has been great. This is just all that hard work paying off.”

https://sports.yahoo.com/dwight-howard-open-la-lakers-clippers-050128838.html

iggys a 35 y/o borderline starter who makes $11m a/y its not hard to do better than that

on the other hand plz send dwight back to la

who also cant shoot xp

idk until proven otherwise i'd say his playoff value is pretty high esp for a team that won't need him to do much on offense

yeah you take him with the expectation that he helps you in a deep playoff series as a versatile defender. i wouldn't expect much (any) regular season value.

teams just straight up not guarding him + high risk of being injured/cooked seems not great

+who knows where his heads at after being separated from his stated only reason to live steph curry

when he had a bunch of other great players around him it didn't really matter that teams didn't guard him... to me the question is whether he will maintain enough athleticism to still be a lockdown defender on the wing on the most important playoff possessions. if the answer is yes then that's worth $11 million to an actual contender

if the sixers were going into the east finals are you 100% certain you'd rather have tobias harris than igoudala

yes

staying away from guys who are ~35+ seems like a good rule of thumb unless u cant get them for the min or theyre some sort of freaky superstar

he hit 5 threes against the rockets to kill them off. game winning strip on lillard to kill them off. had 22 points in game 6 vs raps. also had his best regular season as a warriors imo. hes still very useful and hes really smart. great locker room vet, the rockets need a guy like him probably more than anything else, pj tucker cant do it alone. injury issues are real of course but hes worth a gamble for either of those teams.

not worth the opportunity cost imho, if youre paying a role player who cant get buckets they shd at least have live legs and not be a big injury risk

he led the playoffs in dunks iirc hes still got bounce

not being guarded helps with that

there's little opportunity cost other than the owners money. like i probably wouldn't trade for him now but at the deadline based on who else is around he'd be worth it. there just aren't that many 16 game players on the wing that are going to be available.

he shot 35% or better from three in the offs every year with the dubs except for one.

not a great % on wide open looks

a smart team cld def find better ways to use that money

such as?

not at this point they couldnt

theres a lotta guys out there

they'd be smarter to trade for a young dynamic wing like Andrew Wiggins, a defensive minded big like Gorgui Dieng....or maybe a proven vet PG like Jeff Teague

haha yup

wolves number one priority should be pairing kat up with anyone other than wiggins.

Well given summer league it's possible KAT may have to come off the bench once NAZ REID becomes starter

thats the summer league spirit baby

I'm seeing Iggy at $17 million for next year, where are y'all getting $11?

its what google shows just looked again tho and it says 2017 under it lol, $17m is legit good player money giving iggy at that is loony

we can prob operate under the assumption that he'll either get bought out and signed for much less money or traded at a point in the season where the team taking him on doesn't have to pay the whole salary

right. the calculation isn't $17 mil cash for andre, it's ~$17 mil in existing filler salary plus a pick or something. nobody's just taking him into cap space at this point.

I’m having a hard time with the idea Ben Simmons is worth $34 million a year

he isn't but that's not really the point.

yeah you take him with the expectation that he helps you in a deep playoff series as a versatile defender. i wouldn't expect much (any) regular season value.

― call all destroyer, Monday, July 15, 2019 1:46 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

you know who could use a player like this is the denver nuggets

Once guard JR Smith clears waivers, the Los Angeles Lakers are an unlikely destination, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 15, 2019

has he played since "the incident"? seems like he went into a shell after that.

So woj is saying there’s a chance!

that's def a leak the lakers put out preemptively so they don't have to answer questions about why they're not signing him

windhorst and others have been saying for weeks it's basically a done deal

the lakers are bad

they’re a very very weird org

they're not 'weird' they're just the classic bad org