2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

Pau Gasol signed a one-year with the Blazers. I think they brought him in to protect Zach Collins from getting mentored by Whiteside.

lol

that is 100% the case bc he cannot play anymore

Have you guys talked about how good Anthony Bennett was in the g league and how exciting this opportunity with the rockets could be? I honestly had no idea until a week ago. He was really good!

no! but that sounds cool! really, im always stoked when former lottery busts figure something out. thomas robinson was trying to get back in the league through the spurs summer league team this month and had some skills.

has any bust on anthony bennett's level ever had a second wind worth anything? hasheem thabeet is trying to come back too!

if they get really, really, really lucky he's the next gerald green

The only player comparable to Bennett is Fultz.

I mean he was REALLY good in the g league. A true shooting percentage of 72%. From where he was at it’s already a great story.

then there's this other thing called 'regression to the mean'

fultz isn't really comparable to anyone tbf

Jordan Spieth 2016 masters

lol ouch

greg oden wants to talk to you guys

Injuries =/= bust imo. Kind of another thing

I play pick up at fultz’s high school gym now. Kinda waiting for to start showing up honestly

Last year I watched Bennett get ejected from a Canada-China game for pushing a dude over

https://streamable.com/ag0z2

then there's this other thing called 'regression to the mean'

lol

jim barnett's done as the warriors color commentator. moving to the radio broadcast. end of an era

Hope they use this as an opportunity to ditch Fitz and get some fresh blood.

they aren't. it's fitz and azubuike

saddddd

Oof. That's too bad.

Fitz is the Sean Hannity of basketball

Otm. Gonna have to watch opponent feeds this year.

jim barnett's done as the warriors color commentator

Blast from the past! Jim Barnett played for the Trail Blazers in their inaugural season as an expansion team. He started at PG opposite Geoff Petrie as SG. I remember it like it was, holy shit, almost 50 years ago.

He's fantastic in the booth, too.

Fitz is the Sean Hannity of basketball

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, July 26, 2019 3:43 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

wait huh

/jim barnett's done as the warriors color commentator/

Blast from the past! Jim Barnett played for the Trail Blazers in their inaugural season as an expansion team. He started at PG opposite Geoff Petrie as SG. I remember it like it was, holy shit, almost 50 years ago.

that was bill schonley

I think it was Barnett's basket that inspired it.

yes that is the legend m/l

That "rip city" thing got identified with the championship team in 1977 and wrote Schonley's meal ticket for a couple more decades.

ever have a thing where there's an nba player whose entire existence you just...missed?

i'm watching a hardwood classics of the cavs/wiz 1st round series in 2006 and am realizing that ronald "flip" murray is not a person i had heard of or really had any awareness of. he was second on that cavs team in minutes played! and there are 10 other guys on that team who i have a working knowledge of.

most of his career occurred during the period when i wasn't paying the most attention to the nba but i always read a lot and have a good recall for names and stuff and yet somehow this guy flew completely under my radar.

totally, i was looking back at the 1999 spurs team and totally forgot that will perdue was on it. he was the return in the dennis rodman trade! he was maybe the spurs second best player in the 1996-97 injury season!

Always used to mix up Ronald "Flip" Murray with Cuttino "Cat" Mobley. 6'4" shooting guards, contemporaneous careers. Murray definitely more nondescript, though - in addition to being a more prolific scorer, Mobley was well known for his unusually tight friendship with Steve Francis.

mobley of course also had to retire prematurely...that i remember and it was a bummer.

fascinating end to this game btw....wiz up 1 in overtime with 14 second left and arenas chokes on two free throws....like they're not even close. after the first miss *lebron* of all people walks up to arenas, gently taps him off the chest, and appears to offer encouragement--in the nba twitter era this would have been like the most insane thing that ever happened.

anyway, lebron's words don't help and arenas back-rims the second one. cavs get the ball and damon jones is the hero hitting a baseline jumper on the other end for the win in his first action all night.

theres some notable guys with short careers who peaked during the early-mid 00s that i missed completely - i'm not sure i ever watched michael redd play a single game

With free agency looming next summer, three-time All-Star Draymond Green has agreed to a four-year, $100M maximum contract extension with Golden State, agent Rich Paul of Klutch Sports tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2019

have fun paying that luxury tax for a decade!!!!!!!

The new deal, which starts with the 2020-21 season, brings the total length and value of Green’s contract to five years, $118M. https://t.co/nHuVPDCzda

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2019

Green’s extension pays him $22.2M, $24M, $25.8M and $27.6M over the course of the deal. The Warriors will have $129M and $138M committed to their four max players — Curry, Thompson, Green and Russell — in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons, respectively.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2019

Yes!

roared man gets paid

keeping the band together i guess

Is 5/118 really a max?

irs a max extension i think, the first year of that is his current contract then the rest is the extension, and he maybe cldve bee eligible for more if he waited til next year

Uh yah dude coulda got way more he coulda got what klay got no?