2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

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?

if he makes all nba

Klay didn’t

oh lol

this seems like a pretty good deal for the warriors

guys who right now are making more per year than draymond will make at any point in this deal... wiggins, porzingis, booker, otto porter, cj mccollum, demar derozan, kevin love, paul millsap, gordon hayward, jimmy butler, kyle lowry, blake griffin

draymond took less per year every year of his contract than andre drummond is making this year in a contract he signed 3.5 years ago

kudos to the BABs for paying the lux tax tbh

idk if its ~going to work~ but its prob their best move

lot depends on what they can get for russell now seems like

if they weren't gonna take draymond at that number they obv had no intention of resigning him and would've had to trade him

ya trading him wldve been the other move

trading him would have been “bad for basketball”

it wldve been good for "figuring out if draymond is good at basketball" tho

wow, that’s an extremely tradable contract in a couple years for filler/matching purposes.

My question is why did he need klutch if he was gonna take a team friendly deal. Could’ve saved a big chunk of money making that deal on his own. Maybe they have other things outside of hoops lined up for him tho.

idk if its ~going to work~ but its prob their best move

agree with this

Goon still Questioning if dray is good at basketball leads me to believe he doesn’t actually watch basketball anymore. Real shame.

Deal prob comes with a promise of a statue outside the San Francisco’s basketball arena

skinny dray is great, but fat dray has some flaws

Definitely lol

dray is one of the best playoff players in the league

drayoffs

From the athletic

For those wondering why some are describing this four-year, $99.7 million deal as a maximum extension, the answer is in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The 2011 CBA severely limited extensions, which incidentally helped lead to the Warriors signing unrestricted free agent Kevin Durant in 2016. While the more recent 2016 CBA opened things up a little through the Designated Veteran system, players who do not qualify for the supermax are limited by their current contracts. These normal veteran extensions can only contain a 20-percent raise on the player’s salary in the final season before the extension kicks in. Since Green will make $18.5 million in 2019-20, his extension could only add four seasons starting at $22.2 million, leading to the $99.7 million overall figure. In all likelihood, that limitation helped produce an agreement, since the Warriors absolutely could not offer more right now, creating less contentious negotiations and easier optics.

Goon still Questioning if dray is good at basketball leads me to believe he doesn’t actually watch basketball anymore. Real shame.

― big city slam (Spottie), Saturday, August 3, 2019 3:20 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

we need empirical data on just how bad he is at offense, until then no conclusive judgements can be reached

#tradeDray for science

idk what u count as empirical data, but last year he shot badly and still had an OffRtg of 108. he had a p meager offensive WS (1.1 in 66 Gs) and a negative off BPM (-1.4), but he did better in the offs on all metrics (110, 1.0 in 22 Gs, 0.2 respectively).

the data says he is not bad but not great at offense.

offensive rating is offensive to ratings

his on-off rating is p great. i mean look dray is who he is, the very personification of impact over stats. he is boris diaw but replace effervescent ennui with being mad af like 50% of the day.

on off is garbage sry, i mean like whos his backup some israeli guy

ill need to see him play with not the best offensive players ever, basketball stats are not good at figuring this stuff out

draymond is in the cat box until he plays for another team

otm hes cat until then

lagoon is gonna be so mad when dray gets to the HOF, i hope he cool cusses u out in his acceptance speech

draymond lurks here its why hes always so mad

still trying to figure out why he signed the extension. i guess he knew he didn't want to leave next summer and figured he'd just lock it in after seeing all his teammates go down with major injuries.

he's 100% getting traded at some point in this contract tho

draymond strictly posts to linkedin

still trying to figure out why he signed the extension.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, August 3, 2019 10:15 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

didnt want to get exposed obvs

lol

xxxpost Effervescent ennui is a very otm Diaw description, nice

nba.com’s all decade team

Stephen Curry 6 6 23.5 4.5 6.6
James Harden 7 6 24.3 5.2 6.2
LeBron James 10 10 26.9 7.7 7.6
Kevin Durant 10 9 28.0 7.4 4.4
Kawhi Leonard 3 3 17.7 6.3 2.4
This team combined for 10 rings over the 10-year span.

Curry, who essentially changed the game this decade, broke out as the NBA’s most elite 3-point shooter. Harden elevated his play by going from Kia Sixth Man of the Year to Kia MVP, recording the most 50-point games this decade (18) in the process.

Leonard’s regular season numbers don’t match those of his peers -- partly due to the San Antonio Spurs' system he played in -- but his playoff success (two Finals MVPs) and vaunted defense (two Kia Defensive Player of the Year awards) make his case for First Team. Durant, another two-time Finals MVP, asserted himself as one of the most prolific scorers in history, averaging a decade-best 28 points. James, who operated as the face of the league in the 2010s, won his three championships, a decade-best three MVPs and was the only player to earn an All-NBA nod and be voted an All-Star in each season.

Second Team
Player All-Stars All-NBAs PPG RPG APG
Chris Paul 7 6 18.1 4.4 9.6
Russell Westbrook 8 8 23.8 7.3 8.7
Anthony Davis 6 3 23.7 10.5 2.1
Blake Griffin 6 5 21.9 9.0 4.5
Carmelo Anthony 8 3 23.9 6.8 2.9
Lambasted for their lack of postseason success, each member of this team still managed to showcase extraordinary skills during an era replete with star power.

Paul, widely considered the NBA's top point guard for the first half of the 2010s, led the league in assists per game for the decade while making six All-Defensive first teams. Joining the two-way star in the backcourt is Westbrook, whose three consecutive seasons with triple-double averages speak for themselves.

Davis burst onto the scene in 2012 and quickly emerged as a preeminent wonder. Griffin followed up his unanimous Kia Rookie of the Year campaign in 2010-11 with seasons of All-Star production. And with James and Durant excluded, no small forward scored more points this decade than Anthony.

Third Team
Player All-Stars All-NBAs PPG RPG APG
Dwyane Wade 8* 4 20.1 4.6 4.7
Kobe Bryant 7 4 24.7 5.1 4.8
Paul George 6 5 19.8 6.4 3.3
LaMarcus Aldridge 7 5 20.8 8.9 2.1
Giannis Antetokounmpo 3 3 18.8 8.3 4.1
* = includes one honorary All-Star appearance

A talented unit comprised of the old, new and in between.

The two backcourt members closed the curtains on their Hall-of-Fame careers this decade, but entered it as the best at their position. Wade, the 2010 All-Star Game MVP, was instrumental in Miami going back-to-back in the “Big 3” era, while Bryant kicked off the 2010s with a Finals MVP and four straight All-NBA first team nods.

In the frontcourt, George’s renowned two-way game became a sight to behold after his breakout in 2013. The steadily consistent Aldridge ranked sixth in total points scored for the decade while starting more games than any other frontcourt player. Lastly, Antetokounmpo’s rapid ascent from project to superstar, culminating with his Kia MVP in 2019, was enough to secure him one of the final spots on our All-Decade Team.

who's missing? not having draymond in there seems off, unlocked the smallball lineup, 3 chips and DPOY. id have him over LMA any damn day.

i never know what criteria is being used for these exercises (so ultimately i don't care much about them) but yeah that one seems pretty obvious to me if you're just trying to tell the story of the decade in 15 players.

breaking the league down over five year stretches makes way sense to me as an exercise than ten (i.e. Kobe seems way out of place here to me next to Giannis)

wade feels like an honorary choice for the decade that starts in 2010