2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

lol

some big contracts being handed out

Honestly think the Hornets could be a fun team here... first time I’ve ever felt like there’s an actual plan

bet this will end up a sign n trade

Lamelo + a zillion guys who play defense, including Hayward. It makes sense

For Charlotte to add Gordon Hayward they have to:

-Work a S&T with Boston

-Trade away $7.5M in salary elsewhere

-Waive and stretch Nic Batum at about $9M a year for the next three years

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) November 21, 2020

Wait they have to do all three of those things?

seems like thats what its saying

all the sites only have them at $80m tho and the cap is 100 so it must be sign and trade OR the other two options combined

conceptually that makes sense too if you do a sign n trade then youre cool by its nature

So the hornets signed Hayward for $120 million? Huh I didn’t realize NBA teams were allowed to hand out 23-year contracts.

welp this sucks for the celtics shdve taken turner

tho i guess they cld get something back in a sign n trade and then via not having hayward on the books have access to the full MLE but still

2nd year in a row they played hardball and someone swooped in with a silly contract

My guys love overpaying Celtics (see: Rozier, Terry)

The last four major contracts Mitch Kupchak has signed in free agency:
* Gordon Hayward: four-years, $120M
* Terry Rozier: three-years, $56.7M
* Timofey Mozgov: four-years, $64M
* Luol Deng: four-years, $72M

— Field Yates (@FieldYates) November 21, 2020

mitch "the candyman" kupchak

i remember gordon hayward’s RFA when he was being courted by cleveland and charlotte but ended up getting stuck in utah... seems like he looked at free agency this year and was like, my chance to play for one of the sorriest franchises in the NBA has finally arrived

yeah he signed an offer with charlotte that time too

tbf at least this time they were offering unreasonably more money than anyone should

how bad does it have to get before they’re required to change their name back to the bobcats?

lmao that contract is insane

waiting for ainge to leak all the bigly deals he almost closed

also looking forward to signing hayward to the vet min in 2025 when he comes home to the house he bought in fishers where his kids go to school where both his extended families live in the state he grew up in

is atlanta...good now?

Why are you guys acting like Hayward is washed

i don’t think he’s washed but giving a good but not great player with a concerning injury history $30m a year is bad business

even if hayward is good next year and like decent the year after that, what exactly does this accomplish for the hornets? lamelo is going to suck for a while and they have no other talent. it’s just another team shortcutting the rebuild.

yeah if hayward can find some health hes an allstar level player but even in that best case scenario im not sure it really makes sense for the hornets

would have been fine as 2/60

In retrospect the bucks should have kept John Hammond

Simply indefensible. pic.twitter.com/58aCb9JYN0

— sqr (@squaresense) November 21, 2020

have the celtics found an nba player to replace hayward yet

Aaron Nesmith is the guy if he’s healthy

yeah it's amateur hour in the bucks front office.

so is giannis signing that extension still or what

so after all this, the bucks traded every draft pick under the sun for jrue holiday, ended up keeping pat c and dante d — both of whom looked unplayable vs miami — and added dj augustin (worse than george hill) and bobby portis (not helping you in the playoffs), and hard capped themselves? am i missing anything?

not commenting on oubre as a player but suns getting jae crowder for three years @ the MLE shows why he was expendable to them in order to get cp3. they still have youth on the wing and for the next few years have a player that is cheaper than oubre and not any worse. really insane they didn’t take another wing with their draft pick this year tho, james jones’ drafting is the most unpredictable thing in the NBA rn

xp it's not ideal

Zion Williamson was born in 2000 and is already the longest tenured member on the New Orleans Pelicans 🤯 pic.twitter.com/1v6uchuUwZ

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) November 22, 2020

Bogdanovic would have brought everything together, honestly.

that was a great trade...... too great perhaps

Ibaka 2/19 to clips. I think he may fit better than trez and we know he and kawhi are cool

that hollinger excerpt makes some good points and also engages in a lot of speculation

Fanbo Zeng will look to continue the tradition of international players at Gonzaga, following in the footsteps of Japanese forward Rui Hachimura (No. 9 pick in 2019 NBA Draft) and Lithuanian big man Domantas Sabonis (No. 11 pick in 2016), among many others. https://t.co/bslYxWIdbG

— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) November 22, 2020

so hayward would have taken 4/100 from the pacers but ainge didnt want to make the s/t work

lol ainge

local reporting is that bos/ind never got close on a deal. i think what actually happened is charlotte kool-aid manned in with a wild overpay and hayward took it.

the celtics wanted warren, the pacers understandably didn’t want to give him up

i thought gordo was high af for opting out of 34M but the only person smoking something stronger was MJ