2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

maybe the pacers were waiting on bogdan before offering turner to the celtics and so hayward was just like, fuck it?

yeah i mean who knows really weve got some tweets by a guy from the boston globe to go on basically

the reporting that jordan called hayward late that first night really has me thinking that charlotte detected the stalemate and increased their offer to get it done.

mj chasing a gambling high in fa negotiations, no other explanation for the wackiness of their signings in recent years

im not totally clear on the cap/tax implications of a hayward for turner trade but mb the celtics were worried abt only getting one quality player back because their bench is so bad, i know when they let hayward walk that allowed them to get under the tax line which gave them access to the full MLE with which they signed thompson, i cant find how much they gave teague but him and thompson are prob making around the same amount combined that turner makes and the celtics wouldve had to take back more than just turners salary in a trade which wouldve put them over the tax line started the repeater clock ticking etc

celtics have a couple small trade exemptions to fill out their wing depth and maybe could get a bigger one back or maybe even a player if they can work out a sign and trade for hayward

honestly for this year teague and thompson could be better than turner and randos but turner wouldve been more of "a piece", tho i think ainge is clearly in the dont pay for middling centers camp which is fair, and staying under the tax line is worth something too

but at least lamelo with come up under the strong leadership of gordon hayward

gordon: have you ever read anything by ayn rand?
lamelo: *scrolling thru phone* check this shit out, i did a 69 with an ig model yesterday and she blew weed smoke on my dick

lol

i will not miss hayward on the celtics that was not a great run

yeah he missed the year where they actually needed him and then returned as the 4th best wing rather than the 1st as he would have been

bad luck

and he couldnt stay healthy

this roster def cld make the offs in the east

Atlanta's starting five could be: Trae Young, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Danilo Gallinari, John Collins, Clint Capela. Off the bench: Rondo, Kris Dunn, Onyeka Okongwu, Cam Reddish, Hunter, Tony Snell. There had been pressure on management to put together a playoff roster, this is it.

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) November 22, 2020

even forgot huerter

yeah its not a bad team now

*kings can still match the bogdanovic offer

That starting roster gonna get torched

I bet Dunn will end playing a chunk of minutes next to Trae

fun little team good job The Atlanta Hawks Basketball Club

They will be fun to watch for sure

There had been pressure on management to put together a playoff roster

They were under pressure to do their job?

hawks are still a big step down from any of last seasons seeds 1 through 7

yeah congrats to the hawks for putting together a solid 8th seed

im not totally clear on the cap/tax implications of a hayward for turner trade but mb the celtics were worried abt only getting one quality player back because their bench is so bad, i know when they let hayward walk that allowed them to get under the tax line which gave them access to the full MLE with which they signed thompson, i cant find how much they gave teague but him and thompson are prob making around the same amount combined that turner makes and the celtics wouldve had to take back more than just turners salary in a trade which wouldve put them over the tax line started the repeater clock ticking etc

― lag∞n, Sunday, November 22, 2020 12:26 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think this is a pretty decent read on the situation. teague signed for either the minimum or the biannual which would be either 2M or 3.5M, plus tristan at around 9.5, is way less than turner at 17 or 18 plus something like mcdermott at 7 that indy would be sending back to keep their books reasonable. maybe ainge thought it was only worth going into the tax for turner/warren.

ok, my best guess taking tristan off the celtics books and adding turner and mcdermott would put them less than 3M away from the tax line with 14 players on roster and payton pritchard as the backup point guard.

Payton Pritchard is a gym rat who never stops practicing, the kind of player who has to operate at near 100% of his athletic ability every minute he's on the floor and must find a way to compete by being craftier than his opponent. He will at least be a better player than Grayson Allen.

hawks roster looks good on paper but it’s a bunch of guys who have never played together before jumping in to a weird abbreviated season + a franchise oriented around a PG who treats NBA games like AAU tournaments. is their coach any good? 8th seed is def within range but i’ll gladly take the under on them

not sure what the east bottom feeders plans are but its possible that one of det/was/cha/orl fluke their way into a decent season

Restricted free agent Juancho Hernangomez is finalizing a three-year, $21M deal to re-sign with the Minnesota Timberwolves, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 22, 2020

we can't have much cap left

I’m happy we got bazedgod back lol

knicks fans seem excited about this for some reason

Minnesota is trading Omari Spellman and Jacob Evans and a future second-round pick to New York for F Ed Davis, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 22, 2020

that's so hype

it's fun for both fanbases to pretend any of this makes any fucking difference

Marc Gasol to Lakers so sez Twitter

they shd reunite the gasol bros

Knicks fans are real beaten down mentally

its painful to watch them scheme to get westbrook and hayward and then not even come close to realizing their sad defeated fantasy

every year theyre like ok we got an unknown ball cousin lubelo ball im cool with that we let the young guys cook then trade for john wall at the deadline

I feel bad for Spellman. Seemed like he was just starting to come into his own last season and now he plays for the knicks

idk if anyone here listens to the bodega boys 'cast, but this weeks' had some good mid-00's knicks remembrances humor

truly believe there is no path to relevancy for the knicks under current ownership. dolan only knows one way of operating — star-driven quick fixes — but no player who can make that plan work wants to go there. KD and kyrie choosing brooklyn really should’ve automatically triggered a sale of the knicks. on top of it their core of young talent after years of top 10 picks is so unimpressive. frank ntilikina, kevin knox, rj barrett and obi toppin? yikes. their future is as bleak as any team in the NBA

you're not thrilled with the signings of austin rivers, nerlans noel, elfrid payton, and alec burks?

yeah the knicks will never be good, truly the bottom org in the nba, despite tough competition from the twolves and kings

xp thing is, in a vacuum, those are some quality role players on reasonable contracts! but its the knicks and thats the best they can get.

to break the curse, the knicks must resign oakley and ewing and start them for 82 games

The Porzingis injury really set them back and they’ve never gotten any momentum since

dario 3/27 to stay. perfect contract really