2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

what exaclty is houston doing

Oh yeah no way is hampton playing this year, they have so many guards

seems like internal improvement could be the biggest lever that any of the contending teams pull since i don't think anyone had an earth-shattering free agency period

Oh yeah no way is hampton playing this year, they have so many guards

― Matt Armstrong, Monday, November 23, 2020 8:59 PM (twenty-four minutes ago)

oh...

Sounds like Bol Bol is going to get consistent minutes as a backup combo forward

this might be the definitive bubble story. so many good anecdotes: https://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-nba-bubble

My whole time in the bubble, I never once saw Jayson Tatum of the Celtics without his teammates Kemba Walker and Javonte Green. It was natural for players to form cliques, but the trio were inseparable. Tatum says his favorite night in the bubble was when he was sipping a drink (he rotated between a Hennessy and pineapple, a Crown Royal Apple, and a Moscato) and Walker said he had a confession, something that he had to get off his chest. It was a revelation that brought the already close teammates even closer, according to Tatum: “Kemba was like, ‘Yo, before I met you, I thought you were just…like, the epitome of a light-skinned dude with good hair who went to Duke. But being around you, you're just a country dude from St. Louis!’ ”

haa

I'd see the Lakers' LeBron James and Anthony Davis casually ride past me on their bikes.

The Sacramento Kings have declined to match the Atlanta Hawks’ four-year, $72 million offer sheet for restricted free agent guard Bogdan Bogdanovic, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 25, 2020

well left imo

lag∞n lag∞nović

Kings front office labored over the decision, but kept coming back to new GM Monte McNair’s plan to maintain roster flexibility. Keeping Bogdanovic would’ve severely limited the organization’s ability to continue reshaping the team around its young core of Fox, Bagley and Hield. https://t.co/d4tuT8IRkD

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 25, 2020

interesting definition of roster flexibility

interesting definition of young (buddy hield, 27) and core (marvin bagley, marvin bagley)

lol

ramona shelburne replying w/this to the woj tweet is extremely embarrassing

Smart, disciplined move by the Kings here. This shows a commitment to building around Fox & Hield. Hard to lose talent for nothing but matching just to match would have blocked that team building approach.

— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) November 25, 2020

love to build around an overpaid 27 year old one-way player who whines to the media anytime he's mildly inconvenienced

the scoop trader analysis is always funny

For Hawks GM Travis Schlenk, it was a wise gamble to overpay market value on Bogdanovic. That’s how you land players in restricted free agency. Now, Bogdan joins Danilo Gallinari as centerpieces of an ATL free agency class that's reshaped roster around All-Star guard Trae Young.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 25, 2020

"they could only get this player by overpaying for him" is rarely a strategy that works out but go off

i'm not sure it was all that much of an overpay!

the hawks and kings are both examples of what happens when you fuck up a tank by drafting players who arent good enough to create a winning culture

I'm definitely gonna watch that team tbh

no lie okongwu might be the best player in this draft class tho i dont expect atl to develop him right

they certainly aren't going to find out if hunter or reddish or even huerter is much of a player since they've brought in vets over the top of those guys

god i forgot about those guys. someone on basketball twitter got mad at me for saying reddish had a horrible season last year (he did)

i mean yeah he did but generally speaking bad teams shouldn't just foreclose on lottery picks getting better in years 2-3

young guys will still get minutes

it’s weird — on the one hand they signed a bunch of good players. on the other it def complicates the developments of reddish — very important to them as the only possible way for them to not have the doncic pick be a historic landslide — and hunter, who they traded 2 firsts plus a high second round pick for. i guess you could say for hunter that he doesn’t need the ball anyway but that doesn’t really reflect highly on that pick.

ultimately between money, draft picks, and trade assets they have a lot invested in this current roster and i’m not sure they’re gonna get the most out of either side — not good enough to get out of the first round in the present but not investing enough in the future. but maybe playing on a good team elevates the young guys once gallo and bogdan are on the back ends of their deals idk.

just seems like they’re pushing their way into a pretty stacked east when they should mostly be waiting out this current era of the conference. schlenk prob feeling the heat tho and rightfully so (traded away one of the best players of a generation for no reason)

Man y’all really love shitting on the Hawks!

I don’t have any problems with the signings. The Hawks have a ton of money and these don’t really kneecap their future. Should be a fun team to watch

The kings should have matched Bogdan

they need flexibility for buddy hield to flex

Of course the most amazing thing about all of it is that a big reason they passed on Doncic was bogdan

that and balkanization

hoping we was saying the kings should’ve matched bogdan and offered hield to the hawks, but it seems like the relationship between bogdan and the kings wasn’t great. a common theme there....

hollinger was saying***

NBA R S Wins

Atl 37.5
Bos 46.5
Bkn 45.5
Cha 25.5
Chi 29.5
Cle 22.5
Dal 42.5
Den 44.5
Det 23.5
GS 36.5
Hou 37.5
Ind 39.5
LAC 46.5
LAL 47.5
Mem 31.5
Mia 44.5
Mil 49.5
Min 28.5
NO 36.5
NY 22.5
OKC 22.5
Orl 31.5
Phi 44.5
Phx 38.5
Por 41.5
Sac 27.5
SA 29.5
Tor 41.5
Uta 42.5
Wsh 28.5

— Jeff Sherman (@golfodds) November 26, 2020

trying to talk myself into the gsw over.

how many games are they playing?

72 total

taking the under on philly for yet another year

yeah i like the dubs over there

also the nets?

nets cld win 20 games, also 55

Hard for me to see the Lakers losing 25 out of 72 games

they cld take the reg season off tho

mem over imo

feel like the lakers just have too many good players to not have an easy path to the 1 seed

yeah over on lakers, under on philly are my picks

its stauskas

The Milwaukee Bucks have agreed to a one-year deal with former No. 8 pick Nik Stauskas, his agent, Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tells ESPN.

— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) November 26, 2020

is it really

25.5 seems low for charlotte