2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

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

yeah maybe. that'd be like 29 in a normal season

ball starts this month

BALL

I'm a little worried about this season. Cases are surging everywhere, there's no bubble anymore and with the Raptors moving there are now 3 teams in Florida. It was fun to point and laugh at the NFL for the snafu with the Broncos but it seems inevitable that the same issues will plague the NBA.

mb theyll buy some vaccine

essential entertainment workers

we really have hoops again this month?

feel like the month should columnated in some kind of holiday so we can celebrate

Happy Hoopsmas

Warriors GM Bob Myers says two players have tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the team’s start of workouts will be delayed a day.

— David Aldridge (@davidaldridgedc) December 1, 2020

my vote is they put this off til spring and since I am 51% of the league the measure is passed [gavel noises ring throughout the land]

they are making lebron wear the hat

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoMfEj2XcAAkSg5?format=jpg&name=medium

I’m not sure a contract has ever looked more doomed than Malik Beasley’s in Minnesota

we've had worse

damn, malik pulled a delonte

lol oh shit hadn't seen the story jfc

eek lol

The treatment the Clippers gave Kawhi Leonard and Paul George rubbed some teammates the wrong way:

◾️ Kawhi and PG-13 had power over the practice schedule.
◾️ Kawhi lived in San Diego, which often made him late.
◾️ Teammates believed they could choose when they played.

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) December 2, 2020

i cant show up to practice i live in san diego you understand

pretty good drama in that article.