2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

well lonzo went to ucla

oh yeah duh I forget haha

steph curry 3 bombing culture

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:27 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah hoisting near half court shots just for tf of it to get a highlight

so i guess paul george went on a podcast and nuked the clippers coaching last year. someone should tell him that we don't have a full offseason before he has to see everyone again.

hes proven to be a quite the doofus

Ty Lue didn't bring back any of last year's coaches, did he?

Houston has agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to Washington for John Wall and a first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 3, 2020

lmao they did it

congrats to everyone involved

god the heck

I like this for Washington

they might as well call him russell eastbrook

Wall might not be able to play anymore, he has bad vibes, Russ is by all accounts a great teammate and it’s the east

praise be

john wall and boogie reunited,
scott brooks and westbrook reunited.

legit cannot fathom why a team would trade for john wall

Beal and Bertans and Otto around Westbrook should be fun

Wall doesn’t have the “he looks incredible everyone’s really surprised how good he looks” buzz that kd and Blake have gotten. I haven’t even heard if he’s ready to go. May have missed it tho

Oh yah Otto is on the bulls pardon me

i guess it's not the rockets GM's money and he's basically just flipping identical contracts and taking on the worse player for the price of a pick but you're basically lighting your entire team on fire by having that much cap dedicated to john wall

washington and atlanta in an absolute dogfight for the 8th

i don't understand what the rockets are trying to do... you trade robert covington but then sign christian wood but then trade for john wall... are they trying to be good or bad? i legit have no idea

Yah it’s a mystery.
I’d imagine James wil be next right?

Sources: Protection on the first-round pick that the Wizards traded to Houston in Russell Westbrook/John Wall trade: 2023, Lottery; 2024, Top 12; 2025, Top 10; 2026, Top 8; then becomes two second-rounders.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 3, 2020

if these are the protections this is an easy win for washington

i guess the rockets GM figured the most value that could possibly be extracted from westbrook is a heavily protected first round pick & he might be right on that but damn if i'm taking that john wall contract off your hands i'm grabbing shit off your dresser on my way out

i don't understand what the rockets are trying to do.

John Wall makes around $200k less than Russell Westbrook and Fertitta's casinos are fucked

saving $200k is not worth agreeing to pay john wall $47 million three seasons from now!

That's a problem for another day hehe

that trade is a crime

wall wasn't even like a top 5 PG at his peak, can't imagine where he'll end up now

he had a case in '16-'17. he's going to need to change his game a lot and it doesn't seem like anyone is sure he's willing or able to do that.

hard to picture what john wall minus explosion would even look like ... he's only an okay shooter, is he going to read the floor really well? i don't understand what skills he's bringing

that trade is a crime

sums it up nicely. there's no hidden upside for the rockets. this can't even be justified by desperation. but I guess anything that makes the west weaker is OK by me.

maybe wall put a ton of work into his shot over the last, uhh, extremely long amount of time

wall is still a good passer and he should still have a decent first step. but best case may be something like derrick rose's second act.

this trade is incredible kudos to everyone involved

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30438683/nba-says-48-positive-covid-19-initial-re-entry-testing

didn't see a version of this posted yet. not great!

EMERGENCY RINGER PODCAST: could the Covid All-Stars beat the Lakers in a best of 7?

9% seems like a high percentage of players to have the rona at the same time

its actually less than the average for the whole country haha wow not great

well if we tested everyone in the country we'd be below 9%...... maybe?

yeah it would but still

does this make the wiz an eastern playoff contender?

westbrook, not covid of course. but maybe both!

they'll be neck and neck with the hawks for homecourt in the play-in tournament

rwb already had corona iirc

feel like the east is thus:

contenders: MIL, MIA, BOS, PHI, BK, TOR
might could, might not: IND, ATL, ORL, WAS
prolly not: CHA, DET
nah: NYK, CHI, CLE

west

contenders: LAL, LAC, DEN
playoff teams: POR, DAL, UTA, PHX
might could, might not: GS, HOU, MEM, NO
prolly not: SA, MIN
nah: OKC, SAC

the phx is in

for the east i would have it as

contenders: MIL, MIA, BOS
prove it to me: PHI, BK, TOR, IND
first round sacrificial lambs: ATL, WAS, ORL
prolly not: CHI, CHA, DET
straight trash: NYK, CLE

baynes was a nice signing for TOR but i think losing gasol and ibaka knocks them down a peg for me. PHI and BK def have the talent but there's lots of moving parts, continuity + chemistry questions w/ those rosters and coaching staffs in a condensed/weird season and i'm not sure i trust either roster to come together and excel in a tight playoff scenario. major clippers vibes to the nets w/ the stars coming into a scrappy culture first team and acting like they run the place. i don't have confidence in them sticking together thru adversity. IND has some weird vibes w/ oladipo and i don't think they have a contending ceiling but should still be a top 6 team in the regular season. hawks were a 20 win team this year so expecting much more than play in tourney discussion still feels premature to me.

west

heavy favorites: LAL
contender...?: LAC
strong challengers: DEN, DAL
playoff teams: POR, UTA, PHX, GS
no fucking clue but hey james harden: HOU
play in babies: NO, MEM
prove it to me: MIN
nah: SAC, SA
not trying to win: OKC

after waltzing thru the west in the bubble the lakers get their own tier for me. i can't put the clippers on their level after their shameful exit + chemistry issues, but there's enough top end veteran talent there that i would nonetheless pick them over DEN and DAL in a playoff series. i still think steph + draymond is enough to get you into the playoffs w/ an actual roster around them, i thought oubre was a nice save and i'm a bit bullish on what wiggins could do there. harden is still so good by advanced numbers that i don't think there's much precedent for a player of his caliber to not at least make the playoffs, and his mere presence puts them above NO, MEM for me, despite how bizarre HOU's roster is and how bad the vibes are. but i prob see them in a play in round battle w/ those two teams. i don't think towns + russell is enough for the wolves to break above them, their defense will be bad and they might have a completely unqualified coach.