2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

I'm not thinking about the milwaukee bucks, I'm thinking about the giannis bucks

welp lol

lol ok

The Miami Heat have been unwilling to include Tyler Herro in any package for James Harden so far, per @GregSylvander pic.twitter.com/uGqnZYHLWW

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) December 10, 2020

we're finding out how teams view harden

i for one do not believe the heat will not really put herro in

does jimmy want to play with harden? does harden fit the 'pat riley heat culture'

i mean prob no to both but hes good at basketball the heat who made the nba finals btw would prob be better than they were before

i wonder if riley wouldnt like a chance to try to big dog harden tho lol

looking at him like if that guy just ran some wind sprints

jimmy & harden seems like a recipe for disaster

mb they shd trade jimmy for harden

last time he was on zach lowe’s podcast le batard said the heat think herro can be better than devin booker. if they’re right there’s an argument to be made that the rest of harden’s career isn’t worth that — esp since herro has several cheap years left — but if they want harden (or beal) it’s hard to imagine that happening without herro being in the deal. they just don’t have another asset of real significance.

but i think pretty much every team will be refusing to trade their best asset for harden right now, i doubt anyone is in a huge rush to get him. for the buyers it makes sense to wait it out and see if the price lowers as the situation gets more untenable, it’s not like the season pre-deadline matters all that much to good teams anyway

yeah theyre clearly feeling out the market i mean who wouldnt want a great deal on 1 james harden

Pat Riley really messed up by missing the Cyber Monday sale on Harden

that is the risk

i wld be tempted were i a gm to just make my best offer now and scoop him up then you have him for the whole season and you have him

imagining harden trying to get jordan on the phone right now

he should just post here

Harden has to go to Philly, right? that's the only team whose vibes can really absorb his fussy loser energy without much detriment

— pierre menard (@PierreMenard) December 10, 2020

All-Star forward Paul George has signed a maximum contract extension with the Los Angeles Clippers that’ll guarantee him as much as $226 million over the next five years, his agent Aaron Mintz of @CAA_Basketball tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 10, 2020

would be interesting if harden went to the heat and had to get in shape. maybe it's the best of both worlds for him -- militant basketball culture in a city w/ renowned strip clubs

it cld work

yikes on that george deal

i mean whatre you gonna do

wld be funny if they traded him tho

philly or miami are the only places besides houston i can imagine harden yeah

sometimes i forget that PG snapped his leg in half.

i was watching a youtube about the collapse of that pacers team and had totally forgotten too, then they got to that part and i was like oh no are they going to show it so i turned it off, it wasnt that good

45 million a year for paul george is kinda wow but go to it

also had two shoulder surgeries in the last couple seasons..

i guess now he won't need to view any upcoming season as championship or bust

I would like to place a bet that the Clippers aren't going to get past the Lakers into the NBA Finals this year, next year, the year after, the year after that, or the year after that.

i think they cld do it

yah the bubble was really bad for that team

Clippers need to invest a whole lot of resources in figuring out exactly what stars aligned and what factors caused them to so align during that one great year PG had in OKC.

and then uh figure out how to interlace those factors with whatever the hell Kawhi needs in order to be Kawhi without draining team chemistry.

yeah that’s an awful deal from the team side for george

I think the clippers are in deep shit, players were desperate to leave in the offseason, their best player has really bad knees, lots of finger pointing. And they burned historic draft capital to do this.

really good for the nuggets tho :) xp

it’s a bad contract but it’s also pocket change for ballmer & they’ll prob always be operating well into the tax. his body breaking down would be my main concern... i also don’t understand why they had to give him a player option

ballmer hasn't yet internalized the extent to which the nba's CBA is designed to neutralize his deep pockets as a competitive advantage.

that's not entirely true. the warriors have a huge competitive advantage having an owner who is willing/able to pay out a huge tax bill every year. basically all you have to do from a team perspective is juke the books to avoid the repeater tax but if you're willing to pay an extra $50m or $80m or $100m above the cap in a season there is nothing stopping you

Golden State tax bill is currently $66M

The addition of Kelly Oubre would see it increase to $134M

$14.4M of Oubre + $68M in taxes= $82.4M

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) November 19, 2020

feel like he will do something crazy like spend half a billion in luxury taxes just bc he can

which just hands his competitors a half billion dollars free and clear

i think you know youre both right the system does make it hard to just buy a good team, but ability to spend more does have its benefits too

like paying a billion dollars for kelly oubre is not gonna help that much, but its not nothing

lol

How Mavericks got other 29 NBA teams to help cover gift to J.J. Barea https://t.co/Nosx0oQmYj

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) December 10, 2020

a lil bastard all the way to the end. salute.

man i got emotional when he got emotional in his last presser today! what a baller, he'll be missed

respect to him for having a great career despite not having nba level physical gifts and doing it on the biggest stage (the nba finals)