2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

The 2020-21 Houston Rockets. pic.twitter.com/hid4vNIEMw

— Mike Prada. Dank Ferrik (@MikePradaNBA) December 16, 2020

Luka looks more out of shape than harden tbh

Luka has chub potential tbh

holy shit kyle guy. couldn't miss tonight and just won the game at the buzzer.

sort of figured luka would show up chiseled this year tbh

it’s not a real off season

well for bubble teams anyway

holy shit kyle guy. couldn't miss tonight and just won the game at the buzzer.

Re: frogbs

A lot of weird bad things happened to the bucks. Bogut took some time to figure things out and when he did he had some awful fluke injuries. Larry Sanders was an amazing discovery and then he got paid and lost his fucking mind. The Michael Redd injury....

You know a team which might be kinda cool? The Washington Wizards!

i will watch this
https://www.nba.com/watch/video/kemp-and-payton-on-getting-benched

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https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30528130/james-harden-houston-rockets-breaking-point

Unless they were on the front end of a back-to-back set, it was essentially a sure thing that the Rockets stayed overnight -- or even an extra day -- after games in Los Angeles, Phoenix and other road cities that rank among Harden's favorite stops.

If the Rockets had two or three days between games, it was a good bet Harden would call for an off day and charter a private jet to party in Las Vegas or another city. He always gets an excused absence from the first practice after the All-Star break for the same reason.

HOUSTON'S CASUAL CULTURE appalled Westbrook. In Oklahoma City, despite the fact that he enjoyed the same sort of superstar privileges as Harden has had in Houston, the Thunder operated with the discipline of a military unit under Westbrook's watch. The Rockets were a stark contrast, especially last season under D'Antoni, who was never known as a disciplinarian and who was a lame duck in the last year of his contract after extension negotiations infamously fizzled twice over the summer.

Westbrook didn't tolerate tardiness. With the Rockets, scheduled departure times were treated as mere suggestions by Harden and others.

"Nothing ever starts on time," a former Rockets staffer said. "The plane is always late. The bus is never on time. ... It's just an organized AAU team."

On one occasion in the Florida bubble, Harden waited to get his daily COVID-19 testing until just before the Rockets' film session was scheduled to start. When he wasn't on time, Westbrook barked, "Start the film! Start without him!" D'Antoni explained that they'd just have to start over when Harden arrived, which didn't do much to calm Westbrook.

Nothing shocking in here but a nice summary of the way he sets the culture. I already assume stars like him do whatever they want, but still a little surprising to see that the whole team's schedule might include staying in a city an extra day because he wanted to. Joining forces with Embiid on a team that cares about the parties between games as much as the games seems like destiny

James Harden on what he was doing in Atlanta in Vegas during training camp:

"I was just training."

For what?

"The start of the NBA season."

Why in Atlanta and Vegas instead of Houston?

"My personal trainers."

— Salman Ali (@SalmanAliNBA) December 16, 2020

Ok maybe the nuggets shouldn’t trade for Harden

lol

James Harden on if he has same trust in Rafael Stone as he did with Daryl Morey: We haven’t had a conversation

— Kelly Iko (@KellyIkoNBA) December 16, 2020

sad but lol

🚨 INJURY UPDATE 🚨

Gordon Hayward sustained an avulsion fracture of his fifth metacarpal on his right hand.

🔗: https://t.co/AZKzz9uYzf | @NovantHealth pic.twitter.com/d2x7EWyuqZ

— Charlotte Hornets (@hornets) December 16, 2020

welp

c’mon dawg.....

https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/3592de4c-2d2d-4285-afbf-f0508775bd58_2.bb23225176016b4d5ce96c4efed80382.jpeg

more time for education reform

watching cavs dubs game 7 on nbatv not sure what happens

worst game ever

lol game 6 mb worse

theres guys in this game who seem like relics of a diff era mo williams leandro barbosa but it wasnt that long ago

who he play for Andre Miller

yeah theres no way marreese speights played 3 years ago and not 15

harden to the knicks is gonna happen in my lifetime

forgot dray had such a huge game

bron made a cool block

tie game 69 seconds left

the shorts are so much bigger and the cavs terrible jerseys have sleeves

cavs won, p cool game, steph had a real bad 4th quarter

less than a week now to a new nba regular season! well may it prosper. and I hope all the nba (and ncaa) players take warning from that Florida baller, Johnson, who collapsed and is in the hospital in critical condition.

PRO.

Kevin Harlan is calling NBA games from his basement 😱

(via @OliviaDekker)pic.twitter.com/kzPkzVHwKP

— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) December 17, 2020

to me that is hallucinatory

love kev but he had no idea who was on the floor for most of the kings/warriors game last night. can't blame him, it has to be so hard to work that way.

theres like a 1 sec delay between what hes doing and what he sees on his own monitor

okay i just paid for my season pass, are baskets still only 1 point apiece?

Bol Bol really doing it all. pic.twitter.com/atfp5TMjUR

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 17, 2020

🤤

Is bol bol the actual unicorn?

Meanwhile

Will Barton III on playing the 6th man role:

"I have no plans on being the 6th man. I have no desire to be that at all."

— Brendan Vogt (@BrendanVogt) December 17, 2020

Porter can’t really play the 3 anyway, there’s an easy decision here

Also you can just start Barton until he gets injured

Actually nvm i watched the full highlights and you just bench Harris probably

okay

Report: Jazz offered Rudy Gobert standard max extension, but he wants super-max https://t.co/5av4fPUZqy

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) December 17, 2020

The added $$ is to compensate Rudy for having to live in Utah during the season.

He’s only eligible for the supermax because he won awards right?

i, too, want the super-max