2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

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

yeah xp

if hes really not gonna take their offer hell prob get traded for not that much, considering prob no one else is that stoked to give him the super max

he cld def be a difference maker on a contender

not sure where he makes sense who has the assets etc

being a difference maker on a contender and being worth a super-max are two entirely different categories

this feels like an attempt to leverage the new owner (which i fully support)

he cld def be a difference maker on a contender

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 17, 2020 1:10 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

not at the max

celtics?

celtics have this big trade exemption but the thing they really need is wing depth

i am really looking forward to watching New Orleans this season

https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2020/12/17/22179397/nba-power-rankings-part-1?__twitter_impression=true

the wolves have this weird ability to have good players but still end up a bad team, I can’t quite explain it

"players" plural?

i guess they have rubio now

maybe kat is just that bad on defense

Actually the celtics should 100% do it

two things w/ the wolves are 1. it's hard to win a lot when your two best players are awful on defense 2. their coach only has his job bcuz of a weird nepotism legacy thing that is specific to their franchise only

Actually the celtics should 100% do it

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 17, 2020 4:50 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

def worth considering, would prob require further moves to make the roster really work, and also whats the plan as far as resigning him

tim bontemps has been saying that the nets should trade for gobert since nobody on their team wants to or can play defense but deandre jordan is already entrenched in that big 3 so idk if that would work

those kevin o'connor rankings are odd. i think i actually don't agree w/him very often.

gobert has a clear demonstrated desire to be respected and flattered like a "real" superstar and not just a very good player at a devalued position but i highly doubt any team is going to pay him the kind of money he thinks is befitting of the first title. the issue for any team looking to acquire him is that this realization may not hit until he reaches FA

feel like the grizzlies have to be in the bottom 10 teams still. he's bunching them up in weird ways that make it not function as a ranking

I feel like a lot of teams had a much better offseason than the grizz

Also in story: While the Sixers have signaled a willingness to include All-Star guard Ben Simmons in trade packages for Harden, those talks have come nowhere close to a deal, sources said. https://t.co/bbP3k3uNci

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 17, 2020

that would be stupid as hell so i hope the sixers do it

one thing that hasn't been clear to me on harden to the sixers is whether embiid isn't in the deal because ppl perceive him to be more valuable than simmons or less valuable. bcuz if i'm the rockets i'm def asking for simmons but if i'm the sixers i'm trying to get off embiid, if i had to choose

wld be curious to hear what packages including simmons were uncool to the rockets

do they think theyre going to get a better player than simmons

yeah i would rather dump embiid than simmons 100%

pretty sure i have a weird personal thing where I think gobert's salary ask should be heavily discounted bc of the time he touched a bunch of reporter's microphones "as a joke" while he had covid

i think embiid it too embedded in the organization. like he's tight with one of the big minority owners. i don't think they feel like they can trade him even though it would 100% be the right basketball move.

I think simmons is the more important player too but I would include him in a deal for harden if that was the line -- they need someone to take high volume 3s and that's never going to happen with both simmons and harden on the team. also simmons and harden is an awkward fit imo because you're not thrilled with either of them off the ball

spicy: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30540539/nba-investigating-allegations-jerry-west-la-clippers-involving-kawhi-leonard-recruitment?linkId=107397733

I think simmons is the more important player too but I would include him in a deal for harden if that was the line -- they need someone to take high volume 3s and that's never going to happen with both simmons and harden on the team. also simmons and harden is an awkward fit imo because you're not thrilled with either of them off the ball

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 17, 2020 8:01 PM (seventeen minutes ago)

well, i'd be thrilled w/ harden off the ball. not sure *he* would be thrilled tho

i think embiid it too embedded in the organization.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, December 17, 2020 7:43 PM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

embiidded

well, i'd be thrilled w/ harden off the ball. not sure *he* would be thrilled tho

― J0rdan S., Thursday, December 17, 2020 8:20 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Harden can't just give up after giving the ball up. I know it's preseason but damn. pic.twitter.com/OiGplpWhG9

— Ariel (@APisreal_) December 16, 2020

truly one of the weirdest players ever

seems like the rockets are really trying to do this

The Miami Heat are in trade talks to acquire James Harden, but the inclusion of Duncan Robinson is 'a major sticking point' in the Heat's pursuit of Harden.

(via @EthanJSkolnick, @5ReasonsSports) pic.twitter.com/BliLdejbN8

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) December 18, 2020

you really could not invent harden's arch weirdness in every single way

the best harden play

James Harden (@JHarden13) casually strips DeMar DeRozan (@DeMar_DeRozan).. pic.twitter.com/CAlg0VFISe

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) December 1, 2018

anyone else doing league pass this year? is this "NBA TV add-on" new?? I don't remember seeing that before