part two of the nba 2020-21 anything but regular season

Wtf does Lou will not get along with kawhi or something

worth a shot. lou doesn't help them much in the playoffs and maybe rondo will decide to try.

lolclippers for eternity

lou is not good is the thing

i'm cool with the hawks cutting lou. he went to my rival high school anyway. go generals

so lowry staring contest resolves itself and then we're done?

the more I think about the gordon deal the more I like it

Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkić will make his return to the lineup on Friday vs. Orlando. He's back from a right wrist fractured. Sources tell : Jusuf Nurkić

— Jusuf Nurkić (@bosnianbeast27) March 25, 2021

drummond getting bought out. is this the best player getting bought out ever?

lol nurk

Houston is trading Victor Oladipo to Miami, source tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 25, 2021

spoke it into existence

There it is

The Raptors are keeping Kyle Lowry, source tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 25, 2021

Masai's just a big softie

oladipo for cheap or lowry for $$$ is an interesting choice for miami

Sources: Houston traded Victor Oladipo to Miami for Avery Bradley, Kelly Olynyk and a draft swap.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 25, 2021

lou will getting back to magic city's wings

haha he really belongs in atlanta.

Boston is trading center Daniel Theis to Chicago, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 25, 2021

xp i'm seeing media people who like it too! isn't it the exact type of trade we've seen fuck up a team over and over?

― call all destroyer, Thursday, March 25, 2021 1:50 PM (one hour ago)

vuc has this year and 2 more left on his deal. if i'm setting the over/under for bulls playoff wins in that time at 6, who is taking the over? like... we've seen what a vuc led team can do in the east. is zack lavine pushing you into the second round? i just don't see it at all. are they gonna start emptying out all their assets to upgrade off that nucleus? i know vuc has been amazing this year but i'm just not a fan

lol brutal

Fertitta turned Harden to LeVert to Oladipo to Avery Bradley. God bless Rockets fans https://t.co/duIJabZKqw

— pickuphoop (@pickuphoop) March 25, 2021

fertitta really taking that franchise into the abyss

Sources: Houston traded Victor Oladipo to Miami for Avery Bradley, Kelly Olynyk and a draft swap.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 25, 2021

so the rockets picking oladipo over lavert in the harden trade can officially be deemed a failure. the whole transaction worked out to a pick swap w/ the heat, that's a pretty brutal return for caris lavert.

the heat getting it done w/o having to give up a young player feels like a pretty great deal to me. olynyk has been important for them this year and was actually good in the finals last year when bam got hurt, but they got bjelica today too so they can spare him

Sixers are going to regret not getting Lowry. How many years of peak Embiid do they think they will get?

the clippers relying on playoff rondo to save the kawhi-PG nucleus from utter failure......... may god be with you

Melli on the Mavs is perfect. Euro heaven

what could go wrong xp

re: oladipo, yeah, maybe don't trade for a player who has been broadcasting loudly for months that he's either going to miami or free agency and expect to flip him for anything good.

When dust settles, the cost of acquiring impending free agent Evan Fournier will essentially be 4 second-round picks, Daniel Theis, Javonte Green, and Jeff Teague.

Celtic take on Wagner, duck the tax (for now), and maybe have slot for buyout guy. And TPEs. Always TPEs.

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— Chris Forsberg (@ChrisForsberg_) March 25, 2021

i think its only 2 2nds fwiw

its sad they had to dump theis instead of thompson

wagner is kind of interesting?

i think its only 2 2nds fwiw

― lag∞n, Thursday, March 25, 2021 3:38 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i believe the other two were passed in the hayward trade exception thing

ah i see

love theis but he was a limited player and i'm not sure they would have re-signed him this offseason (actually i'm pretty sure they wouldn't have). i'm cool getting a look at wagner.

i hope theis blossoms on another team.

he'll be backing up vooch hes gonna have way less opportunity

it's not clear to me what gordon is good at, exactly, aside from being athletic. his three pt shooting has shot up this year but idk what the value of that is given what's been going on around the league this year. his 2 pt % is kind of ghastly for someone w/ his athletic ability, he seems like a decent defender. i'm not sure it's a huge overpay exactly but i'm also not sure how much it moves the needle overall, altho he's almost certainly an upgrade over milsap, jaymichael etc. i don't fault them for doing it... i think he just leaves me kinda cold. but maybe orlando is such a bad basketball situation that you can't really judge him w/in that context

The big thing about Gordon is will he be more engaged if he’s on a contender. He floats around games mostly.

yeah. the intel and background on him has not been amazing but denver seems like a good place to turn that around.

feel like its all about his ability to understand and embrace his role, cause he can def do some stuff, but not other stuff

Losing out on Hampton kind of hurts, he’s clearly an nba player with amazing upside. Reminds me of Derrick rode at times. But that’s why the deal is possible; good for both teams

it’s definitely a great deal for orlando. will likely work out for both sides tho

orlando basically turned the nucleus of a team 14 games under .500 into wendell carter, gary harris, three first round picks and two second round picks? pretty incredible

and rj hampton

def interested to see some of these guys in new situations. vooch and lavine both having all star seasons but have never been able to shake the empty stats on bad teams tag.

orlando basically turned the nucleus of a team 14 games under .500 into wendell carter, gary harris, three first round picks and two second round picks? pretty incredible

― J0rdan S., Thursday, March 25, 2021 6:58 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf they have also made the playoffs with that team, but yeah they did good, and now to pray for cade (or whoever)

TRADE TIDBIT: The 2022 pick swap with Miami that the #Rockets received in the Oladipo trade is lottery-protected.

— David Weiner (@BimaThug) March 25, 2021

Amazing how the Rockets went from probably the most consistent playoff team in the entire league for almost 20 years straight to... whatever this is, almost overnight lol. Tilman wasted absolutely no time eclipsing Dolan and Sarver as the worst owner in the entire NBA.

it's going to be a very long road back for them