2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

I think it’s very possible that the rockets ended up with 4 really good players from this draft. I can’t remember that happening ever

Omer Yurtseven looks pretty darn good, was he just in the g league last year?

i think so, they didn’t even have him on a contract until this week i think. he looks like a pretty good back up 5 with shooting

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Automatic straight As

lol

JONATHAN KUMINGA COMING AT EVERYONE 🤯🔥 pic.twitter.com/8NliUyJ0Yk

— ESPN (@espn) August 13, 2021

he's been looking pretty good!

he’s a big kid for a wing player

Poor guy, moves to a new country and spends his formative years working his ass off to get in the league only to have NBA twitter nickname him "kum bucket".

he’s a big kid for a wing player

yeah he’s going to be more of a 4/5 than a 3/4 imo

He looks kinda stiff to me, idk about the whole thing

Zeke Nnaji with a disastrous summer league, but they have something with Hyland. Seems pretty clearly to be an nba shooter

The Los Angeles Clippers are trading Patrick Beverley, Rajon Rondo and Daniel Oturu to the Memphis Grizzlies for guard Eric Bledsoe, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 16, 2021

why

?

some more tradable expiring salary for memphis, and i think it saves a bunch of money for the clips though i am not seeing details on that yet

Cap ramifications for LAC/MEM:

LAC
🏀Eric Bledsoe: $18.1M and $19.4M ($3.9M GTY)
💰LAC will see their tax bill drop from $125M to $95M (savings of $30M)
💰$8.3M TE for LAC

MEM
🏀Patrick Beverley: $14.3M
🏀Rajon Rondo: $7.5M ($750K likely bonus)
🏀Daniel Oturu: $1.5M

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) August 16, 2021

clips save 30 million bucks off their tax bill

some of these all-in teams are paying crazy amounts in lux tax, its Good IMO

steve ballmer is legit one of the richest human beings on earth pay the $30 mill bitch

i don't think this is actually all that much about tax savings. beverley is expiring, they're probably not planning on being a contender this season with kawhi out, and they also probably think they can fix bledsoe after the batum and jackson reclaimations.

bev made an ass out of himself and the franchise in that phx series too

i can't stand bev on the court and don't think he's that good. i've also seen a lot of dire bledsoe playoff games. so it's probably a wash.

surely you can turn pat bev on a 14M expiring into something better than negative asset eric bledsoe

idk, can you? beverley is in that special place where he's a limited player who is only useful to teams that want to win and also makes kind of a lot of money. i have no doubt the grizz will find a way to flip him but they can do it for future assets while the clips need to get someone who can play at a similar level now.

not sure what the clippers really need to be prepping for if kawhi is really gonna basically miss the whole year, gonna be a rough climb

well they can get a look at bledsoe this coming year and see if he will help, if not his guarantee for 22-23 is pretty small

clippers need good value to pad out their bench and bledsoe is not that. i would have expected bev to be traded for young player/s who could be given heavy development minutes for a year while kawhi recovers. if bledsoe doesnt regain form (which he wont) the clippers are back where they started except bledsoe cant even shoot.

yeah what i’m saying is there was no trade for beverley that was getting useful young players back (let me know if you can think of one) so this is arbitrage on an expiring contract.

yeah

Pelicans closing in on 3-year deal to keep Hart - via @ESPN App https://t.co/C751rJeZMj

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 16, 2021

marcus smart getting the full 4/77 extension

nice

if ever a man should die a celtic it is that fellow

Embiid signing a 4 yr/$196M supermax extension.

ok

The Memphis Grizzlies are trading Patrick Beverley to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Jarrett Culver and Juancho Hernangomez, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 17, 2021

lol

i guess gerson rosas was the guy that found beverley however many years ago playing overseas? love when GMs just go get their guys from their previous teams.

time to schedule the rachel nichols interview

the wolves are dying for any semblance of a defensive identity or attitude but yikes what a return on your number 6 overall pick. beverly is going to love playing with russell and towns lmao

Timberwolves are such a weird franchise, 30 years of being just plain weird

the grizzlies have made so many moves this offseason & i'm not sure if they've gotten even a win better

yeah it's all pretty much low-probability asset cycling but they might as well do it now before they have to pay people

seems weird like making moves for moves sake. i guess they got that draft pick

I think this is just a contract dump for the Wolves. Bev is in the last year of his contract whereas Juancho and Culver have multiple years left

Greg Brown III throws down a between-the-legs dunk 😳pic.twitter.com/TMyTBlslgh

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) August 17, 2021

I love this guy. Just a great draft for the rockets imo, all 4 guys look very good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qle2CE8ZKVc

garuba def looked like a player in the olympics

really disgusted with how well the rockets did in this draft, i need someone in texas to be the incompetent front office besides the spurs. i guess u cd argue mavs but luka will cover so many of their flaws.

lets not overreact to some summer league games the rockets can still fuck this up