2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

it's not one question, but at least a dozen.

if i was the blazers, i would simply win the draft lottery and then draft chet holmgren

they might be the most mysterious team in the league right now. no idea what their goals are, what style of basketball they wanna play, how they intend on getting better, who is even on their team. it sounds like dame is sticking around in which case they need to put a real team around him in one offseason

my lord that ayton gaming story is something

i suspect when the suns let ESPN do this story they might not have had ayton's best interests at heart...

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 16, 2022 6:09 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this makes sense and also sucks

It wasn't just the Suns. his agent prob knew in advance, too.

my lord that ayton gaming story is something

― call all destroyer, Monday, May 16, 2022 8:25 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao that shit is wild why doesnt he sleep sleep is important

"I don't know how I did it this year because I got a child, but I did it," Ayton says, as his kid stares at him blankly, his mouth agape, his eyes wide

to be fair one year olds sleep a lot, unlike deandre ayton

i didn't know about this until it was mentioned by kevin arnovitz on zach lowe's podcast today, but this long article on ESPN about how much de'andre ayton loves video games was, um, illuminating

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33898958/deandre-ayton-phoenix-suns-video-games

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 16, 2022 6:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i just listened to this pod and for someone as measured as arnovitz to refer repeatedly to ayton's "comportment" being a concern within the suns.....yeah there's something there.

did he say what the comportment problems were particularly

nah. he did a big sarver piece a while back so i would assume he has good suns sources (and is protective of them)

I’m charting every single bucket Luka scored in the series. Of the 56 (out of 81 total) I’ve done so far, 18 of Luka’s buckets have come from getting Ayton on him out of the PnR. https://t.co/FAT4Gog4hw

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) May 17, 2022

did he say what the comportment problems were particularly

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 1:59 PM (eighteen minutes ago)

the implication seemed to be that he doesn't take basketball seriously enough. arnovitz was like "you'd never see an article about bam playing video games so much that he only sleeps 2 hours per night." i'm sure the suns are aware of that as well which is what makes me think they weren't too worried about that info coming out

lmao he likes the nba video game more than being in the nba

No dopamine-drip of progression and leveling up IRL.

suns shd give him badges for various accomplishments, got 8 hours of sleep badge, didnt get posted up by guy half a foot shorter than me badge

lmao he likes the nba video game more than being in the nba

― lag∞n, Tuesday, May 17, 2022 2:31 PM (eight minutes ago)

it is a bit ridiculous that there's a whole story on the number 1 overall pick that hinges on him working hard enough to achieve "Legend" status............ in NBA 2K

cant believe ayton agreed to a be taken down like that, he must have zero street sense. dude let the photographer take a pic of him holding a controller like a baby lmaooooo

https://a2.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2022%2F0412%2Fr998618_1999x3000cc.jpg&w=570&format=jpg

i’ve had enough of the 2k shaming itt, if bingeing 2k until you get a headache is wrong i don’t want to be right

Tracer, if you are also a #1 overall nba pick then you should feel shame imo, sorry that’s how I feel.

you should just keep it to yourself is the thing. and def not let it be released right around when you get mopped up by the guy you were picked ahead of

i definitely think everyone should be sleeping more than 2 hours per night especially nba players

especially 7 footers

suns shd give him badges for various accomplishments, got 8 hours of sleep badge, didnt get posted up by guy half a foot shorter than me badge

Yeah, they just got to figure out how to gamify basketball.

i guess the whole scoring system with putting the ball through the hoop ring isnt enough of a game for him

Real life game stats could be applied to his Gamerscore

*double the gamerscore stats for real life stats

negative points for layups, quadruple for dunks

I cannot imagine intentionally getting 2 hours of sleep a night. Probably why I never had kids.

i def got more than that as a new parent!

I have insomnia once in a while and two hours two nights in a row leaves me feeling hungover/stupid like I could kill myself accidentally on purpose.

it's really crazy I just realized that the NBA Draft Lottery is tonight, usually I've been obsessing about it for a month

yeah i tuned in for the game and realized its not for half an hour becasue of this

im watching it baby who will get the #1 pick one of the teams who will get the #2 pick also a team

nuggets will win the nba draft lottery

why do they even have the players here they aren't getting drafted yet

this is really one event in the world of sports where i do not need a 20 minute intro and analysis, just gimme the order and go to the game

*abe simpson voice* get to the monayyyyyyyyy

jordan is right ppl are underrating chets shooting jay bilas just listed shot 40% from three as an after thought lol

oh good tuned in just in time

s/o to my guy anderson varejao lookin slightly hungover

rigged

lol i had the same thought re: andy

boo to the kings moving up

draft shaq again imo

big day for the orlando magic theory

jabari smith is a perfect magic pick

yeah the thunder are gonna get chet

i've heard the blazers are going to trade up and draft chet and it's going to be easy and won't cost much in fact the other team will say thank you for asking so that is cool to know