2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

the miami heat should not have kevin durant on their team

though watching kd and butler feel each other out in their instant locker room blinking contest would make for a fun regular season

i really don't get beal if he decides to return to the wizards. he's been there 10 years, they have no path to contention, if he ever wants to play important basketball he needs to force his way somewhere else, and nobody would blame him if he did

i posted the insider article about the suns draft process (wherein james jones admits he wouldn't have drafted devin booker) on the other thread. the fall for this team is going to be fast and hard. @thl3t1c C&P for people who don't support CONTENT CREATORZ

Maybe Kyrie could have, you know, explained himself

Kevin Durant is losing faith in Nets management and their handling of Kyrie Irving situation, per @loganmmurdock

“[KD] feels that the front office didn’t grow to understand Kyrie.” pic.twitter.com/xXX6N0YUGG

— Top Ball Coverage (@TopBallCoverage) June 26, 2022

xp seems like an approach that will get you to .500 consistently but not further

Omg it would be amazing if a disgruntled Simmons is left alone on the Nets.

lol that suns piece does not sound like the best way to do it

i think theres actually some truths in there but the overall approach sounds bad

the i would have not drafted our best player part idk maybe reconsider

guy is freerolling with a team built by someone else acting like hes the nba wizard

when you can only put 5 guys on the court having at least one who's way way better than average is essential to winning and i don't know how you get there without drafting for upside when you are phoenix and not The Lakers

i do think its possible that a team that didnt invest much in draft scouting could keep up with the league by taking the consensus best available guy in the draft every time but thats very different from intentionally reaching for old guys

yeah but youre trying to be better than the rest of the league and there are teams that consistently draft better you have to try to be one of those teams, and its not like youre saving anything besides some salaries jones reason was he doesnt want too many people at a meeting, thats clown shit man lol bozo time

i think theres an underlying hypothesis here that no one has actually beaten the draft by a significant margin, which is untestable because theres only one draft per year and thats not enough drafts

Bozo's grand prize game was more advanced than hoops

Omg it would be amazing if a disgruntled Simmons is left alone on the Nets.

love jones thinking "i'll just turn phx into miami west!" this will definitely keep working for them

it might, but only because they already have a good player they would not draft

at least miami has a strong player development program, jones sounds like he's not even interested in that

james jones sounds like a college sophomore explaining bitcoin, and also a republican

ok i gotta read this now lol

i do think there was something interesting in the theory of what he was saying about cutting down on the number of reports, having a smaller draft board, being more intentional about scouting etc … but (as you guys note) the underlying objective of only finding win now players is crazy & you can’t really run an NBA team that way. also ultimately it’s hard to shake the feeling that the entire objective is being driven more than anything by sarver being cheap. the tail is kinda wagging the dog here

also the jalen smith pick is the real fly in the ointment. he was a skinny raw center who they way overdrafted and it based on this they legitimately thought he was going to step in right away — whoops — to be their… back up center? from both an evaluation and process POV it was just monumentally dumb. meanwhile they passed on halliburton who was the same age and was immediately good in the NBA. maybe he wasn’t even on their board!

also the whole thing about not sending scouts out to games because it’s better for them to be around the team… does he know about league pass? you can watch the games from other states now, it’s really nice

ESPN Sources: Outside of the Lakers, there are currently no known teams planning pursuit of sign-and-trades for Nets G Kyrie Irving. No sign-and-trades can be formally discussed until after 6 PM on Thursday. Brooklyn isn't believed to have interest in available Lakers packages.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 27, 2022

Tee hee hee

If Irving declines his $36M player option, he would be eligible to sign with the Lakers for the $6M exception. Deadline is Wednesday to decide on option.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 27, 2022

kyrie forgot to factor in the whole just not playing basketball for three years because you didnt feel like it will make you less desirable to nba teams part into his plan to get two hundred million dollars

feel like there should be a graphic for the games last year where he just didnt bother to tell the nets he wasnt coming in

Kyrie In Brooklyn pic.twitter.com/nQRJCBBY9o

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) June 24, 2022

was googling to figure out how many firsts the lakers have available to trade, 2026 & 2028 fwiw, and lakers fan/media fake trades are always so funny and delusional

https://i.imgur.com/dsWdCMA.png

heres a more realistic one tho they still just throw joe harris in there and have to defend giving up two first even when the famous THT is included

https://i.imgur.com/GR0ilNW.png

lakers trading for kyrie would be unambiguously great for them imo. it could and probably will blow up in their faces but they’re currently hopeless and i can’t imagine a way in which they acquire a better player than him this offseason

it would be great for everyone the fans the haters the tv ratings, everyone except the nets who would just get two distant lakers firsts for their trouble and then be forced to trade kd too

looks like the dejaunte for collins talk continues

but on the other hand two lakers first is better than having kyrie walk to the knicks for nothing

The Spurs are fielding offers for Murray and have told multiple interested teams it would take a “Jrue Holiday-like package” for San Antonio to part with the 25-year-old floor general, setting a rough benchmark of three first-round picks for any suitor to pry Murray free.

cant imagine collins has too much value around the league right now, got a big new contract right around the time he missed a bunch of games

i do think the celtics should consider putting together a jrue holiday like package for him tho

for murray to be clear

there was talk that the celtics were interested in collins but apparently werent remotely close to offering what the hawks want

i really want to clear his spot for Okongwu

the hawks def can trade him but i think theyre looking at a first plus spare parts type deal

why are the spurs even fielding offers for murray?

Hawks receive: Dejounte Murray, Keldon Johnson

Spurs receive: De’Andre Hunter, John Collins, Delon Wright, two future first-round picks

why are the spurs even fielding offers for murray?

― Heez, Monday, June 27, 2022 1:19 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes not hang up the phone good and the spurs arent making any noise soon so theyre basically like yeah give us all your assets and we can talk

if a team wants to trade a jrue holiday like package for a player who is worse than jrue holiday that is one thing. i really have no idea why the spurs would want john collins tho. he’s a good player but what is he doing for the spurs in particular, i do not understand

worth noting too that the bucks gave up more than one typically would for a player of jrue holidays caliber

I'd be cool with the hawks trading anyone other than Trae, Okongwu or Hunter

however much like holiday did with the bucks murray could put the celtics over the top, basically a perfect fit and hes the same age as the celtics core ie young

if the spurs are looking to get rid of their best player that means theres prob something wrong

it would be great for everyone the fans the haters the tv ratings, everyone except the nets who would just get two distant lakers firsts for their trouble and then be forced to trade kd too

― lag∞n, Monday, June 27, 2022 12:07 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

if they hold onto Westbrook too it would be amazing, I'd watch all 75 nationally televised games they'd inevitably get

if the spurs are looking to get rid of their best player that means theres prob something wrong

― Spottie, Monday, June 27, 2022 1:39 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk they might just be looking at their roster and thinking more rebuilding is better than getting stuck in the middle, but theyre prob not really looking to move him teams are calling and theyre like yeah give us crazy value and of course well think about it