2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

lol

Report: Nets learned of Kyrie Irving opting in with his public statement https://t.co/4CzFct3F1w

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 28, 2022

the organization paying him sits no higher than nba twitter. the world is flat.

Obv

ESPN Sources: Los Angeles Lakers star Russell Westbrook is planning to exercise his $47.1 million option to return to the franchise for the 2022-2023 season.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 28, 2022

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— Russell Westbrook (@russwest44) June 28, 2022

He's being paid $47M to play basketball. Glad to hear that being asked to play defense won't break his soul.

“an insider close to the situation says that the Spurs have multiple teams making a strong push for Murray besides the Hawks. One Eastern Conference team, he says, is offering three first round draft picks and a desirable young player in a proposed swap.”

someone woke pat up? 👀 https://t.co/9RgbtHoVsT pic.twitter.com/wWIQ8vN4rO

— dru_star (@dru_star) June 28, 2022

Report: Miami Heat have checked in on Dejounte Murray https://t.co/b5pMVGz7sy

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 28, 2022

“I did get indications that a few weeks back, Miami checked in on Dejounte Murray,” the Five on the Floor podcast reported.

The report was followed up by acknowledgment that Murray seems to be headed elsewhere already, though nothing has yet been set in stone.

he doesn’t feel like a heat trade target to me. they usually go for older stars

yeah, and hes not helping their spacing issues either

i wonder if there's an eastern conference team that just picked up a bunch of movable first round picks in an otherwise explicable trade!

knicks? they were pretty protected, right?

Boston Celtics assistant Will Hardy is closing in on deal to become the next head coach of the Utah Jazz, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 28, 2022

and good luck to him

congrats to that man

we're so close to a gen z coach

At this point, it's widely anticipated that Jalen Brunson will go to the Knicks on a four-year deal in excess of $100M. It remains to be seen how New York will clear the rest of the necessary cap space and whether the Mavs can work a sign-and-trade to recoup assets.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) June 28, 2022

P.J. Tucker is expected to join the #Sixers. Here’s how they can absorb his salary https://t.co/u25BG0GmBh via @phillyinquirer

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) June 28, 2022

knicks? they were pretty protected, right?

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:28 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

shhh

can the mavs match or is he unrestricted? seems a bit high, but not outlandish.

he’s unrestricted bcuz he was a second round pick

you know what, if the knicks think they can make some noise with their weird little jalen brunson julius randle team then i hope they succeed

…couldn’t be me!

lmao, dallas losing brunson and gaining christian wood feels pretty lateral, dallas needs to Do Something imo

yea mavs losing one of their three shot creators is not good. and i dont really see a way for them to get another one..

the hardaway and bertans contracts are looking ROUGH
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/DAL.html

losing bruson is bad why are they losing him wth

go to the knicks and get booed doesnt sound that good

what if he has a good relationship with his dad, the anti-riverses

then dallas shouldve hired his dad how did they let the knicks scoop them

How good is Brunson? I can't get a handle on what the general feeling is. Is he poised to breakout if he's more of an focal point or is he just a guy who's young and undamaged or hindered by a terrible contract in a time when there aren't many available?

brunsons dad would fit right in the mavs org. hes their type

UMS i think it’s the latter. he’s never going to make an all star team.

I would feel a lot better about that Tucker contract if it were two years. I've got a feeling we're going to find out he's cooked a month into the second year.

yeah brunson will probably be a borderline all star guy. he's probably best suited as a 6th man, or as a 3rd option on a good team? hes real crafty and seems to be an elite pnr guard. but hes short and not great on defense. will be interesting to see what he does with a higher usage rate, no luka to play next to, and way less shooting around him.

thx dudes I was wondering that...a lot of this off-season has "well we gotta do something" vibes

yeah its just the knicks

he'll also be 26 soon so hard to see him making another leap. per 36 the last two years he's been about 18/5/5 the scoring will prob increase a bit but the shooting percentages will drop

they are desperate for a real pg at this point

he was a good fit on the mavs, and there was still room for a bigger role, this was a poor decision

tho i havent heard if the mavs were willing to give him nearly the same contract, understandable if they werent, but still now they cant replace him

yeah he was a great fit for the mavs

offseasons like this really fuck some teams up bc they need to make a splash and then they're just saddled with overpriced contracts for mediocre aging guys

the mavs did screw the brunson thing up by not signing him to a deal in the $50 million range when they had the chance, but at least they're willing to walk away and not give him a crippling contract.

i think they will mostly be fine. brunson is a good player but he was also playing in a system that is designed entirely around the lead ball handler. you couldn't do much more to put a player like him in a position to succeed (and probably overperform) than to slide him into the spot normally reserved for luka and/or playing off luka. he still has to be good enough to take advantage of it, and he's def a nifty player who can score. but i bet we'll find out both when he gets on the knicks and when the mavs find a replacement for him that he was, in effect, a system player. the mavs will have to get creative to replace him but at the end of the day we're talking about a second round pick who was a back up point guard, good franchises shouldn't get brought to their knees buy a guy like that walking away.

and i guess a sign and trade is a possibility. if the mavs did something like brunson for derrick rose, alec burks and a protected first i don't think they'd be much worse

Popovich nooooo

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he wanted to see some nasty

Haha

The Knicks are trading center Nerlens Noel and guard Alec Burks to the Pistons, sources tell ESPN. The Knicks will unload $19M more in salary, clearing the way for cap space to try and sign free agent guard Jalen Brunson.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 29, 2022

These middling ass teams stay middling

depressed that nothing interesting is going to happen this summer