2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

iirc hes mad at marks for the way he treated kyrie (did not give him a max contract)

if all it takes to smooth everything over w/ KD is to fire steve nash (should not be an NBA head coach) and sean marks (orchestrator of a giant mess of a team) that might actually be a small price to pay

read some thing that tsai already thinks the players are making him look like a bitch so idk

it's one thing for shams to tweet various abuses of the english language from his own account, but it's infecting his employer's accounts:

The Nets understand that Kevin Durant will continue to be resolute in his stance of a trade request.

Which teams are the potential destinations?@ShamsCharania has the latest intel: https://t.co/W3w4ZCqDcg pic.twitter.com/CH2tIPk2Pm

— The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) August 8, 2022

god I hate KD so much

he should retire and embrace his natural endpoint as a chump steamroller on a local sports radio show

Marks is not the gm tho that’s Kyrie and KD until now so all they can do is turn the mirror on themselves. Marks pulled off the rare 3 man super team that Kd wanted and they fumbled it. Marks should leave on his own accord and air all the laundry.

he can't get credit for "pulling it off" but then take none of the blame for running a front office that wasn't able to keep it together for even one full season. at best he doesn't have enough clout to stand up to the superstars on his team and keep any semblance of chemistry going or ward off bad ideas, at worst he's made a number of decisions that have made the situation worse. either way he's unfit for the job he has... maybe he'd be fine running a small market team that would love to win 45 games and scrap its way into the play in tourney but that's not what the nets want to be

a trio like KD, kyrie, and harden is always gonna have a certain level of sway and power w/in an organization but we've seen franchises *actually* pull this off before. pat riley had the juice. bob myers had the juice. sean marks does not. it all seems pretty cut and dried to me

those three guys on the same team was just fundamentally a bad idea

kyrie on any team might just be a bad idea

both of those things may be true

it seems pretty clear that the thing that broke them apart was kyrie not getting vaxed and maybe that fact alone soured harden on the whole thing and there was nothing anyone could do but i also think it's obvious that the front office allowing him to come back and play road games was a catastrophic decision that created a complete circus around the team and made harden want to get out asap. they took a strong public stance against kyrie playing and then buckled under the first bit of roster strain, they were weak and short sighted and couldn't stand strong as a franchise. if you break that easy you're never gonna be able to make it work w/ multiple superstars.

sean marks traded a first round pick for royce o neal

Our front office and coaching staff have my support. We will make decisions in the best interest of the Brooklyn Nets.

— Joe Tsai (@joetsai1999) August 8, 2022

well i'm convinced

heh

The Pro City Hoops team consisting of Julius Randle, Obi Toppin and Jalen Brunson lost by 13 tonight pic.twitter.com/yj9sh2QthU

— Rob Lopez (@r0bato) August 9, 2022

the knicks

i dont have anything substantive to offer

You absolutely hate to see it

That’s like 18ppl, he’ll be okay. https://t.co/TiJmFrvhSp

— A.K (@Kungu_NBA) August 9, 2022

You have to give KD credit for goosing a slow news cycle and giving us something to talk about.

sean marks traded a first round pick for royce o neal

Furthermore, the first-year head coach said one wrinkle he will implement and stick with is having the offense run through Anthony Davis, and James concurred, sources said. The team has been encouraged with Davis’ offseason progression and believe he’ll be in optimum shape to avoid serious injuries and carry a heavier load.

The team is also hopeful for a corner-3 shooting percentage bump from Russell Westbrook next season, sources said.

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that is from this highly credible reporting btw https://sports.yahoo.com/inside-lebron-james-meeting-with-lakers-front-office-darvin-ham-offensive-plan-rob-pelinka-roster-patience-014115495.html

good luck los angeles lakers

a bunch of fun young upstarts trying to disrupt the league, kudos

one cannot help but wonder if the nets are actually trying to trade kevin durant

The Nets reportedly asked Boston for Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown initially when opening up trade talks centered around Kevin Durant, per @AdamHimmelsbach pic.twitter.com/e1HCIe41vP

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) August 10, 2022

New: Kevin Durant reportedly now has the #Celtics on his preferred list of landing spots. Examining the impact that might have on potential future trade talks between Boston and Brooklyn: https://t.co/XU9nOTPk84

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) August 10, 2022

Robert Williams III is reportedly off limits in trade talks for Kevin Durant, per @basketballtalk pic.twitter.com/S5Wzw75XHd

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) August 11, 2022

?

not coming up short again is reportedly off limits

smh would love to see the haters get all the way to the nba finals, but they wont, hearts too full of hate

Somebody ask Skip Bayless "could you do better!?"

he can get to the nba finals of being a very normal man

Is Durant really going to sit out his age 34 season? I don't see it.

I mean maybe he just dngaf.

hmm i thought he was a guy who actually liked playing basketball but maybe none of the basketball players do after all

all these instances of stars bailing on their teams mid-contract in the past 5 years feels like ruinously bad optics for the league. it used to happen occasionally but not like this

yeah its a bummer

i don’t think it actually matters at all. ppl have been handwringing about stars leaving teams for 10+ years now and the league has likely never been more popular. certainly from a financial POV it’s never been in a better place

it feeds the huge and ever expanding social media gossip mill, keeps the league in the news year round, makes for dramatic boxing match level narratives once the games roll around… i don’t think the league suffers from it really at all. whether it makes the sport less enjoyable to you on a personal level is a diff question and entirely fair but i think the league long ago won the “optics” battle on this stuff

and tbh i’d rather see KD on an actually good team than this non competitive mess in brooklyn. the nets don’t even have fans.

if you look at donovan mitchell likely quasi forcing his way out of a soon to be irrelevant jazz team vs bradley beal clinging to the wizards so he can make a bunch of money playing for a team that will never win more than 2 playoff games… which is worse for the league, in real terms and optics? it’s not the case of the great player trying to get to a more competitive team

fair enough, i don't really mind when its guys like mitchell trying to get off their original team after giving them a chance

I have no problem with it. Drama is messy.

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— NBABet (@nbabet) August 15, 2022

dats right baby celtics #1

the clippers are just the western conference nets i dont believe in that team/org. on paper that squad is pretty deep though, lots of lineup flexibility/switch-ability. but so much riding on older vets and/or guys coming off big injuries and/or john wall.

did someone say "baby celtics"?
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_eKZ4zASfu0/UwaxJOWCDBI/AAAAAAAAiEk/c-N2ArQvW54/s1600/glen-big-baby-davis.jpg

more like john floor