2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

were i a gm i would not trade for him but the appeal is certainly obvious

if i were a gm i would probably build a team like the pacers and lose in the first round every year. not what i'm going for but what would happen

i would so many blockbuster trades and then get fired

were i a gm i would not trade for him but the appeal is certainly obvious

for sure worth it for the lakers. a long distant second for the heat and not worth it for any other team.

I still totally understand the nets position of wanting to wait this out and try to run it back. they built this team expecting high upside/high variance, the dice didn’t roll their way last year but considering the chances they get equivalent talent back are pretty much zero, to me it makes perfect sense to just roll the dice again and hope things break their way. if KD is really going to sit out his age 34 season…well I’ll believe it when I see it

i am sympathetic to players wanting out of bad situations, but rather less so to KD, who -- correct me if i'm wrong -- more or less engineered his entire situation?

also don't know anything particular about joe tsai and his vision for the nets but i can easily imagine a billionaire in this position choosing to absolutely fuck KD over in any way possible

would be pretty hilarious if he just made him play out his full contract.

I want Simmons to have to deal with a disgruntled Durant.

would be pretty hilarious if he just made him play out his full contract.

― Spottie, Friday, 19 August 2022 8:59 AM 

yeah that would be amazing

https://i.imgur.com/WCCdq74.jpg

not to sidetrack too much but i was at a bar in north portland the other day, i believe the same one i had a couple beers at with lag∞n a couple years ago, and i ended up at a table with this etched into it, figured i'd take a snap for frogbs

lol

nice

wow I appreciate that, much love to Portland

check out the florida room if you're ever in town man, your guys are represented there!

oh I'd love to

Brandon ingrams new look for 2023 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/3f0IiwGp5E

— $ (@LeBIKUZO) August 19, 2022

excellent, makes him look 20 years older

a look we should all consider for 2023

My quarantine look wasn’t far off really

good look

he looks like javale

everyones talking about chet rolled his ankle here but lebrons old

Chet’s ankle gone after defending a Bron layup 1 minute into the game… pic.twitter.com/8Lk5St12rD

— Steven Adams Stats (@funakistats) August 21, 2022

Apparently the floors were wet so everyone was just trying not to get injured? They had to call the game early or something

Udonis Haslem announces at his youth camp that he will sign a new deal with the Miami Heat and return for the 20th season of his NBA career.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 21, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXpKZhnUIAMQGG8?format=png&name=large

xp Narrator: although in reality his career as an NBA player had ended years ago.

idk they’re light at the 4. he may play a bit this year!

it’s good to use a roster spot for an assistant coach, lightyears ahead

the deal they made with him not only paid off on its own but they can use it as proof to any future players they might want to do some off the books business with

it is both unethical and moral, hats off

it’s good to use a roster spot for an assistant coach, lightyears ahead

― k3vin k., Sunday, August 21, 2022 7:49 PM (eight minutes ago)

yeah hopefully the heat can figure out how to manage the back end of their roster one of these days :[

maybe they could try giving bol bol a multi year deal

I cannot recommend it!

The Heat finally picked a foreign player so maybe they will stop doing asinine things like keeping Haslem on the roster soon yeah

as heat fans we can only hope that one day pat riley will be able to channel the wisdom of matt armstrong

But he is doing that. He finally drafted a foreign player. Remember when you defended him not doing that for some reason

Pat Riley has conceded that this was a bad idea, something which speaks to his character and I admire it.

cant hold ol benny down

🚨 Ben Simmons is expected to be ready for Nets training camp in late September, per @ShamsCharania.

Simmons has been cleared for 3-on-3 basketball activities following back surgery in May. He's also on track to be cleared for full 5-on-5 activities in the coming weeks. pic.twitter.com/0BVroTZrOP

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) August 22, 2022

Let me know when he's cleared to shoot 50% from FT.

not even cleared for 5x5 yet lol

bane is off limits for kd? lol some of these teams are delusional

The Grizzlies have five first-round picks to theoretically utilize in a Kevin Durant trade, but sources say that they will not make Jaren Jackson Jr. or Desmond Bane available. More details: https://t.co/v0E9k9pA4s https://t.co/rqj9nZaxwI

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 22, 2022

everyones trying to get a nice deal on kd

i think stuff like "bane is off limits" is just an indication of how far away any of these deals are from actually being completed. it seems like teams often start from places of impossibility -- i.e. the nets allegedly asking for both tatum *and* brown -- before meeting in the middle. my guess would be that this "news" is indicative only of things leaking early in the process. i think if the grizz and nets hammered out 90% of a deal and bane was the sticking point, bane would end up on the nets.

I almost wonder if the owners/GMs are colluding here. I know that KD has said stuff that makes him feel radioactive, but in other seasons you'd have at least one team stupid/desperate enough to jump at the chance to trade for him, 34-year-old on a 4-year day be damned.

day = deal

generally for a player of KD’s caliber, the length of his contract would be a plus, but in his case it has got to be a turnoff for a lot of teams. he’s 34 with an injury history and has now proven himself to be the kind of guy who requests trades a lot

there's just not that many stupid front offices anymore... also the scrutiny/coverage of transactions and the post-moneyball understanding of things like value vs salary, contract length, aging curves among fans is in a totally different place than it was 10-20 years ago. front offices are def sensitive to this stuff & it def effects the trade market & this one in particular

in 1995 you'd def have teams lining up to trade their best 23 year old all star making no money for a 34 year old KD but that's never gonna happen nowadays

in 2022, you'd have a legion of reply guys lining up to do the same