2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

Simmo the savage might be done.

Awesome about seeing the dubs. Whenever those kinda opportunities pop up I say see the best player you can. So curry and Giannis would be my first two choices for sure.

ben simmons, very weird career!

some say he played basketball but the evidence is fuzzy

teach the controversy

alleged basketball player ben simmons

the nets will say all the right things about simmons but they don’t have the same emotional investment in him as the sixers had. at the end of the day they can treat him as what he was in reality — a salary match in a hostage negotiation that ultimately got the nets two first round picks and a player (seth curry) who is actually useful. paying $35 million to a guy who doesn’t play for you is not ideal but joe tsai can swallow the bill. i’m not sure simmons even makes them that much better, certainly not in the playoffs. he’s a year and a half away from being an expiring contract.

franz

Franz Wagner hits dagger 3 then picks Ja’s pocket to seal ithttps://t.co/5zx0t9AAtH pic.twitter.com/mRIbZTvgF1

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) October 12, 2022

it's weird how he seems to be a lot better than even people who liked him thought he would be

its hard to get past the fact that his name is franz

franz/banchero/wendell carter jr is a big lineup

Ben Simmons 💀 pic.twitter.com/tpt07yqAFA

— points LeBron needs for #1 (@LeBronPoints) October 11, 2022

that’s not what an NBA player’s shot is supposed to look like

the majority of ilh posters probably have better shot mechanics than whatever that is

love to flick my wrist for the very first time in my entire life

Jump shot needs to be more aggressive.

simmons bottoming out on offense will surely lead to the natural conclusion of him finally playing center, or maybe just not playing anymore idk

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34779383/warriors-draymond-green-fined-not-suspended-play-friday

huh, fine no suspension
they aren't handling this very well

that video getting out really screwed their whole thing up, but even without it there shouldve been a suspension, and there prob wouldve been if it werent for the ring ceremony, lol perfect storm

they ended up deciding to go ahead and do what they were gonna do anyway (nothing). i’m not on the team so it’s none of my business TM kermit but it just feels like this is going to end badly one way or another

i'm dying to see what happens in the playoffs if the warriors are down in a series, draymond is looking benchable at times like he did last year and/or has been getting benched, and he doesn't have a contract + feels like the warriors might be ready to let him walk. does he just suicide bomb the entire enterprise? i think he might!

omg lol we need this

was thinking trading him would be the most compelling outcome but yeah its major playoff meltdown

wld be funny if they just traded him before the season started tho

Dray for Simmons!

lol this guy too intense for you how about one who just doesnt give a shit

Lol, well, maybe the GSW magic that made Wiggins give a shit could work on Simmons.

feel like draymond's trade value is really limited. i was thinking about it this morning and all jokes aside brooklyn feels like one of the only teams (maybe the only team) where he makes sense. i don't think the warriors would take simmons back tho

yeah i dont think theres really any way they trade him hes too crucial to what they do and no ones going to give them anyone good back anyway, maybe at the deadline if theyre struggling and hes playing bad some sort of dray + young guy + picks for a good player deal opens up that makes sense but that seems unlikely

one underrated thing about how the warriors work is imo that dray and steph are two of the most complimentary players ever, messing with that is dangerous

would the lakers try to get him? i don't know if that makes sense but feels like they like to get big names regardless

lakers got nothing tho, maybe it could be some sort of three team deal with westbrook and dray in it idk, they would do it tho yeah

theres also the klutch connection

still leaves you with the problem that no one really wants westbrook plus two lakers firsts that bad, tho if the dubs put something else in more deals wld prob open up

then there is the whole division rivals issue

doubt the dubs really want to see an vengeful dray in the playoffs

the lakers prob would be desperate enough to do it. the issue for me is that i don't see how you fit draymond into a team that already has a big that has to be on the floor. the warriors did play a lot of draymond & looney together in the finals but draymond is so integrated into the way that steph plays that they were able to figure it out (except for the games where dray murdered their offense lol). but lebron-draymond-AD makes no sense to me. i guess you'd be incredible on defense. the nets' only big is claxton and they prob wanna play small anyway so dray seems like an easy fit there

Adding Dray to Lebron + AD is bananas, not in a good way

too late

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

it is written

no one who would go to all that trouble to photoshop a player in a new jersey could be wrong

this is such a crazy conversation!

idk did u look at the photoshop

lol

you can't just do a jersey shop it's illegal unless it's really happening so here we are

sickos.jpg

Pelicans going with Zion at the 5 right now - and switching everything defensively.

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) October 13, 2022

One reason you probably won't see the Warriors trade Draymond for Simmons is that Wiggins and Simmons are both on designated rookie max contracts and can't be on the same roster.

We shouldn't let the intricacies of the NBA's CBA interfere with perfectly harmless trade speculations.

Patrick Beverley called a team huddle and Russell Westbrook wanted no part of it 😳
pic.twitter.com/D3mSbISlvs

— Stadium Live (@StadiumLiveApp) October 13, 2022

russ doing the "yeah let's have the huddle over here" bit IN THE PRESEASON is beautiful stuff

Adding pat bev to this team is poetry