2022/23 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD "TANKING FOR WEMBANYAMA"

kyrie just hit a buzzer beater 4 the win

KYRIE GAME WINNER. 🔥🔥🔥

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— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) December 17, 2022

that was two nights ago… great shot tho

oh shit lol i just click on it after the world cup thought it was live

the tweet is indeed from two days ago

cld be some good players available soon

For those who might be more interested in this concept due to recent events, I wrote about "pivot to tanking" scenarios for the Bulls and Raptors earlier this weekhttps://t.co/0awRczwEq0

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) December 19, 2022

also lakers are fd

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis is expected to miss at least one month after suffering a right foot injury, multiple sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 18, 2022

inevitable as soon as he started kicking ass again

yup

siakim would be so good on the mavs

siakam would be good on every team. feel like they could easily drum up a bidding war for him

Why tho? Why not keep him? I guess who knows what the raps are doing right now anyway

hes 28 and will be a free agent in 2024 and the raps are unlikely to achieve anything before then

+wembanyama

yeah there’s a pretty good argument for reaping a bounty of him and rebuilding around barnes and OG tho OG is also a FA soon also. i don’t think it would be a full on multi year tank but they’re 13-17 and honestly weren’t all that competitive vs the sixers in the first round last year so it would be justified for them to ask what this roster can actually accomplish in the east

yeah and move fred too

you guys are ice cold

at least let them fall out of a playoff spot before you sell the bodies to medical science

Just want to emphasize how good of a rookie AJ Griffin is

i mean i would keep siakim if i were them hes not too old to run with scottie barnes hell prob be good through his next contract, but theres no guarantee they can keep him the team is bad and hes going to be a free agent after next season, considering that youre not going to get more for him than you can now and theres a big incentive to tank this season it might be time to reload with what you can get for fred and him

from a fan pov having siakim on a good team and the raps in the wemby sweepstakes is better too

I think they should trade the player that is perceived as good but is actually not good FVV

im sure theyd be happy to trade him but i doubt theyd get much hes overpaid and has a player option next year

siakim on the other hand you could back the truck up

fvv also having a more transparently bad year stats wise than last

ANT + the second unit + dlo (sometimes) looking better than the Wolves have looked all season which is cool but also probably not super cool when you're playing better with our your two most expensive players

*sick blues lick*

Extremely dark stuff. A mom was taking her daughter to Madison Square Garden and she wasn't allowed in because facial recognition identified that she worked for a law firm that's suing MSG's parent company. The mom isn't involved in the case. https://t.co/7EsLkH9laZ

— Kevin Buist (@KevinBuist) December 20, 2022

Man alive

this is why we need 100% inheritance tax

congrats to this no doubt terrible rich guy

BREAKING: Billionaire mortgage lender Mat Ishbia is finalizing a purchase of the Phoenix Suns, sources tell ESPN. The deal, expected to be completed in the near future, would end the tumultuous tenure of owner Robert Sarver.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 20, 2022

Bout damn time

if the raptors could move some combo of siakam, FVV, gary trent, and even OG for like 5 or 6 first round picks (not unrealistic) i feel like that would be pretty compelling for them… masai could make a lot of noise on the trade market w/ that kinda draft pick ammo (including their own picks). it just feels like if you wanna make big trades now it has to be thru pick hauls so flipping some of these guys who are late 20s/end of contract and building up a pick stash could be a real avenue for them to reshape their team and not have it take years of being bad. they’ve already showed they’re pretty adept at the one year on the fly kinda rebuild (tho it did require them getting pretty lucky with the ping pong balls)

i take it back he gets a pass for being a baller

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

I'm guessing $4.3B.

Also, a fun fact: Mat Ishbia played three seasons at Michigan State from 1999-2002. He was on the Spartans NCAA title team in 1999-2000. https://t.co/DJXCRlVsni

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) December 20, 2022

In May 2021, Ishbia announced that UWM would not work with any mortgage brokers that also used Rocket Mortgage as a lender, which sparked criticism from the lending community.[8]

cavs-suns owner rivalry incoming

he sounds better than Peter Thiel at least!

Now there's a low bar

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venture-capitalists-seek-to-buy-phoenix-suns-with-potential-financing-from-peter-thiel-and-others-11670704755

interesting. i was curious why espn just dropped another story about how everyone who worked for sarver also sucked.

lol

looks like $4 billion is the reported price

thats a pretty penny i tell you what

ah well at least ol rob sarver has learned his lesson

like writing a penance but you are actually signing 40 checks, each for 100 million dollars

Butler questionable for Heat tonight wirh gastrointestinal illness

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) December 20, 2022

DNPoo

My friend works as a server at the Target Center and Rudy Gobert gave all 450 Target Center employees $50 last night

pfft i do that every year

just thinking of the Nathan For You bit "Rudy Gobert was so nice...he once gave me $50 for no reason..."

who’s the ugliest player in the NBA? is it dillon brooks?

what would have happened if there was no whistle pic.twitter.com/cmCajrONrM

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) December 21, 2022

Kevin Knox looks worse than evil Danny Green.