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

shams stepping up his game for the big trade

When Kyrie Irving demanded a trade from the Brooklyn Nets on Friday, a league-altering domino fell and shook up the marketplace, causing a shockwave across the league and an arms race to get underway. It would pit several of the league’s teams looking for that one difference-making piece that could get them to the top of the list of title contenders against each other.

pic.twitter.com/Lr428qPDCj

— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) February 6, 2023

xp omg i am getting anxiety trying to read that.

is he doing it as a bit? does his deal with the athletic have a no-edit clause? imagine being an editor in the ny times sports section and reading this shit.

shams stepping up his game for the big trade

When Kyrie Irving demanded a trade from the Brooklyn Nets on Friday, a league-altering domino fell and shook up the marketplace, causing a shockwave across the league and an arms race to get underway. It would pit several of the league’s teams looking for that one difference-making piece that could get them to the top of the list of title contenders against each other.

honestly thought you were making this up. incredible

someone should destroy chatgpt by feeing it shams until it doesn't know anything else

*feeding

pic.twitter.com/ZB9NWIZ0Fk

— Isaac Harris (@IsaacLHarris) February 5, 2023

you'd think they would keep the league-altering domino somewhere safer

TBH I'm a little bit relieved that Kyrie is off the table now that Curry's out for weeks, because who knows what impulsive thing Lacob would've pulled.

The New York Post 😳

(h/t @GlobeBobRyan ) pic.twitter.com/7otanZdxNH

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) February 4, 2023

get em

Christian Wood is well aware that Mavs are discussing potential trades involving him. He says he's trying to stay off social media and talk to Jason Kidd and GM Nico Harrison as much as possible.

What is he hearing from them? "Uh, nothing," Wood said. "I hope I’m not traded."

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) February 6, 2023

lmao

Good way to let a group of 11-year-olds know that you're a casual fan but not necessarily hardcore (and also a little old and scatterbrained):

"Do we need the screaming? You don't see Kyle Durant out on the court screaming at the top of his lungs."

lolbron

LeBron sat down with @RealMikeWilbon to share his thoughts on the Lakers not being able to trade for his former teammate Kyrie Irving:

"I can’t sit here and say I’m not disappointed on not being able to land such a talent." pic.twitter.com/2smRTk3Y0c

— ESPN (@espn) February 6, 2023

the triple negative sentence construction aside, i don't blame him!

"this sucks that i have to go back to russ... but im all in i promise"

yeah he should be mad of course. the content is good.

the funny thing is the lakers actually had the most cover for a kyrie trade given that the one thing you can point to in kyrie's career is that he won a title playing no 2 to the best player on the lakers. but i think they did the smart thing

yeah better in the long run

the lakers did make an offer for kyrie. chris haynes wasn't very specific about what it contained beyond the two firsts. it had to be more than that.

there seems to be two things at play one is that the nets reportedly wanted to fuck kyrie over by sending him somewhere other than LA, also that the nets still want to be good this year and the lakers have no good players on their team

hmmm

ESPN Sources: Nets-Mavs trade still hasn’t been made official with league office because Nets are evaluating opportunities to expand deal w/ a third team. Teams are expected to make two-way deal official in next couple of hours – unless Nets find something bigger to fold into it.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 6, 2023

kd to warriors book it

nets should be trying for lauri

Among the possibilities for expanding the Kyrie Irving-to-Dallas trade before this evening's scheduled trade call: League sources say that Brooklyn has explored the feasibility of packaging Spencer Dinwiddie and draft capital to Toronto in an attempt to acquire Fred VanVleet. https://t.co/L6kg8rNmoy

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) February 6, 2023

lauri might have one of the most desirable contracts in the league - two more years left at less than 20M per and hes only 25

i think the jazz want to build around him tho?

everything everybody has been saying is that they're not trading him

right i thought i had heard otherwise

looks like the two team trade is official

the jazz frontcourt lineup w/kessler, lauri, and jelly k is great. this is the full range of nba whites.

cam thomas 44 and 47 point games last two since kyrie made big demand

Dubs up 25 on OKC at end of 3rd. Steph? Who dat? Best game from Poole in ages.

The recent run of OKC games has been showing how crucial Lu Dort is.

Lots of interesting hair on that team play two jaylen Williams starting is weird

usual trade means an exchange but idk

The Miami Heat are trading center Dewayne Dedmon and a second-round pick to the San Antonio Spurs, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 7, 2023

No surprise Dewayne Dedmon is being traded. That's been building since that whole incident on the bench. And Miami needed create some flexibility under the tax line. They've done that now.

Spurs get closer to the floor, all for renting a little cap space in exchange for a pick.

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) February 7, 2023

I really want to like Ja he's like the most fun to watch but he's not heading in a great direction

Ja Morant believes the Grizz are the most hated team in the NBA.

"We are, you see it on social media. Anything that has to do with the Grizzlies is front line national television and national people putting it out. Anything else, it don't be said."

— Drew Hill (@DrewHill_DM) February 7, 2023

he needs to listen to a pr professional he should be the most likable and marketable guy of his generation instead of doing this bad nonsense

stop traveling with the crew be normal dad only go to an occasional home game trade brooks

imo the national media knows a lot of stuff about the grizz that they aren't sharing. they got in super late for one of their recent games and tim mcmahon dropped a line about how a lot of their players are actually very comfortable being out at 3 a.m.

lol

a lot of their players are actually very comfortable being out at 3 a.m.

very old school nba, that

This is basically what they want no? To be the most hated team in the league? Can’t tell if he’s complaining about that or not from that excerpt. That’s how they carry themselves and seem to wear it as a badge of honor, so that would be a weird change of direction to complain about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSIz2AEzck

seems like theyll prob trade him in the offseason prob too hard for a team to put the kind of package they want together midseason and still have a viable team

In aftermath of Kyrie Irving trade, the Brooklyn Nets and Kevin Durant are having ongoing conversations on the direction of the franchise, but organization has thus far told inquiring teams that they’re not planning to trade him before Thursday’s deadline, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 7, 2023

i think they’re good enough even after the trade that they should see what they can do in the playoffs. KD with a real supporting cast around him, you gotta see how that goes. finney smith is a great playoff player

yea Durant on his own can probably win you a series

yeah theyd prob prefer to just keep him but we already know he wants out, they dont have to trade him but id think theyre more willing to since kyrie blew up their chances at contending