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

Nets gets unprotected picks in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029, source tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 9, 2023

lol fuck

unprotected!!

How much of the Nets roster has turned over from the beginning of the season? And from the end of last season?

I love this for the Nets, just accepting that it didn't work and moving on

The documentaries that will be made about that nets team

I love this for the Nets, just accepting that it didn't work and moving on

I love this for the Nets, just accepting that it didn't work and moving on

it's inspiring honestly

Shipping out Durant to a team that is one of the Mavs’ most direct competitors for playoff positioning

Some useful players in there that might be on the market

Nets big wings after this deal: Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, Dorian Finney-Smith, Jae Crowder, Ben Simmons, Royce O’Neal. I don’t think they’ll keep all of those guys. Someone is getting moved.

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) February 9, 2023

or the appeal to the next star is a great supporting cast that just needs a headline player or two

bridges, johnson, finney smith are prob three of the top five 3 and D wings in the league

really need to take a step back and give a standing ovation to kyrie btw, absolutely destroyed an entire franchise through such grandiose petulance it's almost hard to fathom

Toronto's talks on forward O.G. Anunoby are rolling into the final hours of the trade deadline. The landing of Kevin Durant with the Suns could escalate Anunoby's value among Western Conference teams pursuing an elite forward to defend Durant.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 9, 2023

he turns the page and you find out OG gets traded to the kings

Haha

There we go pic.twitter.com/yNqVsBnobD

— Connor Witt (@ConnorWitt) June 30, 2022

Keben Derant

of the Phenix Sons

This is just like that time in Muppets Take Manhattan when the Muppets, after unsuccessfully attempting to take Manhattan, split up and leave Manhattan.

— Robin Lopez (@rolopez42) February 9, 2023

haha

finally ben simmons’ time to shine

no one talking about my son jakob poeltl getting traded back to toronto ;_;

suns new owner making a major franchise altering trade within days of taking over kudos

also i cannot believe bisons son jakob poeltl got traded back to toronto

bridges, johnson, finney smith are prob three of the top five 3 and D wings in the league

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 9, 2023 1:58 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf johnson is more just 3

so realistically pheonix has to get this done either this season or next, they traded literally all their good forwards, all their draft picks, and have no way of turning cp3 into a better player.

a lot of the analysis is still talking about cp3 as "elite" which i don't think he's cooked per se but he's dancing with the edge of that cliff

somehow i missed that ishbia and dan gilbert hate each other from mortgage shenanigans, too bad suns and cavs are pretty far from ever getting to be natural rivals, would be fun

i do think cp3 is effectively cooked in that theres no way he gives you what you need through an entire playoff run

i was watching the suns/nets game the other day and cp3 looked incredibly slow and creaky.

suns roster still really soft no depth weird guys idk

salute to the nets for pulling the trigger they got a lot, gotta think they were pretty familiar with the durant market after all thats transpired, only complaint they got no swaps gotta get those swaps

maybe it works out better with cp3 in the playoffs this year given that he’s presumably gonna be doing a lot more standing around and watching

xp au contraire, got a swap in 2028

KD has a better shot of making the finals this year moving out west but given what the suns gave up i’m not sure he’s on a team that actually has a better shot of beating boston or milwaukee, should he get there

xp au contraire, got a swap in 2028

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, February 9, 2023 9:15 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh well there you have it the perfect deal

pretty obvious that ishbia is an absolute basketball sicko looking forward to seeing what sort of damage he can do to the org

i think we keep forgetting and re-learning that to get deep into the playoffs depth is really important.

cp3 is cooked for sure

pretty remarkable final cherry on top of this dysfunctional era of the nets is that it sure seems like when they traded kyrie they still had hope to hold onto kd, otherwise they wouldn't have gone with the mavs offer which was really the best one only if you're trying to get immediate returns alongside future assets. like they actually shouldve taken the lakers picks, i don't think finney-smith and dinwiddie are too exciting for them now

but this way we get to see Russ throw hissy fits about getting traded to Utah, so everyone wins

xp Those guys are highly tradeable now or in coming years, no?

think they didnt trade him to la out of spite

yes true

i think we keep forgetting and re-learning that to get deep into the playoffs depth is really important.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 9, 2023 9:20 AM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah you really need it for lineup flexibility which is a little different than the regular season where the emphasis is more on giving starters rest

also worth remembering the nets got an unprotected first from the mavs. you could make the argument that an unprotected or lightly protected first from the lakers is worth more than dinwiddie and dorian finney smith, but you could also make the opposite argument. you could also argue there’s more downside to the mavs future than the lakers, tho i wouldn’t agree with that

lakers are almost guaranteed to be bad soon, mavs is 50/50

what seems obv to me is that as lagoon says the nets knew the KD trade market very well & had no intention of trading him after the kyrie deal for whatever they had been offered, which is why they wanted some real players back. but then the suns new owner took over the team and made the nets an offer they couldn’t refuse. i mean i think if the suns had made this offer in the summer the nets would’ve done the deal, so we have to presume this wasn’t on the table until very recently, prob like an hour before the trade was announced by woj

yep that seems otm

xp lineup flexibility and not having to play guys who suck or are true one-way players big minutes, those are the minutes that kill you in a close series.