stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

i liked this one too

Brandon Miller says Michael Jordan airballed a free throw at their draft workout, per @SiriusXMNBA. pic.twitter.com/FZZ3a152wm

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) June 22, 2023

a storied franchise begins a new chapter of dominance xp

im wacky 4 wembanyama

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, October 18, 2022 8:08 PM (eight months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wemby Rocking #1 in his Uniform first look @vicw_32 #Spurs pic.twitter.com/pth38MH4SK

— JazzTamir (@JazzTamir1) June 24, 2023

terence trent d'ilfer

one of my GOAT dns btw

that one is amazing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FzbgGn9XsAAy4J9?format=jpg&name=large

if you wanna eat where they were eating, here u go: https://www.foodisbliss.com/

didn't realize that timmy's grizzled now

"I actually don't think LeBron is the GOAT of basketball," Miller said. "I think my GOAT of basketball is Paul George."


Brandon Miller has some very good weird guy energy so far, feel like he's going to be a good ilh content creator

timmy looking very stylish there. also, where is fellow wemby countryman, tony p?

probably in france

fun fact: san antonio is such a warm and welcoming community that nba players want to live here after they retire

it's warm all right

Is that Sean Elliott on the left?

it is

it's warm all right

― ciderpress, Sunday, June 25, 2023 10:53 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

and it is

Phoenix Suns are moving forward with the plan of keeping Deandre Ayton to play alongside Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @BleacherReport.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 25, 2023

it makes sense to see if the new coach can pull out another level from him (unlikely) and/or to increase his trade value a bit (from rock bottom where it currently lies) before the deadline.

This whole game of leaking stuff to sports journos is just us sitting in Plato's Cave watching shadows ficker on the wall. I'm sure Ayton's up for grabs if anyone cares to make the right offer. It's not like he became untouchable in the last few days.

shdve let him go to the jazz thats perfect for him

A new twist to the Kristaps Porzingis trade? How the reported free agency threat of Danny Ainge and the Jazz per @TheSteinLine led to the Wizards getting a deal done with the Celtics https://t.co/a5yOv2Toky

— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) June 25, 2023

nice

Timberwolves center Naz Reid has agreed on a new three-year, $42 million deal with a player option, his agents Sean Kennedy and Jeff Schwartz of @excelbasketball tell ESPN. Undrafted out of LSU, Reid had his best season with 11.5 points and 4.9 rebounds. pic.twitter.com/YtBjdggxMa

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 25, 2023

jelly fam

among the hardcores he honestly might be the second most popular player besides Ant

they simply must trade kat

After the Naz Reid extenstion, here's what the Timberwolves will be paying Centers next season assuming both Gobert and Towns are still on the roster:

Gobert: 41.00 million
Towns: 36.01 million
Reid: 12.95 million

Total: 89.96 million

— Darius Soriano (@forumbluegold) June 25, 2023

Centers are good they should get more

celtics

zinger 39
rob 12
horf 10
kornet 2

53

kat zinger and horf can play the 4 too thoo

but still they should trade kat #tradekat

wonder whats gonna happen with the celtics salary sitch, gotta think theyre going to max out jaylen and prob want to extend zinger but at what cost theyre gonna be way over that big apron

whats the fair price for zinger $20m?

aprons used to be a normal thing you can wear but now they are bad. thanks cba

never wear two aprons

brogdon trade for zinger made sense as a rental/salary dump but moving marcus means they really like him, i think they have half the season to work out an extension and then they have his bird rights for free agency too prob best to see how it works idk

hard to tell on zinger his season last year was probably worth 30 mil butwho is he really

yeah i think when you factor in the injury risk and the fact that hes prob not good in all playoff configurations its like 20

i simply would not have acquired him personally, it might work out but pretty big risk all things considered

idk i think marcus smart is also a risky player who the celtics happen to have gottne the best out of so far

i think hes pretty reliable for the rest of his deal but then youd have a decision for sure

well well

Damian Lillard has “serious interest” in joining the Heat, per @sam_amick (https://t.co/joKmf5vvfV):

“Lillard indeed has serious interest in joining the Heat, who would surely love to pair him with Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo.”

Unless the Trail Blazers change course with… pic.twitter.com/BE07YmNM23

— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 26, 2023

portland can prob get more than what miami has to offer just depends on if they want to send dame to where he wants i guess

it was sorta off handed but on the new simmons/rusillo pod bill mentioned the celtics extending zinger for 2/70 or thereabouts. he didn’t preface it by saying it was real info so maybe it was just pure personal speculation but i feel like it was prob informed by stuff he’s heard to some degree

it would scare me as the celtics to do any zinger extension before they see how he fits w/ the roster but if it’s a short term deal like that he’d prob still be tradable so long as he was holding up physically

35 a year for zinger seems way out of hand

it’s basically saying that he’s properly valued on his current deal which i’m not sure i’d agree with tho in reality any player who isn’t taking a raise on their next contract is admitting to some degree that their value is less than it was the last time they signed. so i guess that would line up more w what i think of zinger but overall the number seems quite high for him

the one issue i see with the heat & blazers is just that, while i think herro + 3 firsts should have real value across the league, portland is one of the worst roster fits for herro of any team — maybe the worst, as a team that won’t be trying to win & is already overloaded w/ scoring guards. so the blazers either have to find other stuff they value on the heat’s roster, or, more realistically i think, the two teams would have to find a third team willing to give up a pick or young player at a diff position for herro. i don’t think it’s impossible — esp w/ a player of dame’s status the league seems to collectively figure these trades out when push comes to shove— but it does make the deal more complicated

i think the heat only have two firsts they can trade

but still they should trade kat #tradekat

― lag∞n, Monday, June 26, 2023 9:03 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't get the sense it's happening before the season, obviously KAT was out most of last year so there's a feeling it would be selling low. I think they still want to see if it can work w/Rudy and KAT.

however, it's hard not to read signing Naz as an insurance policy if they want to blow it up, trade KAT, and rebuild around Ant and Jaden (apparently there were tons of offers coming in for Jaden that were rebuffed).

I suppose they correctly assume that Gobert is untradeable at this point, and if we're talking about Naz and where his skills overlap, it's definitely with KAT and not Rudy.

the weird thing about Connelly is that I actually think the rest of the stuff he's done aside from Gobert ("other than than, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?") has been pretty savvy and seems to fit what I thought he was going to bring - drafting well, identifying good deals on the margins). Like the deal to get rid of D-Lo (Mike Conley, NAW, and 3 second rounders) was great, people seem to love their deal to move up for Leonard Miller, signing Kyle Anderson on a good contract. And, obviously, even though we didn't keep him, identifying Walker Kessler, Jr. as being way better than people thought

that's all the stuff I assumed he would do, which makes the Gobert deal even more frustrating because it takes the tools that Connelly needs to do the things he's good at (making good draft picks, using resources to make smart non-blockbuster moves to improve the roster).

I still wonder how much was driven by Lore and A-Rod.

suspect the rudy trade was more of an ownership move than it was connellys doing fwiw

it’s prob true that connelly got a mandate from new ownership to “contend,” which if that means consistently make the playoffs isn’t crazy given where KAT is in his career. and from what ppl have always said the connelly front office decided that the way to maximize KAT was to move him off 5 — maybe once the deal was getting worked out ownership pushed to close it & the wolves threw in more than they needed to, but i think it’s a bit of a fantasy to picture a rod coming in and saying “ok great now let’s go get rudy gobert come hell or high water.” i just think it was a big misevaluation on connelly’s part

i also don’t think gobert is untradable per se, just that the return would be so light compared to what they sent out that he’s kinda untradable from a PR perspective. he also is prob a better fit w ant than KAT is

it was the other guy not arod, known nba stats appreciator

connelly drafted nurkic, jokic, juan hernangomez in the lottery two years into jokic’s career, traded another lottery pick (donovan mitchell) for trey lyles… i wouldn’t discount the idea that the man just really likes bigs and got out over his skis on this one