2018 NBA OFFSEASON

Ahead of the final pick in the draft, the 24 remaining fans launch an impassioned LiAngelo Ball chant pic.twitter.com/yvlWDu2r76

— Rodger Sherman (@rodger_sherman) June 22, 2018

the hawks really didn't like doncic, eh?

― A is for (Aimless), Friday, June 22, 2018 2:19 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've heard the case made that doncic may make more sense for a team that's a little further along and young may make more sense for a team that's a blank slate (also young next to smith wouldn't work at all), but yeah ultimately it's a straight player evaluation and someone is going to come out on top.

i like the gamble tbf. picked up two great shooters yesterday

remember schlenk was a warriors front office guy so im sure he'd love to duplicate what he had there.

what is the general consensus on what doncic is ready to provide immediately?

from what i have read and heard, size, passing ability, and transition offense

i respect the Hawks' attempt to find the next great hoisting team

doncic is 19 so hes 19

i just wanna say that the last time the spurs had a dude with tall hair it was HOFer and MVP david robinson and now we have lonnie walker whose hair is EVEN TALLER so therefore he will be the next donovan mitchell/d wade and im here for this shit

like him and dejounte in the backcourt for the foreseeable future is nice IF ONLY THEY HAD A WING PLAYER TO GO WITH EM HMMMMMM

doncic is 19 so hes 19

― sprout god (lag∞n), Friday, June 22, 2018 6:30 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I looked it up and I agree

i like the gamble tbf. picked up two great shooters yesterday

ive decided the spurs and kawhi's group are playing chicken.

kawhi's camp is like "trade kawhi to LA (lakers, wink)"

spurs see lakers got hella cap space and the ability to add two max free agents this summer. if they trade after july 1, lakers could trade for kawhi into cap space before they sign a big-name FA. but lakers won't wait on a kawhi trade bc they'll want to commit to signing lebron (if he wants to come) +1 (PG13, CP3, boogie all possibilities). so spurs wait to see if the lakers sign two big name free agents knowing it'll cost em about $65M and all their cap space this year AND next to do so, making a kawhi-to-LAL free agency signing in 2019 basically impossible without trading away their entire young core plus trying to find a suitor for luol deng's last year of his contract.

at the same time, if kawhi is telling everyone it's LAL or bust, no team will trade much for him. so spurs risk dumping him for pennies on the dollar to some team that knows he's gone in a year.

if LAL does eat up all their cap space this summer, though, that should put some real fear into kawhi's camp that LAL is just not happening in the next few years and will have to decide if skipping out on however many tens of millions of dollars is worth leaving if they're not going to end up where they wanted all along. in which case, if they want to leave more than anything, they may open up their trade destination preferences and spurs can get better competing offers. or they might just say fuck it, let's get hella paid right now and try to get over all the bullshit.

yeah that all makes sense

clippers, on the other hand, will have very clean books by 2019, so as long as kawhi is cool with playing for the next 5 years being second fiddle to lebron and friends, its on

the thing i dont understand is kawhi seems like the least LA guy why does he want to be there

it's home.

his uncle is his business manager, word is it's family over everything, and i think when ppl refer to kawhi's "camp" it's mostly family and friends from LA. a lot of the fan narrative in SA is that kawhi's uncle et al are the scheming villains pulling kawhi's strings as if kawhi would naturally re-sign in SA left to his own devices, which is super condescending. kawhi probably just wants to go back home and live it up as a hoops star.

from a business standpoint idgi because they're leaving tens of millions of dollars on the table by passing up the supermax and even more if he signs somewhere besides the team he's on after his contract is up in 2019.

is he going to live in riverside and commute?

hahaha wouldnt surprise me honestly

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgQr_sEUwAACD1j.jpg

heh

Sources: Carmelo Anthony has informed the Oklahoma City Thunder that he has opted into https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/10105621351250575367.9M deal for 2018-19 by not exercising his early termination option.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 23, 2018

nice

when u want $27.9M

by the grace of my humility I would settle for a little less but godspeed to carmelo anthony on his journey

i would settle for 2.79M hit up my gofundme okc

basketball transfer world is so strange to me

in soccer you just pay more money than anyone else, it's gross but it makes sense, do not at me

@gbx excuse me?

basketballs way is better, soccer has like 7 good teams across its two best leagues and they never change unless a new billionaire buys a team

wow guess you hate job creators

dont get me wrong its billionaires all the way down but basketball just has better competitive parity / the game itself makes u think abt billionaires less

also while were hear it wld be better if all the best soccer players played in the same league (champions league a tourney not a league) shd have a euro wide premiere league

also ballers much more likely to become billionaires themselves, its good

xp

also while were hear it wld be better if all the best soccer players played in the same league (champions league a tourney not a league) shd have a euro wide premiere league

― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, June 23, 2018 9:35 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you should post these opinions in the world cup thread lol I would support u

have u ever seen my thread about making off sides legal lol

wow anarchy

THOUGHT EXPERIMENT: ABOLISH OFFSIDES

very important thread

lagoon is the sporting iconoclast the footie-playing world needs

europe (to world): btw we are colonizing you
world: FUCK
europe: here's a little game we call football. get it? cos there's a ball you push around with...your foot
world: i mean that's cool can we own our resources and get all the deaths back please?
europe: offsides
world: FUCK
lagoon (wearing american flag halter top): sup

Markelle Fultz’s new trainer describes him as having the “yips” https://t.co/Ebo8fl7K5P

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 24, 2018

not sure how i'll feel if kawhi goes to the sixers for a package with fultz in it

I would feel bad

yeah much rather have ingram

yeah but if the sixers package two first rounders (incl that 2021 unprotected miami pick hmmmmm) and saric

idek i think im mostly hesitant about LAL trades bc fuck the lakers and bc i have no idea what ingram's ceiling is

kawai to sixers
lebron to lakers
full strength celtics

East would be pretty interesting

celtics wld destroy the sixers

settle down Simmons!

sixers with kawhi would be awfully good tho.

allow me to break it down

1. the celtics destroyed the sixers in the playoffs a month ago
2. the celtics are adding kyrie and hayward
3. the sixers are adding kawhi and losing prob redick and saric

how does this not shift the competitive balance even further in the celtics favor

4 ben simmons was utterly exposed