Breaking -- The human race has waived Josh Smith: 2014-15 regular season thread part 2

really interested to see Jackson in detroit

Zoran is going to Miami too!

What the hell happened today my lord

Somehow phx went from three point guards to one to two in like an hour

new orleans somehow got in on this dragic deal

boston really stole it2 huh

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 22s23 seconds ago
Philadelphia has traded K.J. McDaniels to Houston for Isaiah Canaan and a second round pick, league source tells Yahoo Sports.

holy hell

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:04 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is the move that makes the least sense to me today isn't McDaniels kinda good or is this just a they don't want to have to pay him for overperforming as a second round pick thing

they don't want to pay for him because theyre the worst

Joel-Hans Embiid ‏@JoelEmbiid 3m3 minutes ago
Someone tell me what's going on please help

i've always been a fan and proponent of nba trade chaos but this is incomprehensible and apocalyptic

all the better!

the real KJ mcdaniels story is that hinkie tries to fuck second round picks over on their contracts so mcdaniels took a one year deal that makes him a RFA this summer and the sixers don't wanna pay him

putting people in the stocks should be revived for sixers management. they could be pelted with rotten produce by passersby.

Tim Bontemps ‏@TimBontemps 27m27 minutes ago
Jason Kidd, Michael Carter-Williams and Tyler Ennis are all represented by Excel Sports Management. All are now together in Milwaukee.

hehe

ew

putting people in the stocks should be revived for sixers management. they could be pelted with rotten produce by passersby.

― Aimless, Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seconded, the motion carries

tayshaun back to detroit apparently for jerebko and datome

OKC kinda killed it imo

kpelton
Biggest surprise of the day for me: Knicks added to their tax bill rather than getting under the tax line.

Joel-Hans Embiid ‏@JoelEmbiid 19m19 minutes ago
Trust the process #PHILLY

hinkie clearly handcuffed him and stole his phone to tweet that, free embiid

IT AINT OVER

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 44s44 seconds ago
The Cavaliers and Clippers are strong contenders to sign Kendrick Perkins once buyout is done with Jazz, league sources tell Yahoo.

WHY

Why do teams keep giving him work

He is not good at any facet of basketball

clippers glue factory makes sense, bc that's just a thing they do (see "turkoglu, hedo") but idk what the cavs think he can do

passable-at-best backup defense? i dunno

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA · 2m 2 minutes ago
The Chicago Bulls are a VERY significant contender for Kendrick Perkins too, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

everyone loves perk

IT'S STILL NOT OVER

Jon Krawczynski @APkrawczynski
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AP Source: The Timberwolves are not bringing KG back for just this year. They want to do a 2-year extension with him.

lmao

flip saunders is... not smart

Cenk Akyol a 6'5 guard from Turkey, was drafted 59th in 2005 by Atlanta but has been traded 3 times within the last year.

Currently listed as the fourth-string SF for Anadolu Efes!

this is pretty disastrous for the suns obviously, but my feeling is that once they knew goran was gone for sure they realized they would have to start isiaih thomas, which isn't a great idea long-term, so they figured why not get rid of him too. you wonder whether if they had more time they could have gotten more for him, or if it would have been smarter to just wait until the offseason

i am just going by what i heard on the radio today so i'm sure i will change my opinions but quick impressions:

winners:
heat
okc
philly

losers:
knicks (dragic was their only shot at a star for next year)
suns

Okc set to go on that playoff push now

won't be tough to get in now that the suns are out of the picture, but it'll be interesting how high they can climb

btw i haven't even seen this whiteside guy play yet but if he's actually good the heat are probably the 4th best team in the east now easily

He's on some linsanity light action rn, seems good tho

yeah guys who blow up like this out of nowhere always seem like fools gold to me but who knows

i've avoided watching him because i'm skeptical of big guys who suddenly learn how to play basketball and because the heat are (were!) depressing, but i guess if it's gone on for this long i'll have to

His timing on blocking shots is perfect

Maybe add him to the roids thread tho

re: phoenix, they went all in on bledsoe contract-wise so i'm not sure you'd have kept dragic happy under any set of circumstances, so they needed to move him for whatever and miami offered some whatever so they took it. the thomas deal gets them a first rd pick plus a decent guard in replacement. brandon knight is having a solid year, and supposedly can play the 2 so maybe there'll be less difficulty distributing time and positional role among 3 point guards.

maybe phoenix isn't getting hosed in all of this

kyle lowry sitting in for kenny tonight, kind of cool

i think they took a decent shot given the circumstances

given how badly phx fucked the whole thing up coming away with brandon knight actually seems decent

somehow the suns lost the lakers lottery pick in all this tho

to philly for i assume mcw to milwaukee?

wow really regret not being able to spend this draft deadline with u all, my grade a+

oh i didn't realize they lost the lakers pick, that sucks

i guess they had to to salvage any shot for the season.

tough call though