i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

we almost had a bidding war for scott brooks

Hearing Jeff Van Gundy wants the houston gig

lakers job probably a lot more desirable with the bean gone

I will be so mad if jvg gets a coaching job and mjax does not

de-troit

basketball

woj

Scott Brooks has agreed to deal to become the Washington coach, league source tells @TheVertical

is glasses really much better than wittman

he might know which way to hold that board that you draw plays on

jk scott brooks doesn't draw up plays

maybe its an oklahoma policy that coaches can't draw up plays

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is glasses really much better than wittman

― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Thursday, April 21, 2016 5:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was wondering if glasses was getting signed separately from scott or if they were a package deal

hearing they are going to split the salary 50/50

when u watch the nba through the they live glasses it says LEBRON IS THE JUICEMAN

pelton said this in his chat, kinda interesting

I think the NBA should rethink its entire philosophy on fouling to penalize the player who is responsible for creating the contact rather than the player with the nebulous right to the space, which is what creates the rip-through foul but also block/charge calls.

I agree with that, block vs charge in particular feels like a coinflip a lot of the time

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lol

yes pleeeeeeease

fuck that not going to happen! really hoping for Ettore Messina.

did i tell you guys about my orlando magic theory

go on

i think they're going to win a lot of games next year

yeah i think they'll make the offs

man theres a lot of solid wings in the FA pool this year even if durant is the only star

theres gonna be a lot of talent floating around this offseason for sure but also too much money and some dudes are gonna get way overpaid.

this FA market will be a great test of GMs' and front offices' puzzle-solving ability

good time to have a negotiation/game theorist on staff

scotty brooks to wizards is official

reading "boys among men" and seeing the shaq and penny 30 for 30 have reminded me how many of these coaching/front office/tv guys have been around forever. there's a lot of musical chairs, but once you're in you really have to screw up to get out completely.

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if he's willing to take less money than the max he's worth a look.

mavs r gonna max him out lol

its so obvious not sure how we missed that

Depends on the team's style of play. I wouldn't take Dwight Howard on the current Blazers at any price. The Mavs could probably absorb him without undue harm.

its so obvious not sure how we missed that

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol seriously

they still will have to pay a ton to keep Parsons too (if he opts out)! that would mean they are overpaying for Matthews/Parsons/Dwight

good thing dirk took a paycut

i pretty much forgot that parsons was alive

he woulda helped them a ton vs okc

Should the NBA put the playoffs on hold for 2-4 weeks while guys heal up?

Oops, wrong thread.

its so obvious not sure how we missed that

― lag∞n, Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:11 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i def believe dwight will get the max next yr but have consciously ignored as possible that he'll end up getting it from dallas, even though it makes a lot of (non-basketball) sense.

excluding tyson chandler, dwight really is a logical choice in keeping with mavericks tradition of paying & playing awful 5s

parsons is v good he will get a max deal if he opts out

parsons is 'v good' but injury prone so that knocks him down to just 'good' imo

I can't believe we forgot Dallas for Dwight, cubes has even tried to get him a few times hasn't he? Dwight is gonna be a classic bridesmaid max contract anyway and cubes will probably jump in and sign him at midnight just to make a splash

I was thinking about how cubes also tried to get both Shaq and Kobe at different times and I really want to see a short doc or a long z Lowe column on the dirk teammates that might have been throughout the years

wondering if players are thinking he's an idiot now since durant told everyone that's the case. or maybe they've always thought he was an idiot. kinda crazy he's never been able to land the marquee star to pair w dirk

supposedly dirk doesn't want to play with dwight and has vetoed that idea already

haha smart man

in a proud tradition of blowhard-ass cbs sports NBA writers, chris towers went IN with the brad stevens takes on twitter this a.m.

lol its funny to get all riled over whether hes the 3rd or 5th best coach, like yeah maybe

yeah nothin really wrong w his claims imo

brad is magical just to be clear

it's not the claim so much as the way in which it's made, which is as if he's responding to an overrating of stevens that doesn't actually exist among rational fans. like you wouldnt catch me saying stevens was as good as pop or carlisle or peak-wizardry SVG, or some such shit.

although, to be fair, i know that high- and medium-high-profile NBA writers' mentions are a maelstrom of homerism from all quarters, insults, bad takes etc, so if he was getting savaged by dumbasses with "617" or "jae crowder MVP" in their twitter handles/DNs, i can understand the urge to snark back. (this urge informs about 45 percent of matt moore tweets)

rn, as a blazer fan, if I had the chance to trade terry stotts for brad stevens, I'd think about it for a bit, but I'm pretty sure I'd stick to stotts, on the basis of his proven ability with these players. they are both in the upper echelon and nearly neck and neck over the past 3 seasons. also, terry is almost literally my next door neighbor. god knows what kind of stupid neighbor I'd get if he moved out.

hot scoop ovah heyah

For now, Mitch McGary is hoping to resume career in China or Europe, sources tell @TheVertical. Wherever he plays, he has issues to resolve.

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counselor Woj!

haha

my god just let them toke the lai, i dont understand how the players let that shit in the cba

the suns just released archie goodwin

xp i wonder how hard they fight against this and what the terms are that the owners offer for removing it from the cba. the only reason it makes sense to remain is that ownership wants something the players don't want to give

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/front-office-insider-the-nbas-top-50-salaries-202436701.html

I notice that Portland's second and third highest paid players, Alan Crabbe and Evan Turner, are unlikely to be starters when the season begins.

can we just nba

plz

I'm going to opening night tomorrow and not v psyched about it (100% bc of the person I'm going with, should be fun to see gobert in person)

hey dickheads
billionaire techbros club - 2016-17 NBA regular-ass season thread (the first of a series)