2018 NBA OFFSEASON

i want to believe that but i think they've def looked at it once or twice

look but dont touch

shoutout to the knicks for selecting the dude who literally went awol from his college team and then just didn't play for a year

ha nice very knicksian

lol

https://i.imgur.com/c5F1YFt.png

btw reaching for mo wagner = magic/pelinka are clueless

heh

fans at Braclays Center now screaming for LiAngelo Ball to get drafted with each pick

— Kenny Ducey (@KennyDucey) June 22, 2018

magic are officially Kings East

nah weltman and hammond are pretty good. they'll come up with a decent team if they get the time to do so.

something i've been thinking about is how there's a really good chance that the first two players selected in this draft don't end up being in the top 5 players this draft produces.

I'm an Ayton skeptic. But then, teams with lottery picks usually have lottery picks because they have crappy front offices who make bad draft picks, give bad contracts and make bad trades.

pretty wild no current players were traded tonight

Experienced (non-draftee) players to be traded on draft night/day:
2018: 0
2017: 11
2016: 11
2015: 18
2014: 9

— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) June 22, 2018

it's bad

I mean why trade future assets for a current player to try and compete with (a) Warriors (b) Rockets (c) wherever LeBron ends up.

https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2018/06/22/friday-hot-clicks-nba-draft-robert-williams-flat-earth-tweet

My fellow Pistons fans are completely delusional.

The Detroit Pistons traded for Khyri Thomas, a defensive wing from Creighton, who should add to their depth on the wing.

Thomas, 22, is a 6-foot-4 shooting guard with a 6-10 wingspan and scouts out as a 3-and-D prospect. He was a terror on defense in the Big East, winning two consecutive Big East defensive player of the year awards. He’s also a career 40 percent 3-point shooter with over 300 career attempts in college.

The Pistons reportedly will send two future second-round picks to the Sixers, who drafted Thomas No. 38 overall. The Pistons also drafted Bruce Brown with their own pick at No. 42 overall.

Some quality insane comments:

Kyhri might actually be the perfect fit at PG with this roster.

Age a side this kid has everything you want in a prospect. He’s a top defender, he can slash and get his shot, he is an career 40% 3pt shooter and his is a competent passer. They got him in the second. Based on those skills alone he should have been a top 20 pick. Someone please explain. There are guys who can’t do half of what he can. Plus he does efficiently. Has the Pistons luck turned.

Really liking our draft.

Who knows if it will translate, but I'm seeing some Kawhi-like traits in Kyrhi

- Excellent defender who can guard the whole perimeter and insane efficient offense.
- Avg 15 ppg on only 10 FGA (takes only good shots from what I’ve read)
- 54% FG (64% 2FG) – crazy for a 6-3 guard.
- .650 TS this year (.607 over his 3 yr career) – again crazy for a guard.
- Appear to have similar body types too.

Very excited about this pick.

lol who was even running the pistons draft?

Tom Gores!

Gores lives in Beverly Hills, California[28] with his wife Holly[29] and three children, Katrina, Amanda, and Charles.[30] He also has a condo in Birmingham, Michigan.[31]

The Celtics have not been able to track down Robert Williams for his conference call this morning. It has been postponed.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) June 22, 2018

He fell off these of the flat earth.

prob hungover

skype meeting issues

lol hawks pulled out of a trade with the bucks to move up bc of leaked pick tweets

the hawks really didn't like doncic, eh?

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