they have bird rights on capela, i think they can only use the midlevel or something like that on luc, which would leave the minimum or biannual (if they even have that) left for melo.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
the rockets went ice cold and it killed them
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 July 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Spurs not matching the Anderson offer sheet. Looks like rebuilding in earnest might be happening
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
my bf kyle :( i think he'll fit in well with memphis
i still don't know what to make of the spurs next year until kawhi gets traded. i presume a starting sf will come back in a trade (ingram or covington probably) and therefore the spurs didn't want to put long-term money on someone who'd presumably be a backup.
i hope the spurs keep my sometimes-dinner companion davis bertans on the team. seems like the market is p dry so they should get him $2-3M.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah, until the Kawhi situation settles it’s hard to read these moves.The whole thing bums me out
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2018 02:42 (five years ago) link
i have no idea whether i should be cautiously optimistic or dismayed.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
The track record of that front office makes me optimistic in the long run but I can’t see how the team can compete in the short run. I wanted Pops to have another shot at a title.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
in a tight market i really don't understand going after kyle anderson for decent money. i don't think i have a great sense of him as a player but does he have a standout skill at all?
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 02:59 (five years ago) link
xp their options cloud be like...ingram/kuzma/picks? covington/saric/fultz/pick? jaylen/pick? cool! future looks good and they'll be competitive enough now.
derozan? ehhhhhhhhh. competitive now, future looks questionable. could work if he learns to shoot 3s late in life a la jason kidd.
whatever miami or LAC has? grim.
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kyle anderson is an elite defender and can do almost everything else well, too, except score.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:02 (five years ago) link
when i say "competitive", i meant home court first round in the west. title contention is not feasible with any trade the spurs do at this point.
read a couple of pieces now (lowe, the ringer) about how untouchable ingram is for the lakers which for me is a deal-breaker. my question is how much do the lakers think he will develop if they get kawhi in free agency next year? he'd be the third option.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
i agree with that, it's fine to like ingram but he's not valuable on a team with those two guys.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
But he might one day be an all-star! Whoopee. So was Jamaal Magloire.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
like if they have those guys it doesn't make any sense to wait around to see if ingram figures anything out as a shooter or off-ball player
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:07 (five years ago) link
like do the lakers want to actually compete with GS? trade for kawhi and keep enough cap space to add a third star in the summer. but adding max'd kawhi next summer to an older LBJ plus youngsters who dont play defense yet plus oldsters who cant shoot is not beating the warriors. ymmv.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
as i understand it their paths to a third max slot are very close to closed off, oops
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
oops indeed. no idea how to look at this lakers team, either.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
my guess based on everything i've absorbed so far--they're done for this year and the plan is to flail wildly for any max player next offseason. i think it's a mistake at this point to assume that there's any depth at all to their plans.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:19 (five years ago) link
right. this is why i think ultimately the spurs and sixers deal will happen if sixers budge on fultz.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:20 (five years ago) link
Paying rondo 12 milli was ..... not smart
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
xp with the caveat that nba teams have better intel on fultz than i do i'd agree with that
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
re: lakers recent developments i was confused on randle but i really don't know why you'd let *both* randle and lopez walk, like you still need a frontcourt i think
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:24 (five years ago) link
Problem with kawhi anywhere other than either LA team is they don’t want a possibly injured (he’s prob not) guy who doesn’t want to be there and who doesn’t talk to let people know what he actually wants. He’s not worth a one year gamble for a team like philly imo
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 03:27 (five years ago) link
LeBron James with the chase down block on Kevin Durant!!Kuzma gets the rebound5 seconds leftKuzma throws an outlet to LonzoLonzo throws a no look pass to a wide open Brandon Ingram for threeIT GOES IN!!Final Score: Lakers 95 Warriors 211— KENNY KONFLICT 🃏 (@kenyon_sholty) July 7, 2018
― frogbs, Monday, 9 July 2018 03:29 (five years ago) link
I have always counted myself among those who cautioned not to read the spurs' obituary prematurely (and we've always been right), but I don't really see a scenario where the spurs get home court in the west in 2019. think it's the end of an era tbh
― k3vin k., Monday, 9 July 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
yeah lopez was actually kinda good and floor stretchy last year i'm surprised they let him walk
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2018 03:43 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhoBTdnX4AEjI1c.jpg
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
melo is sullen dwight
― Clay, Monday, 9 July 2018 04:39 (five years ago) link
both of them do love to smile/laugh as a defense mechanism
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
this melo slander is offending me
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2018 04:44 (five years ago) link
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they won 47 games with one rly good player and finished 3GB from the #3 seed. they'll be better this year with whoever they get from the kawhi trade. it's not out of the question for them to be a top 4 seed.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
be interesting to see what happens with kawhi for sure, if he really has his heart set on the clippers shd the spurs even bother trading him clippers got nothing
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 9 July 2018 15:39 (five years ago) link
no, clippers dont have shit outside of tobias harris (who i kinda like but doesnt do much for the spurs now or in the future). lakers are not trading ingram so i think a lakers deal is sunk unless a deal elsewhere is imminent and magic panics
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
yeah id just hold on to him til the deadline if tobias harris is all thats on offer
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 9 July 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
i assume theyd throw in shai gilgeous-alexander (whom i know nothing about) and picks.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:13 (five years ago) link
kawhi making all this fuss then deciding on the clippers is actually super hilarious i just realized
― sprout god (lag∞n), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
its too much.
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Monday, 9 July 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
I’m told Clint Capela felt undervalued during initial negotiations with Houston—he’s reportedly seeking more than the 4/80m given to Zach Lavine, and was offered a contract in the range of the 4/48m given to Nurkic.— Kelly Iko (@KellyIkoNBA) July 8, 2018
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
goddamned bulls
― omar little, Monday, 9 July 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
GarPax only have jobs cause ownership too lazy/cheap to get replacement huh
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 9 July 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
Good luck to Clint in this non-market for big men
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 9 July 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
in his defense its also a non-market for zach lavine and yet
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 July 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
houston really is not going to be as good this year
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 9 July 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
ariza was such a good glue player for them for the past several years
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 July 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
houston needs to come the fuck on and pay capela.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 July 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
they just lost luc too
@wojespn: Free agent forward Luc Mbah A Moute has agreed to a one-year deal with the Clippers, league source tells ESPN.
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
ballmer boyz
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 July 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
"Houston is detemined to sign Carmelo Anthony once he becomes free in OKC, sources tell ESPN."
d'antoni can't catch a break
― ciderpress, Monday, 9 July 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
rockets offseason is a disaster thus far
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Monday, 9 July 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
last year was their shot imo