2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

He'd be fine in a third/fourth option Rudy Gay role.

right!

i wonder if theres any fire to the smoke that lamarcus wants to retire in portland

light that fire if you have to

if it means spurs get nurkic lets do it

gotta make Spurk happen

vetoed

trading an up & coming giant manchild who is like bffs with damian for 34 and declining lamarcus who is prob still making like 26 mil a year or whatever just not sure that makes sense on paper

potland weedblazers gm clay thompson plz tell me whom you will trade for lamarcus balldridge

have you heard of this amazing young man meyers leonard tons of upside there

however i should stipulate that if nurk can never walk again i will consider throwing him in

we already have the austrian meyers leonard and his nickname is big jak (YOCK) its a good name for a good man

meyers leonard is too close to meyers lemon and it's criminal that lemon isn't his nickname.

i think he's trying to make Thor happen as a nickname, he like carries around a 100 lb hammer and stuff he's a super cool guy the spurs def want him long term

he's a lemon.

clay that is not a serious offer, please add some draft picks or im telling my mom

you get the hammer too he comes with the very cool hammer

no one is objecting to the hammer

don't know much about this guy, seems good?

The Minnesota Timberwolves are moving forward with plans to hire Gersson Rosas as president of basketball operations, league sources tell me and @ShamsCharania

— Jon Krawczynski (@JonKrawczynski) May 1, 2019

dont know anything about ^ that guy

suns just hired monty williams as head coach for 5 years

@wojespn: The expectation is the Lakers will move toward Ty Lue as head coach, but there's been no offer made to him yet, league sources tell ESPN.

xpost I'm usually just happy when the Wolves hire someone that's at least on-paper qualified and not, like, Kevin McHale's kid or something

yeah def better than the recycled crop of usual names

Bulls extending Boylen O__o

lol

sarver says hes changed and is going to stay out of the way. WE SHALL SEE

He's the second Bulls coach named Jim Boyl[]n, which is weird.

that IS weird

Lue to the lakers is so boring.

It's GM LeBron back in the saddle again.

the bron gm tree

Suns GM James Jones: ‘We need to add guys in their prime’ https://t.co/3PqrGozu8j

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) May 6, 2019

suns angling for that top 3 spot on my cursed teams list

he's a fascinating dude

no conflict w/ Spottie, but i really don't get this. i think he's a fascinating/incredible *player* but i don't understand why all the NBA stans/writers i follow on twitter breathlessly await every Russ interview/presser. sure, he occasionally pops off, but otherwise he rarely says anything interesting, and his act with the media has gotten super tiresome. if i were OKC, i think i'd be convinced at this point that i had the wrong guy leading my team.

if anyone wants to offer up why they find Russ interesting, i'd like to hear it. he's just become kind of a grey sullen blur to me.

for me i guess its just that i dont know what hes about really so hes kind of mysterious? why is his blood is always boiling, why is he unwilling to change? the media thing is super lame to me but it is not the norm so i find it interesting.

fair enough! the media thing is not that interesting to me - i just think he's being a dick - but i can totally buy the mystery and the boiling blood.

i think he has just pushed me away enough to not really care what he's all about. if he were winning championships it might be different. but that's just me, obviously everyone's different. (and again, no judgment!)

if I were OKC i'd try to trade him for ... i dunno, D'Aaron Fox or something. strike while people are still enamored by RW's stats.

Westbrook is not mysterious at all. If I were OKC, I'd look for a trade, but if I were any other GM, I'd only pick him up from the bargain bin.

if i were okc, i would simply move the team to seattle

Russ is set to make almost $79 million over the next two seasons. Probably not realistic to trade him unless it's in exchange for another contract albatross like Wall or CP3, or if you package him with more attractive pieces, which OKC would seem to lack (unless, like, Terence Ferguson gets your motor running).

Trading him would be the worst thing they could do. These small markets have to stick to the loyalty angle. And he means way too much to the area and their fanbase post KD. The correct basketball move would be to trade for sure but they’d have that stain when trying to lure free agents.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/462-barreiro-conversati-30049087/

No idea if it's the right move but Gersson Rosas has a really interesting personal story, parents moved from Columbia when he was 3 years old to escape the cartel violence of the time, really comes off a cool, smart dude

I hope he keeps Ryan Saunders around for at least another year. He seems to have a good rapport with the players, though I imagine almost anyone would seem like a godsend after Thibs.

Local media ppl are saying that Saunders is likely to keep the job, but Rosas wants to have more staff/assistants and modernize the org...and obv stop ignoring the changes that the 3 has brought to the game

i have scouted rui hachimura and i covet him so i hope the spurs move up in the draft to get him

i havent seen much of rui, can he defend? his block numbers seem low

Rui seems like the kind of guy who will be out of the league in four years if he ends up in like Charlotte but who would have a productive 12 year career with the Spurs.

I’ve never gotten the Rui thing. Not a bad player but the top 10 consideration has always seemed weird to me. On the other hand this is a weak draft.

hahahaaaa Lakers and Lue quit negotiations

kidd back on the table baby

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Discussions have included talks on contract and assistant coaching staff, sources said. Among Lakers hopes on a Lue staff: Jason Kidd. He made a strong impression with management in his head coaching interview and had a productive history w/ Bucks developing young talent. https://t.co/uQxTjqWAm7

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 8, 2019