2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

Magic Johnson identifies Rob Pelinka is the person who was backstabbing him. pic.twitter.com/3mul9lJuzi

— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) May 20, 2019

Backstabbing me with hateful comments such as 'why is Magic not at work today' and 'has anyone seen Magic in the office the past two weeks'

love how he dropped all this just a few hours before vogel is to be introduced to the media accompanied by pelinka

magics mad lol

what if j kidd actually stabs vogel in the back as a pre-orchestrated introduction to j kidd as head coach

omggggg

Bruh the amount of disrespect in this question 😂😂😂😂 #Lakers @WorldWideWob pic.twitter.com/Wl80hcwtZC

— Josh (@JMoneyMikita) May 20, 2019

Who has had the better *career?*

Let's frame it as, who is MORE fitting to go into the Hall of Fame? (Both will go in, no question, whether you agree or not, they'll get in.)

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) May 20, 2019

i love this poll

currently 50%/50% with 6000 votes!

dwight seems obviously better like he was definitely better through age 29 and i can't believe draymond's playstyle will age well into his 30s

i also can't think of draymond as more than a very good role player until i see him on a team that doesn't have 1-2 MVPs warping things

yeah i mean dwight was the second best player in the league for a few years, best player on a finals team etc

I went back and checked the player model I made during the pre-season and it ranked Giannis as the 19th best player in the NBA. I guess it’s true that all models are wrong!

That poll is pretty entertaining. Some of the anti-dray replies are so dumb they are entertaining. I truly have no idea what people mean when they talk about “role players” and use Dray as an example.

Finally, I miss ILH. I don’t know why I haven’t kept up this year. I’m still watching a ton of basketball and most NBA talk (on Reddit or Twitter or wherever) is compartively shit! Anyway, this has been my favorite post season in forever. I genuinely love all four teams and would be stoked about any combination of finals.

(btw I’m not hating on you ciderpress. Nothing but love.)

love all four teams and would be stoked about any combination of finals

Any combination will most definitely not include the Blazers. They're tapped out. But I love that they made a deep run to the WCF as the lowest of the surviving seeds -- in a playoffs where they were expected to die quietly against OKC in the first round.

I would have voted Dwight except it seems like everyone who ever played with him hated his fucking guts whereas the only teammate who I know hates Draymond is KD and that’s honestly a point in his favor.

by the criteria they give the answer is dwight and it isn't really close

i know dray is better than a 'role-player' but the point is he does very specific things that are complementary to a star player rather than being a guy who can elevate an otherwise bad team himself

He would help any team.

Dwight clearly a better career peak and cad otm. We can revisit in 7-8 years tho

drays a defensive superstar and very bad at scoring while being able to do some other good things on offense

we know what a team where dwight is the best player looks like, they made the finals. what does a team where dray is the best player look like?

Dunno don’t really care!

Hope we never have to find out

it looks like the lottery

dray cld absolutely end up w/ a better career than dwight if his body holds up bc of how hard dwight fell off but right now its not close

<3

“There’s no place he’d rather have me get my start in coaching.”

An emotional Ryan Saunders thanks his father, Flip, and the rest of his family. #AllEyesNorth pic.twitter.com/wYUtEveHoP

— FOX Sports North (@fsnorth) May 21, 2019

oh that got me

hope he does well

messy messy

Report: Magic Johnson revealed problems with Rob Pelinka only on TV, not to inquiring Lakers owner Jeanie Buss https://t.co/iFSVMvy7tY

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) May 21, 2019

how are they going to convince any FAs that they are a stable org? maybe lebro should demand a trade

If I'm a free agent, I'd rather sign there this year than last year tbh. It's hard to see how losing Johnson or Walton hurts them. They're a mess but the situation is still pretty good.

it is?

the biggest selling point as far as I can see is that the warriors and rockets could both plausibly be on their last legs as dominant teams, but then you still have 35 year old lebron (who gets injured now like normal humans), a bunch of young but unproven talent, and a front office that is a complete trash fire

id rather go to the clippers for sure. especially if you want to be the man and not have to worry about dealing with lebron

I'm not saying it's a top destination. But would you rather sign with the Wizards?

oh, well if that's who we are comparing them to

projected cap space:
https://i.imgur.com/B1roHKM.png

The fans in LA have been pretty supportive of Magic's ridiculous assault on the front office. I'm sure Pelinka sucks but from what I can tell Magic is the guy who put this years team together that was terrible, demanded full authority on decision making and then barely showed up to work half the time. They're pretty lucky he quit because he's impossible to fire.

Magic has kinda been a weirdo ever since he made his comeback in '95-'96, i mean that in an affectionate kind of way, he's like the Lakers' awkward uncle. He's not a deep deep uncanny valley weirdo like Dwight, of course.

this is what ive been thinking about his upcoming choice

Kevin Durant is “100 percent undecided” on where he’s playing next, his manager @RichKleiman says at The #WSJFuture Of Everything Festival. “He really doesn’t know, and I really don’t know.” pic.twitter.com/1fEw2kYZqm

— WSJ Sports (@WSJSports) May 21, 2019

he's lying your honor

that does not seem great for the warriors on either the playing in the finals or coming back next year front

there must be a Yoko Ono joke lurking somewhere in there

i will be playing in the finals in his place

it’s fundamentally a lie... he’s re-signing with the dubs or going to new york. he has a pretty good idea of where he’s gonna he playing next year.

Yah true it’s down to a few spots. Could do sign n trade w Boston too

lol we all know that isn't happening

I pray for it every day

plz dont do that