2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

but not for Knicks/Lakers

#legalizenoncoastaltampering

if their plan is to sign kyrie and max out d'angelo russell..... bleh

their plan is to sign kyrie and kd i think

trade russell mb

kyrie and kd, but failing that, kyrie and middleton or someone else as their #2. cant imagine theyd max out DLo and kyrie

i think the hawks really like barrett and are trying to entice the knicks with a bunch of picks

but yeah russell and kyrie is a bad combo, theyd be getting torched nightly

if kyrie and KD team up in brooklyn dolan should be forced to sell the knicks

i just can't see middleton leaving

yeah i cant either, but bucks ownership might get skittish about paying all these people who are due some raises

nets also giving up a lottery protected 1st rnd pick for next year

if BN sign kyrie they are not bring back russell. russell is buds with devin booker i think he wants to go there.

its nice nba players all want to be with their friends now

its cuet. lebron started it

picking up taurean prince seems pretty dece tho

i think the hawks really like barrett and are trying to entice the knicks with a bunch of picks

― Heez, Thursday, June 6, 2019 5:00 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark

i wonder who they like. i think that would be a lot of capital wasted on barrett.

Adrian Wojnarowski
@wojespn
Sources: Minnesota is hiring Portland assistant David Vanterpool as associate head coach. He’ll run defense and play key role in support of Ryan Saunders. Vanterpool spent seven years with Blazers, playing a prominent part in growth of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum.

this is hilarious. watch rivers when s jackson starts going in on harden lmaaao. luckily vince didnt watch the game so they could change the subject

Austin Rivers discussed the #Rockets second-round series against the Warriors. Rivers says he thinks about Game 6 all the time: "Us not living up to the moment and not taking advantage of the situation we had........Their best player gets hurt, our team's fully healthy..." pic.twitter.com/u8MDNB3COs

— Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) June 6, 2019

Tony Parker retiring

https://theundefeated.com/features/tony-parker-retire-from-nba/?ex_cid=story-twitter

i hope he gets fat and dominates on a french team with fat boris diaw

Tony Porker

somehow there are no pictures on the internet of tony toasting the camera w a nice glass of burgundy

tony is gonna stay in sa and get fat the way we all do here: too hot to go outside, stay indoors and eat all the time

signed, a thicc dad

bbq daddy

Sources: Anthony Davis has focused on the Lakers and Knicks as the two desired long-term destinations. @TheAthleticNBA story on that and more: https://t.co/GDUbiD4BgH

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 10, 2019

this guy is dumb as hell imo

too big to fail

kinda hoping his career melo's out from here

I'd like to play for either of the two worst franchises of the last half decade please.

I am def anti-brow for the rest of his career

all this changes when the spurs trade aldridge, lonnie walker and two first rounders for him in july ofc

nbatv cancelling the starters sadly but looks like the guys are just gonna move it to like the ringer or something

poor guys, their team is on the brink and they get the news they are canned lol. I'm sure they'll figure out a new spot tho.

let's be honest - they're incredibly lucky guys as it is

kd will have an interesting offseason. if he opts in and rehabs with the warriors, they might be paying as much in tax as in total salary assuming klay re signs.

maybe someone will offer him a long term deal (or even a max??) regardless of his acl situation

windhorst thinks teams will still want to offer KD a full max even with the achilles, even if it's a full tear. which is reasonable if you think you get KD at like 80% in a year. but i dk about kd on the end of that contract, yikes.

yeah someone will def max him out

Rich Paul tells SI that Anthony Davis would only be in Boston for one year if the Celtics traded for him: https://t.co/qZAb4qj70O pic.twitter.com/rLzFfxcWkP

— Chris Grenham (@chrisgrenham) June 12, 2019

ad says he only want the lakers or knicks, pelicans owner says she wont trade him to the lakers, the knicks have no assets, wtf is gonna happen

guess someones gonna get a year rental for cheap

guess they cld get the knicks picks but thats a pretty poor return for a perennial mvp candidate

someone's def gonna try to rent and hope he changes his mind. i think the question is how much of this "he's only gonna play here or there" is sincere or a bargaining position to get a preferred outcome

Might have to be a multi team deal

almost definitely

so much of it depends on what kind of package the pelicans decide they want back... nobody thought OKC was in the running for PG bcuz nobody thought the pacers wanted oladipo and sabonis, for instance.

kd will have an interesting offseason. if he opts in and rehabs with the warriors, they might be paying as much in tax as in total salary assuming klay re signs.

maybe someone will offer him a long term deal (or even a max??) regardless of his acl situation

― micah, Wednesday, June 12, 2019 8:58 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark

KD and golden state becomes super interesting now because idk how you devote essentially your entire salary cap to 4 players when one of those 4 -- the second most expensive one -- can't play for a whole season and then might not be fully recovered by the second season. i just don't see how that is a path for them to win a title in the next 2 seasons, and then by year 3 (if KD signed a longterm max) all these guys will be getting into their mid 30s. idk, i almost feel like the dubs can't resign him?

otm

and then further it's hard to imagine him pairing up now w/ AD or kyrie or whatever because those guys also might be throwing away 2 seasons as far as championship contention goes. to me he makes the most sense for the nets since they're really at the beginning of their win curve, but i think they'd have to forego a giant free agent offseason for it to make tons of sense.