2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

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.

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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.

My optimistic read/guess is that Durant will throw away his option and sign a two-year deal that gives them some flexibility next year.

i don't really understand the upside in that for the warriors

you'd have to really strongly believe that he was an achilles outlier which he very well may be but idk man

Not sure about Durant and GS, really feel like he’s been ready to move on and this injury might just be the nail in the coffin. the likelihood also depends on what was happening behind the scenes leading up to game 5. Anyway this injury really sucks.

yeah the third rail that nobody really knows is what his feelings are regarding the organization and his injury

his injury timeline whenever that comes out will change a lot of plans. if fully torn i think his best bet would be to stay with the dubs. they can offer him the most (+ 5 years) and he can ease back in at his own pace with a familiar system with less pressure and a fanbase who love him. i dont see why he would not take maximum years possible, whoever he decides to sign with. warriors would have to retool on wing depth and give up on filling the roster with random centers. bring looney back tho. in 4 years all the main dudes would be 33-35 and that would be fine to keep rolling it back until then.

it's financially risky but i wonder if he would thinking about opting in, sitting out the year to rehab, and then re-entering free agency in 2020.

Opting in is the worst-case scenario and also very likely unless they extend him, I think.

opting in and not playing at all wld be pretty funny

I also wouldn't put it past KD to just leave it on the table and rehab on his own but that would be a truly insane decision.

if he does that frankly i gotta tip my cap

opting in and not playing at all wld be pretty funny

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 12, 2019 1:18 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's a 12-month injury for some guys so it's not only funny, it's realistic!

yup

a continuous rehab for one full season and two offseasons would probably be super beneficial

assuming he's out all 2020 it's kind of nuts that any team would offer him a big contract right now, even though I'm sure he'll easily get one. I can't think of a comparable situation at the moment