2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

*disregarding things*

ddint realize the zinger weighed 240. guess his shoulders are more broad yea.

just having seen him set screens for pick and pops and protect the rim and stuff he seems to have plenty of functional strength

Westgate 2020 title odds:
Lakers: 9/2
Bucks 6-1
Clippers 6-1 (!!!!)
Rockets 8-1
Raptors 10-1
Celtics 12-1
Sixers 12-1
Warriors 14-1
Nuggets 16-1
Thunder 16-1
Knicks 20-1
Nets 25-1

— Hardwood Paroxysm (@HPbasketball) June 14, 2019

lakers too high, raps and clips bets seem to be hedging, celts too high, nugs too low, thunder too high, LOL KNICKS

lmao @ that Lakers line, guess Vegas gotta cash in on all those folks who will be betting Tiger to win every major for the next 5 years

The goddamn Knicks get higher odds than the Trail Blazers?!

One thing I could see happening is them dumping Draymond now. Same with Iguodala. If they know they will be bad and Klay won’t be back til 2020-21, they might just cut their losses and move them and save money and try to get a top lottery pick and future assets from trades

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) June 14, 2019

makes sense to me

i dont see that happening in year one of the new Chase center tho

it would be weird to see the Warriors be bad but it might also be the smartest play, cf. that single bad Spurs season in the past forty years or w/e which led to Duncan.

I mean if theres any NBA team whose fanbase ought to give them some leeway

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spottie is right, they won’t go into chase with a bad team.

i honestly think considering where Kawhi is at now that if the Clips get him and the Lakers remain weird they could really supplant the latter as the go-to NBA team in town (for a little bit, at least). That never even truly happened w/Blake and CP3.

Just say 'analytics' at the fans a few times, it'll be fine.

Steph plus other guys isn't necessarily a bad team

yeah, but i assume if they keep everyone theyll be gassed by playoff time.

Trust me, I get the value of Draymond, but they need to decide if they are going to pay him in 2020-21 now, because if they aren’t, moving him now, getting assets and flexibility to re-tool when Klay healthy makes most sense. Same with Iguodala https://t.co/1kURQEMQrx

— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) June 14, 2019

this thread is interesting, gs is on the cusp of some major repeater tax, esp if they re-sign klay (and ESPECIALLY if they re-sign KD). with KD and klay out theyll be paying over $300 mil next season for a team that will probably just barely make the playoffs

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26973914/ujiri-incident-deputy-investigation

oh yeah i forgot about the new arena that's a funny twist

dubs arent making the offs next year unless klay comes back super early, time to clean house and tank

we might get to see the draymond on another team experiment after all

they almost won last night! get outta here. a healthy steph and dray + whatever ring chasers and g league call ups is enough to get into the playoffs easy.

nawww

in that scenario theyd def be starting the worst starter in the nba if not the two worst and then their bench my god

they shd trade dray and play steph like 25 mins a night

with lagoon on this one, theyve been used to keeping the all-stars on ice until playoffs, theyll need steph and dray to have outstanding seasons just to stick around in the west. there arent going to be many ring chasers who will take vet minimums, theyll have only the tax paying MLE to use in free agency plus their own draft picks. those two guys have a LOT of miles on them and are not immune from injury issues of their own.

i mean they dug deep for one quarter last night but i dont think u can extrapolate that over an entire season, plus the load on steph in that scenario is just not what youre looking for

i'm inclined to think maybe they could adjust and get to 45ish wins and sneak in, Steph is so good. Depends on Draymond being more than the "glue" since there's nothing left to glue to. Get a savvy cheap vet or two for a year and see what happens i guess?

i think theyd make the playoffs and get klay healthy in time for the actual playoffs but they might be a 7 or 8 seed and still lose the first round.

They also won't have Cousins or Bogut, probably won't have Shaun, might not be able to keep Kevon or even McKinnie ...

playoff teams generally dont have cheap vets at their #2 scoring options

boogie said he's open to coming back but lol they can only give him like 7 million or something.

considering the tax implications the whole thing points towards a partial tear down and one season of tanking

i guess well see if the dubs ownership are true BABs or not

occurs to me well get to see the draymond experiment whether or not hes traded

can they just let klay walk? should they? are they still close to capped without kd and klay?

xps i think theyd be open to a tank but maybe they should quickly announce "actually chase center wont be ready for basketball activites yet next year just concerts so uh oracle we're gonna need one more ride from you whilst we tank k thx"

https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/GSW.html

they gotta keep klay, i mean unless they wan to just totally rebuild, trade steph etc which wld be insane

they'll offer klay a max deal for sure, especially after he didn't qualify for the all-nba max.

bill simmons talked me into the idea that kd will sign a max with the knicks.

why would they let klay walk haa

they should simply tank, get the #1 pick, and draft tim duncan

the knicks maxing out a guy who just exploded his achilles and wont play again until hes 32 wld be just too beautiful

im not sure why KD would want that at this point?

why wld anyone want to play for the knicks i mean

Klay will stay, he and Steph feel like GSW lifers. No idea why either side would want to leave the other.

there's really no pressure on him if he stays w the dubs

the tragedy in all of this mess is the kd injury, nba lost an alltimer in his prime, its extremely unlikely considering the injury and his age that hell ever be nearly the same again

warriors dynasty flaming out in epic fashion is kinda better than slowly fading away