2019 nba OFFSEASON news, rumors, drama, and recriminations

yeah the way woj is reporting this the lakers are not gonna have a max slot salary. they might be better off using that space to sign some high level role players (3 and D wings, point guards).

i have absolutely zero confidence that they will identify the right players and sign them to appropriate contracts, so sign me up.

ha was thinking the same

feel like lakers are walking a tighter rope than the warriors this past year. they seem committed to a 3-star team and idk who they can afford on min contracts. melo, pau, ty chandler? is smush parker still in the league?

I'm in no hurry to see the Lakers figure things out. They don't need a 3-star team, but I'm fine if they want to fixate on that and fill out their roster with second-stringers, broken vets and call ups from G League.

Warriors had 4 Allstar level dudes plus iggy and 55% boog. Lakers have a ton of work to do. Lebro is 35 this year and brow hasn’t proven he can log a full season of games which they are going to need. I think theiir best bet is to add a third all star but would love to see Pelinka take a swing at filling the cap space with randoms again lol.

The Warriors arrived at that roster partly through excellent team management and player development, partly through blindingly good luck. By signing Curry to his second contract when his ankles were still a big question mark, they got a break-out GOAT at bargain basement rates. Not going to happen again any time soon.

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— LakeShowWorld (@LakeShowWorld) June 16, 2019

im in too deep on hoops twitter

Can they even afford him cap-wise?

No unless he takes less. The other LA team makes so much more sense

from what i can glean, i think there is a way if they delay the official trade until the end of july. the problem is with that no. 4 pick and idk if new orleans has to do what lakers want. im not clear but i think the lakers are assuming they can still make a full max slot with this delay.

yeah if new orleans wants to trade that pick i don’t think they could wait, also new orleans has no reason to do the lakers any favors now that the trade is public.

true, but maybe lal only does the deal with all the picks/swaps provided NOP comes through on the timing.

in any case, it pisses me off because Lebron/AD on any other team than the Lakers would be my favorite non-baseball thing to watch in sports. But it is the Lakers.

Truly, it's a sad and beautiful world.

what's good ?

No unless he takes less. The other LA team makes so much more sense

― big city slam (Spottie), Sunday, June 16, 2019 5:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if he liked the raptors culture/team structure and wants to get out of canada, the clippers seem to be a good option

idk what kawhi has to gain with being on a team with AD and bron, especially considering his unrefined playmaking--he kinda needs the ball, and it's a waste to just turn him into the greatest 3&D wing of all time

I think they're gonna get Kemba. in which case, holy gravy, the Hornets aren't gonna win 20 games next season.

hornets are in a terrible spot bc if they dont offer him the supermax they will be terrible for a while but if they do and keep him they will be mediocre for a while

yeah hornets aren't in great shape, do they have any guys with all star ceiling?

hard to say bc they do such a poor job developing their talent.

lmao i cannot believe hornets were paying FIVE guys more than kemba last season, jesus christ

Miles Bridges had a nice rookie year but he'd have to make quite a leap. maybe it could still happen for Malik Monk too, but I'm even less optimistic. and that's the end of the list of "promising" Hornets.

their payroll finally looks okay by 2021, and they might be able to get some decent players if they deal some expiring contracts, but daaaaaaamn they got batum on the books for two more years for over fitty million daaaaaaaaaaaaamn

that could be the worst contract in the nba, non-wall division

absolutely, that last year is a player option which batum would be foolish to opt out of

they're picking 12th too, and idk if there's a donovan mitchell lurking in this year's late lottery

there are always a couple of players that can be p special in the middle of the first round

in retrospect, Charlotte definitely should have moved Kemba sometime in the past year when he was still fantastically underpaid and they could've maybe gotten some picks or young guys in return. the fact that they didn't would seem to suggest they are going to offer him the supermax, unless they just never thought he was going to qualify for it and now that his price tag has gotten even more exorbitant, they're going to back off. either way, I think sadly their best bet now is just to let him walk and start trying to rebuild from the ground up. they're constrained for a year or two more by these other bad deals but if they re-sign Kemba I don't see any path to them even getting into the top 4 or 5 of the East in that timeframe anyway, plus if Kemba got seriously hurt or just declined they'd have to hold off rebuilding even longer.

yeah, i can see that. rip the band-aid off.

but its mj the exec so theyre not gonna do good shit.

xpost -- def true about missed opportunities, in four of the last five drafts Charlotte could have easily walked away with SGA, Mitchell, Myles Turner or Devin Booker, and Nurkic.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26987545/there-too-much-damn-turmoil-unsettling-vibe-surrounds-rockets

"CP3 just doesn't let anything go. He just keeps pestering and pestering.... Sometimes J has had enough -- and not just him. That's what makes CP3 a winner and also what keeps him from being a big-time winner. He's got to temper that."

"Chris wants to coach James," says a source familiar with the stars' dynamic. "James looks at him like, 'You can't even beat your man. Just shut up and watch me.'"

According to sources, Paul was also frustrated by what he perceived as Harden's tendency to ignore unglamorous details that impact winning -- such as moving when he gives up the ball to help spacing -- and wasn't shy about expressing those concerns.

...theyre both right lol

we need oscar from the office/state farm to intervene and mend the fences

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9Rwz9pXoAEOZS3.jpg

disturbed by the apparent warmth of that bottle

back to the hornets
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/CHO.html
i think jeremy lamb was their 2nd best player last season and he's a FA.

i think malik monk is a lost cause too. bridges could be good tho. but the outlook on the rest of that roster is dire.

in my long decades of seeing images of victorious athletes celebrating with champagne, their interactions with the noble beverage never rises above the level of barbarity

https://i.imgur.com/UwxEh7V.png

he is smiling because he made a wager with his own players that they are bad and he is the only actually good player

fondly remembering bullying kwame brown out of the league

CPS really IS going to be a fantastically shitty coach some day though. like all the worst parts of Skiles, Kidd, and Thibs blended together.

CP3 I meant.

CPS = Coach Paul Shitty

lmao