2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

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The Heat are "preparing to go all in" on pursuing Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2021 free agency, per @ShamsCharania pic.twitter.com/PgcVebcm3a

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 15, 2020

I don't know, trying to get the league MVP on your team could be bad move

"from now on we only want VERY GOOD PLAYERS"

Houston Rockets are interested in trading for Philadelphia 76ers big man, Joel Embiid.

Hearing that everything is available except James Harden.

Will monitor. pic.twitter.com/szllhrjlEk

— 👑📍Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson, M.A. (@ScoopB) October 15, 2020

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Embiid to Houston seems like a cool thing from a drama perspective

also westbrook to philly its a win win for sickos everywhere

russ and simmons on the same team might as well pack all 5 players in the paint.

*defensive players

do the rockets have any picks left to unload russ with?

harden and embiid getting quarantined together on the rockets seems ideal but westbrook + simmons surely doesn't work

no xp

rus and ben wld be sick on da break tho i think they shd do it

simmons would have to actually play center on that hypothetical team

that wld be good

ball dominant guy who can't shoot is such a hard archetype to fit into a well-constructed roster regardless of how good they are

at some point your team has to be able to play half court offense

nah its fine

ESPN story on the Clippers finalizing a five-year deal to hire Ty Lue as the franchise's new head coach: https://t.co/RyFqCxZPgO

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 15, 2020

weird

love embiid and harden together as a start to getting all the guys who are visibly fatigued every time they're in an important game tall on one team.

I love how teams optimistically sign coaches to five year contracts when it seems like at least half the league turns over coaches every two or three years.

leverage baby!

I really think Embiid needs to be on a team that slows the pace down. The nuggets did it for their center and it works.

A team that makes sense to me is the Thunder.

oh yeah that would work. they have the picks too. but... would embiid want to be part of that franchise through his prime?

i keep trying to think of things the timberwolves could do w/the first pick
other than disbanding the franchise and ending the ongoing shame to the sport of baskeball

they should draft a player, more trading of future for present isn't going to get them anywhere

i don't think they've convinced their last #1 pick that they're the place to be long term so they need to draft a new one and start over

oh actually they have kat for a year or two longer than i thought

wobs 2020 recap video is good of course

A year unlike any other.

This was the 2019-2020 NBA Season ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ECtafEley2

— Rob Pere💤 (@WorldWideWob) October 12, 2020

love embiid and harden together as a start to getting all the guys who are visibly fatigued every time they're in an important game tall on one team.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:47 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I want no part of Westbrook, but this is lol.

yeah i am very ready to watch those two despise one another

if the rockets got embiid they could switch to a slow pace pretty easily... harden is not a fast paced player. it would be more about deciding which one of them got to hold the ball in the halfcourt for 8 seconds straight.

harden embiid pick n roll wld be unstoppable

embiid would have more open threes from
the top of the key than he could even dream of

Is Embiid actually a good pick and roll player?

i don't see why not

imo itd be worth putting him on a team with playmakers and shooters to find out

apparently this guy is some kind of wolves insider

https://i.postimg.cc/wjmCVSN2/eyk58v2m95t51.jpg

he's the wolf in the logo

sadly james harden got a pick and roll lobotomy 2 years ago

sorry he is a hawks insider actually

I don't think even there's 2 teams seriously fiending for the #1 pick in the worst draft in almost a decade, let alone almost half the league. Paying Anthony Edwards or LaMelo Ball a #1 pick's salary after Corona kills the live gate and salary cap #s for the next ~2 years is something no sane GM is interested in; it's why Minny is so desperate to flip this pick in the first place lol. Doubt a 1 year rental of Oladipo coming off of injury is the most highly coveted prize in the trade market either.

they're not going to get anything in a trade that would be better than them actually identifying 1 good player in this draft and developing him

but obviously they're trying to flip the pick because they think they have a big 2 and want to win now. even if it was a good draft they'd be trying to flip it -- in that case they might actually be successful

the top of this draft just doesn't match up at all w/their roster after they made what seems to be a sincere trade for russell, like there are a bunch of teams would could have picked 1 who would just take lamelo and pray to the gods that he doesn't suck.

if i were them i'd be trying to move down a few picks w/o asking a king's ransom as if there is actually a desirable no 1 pick on the board. but they're doubly handcuffed bcuz the no 1 talents are either bigs or guards and the way their team is constructed no big or guard is going to get the ball enough to develop the way you want a no 1 pick to develop. but if they could trade down a few spots, get a heavily protected pick in a later draft, and draft a player who could more easily develop in a secondary role it wouldn't be the worst idea

cad otm

they're going to end up taking edwards who is the guy i would be really scared about picking no 1

Yea it's quintessential Timberwolves for them to finally win the lottery... in a draft with no generational/superstar talent, and no consensus top player that even really fits particularly well on their roster next to their 2 centerpiece players either. A D'Lo + Melo Ball/Edwards backcourt would be wildly entertaining for probably all the wrong reasons lol. And a big man like Wiseman who's only NBA caliber skill right now is basically being tall and athletic/fast in the open court is not what I'd be looking for to put next to KAT in the frontcourt if I was trying to buck trends and make the league's newest Twin Towers.

J0rdan S. at 7:57 15 Oct 20

they're not going to get anything in a trade that would be better than them actually identifying 1 good player in this draft and developing him

definitely traditional strengths of our franchise