2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

i'm not sure why it doesn't make sense. put him on their current roster and i would have them as the favorite for the championship.

well that would be true for a number of teams. they're prob gonna lose van vleet to FA & lowry is old. it would be a big bet on siakam & OG... i don't really see how that puts him over the top. neither of those guys are even better than middleton. you'd have to find a guard beyond 36 year old lowry. even just in the east the heat present a far more appealing situation

yeah heat and gsw both are for sure better "win now" option for giannis. obv i dot want to him to go to either.

the heat have a case. don't really see a path for him to the warriors.

yeah idk how the warriors would happen contractually unless they did a sign and trade? i don't see him going to LA so i would assume the major threat in the west is dallas. denver makes tons of sense from a roster fit standpoint but him signing there just seems super far fetched

yeah in my mind it's dal/mia/tor if he leaves

if gs was willing to offer dray and/or klay, i think it's feasible.

drays contract isnt very attractive

yah klay would have to be involved

if i was the bucks i would prob just call his bluff and tell him to walk to another team before i took back klay's contract... but maybe klay will look awesome this coming season

i dont know if the warriors would break up the splash bros. i know i would cry

ill be interested to see how the warriors perform if they start the season with wiggins still on the roster

this is shaping up to be a really good regular season - lots of teams who think they have a chance

i'm pretty bullish on the warriors -- wiggins contract is nuts but putting that aside i think he could actually be valuable for them on the court in a harrison barnes type role

i think theyll be somewhat like the 2014-15 team but the other top tier teams are better now

they're taking a number 1 pick who is still only 25 and asking him to be their fourth best player, it could work

a lot comes down to how klay looks post acl and if draymond shows signs of slippage. he was truly great in the last playoff run so i think he's still got plenty in the tank. also need some of those other pieces to land as solid role players. i think theyll use the trade exception too. theyve got options.

yah i have no concerns with wiggins. this is the role for him. he's just paid way too much is the issue.

they need everything to go just right to get back that top level and its rare for everything to go just right. and steph is 33 next year

just hitting that steve nash prime age

they need everything to go just right to get back that top level and its rare for everything to go just right. and steph is 33 next year

― micah, Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:18 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

their margin for error is the same as any of the other top tier teams imo.

i'm honestly not sure that everything needs to go right. there is no juggernaut in the west right now. the clippers got embarrassed and have a roster that is in flux. the lakers got taken pretty close to the edge by a broken down heat team w/ much less top end talent than the warriors. nuggets and mavs still have a lot to prove. rockets are out of the picture, utah isn't scaring anyone. i don't think it's likely that the warriors come out of the west but i don't think it's some huge long shot either. imo the age factor is significantly mitigated by the fact that they just took a whole season off. by the time the season starts back up steph won't have played an nba game in 9 months, klay in a year and a half. i think they will look rejuvenated. it worked for lebron

everybody in the west is def slightly flawed. as constituted the warriors could look pretty good and still not have enough depth to get far in the playoffs.

Yah they have work to do to fill out the roster

The National Basketball Players Association has voted to tentatively approve NBA’s proposal for the 2020-21 campaign starting on Dec. 22 and playing 72-game season, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

NBA set to tip off Christmas week.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) November 6, 2020

BALL

let's gooooo

trades

they're gonna trade the ball

damn rip talking stick resort arena

Talking Stick Resort announced today the conclusion of its agreement with the Suns over the naming rights to Talking Stick Resort Arena.

Negotiations for a renewal began in early 2020 prior to the pandemic. The resort decided to not renew.

New name for the new-look arena then.

— Kellan Olson (@KellanOlson) November 7, 2020

dammit. that name was hilarious.

nothing can touch Smoothie King as long as that one's around

Ball Arena and Banker's Life Fieldhouse are both funny in their mundaneness too though

A buddy in college worked at a smoothie king and warned everyone that it was filthy and to never go there.

it's true, we are getting ball arena and i'm excited about that

Climate Pledge Arena is not yet an NBA venue but it is an atrocious name, hope u enjoy it

Speaking of arenas, three of the main cities that swung the vote had their arenas used as polling places because of the bubble strike but nobody's talking about How Hoops Saved America.

wld be a nice counterpoint to ratings twitter

the people must know how hoop blocked trump

id go so far as to say the election was "a slam dunk baby"

lame

New Houston Rockets GM Rafael Stone: “We’re still all-in” https://t.co/FADYf1ckQF

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) November 8, 2020

theyll get a year to try again and then the owner will get cranky

this is one of the better articles i've read in a while--explains the differences between duke and kentucky as top recruit destinations and how that affects how we should think of their players as draft prospects: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2020/11/6/21551113/nba-draft-duke-kentucky-players

So the draft is next Wednesday?!?

The Phoenix Suns have had discussions about acquiring Chris Paul from the OKC Thunder, sources tell me & @TimBontemps. Story forthcoming.

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) November 11, 2020

nice

would be kinda fun

i don't know what okc might want beyond the matching salaries but it strikes me as a pretty low-risk move for the suns.

suns are under the cap so they can just eat a bunch of pauls salary

The Oklahoma City Thunder are promoting assistant Mark Daigneault to become the franchise’s next head coach, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 11, 2020

who ddat