2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

xp. Sorry, I get George Hill and Gary Harris's names mixed up all the time but point stands.

I'm still new to NBA armchair-GMing here so I'm having a hard time seeing what this gets for the Pels, too. They've already got a glut of young promise so late 1st rd picks aren't all that useful aside from as bargaining chips in trades. Bledsoe's a coward. I guess it's nice to have Harris as a vet mentor? Jrue had a bad year and will never be a 1st (or maybe even 2nd) on offense but is a lockdown defender and the polar opposite of a locker room cancer.

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the only thing i can think of from the pelicans side is that the picks will be far out enough that if they use them they won't have the glut of youth that they have now. or they just plan on trading them

i also think they must have some belief that bledsoe's value can be rehabilitated? he has 2 years left w/ non fully guaranteed third year. but it's hard to understand how he fits into a backcourt w/ lonzo and jj redick

Pretty wild trades there imo. Jrue is cool but all those picks cool? Seems like Bledsoe is like 75-80% of jrue I dunno how much of an upgrade that really is. Although I imagine jrue won’t transform into a total scrub in the offs.

I bet they flip Bledsoe somewhere else. Pels just wanted the best package for a guy who was clearly not gonna play this season with them. Multiple picks plus a couple nice vets to flip or mentor is a nice haul no matter where the picks land.

Milwaukee is landing Sacramento's Bogdan Bogdanovich in a sign-and-trade deal, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 17, 2020

The Bucks are trading Donte Divincenzo. Ersan Ilyasova and DJ Wilson in the deal to the Kings, sources said. https://t.co/Vrho6gZQhH

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 17, 2020

White donte was always meant to be on the kings

Bucks GM Jon Horst has reshaped his roster late Monday night, acquiring Jrue Holiday and Bogdan Bogdanovic. Giannis wanted to see some significant upgrades and it appears the franchise has delivered for him. Huge night for that franchise. Kings get Divincenzo, a real asset.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 17, 2020

Whatever Bucks ownership promised Giannis in their postseason meeting ... I think they exceeded it.

Swinging trades for a two-way force like Jrue Holiday and a marksman of Bogdan Bogdanovic's caliber before we even get to the draft is league-shaking work from Jon Horst and Co.

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) November 17, 2020

why are NBA beat writers like this.........

Hey when you're the team who took Bagley over Luka you take small victories wherever you can find em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Getting anything of value in a S&T for someone who was gonna bolt for nothing is a win. I wonder if this means they've talked Buddy down from adamantly wanting out a bit.

An all of those tweets are just the team's respective GMs/front office leakers using the reporter as a mouthpiece lol; same deal as the Harden ESPN report from yesterday calling Spencer Dinwiddie "An all-star caliber guard". Propaganda to soften the public blow of trading the same # of picks that AD and PG went for for for Jrue Holiday and whatnot.

Hey when you're the team who took Bagley over Luka you take small victories wherever you can find em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Getting anything of value in a S&T for someone who was gonna bolt for nothing is a win. I wonder if this means they've talked Buddy down from adamantly wanting out a bit.

An all of those tweets are just the team's respective GMs/front office leakers using the reporter as a mouthpiece lol; same deal as the Harden ESPN report from yesterday calling Spencer Dinwiddie "An all-star caliber guard". Propaganda to soften the public blow of trading the same # of picks that AD and PG went for for for Jrue Holiday and whatnot.

Woops double post sorry.

Gonna miss Donte but this is a good trade

Here is the roster in Milwaukee and staying under the hard cap:

Holiday (has unlikely bonuses that count)
Middleton
Bogdanovic at $14.65M
Giannis
Lopez
J. James
Thanasis
7 players on minimum contracts

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) November 17, 2020

one thing about the bucks trading for not one but two versatile jack of all trades wing types is that it won't compel bud to make them play any differently than they have been.

jrue is a destructive defender who will be great for the bucks*

*in the regular season

I just taste for the first time a smothie..MAN GOD BLESS AMERICA😊

— Giannis Ugo Antetokounmpo (@Giannis_An34) January 20, 2014

Jrue/bogdan/Middleton on the wing is pretty darn nasty I gotta admit

Lonzo and Jrue never made sense to me and this was quite the offer for Jrue.

Here is the pick breakdown on the Jrue Holiday trade:

New Orleans receives

2020 1st (via IND)
2024 right to swap
2025 1st unprotected
2026 right to swap
2027 1st unprotected

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) November 17, 2020

pels going for the distant picks

smart

If the 2021 pick from portland is heavily protected I think it’s ok. Covington is exactly what they need. Well he’s one of the exact things they need.

hes a really good fit and they only gave up a filler player but... i guess draft picks are cheap right now

with houston rebuilding there might even be a playoff spot for the blazers

theyll def make the play in game at least lol

So apparently the thunder’s pick swap with the rockets next year is top 4 protected, which means the Rockets will have to engineer a really special kind of tanking

Can they trade harden without getting players back that will win any games?

i think you could build an awful team around ben simmons if you needed to, he might not like it tho

but with the new lottery odds even if you have the worst record you only have a ~50% chance of landing in the top 4, oops lol

rockets shd prob just kiss that pick goodbye and move on with their lives

i mean okc prob will miss the offs too so

Here is the roster in Milwaukee and staying under the hard cap:

Holiday (has unlikely bonuses that count)
Middleton
Bogdanovic at $14.65M
Giannis
Lopez
J. James
Thanasis
7 players on minimum contracts

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) November 17, 2020

are they aware that you do have to play more than 5 players?

i'm dying @ thanasis being on there

guys weve still got thanasis

yeah that roster is thin as hell...their best 5 will be really good tho

having only 7 guys might be good for Bud though

they shd get rondo

the warriors had like 6 or 7 real players the other year

They have to keep the other Antetokounmpo because the other Lopez opted for free agency

https://amp.tmz.com/2020/11/17/james-harden-houston-rockets-ric-bucher-revolt-tillman-fertitta/?__twitter_impression=true

haa

wow that would be something. players might have to start their own league to get around that issue.

definitely cool if true

https://i.ibb.co/YNPqvh7/Screen-Shot-2020-11-17-at-10-47-24-AM.png

https://i.ibb.co/D1zS3QD/Screen-Shot-2020-11-17-at-10-47-24-AM.png

the fertita stuff feels like a real stretch to me. if the rockets were set up to be contenders none of them would be trying to break up the team bcuz of the owner’s political donations

yeah that roster is thin as hell...their best 5 will be really good tho

and that is a little moment we like to call "Thanasis Time"

xp it's a ric bucher report so it's made up, but still pretty funny to think about

i do support any and all news reports that portray tillman fertita as toxic regardless of their accuracy