2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

everyone will just be like "well you can't blame them for doing it" & i guess ultimately that is true but building a roster as a hostage negotiation just isn't what successful franchises do, imo. the margins for them will be insanely thing -- hardcapped, legitimately only have 5 playable guys on their roster, no draft picks to use in trades. they're assuming full health and a near perfect run of signings on the minimum/buyout market

insanely thin*

The 2020-2021 NBA Preseason begins on December 11th.

Exactly 24 days from today.

— Alykhan Bijani (@Rockets_Insider) November 18, 2020

crazy

im ready

need some more massive trades before that tho. also the draft is TOMORROW??

hm that can't be right

anyone have a guy they like in the draft?

I can't tell my arse from my elbow with this draft - just crept up so quickly. Hope Spurs grab someone that can stretch the floor and be a plus on D.

if you want to cram sam vecenie actually wrote a full-blown draft guide: https://cdn.theathletic.com/app/uploads/2020/11/16135122/The-Athletics-2020-NBA-Draft-Guide-2.pdf

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Thanks, Call! Looks comprehensive - appreciate it! Will get up to speed for draft night.

Who do you like the look of?

On a side note - does anyone else think Suns should have been taken a bigger swing at Covington? The Chris Paul move seems very "win now" orientated and Cov seems like the most complementary piece available for that roster.

the suns arent done making moves is the talk here in phx.

i don't think phx could have responsibly beaten that very aggressive portland offer for covington. there are a lot of players who could help them, tho when they decided to execute the cp3 trade before using cap space my assumption was that they were planning to just bring back saric and maybe baynes. are there different rumors out there?

draftwise i don't go super deep but of the projected top 10 guys i feel like okongwu and halliburton have pretty high floors and will be good nba players. it's a scary draft to have a high pick.

yeah, its weird but if you're picking like 5-15 or so you should feel pretty good.

of the "top 3" (ball, wiseman, edwards) wiseman is the only 1 i feel good about. still dont know how i feel about deni.

question for the room: are we doing a draft zoom

they want saric back for sure. he really turned it up 2nd half of last season and looked great in the bubble too. baynes is unknown but im sure theyd like them both back at the right price with saric being the higher priority.

as far as the draft i dont usually pay a ton of attention but all the experts seem to be all over the map. hoping the dubs can trade that pick for the right package and if not we'll really find out what kind of player evaluation they have now. their draft record post jerry west is not great.

trade for aldridge

xxp yeah i don't think wiseman is likely to bust at all, it's more like how high do you pick him and what do you think he will ultimately be?

deni is interesting. the concerns (can't shoot, no discernible elite skill) and the pros (hooper, plus defender, good size and moves pretty well) are those of a guy i'd much rather take at like #10 than #4 or wherever he's being mocked.

i'd prob jump on a zoom, i'm not busy

registering interest

i'm locked in for the anthony edwards experience

"To be honest," he says, "I can't watch basketball."

He retells the story about the first time he dunked and how it signaled to him that he was talented and could accomplish something he might not have been able to in football, which was his first love. So that's the direction he went, simple as that, hanging up his cleats. "That's all I needed to see," he says.

So when after that did he get into basketball?

"I'm still not really into it," he says. "I love basketball, yeah. It's what I do."

He's not entirely convincing. He says if he were drafted by the NFL tomorrow, he'd let basketball go. "Because you can do anything on the field," he explains. "You can spike the ball. You can dance. You can do all type of disrespectful stuff." In the NBA, he says, "you can't do any of that. You'll get fined."

loooooool BUST

lmao amazing quote

someone should tell him that he prob can play in the nfl if he wants

he should rap

wolves take him at #1 now no question

yeah, sleepwalk his way to a max at the Timberwolves on minimal effort

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— Jared Penis 🕊 (@GodsNiceMan) November 18, 2020

hahaha I choose to believe that is true

I think I like Haliburton out of Iowa State for the Hawks. Honestly I haven't dug into this years draft that much, but he sounds like the perfect guy to back up Trae. Plus the nickname Dick Cheney Haliburton rolls right off the tongue.

this years draft seems to have the most uncertainty since at least the year anthony bennett went #1

this seems very worth discussing... for the warriors

REPORT: The Warriors have discussed trading the No. 2 Overall Pick to the Bulls for Wendell Carter Jr. and the No. 4 Overall Pick, via @KevinOConnorNBA. pic.twitter.com/itEBtHqcUt

— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 18, 2020

call me old-fashioned but i thinking "liking basketball" is important for the #1 pick

i choose to believe Jared Penis (@GodsNiceMan)

disliking basketball because youre not allowed to do disrespectful dances is fair tho

anthony edwards spilling gumbo at benihana is ilh canon

otm

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— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 18, 2020

lol nice

That bulls dubs deal would be amazing

trading a decent young player to move up 2 spots in a draft everyone hates would be a very bulls thing to do

listening to local talk radio, our local guy from the athletic was on...sounds like the steam is anthony edwards now

wolves take him at #1 now no question

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called it

who knows, locally everyone is like gersson rosas is some kinda new age analytics wheeler dealer process guy so it could be a smokescreen, but i haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that any of his supposed draft acumen as of yet

smart move for the wolves to trade andrew wiggins and replace him with anthony wiggins, i mean anthony edwards

i've always thought the wolves would eventually settle on edwards. lamelo and wiseman just don't make sense given their roster

dumb franchises do dumb stuff, such as giving up a first round pick to acquire d'angelo russell and sign him to a huge extension and then taking a SG who would prefer to play in the NFL so he can do disrespectful dances at no 1 bcuz you can't draft a PG

edwards shot 40% last year, not great for someone with elite athleticism, granted he was a freshman taking a ton of shots for a team without much talent, but still youd like to see someone whos primary merit is physical dominance be physically dominant, especially in college where he had a bigger advantage

all the scouting says he has a low bb iq game which makes sense if he doesnt like basketball

mb someone just needs to convince him that dunking on guys and yelling and flexing is disrespectful