2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

waiting for ainge to leak all the bigly deals he almost closed

also looking forward to signing hayward to the vet min in 2025 when he comes home to the house he bought in fishers where his kids go to school where both his extended families live in the state he grew up in

is atlanta...good now?

Why are you guys acting like Hayward is washed

i don’t think he’s washed but giving a good but not great player with a concerning injury history $30m a year is bad business

even if hayward is good next year and like decent the year after that, what exactly does this accomplish for the hornets? lamelo is going to suck for a while and they have no other talent. it’s just another team shortcutting the rebuild.

yeah if hayward can find some health hes an allstar level player but even in that best case scenario im not sure it really makes sense for the hornets

would have been fine as 2/60

In retrospect the bucks should have kept John Hammond

Simply indefensible. pic.twitter.com/58aCb9JYN0

— sqr (@squaresense) November 21, 2020

have the celtics found an nba player to replace hayward yet

Aaron Nesmith is the guy if he’s healthy

yeah it's amateur hour in the bucks front office.

so is giannis signing that extension still or what

so after all this, the bucks traded every draft pick under the sun for jrue holiday, ended up keeping pat c and dante d — both of whom looked unplayable vs miami — and added dj augustin (worse than george hill) and bobby portis (not helping you in the playoffs), and hard capped themselves? am i missing anything?

not commenting on oubre as a player but suns getting jae crowder for three years @ the MLE shows why he was expendable to them in order to get cp3. they still have youth on the wing and for the next few years have a player that is cheaper than oubre and not any worse. really insane they didn’t take another wing with their draft pick this year tho, james jones’ drafting is the most unpredictable thing in the NBA rn

xp it's not ideal

Zion Williamson was born in 2000 and is already the longest tenured member on the New Orleans Pelicans 🤯 pic.twitter.com/1v6uchuUwZ

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) November 22, 2020

Bogdanovic would have brought everything together, honestly.

that was a great trade...... too great perhaps

Ibaka 2/19 to clips. I think he may fit better than trez and we know he and kawhi are cool

that hollinger excerpt makes some good points and also engages in a lot of speculation

Fanbo Zeng will look to continue the tradition of international players at Gonzaga, following in the footsteps of Japanese forward Rui Hachimura (No. 9 pick in 2019 NBA Draft) and Lithuanian big man Domantas Sabonis (No. 11 pick in 2016), among many others. https://t.co/bslYxWIdbG

— Jonathan Givony (@DraftExpress) November 22, 2020

so hayward would have taken 4/100 from the pacers but ainge didnt want to make the s/t work

lol ainge

local reporting is that bos/ind never got close on a deal. i think what actually happened is charlotte kool-aid manned in with a wild overpay and hayward took it.

the celtics wanted warren, the pacers understandably didn’t want to give him up

i thought gordo was high af for opting out of 34M but the only person smoking something stronger was MJ

hayward is going to go down as one of the top 10 highest paid players ever and he's made one AS team thats wild af

i mean wont be one of the highest paid for long, his new contract isnt even for the max, let alone THE SUPPERMAX

lol supper max, thats the cool way to say thanksgiving

it really doesn't make sense that the C's would hold out for Warren if the alternative was losing Hayward for nothing, I don't really get it. I am over my head with understanding the financial angle though. maybe Danny, in contrast to the rest of the world, thought Turner's contrast actually wasn't a good value?

love the supper max

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/99/9e/c0/999ec08c486b21fc2ed3f66ce622306d.jpg

feel like theres a lot we dont know like i havent even heard what indy was willing to pay hayward/how far apart they were on that, or if he had this hornets offer in his pocket the whole time, it def cld be possible that ainge just doesnt like turner or also maybe he thought there wasnt much risk of hayward taking a big offer from a shitty team

one things for sure i can seen why he was holding out for warren, the celtics have absolutely zero wing depth

celtics have zero anything outside of 4 good starters

the thompson and teague signings were fine imo both those guys shd be dece in their roles, but who backs up smart/brown/tatum theyve just got nothing

oh i missed those yeah those guys are fine not that fond of teague but as a backup whatever

now i’m wondering if the pacers were even willing to give up turner bcuz idk why the celtics wouldn’t just take him even in the name of asset accumulation

maybe the pacers were waiting on bogdan before offering turner to the celtics and so hayward was just like, fuck it?

yeah i mean who knows really weve got some tweets by a guy from the boston globe to go on basically

the reporting that jordan called hayward late that first night really has me thinking that charlotte detected the stalemate and increased their offer to get it done.

mj chasing a gambling high in fa negotiations, no other explanation for the wackiness of their signings in recent years

im not totally clear on the cap/tax implications of a hayward for turner trade but mb the celtics were worried abt only getting one quality player back because their bench is so bad, i know when they let hayward walk that allowed them to get under the tax line which gave them access to the full MLE with which they signed thompson, i cant find how much they gave teague but him and thompson are prob making around the same amount combined that turner makes and the celtics wouldve had to take back more than just turners salary in a trade which wouldve put them over the tax line started the repeater clock ticking etc

celtics have a couple small trade exemptions to fill out their wing depth and maybe could get a bigger one back or maybe even a player if they can work out a sign and trade for hayward

honestly for this year teague and thompson could be better than turner and randos but turner wouldve been more of "a piece", tho i think ainge is clearly in the dont pay for middling centers camp which is fair, and staying under the tax line is worth something too

but at least lamelo with come up under the strong leadership of gordon hayward

gordon: have you ever read anything by ayn rand?
lamelo: *scrolling thru phone* check this shit out, i did a 69 with an ig model yesterday and she blew weed smoke on my dick

lol

i will not miss hayward on the celtics that was not a great run