2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

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LeBron James reportedly agrees to two-year, $85 million contract extension https://t.co/8bO6t0dGYL

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) December 2, 2020

what i feel like goes mostly unremarked upon is how drama free the lakers were last year, iirc all of ilh was sure they were going to implode at some point via having a weird roster full of weird guys

― lag∞n, Wednesday, December 2, 2020 11:11 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol they added jr and dion and were still impenetrable, kudos. dwight, javale, markieff, rondo, jr, dion, all on the same team and it worked. altho only one of those are returning haha. when lebron has a team he believes in he turns into the greatest teammate. long ways from sitting on the bench biting his nails 7 seats down from all the baby lakers not so long ago.

solution is to move the clippers back to san diego

most drama free contract extension for Lebron iirc

move the clippers to... seattle

Lebron is a money-making machine for the entire NBA.

LiAngelo Ball is signing a one-year, non-guaranteed contract with the Detroit Pistons, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 2, 2020

NBA schedule dates:

Dec. 22: Nets-Warriors, Lakers-Clippers
Dec. 23: Celtics-Bucks, Mavericks-Suns
Dec. 25: Pelicans-Heat, Warriors-Bucks, Nets-Celtics, Mavericks-Lakers, Clippers-Nuggets

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 2, 2020

haha max drama on day one. thats a fun opening weekend of games nice job nba

yah the lebron contract was like duh. he's locked in with another top 7 player in the league as long as he wants and they need eachother.

what is the prevailing opinion on LiAngelo Ball as compared to Lonzo and LaMelo?

he's a borderline g league player

its funny because hes the only one of the 3 with a normal jumpshot

yah. not saying much tho lol.

Tell me why these kids have received so much press?

well two of them were top three picks that's not nothing. and then the dad said some stuff and they got a reality show. i know all my teen nephews and cousins all love them and follow everything they do

convergence of several things... ESPN first take culture, high school highlight culture, steph curry 3 bombing culture, reality show culture....

I do wonder how it would have turned out of they had taken a conventional route of going to a D1 basketball school

or not stealing shit in China

well lonzo went to ucla

oh yeah duh I forget haha

steph curry 3 bombing culture

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, December 2, 2020 4:27 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah hoisting near half court shots just for tf of it to get a highlight

so i guess paul george went on a podcast and nuked the clippers coaching last year. someone should tell him that we don't have a full offseason before he has to see everyone again.

hes proven to be a quite the doofus

Ty Lue didn't bring back any of last year's coaches, did he?

Houston has agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to Washington for John Wall and a first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 3, 2020

lmao they did it

congrats to everyone involved

god the heck

I like this for Washington

they might as well call him russell eastbrook

Wall might not be able to play anymore, he has bad vibes, Russ is by all accounts a great teammate and it’s the east

praise be

john wall and boogie reunited,
scott brooks and westbrook reunited.

legit cannot fathom why a team would trade for john wall

Beal and Bertans and Otto around Westbrook should be fun

Wall doesn’t have the “he looks incredible everyone’s really surprised how good he looks” buzz that kd and Blake have gotten. I haven’t even heard if he’s ready to go. May have missed it tho

Oh yah Otto is on the bulls pardon me

i guess it's not the rockets GM's money and he's basically just flipping identical contracts and taking on the worse player for the price of a pick but you're basically lighting your entire team on fire by having that much cap dedicated to john wall

washington and atlanta in an absolute dogfight for the 8th

i don't understand what the rockets are trying to do... you trade robert covington but then sign christian wood but then trade for john wall... are they trying to be good or bad? i legit have no idea

Yah it’s a mystery.
I’d imagine James wil be next right?

Sources: Protection on the first-round pick that the Wizards traded to Houston in Russell Westbrook/John Wall trade: 2023, Lottery; 2024, Top 12; 2025, Top 10; 2026, Top 8; then becomes two second-rounders.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 3, 2020

if these are the protections this is an easy win for washington

i guess the rockets GM figured the most value that could possibly be extracted from westbrook is a heavily protected first round pick & he might be right on that but damn if i'm taking that john wall contract off your hands i'm grabbing shit off your dresser on my way out

i don't understand what the rockets are trying to do.

John Wall makes around $200k less than Russell Westbrook and Fertitta's casinos are fucked

saving $200k is not worth agreeing to pay john wall $47 million three seasons from now!

That's a problem for another day hehe

that trade is a crime

wall wasn't even like a top 5 PG at his peak, can't imagine where he'll end up now

he had a case in '16-'17. he's going to need to change his game a lot and it doesn't seem like anyone is sure he's willing or able to do that.