2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

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.

hard to picture what john wall minus explosion would even look like ... he's only an okay shooter, is he going to read the floor really well? i don't understand what skills he's bringing

that trade is a crime

sums it up nicely. there's no hidden upside for the rockets. this can't even be justified by desperation. but I guess anything that makes the west weaker is OK by me.

maybe wall put a ton of work into his shot over the last, uhh, extremely long amount of time

wall is still a good passer and he should still have a decent first step. but best case may be something like derrick rose's second act.

this trade is incredible kudos to everyone involved

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/30438683/nba-says-48-positive-covid-19-initial-re-entry-testing

didn't see a version of this posted yet. not great!

EMERGENCY RINGER PODCAST: could the Covid All-Stars beat the Lakers in a best of 7?

9% seems like a high percentage of players to have the rona at the same time

its actually less than the average for the whole country haha wow not great

well if we tested everyone in the country we'd be below 9%...... maybe?

yeah it would but still

does this make the wiz an eastern playoff contender?