2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

Based on how many positive tests we had before the bubble it’s reasonable to think that 40% of the league has had Covid. The country as a whole is probably at 25% now.

IIRC the bubble testing was also one week and 10% of the players tested positive that time too

Did we talk about this

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

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 2, 2020

lil bit

I’m not sure I’ve seen a player who so obviously doesn’t belong in the nba get signed before

what about master p

It’s close. I guess LiAngelo has youth

its weird whats the angle of signing then cutting the 3rd ball bro

Los Angeles Ballers (2018)
On July 9, 2018, Ball signed with the Los Angeles Ballers of the Junior Basketball Association, a league founded by his father as an alternative to college basketball.[70] He joined in the middle of the season and made his debut on July 14, tallying 53 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists.[71] Ball was named to the West roster for the JBA All-Star Game and was named co-MVP of the game after scoring 39 points.[72] Ball recorded 39 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals in a 202–189 win to claim the All-Star Game MVP award.[73] In his first playoff game, he scored a season-high 58 points in a 157–134 win over the Philadelphia Ballers.[74] On August 12, Ball matched his season high of 58 points, 11 rebounds, and 6 assists in a Finals victory over the Seattle Ballers and was subsequently named Finals MVP.[75] At the end of the season, Ball was among 14 players in the league named to the JBA USA select Team, which faced several European teams on an international tour.[76]

lmao the team names

Big Ballers Ballers Ballers Brand

The NBA stopped drug testing for marijuana and JR Smith immediately began trending

Legend pic.twitter.com/Px9hJFHt2p

— Tony Pesta (@Tony_Pesta) December 3, 2020

yeah, stop testing for all non performance enhancing drugs

Is cocaine a performance enhancing drug?

If you do enough

we need to see russell westbrook play a game on coke to reach a scientific conclusion

would love to see some of those late 70s games with a cheat sheet for who was on what drugs

westbrook on coke would get his entire body stuck in the basket teen wolf style

lol

happy "Andrew Wiggins really gets it now" season to all who celebrate :)

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/andrew-wiggins-ready-go-time-warriors-need-him-his-best

i for one, am ready

did he promise tho

he pinky swore he was gonna be an all star this year

oh my god SIX other family members besides KAT's mom, poor kid

Karl-Anthony Towns said that he “hasn’t been in a good place” since his mother went to the hospital. Towns said he’s lost 6 other family members to COVID.

“I'm the one looking for answers to try to keep my family well informed & make all the moves necessary to keep them alive."

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) December 4, 2020

Damn, that's horrible.

i can't imagine. And to have to be in the public eye as a performer and athlete at the same time? And be not yet 26? Dude should maybe retire for a year.

wtfffff

where we’re currently at for those wanting the Sparknotes version pic.twitter.com/Ycc2nq2OZo

— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) December 6, 2020

just about to post that. yikes, what an ass

i guess if harden doesnt report tillman doesnt have to pay him

This has the makings of an all time pout season

i'm gonna throw a desk against the wall while bellowing "millennialls!" at least one dozen times this season

lol ty lue was sitting right next to me

#Sixers coach Doc Rivers on Paul George’s comments about the Los Angeles Clippers lack of adjustments while blowing a 3-1 series to the Denver Nuggets in the second round of last season’s playoffs. Paul was also criticism of how Rivers, the former Clippers coach, utilized him. pic.twitter.com/2d2I1ODy2Q

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) December 6, 2020

"players can play better" bang bang

lmfao now that is an incredible quote

paul george is going to do about as well in a media battle with doc rivers as he did in that game 7

im sure the league knows that this will just result in fake injuries, which i guess is preferable

Yahoo Sources: NBA implementing new resting policy for 2020-21 season with teams prohibited from resting healthy players for any high-profile, nationally-televised game and violation could result in a fine of at least $100,000.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) December 7, 2020

what they could do, now hear me out, is create a schedule in which every game matters

kawhi’s looking at that fine number like, shit it isn’t my money

This seems to create perverse incentives to not want to be on national TV

Kawhis rep took a hit last season. wonder if he'll play it differently this year.

Per Stephen Silas the Rockets have no timetable for James Harden's return

— Duncan Smith (@DuncanSmithNBA) December 7, 2020

Stephen Silas on James Harden: "He's not here, and he has a reason, but that's on him to tell whoever what the reason is."

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) December 7, 2020

James Harden was spotted at the club again last night

(IG: cbodadon) pic.twitter.com/D1i3CmEMoR

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) December 7, 2020

He should wear dark glasses, so no one can recognize him.

fake beard

Vlatko Cancar on his new physique:

“It is true. People thought it was photoshopped.”

— Mike Singer (@msinger) December 7, 2020

gonna be plenty of this im sure

BREAKING: Draymond Green and center James Wiseman tested positive for the coronavirus, a league source confirmed with The Chronicle, forcing the players to miss the @Warriors’ first group practice of training camp Monday. @Con_Chron story. https://t.co/m6cdh6wsAz

— Sporting Green (@SportingGreenSF) December 7, 2020

Great deal

Denver Nuggets G Monte Morris has agreed to a three-year, $27M extension, his agent Ron Shade tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 8, 2020

yeah I like it

2nd-best #51 pick in the modern draft era