2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

would be interesting if harden went to the heat and had to get in shape. maybe it's the best of both worlds for him -- militant basketball culture in a city w/ renowned strip clubs

it cld work

yikes on that george deal

i mean whatre you gonna do

wld be funny if they traded him tho

philly or miami are the only places besides houston i can imagine harden yeah

sometimes i forget that PG snapped his leg in half.

i was watching a youtube about the collapse of that pacers team and had totally forgotten too, then they got to that part and i was like oh no are they going to show it so i turned it off, it wasnt that good

45 million a year for paul george is kinda wow but go to it

also had two shoulder surgeries in the last couple seasons..

i guess now he won't need to view any upcoming season as championship or bust

I would like to place a bet that the Clippers aren't going to get past the Lakers into the NBA Finals this year, next year, the year after, the year after that, or the year after that.

i think they cld do it

yah the bubble was really bad for that team

Clippers need to invest a whole lot of resources in figuring out exactly what stars aligned and what factors caused them to so align during that one great year PG had in OKC.

and then uh figure out how to interlace those factors with whatever the hell Kawhi needs in order to be Kawhi without draining team chemistry.

yeah that’s an awful deal from the team side for george

I think the clippers are in deep shit, players were desperate to leave in the offseason, their best player has really bad knees, lots of finger pointing. And they burned historic draft capital to do this.

really good for the nuggets tho :) xp

it’s a bad contract but it’s also pocket change for ballmer & they’ll prob always be operating well into the tax. his body breaking down would be my main concern... i also don’t understand why they had to give him a player option

ballmer hasn't yet internalized the extent to which the nba's CBA is designed to neutralize his deep pockets as a competitive advantage.

that's not entirely true. the warriors have a huge competitive advantage having an owner who is willing/able to pay out a huge tax bill every year. basically all you have to do from a team perspective is juke the books to avoid the repeater tax but if you're willing to pay an extra $50m or $80m or $100m above the cap in a season there is nothing stopping you

Golden State tax bill is currently $66M

The addition of Kelly Oubre would see it increase to $134M

$14.4M of Oubre + $68M in taxes= $82.4M

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) November 19, 2020

feel like he will do something crazy like spend half a billion in luxury taxes just bc he can

which just hands his competitors a half billion dollars free and clear

i think you know youre both right the system does make it hard to just buy a good team, but ability to spend more does have its benefits too

like paying a billion dollars for kelly oubre is not gonna help that much, but its not nothing

lol

How Mavericks got other 29 NBA teams to help cover gift to J.J. Barea https://t.co/Nosx0oQmYj

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) December 10, 2020

a lil bastard all the way to the end. salute.

man i got emotional when he got emotional in his last presser today! what a baller, he'll be missed

respect to him for having a great career despite not having nba level physical gifts and doing it on the biggest stage (the nba finals)

1st ballot lil bastard hall of fame

is he definitely retiring? if he's feeling good he could still go out there and run pick and roll for some team for 10 minutes a night.

blessed

Jimmy Butler to ESPN's Rachel Nichols on James Harden, "There’s a lot of stuff always in the media. I think that he's a hell of player. I like the group we have. To tell you the truth, I just want the guy to be happy. That’s what life is about. That's what the game is about."

— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) December 10, 2020

hahaha that's a brilliantly-worded hard no

yup lol

https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/30451766/ranking-top-10-nba-players-2020-21

anyone kind enough to post this u_u

christ are lowe's columns behind the paywall now too? what a racket

its just obnoxious disney the biggest media company there is like not even nickel and diming theyre like fractions of a pennying

it’s really detestable... just purely manipulative. you’re not a local newspaper

Harden needs to expand his list of teams here

kev
@thl3t1c C&P for people who don't support CONTENT CREATORZ

i am not a fan numbered player rankings. much prefer the tier system

it seems like jimmys in a good place

Jimmy Butler also tells ESPN's Rachel Nichols that his plan is to have Goran Dragic as the first spokesmodel for Big Face Coffee. Adds that it is an unpaid position.

— Ira Winderman (@IraHeatBeat) December 10, 2020

jimmy was always meant for the heat when you think about it. the perfect marriage

its true

jimmy has "the mamba mentality" which afaict is basically the ultimate Pat Riley Guy thing

jimmys locked in

The espn rankings have lillard above Jokic. I just can’t fathom that

lillard's play last winter and during the seeding games was legit historic and he'll regress from that but idk man, lillard was pretty good last year!

i don't know how they're doing this list and what they're weighting but lillard's spot seems reasonable. a little surprised at where AD landed.