2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

gonna look this up on google search, thanks friends

Talen Horton-Tucker making a name for himself

should get an ore-ida sponsorship for Talen Horton-Tucker Tater Tots

Pistons have waived LiAngelo Ball, per @JLEdwardsIII pic.twitter.com/ukaWZlr7dX

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) December 14, 2020

welp

big brand

need to make him promise

Report: James Harden tells Rockets he’ll be professional and engaged, still wants trade https://t.co/r7x7bNdlHb

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) December 14, 2020

pinky swear really

it's kinda funny - i have no attachment to the rockets whatsoever but i got kinda excited at the idea of Wall and Cousins finally reunited and able to bring out some quality ball in each other. add Christian Wood and maybe you got a stew goin'! not betting on this remotely but if Harden could readjust his mindset just a bit so that he sucks up <90% of the team's energy and basketball strategy, could be interesting to see what comes of it.

oh yeah hadnt even considered the kentucky connection

some pretty gnarly personality/vibes/circumstances on that team tho

oh yes. kinda curious what if any input harden had into the coaching hire. can't recall the timeline of where that fit into the implosion (obv after dan tony bolted)

whoa, down the rabbit hole of Houston Rockets wikipedia, til that the Maloofs of Sac Kangz fame also owned the Rockets in the early 80s!

da original party boyz

sure why not

The Houston Rockets have asked the Philadelphia 76ers for 3 first round picks AND Ben Simmons in a trade for James Harden, per @YaronWeitzman pic.twitter.com/9X3J6dAdkq

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) December 14, 2020

who doesn't want to have it all

its self care

the morey tax

the spacing on a simmons/wall/cousins team would be quite something

never knew about this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/sports/basketball/anthony-carter-bill-duffy-miami-heat.html

smooth

??? pic.twitter.com/BQ9S01xwa9

— pickuphoop (@pickuphoop) December 15, 2020

he's going to be a must-watch. anything could happen on every single possession he's in.

yeah it’s going to be sikk

he looks bigger and stronger than i had expected, not as twiggy as his brother

frankly unfair
https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2020/12/15/22175478/los-angeles-lakers-talen-horton-tucker-lebron-james?__twitter_impression=true

everythings possible in the preseason

Breaking: Giannis Antetokounmpo says he is signing a contract extension with the Milwaukee Bucks. The two-time MVP will sign a five-year, $228.2 million supermax extension with the franchise, the largest deal in NBA history, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 15, 2020

YESSSSSSSSSS

MILWAUKEE LEGEND

nice

that's good.

looking forward to the trade demand next year

but in all seriousness good for the game

agreed

It's not like the Bucks had any choice in this. The supermax is like the neutron bomb of contracts. It leaves the star player intact and kills the rest of the team.

man he better hope the whole mortgaging the team's future for jrue holiday thing works out

they've mortgaged their future for much worse

I remember one offseason where they kneecapped themselves to sign Charlie Spaghetti. that wasn't his name but I'm not gonna look it up

it seems like his decision was based on factors that transcend the make up of the roster, which always seemed to be the case, but which also makes their desperate, frenetic offseason even more bizarre

really good news for the league. hope he doenst demand a trade during that contract. now we just need harden to go east.

the opt out of after the 4th year is basically being like, i'm giving you guys three years before we go thru this again

the knicks are gonna have to find a new pipe dream

Good for the game to have such a huge star stay with his team, and also good for the league not to have 15-20 teams basing their whole financial strategy around creating space for him on the slim chance they're gonna get him

also good to not have it be a story this whole season

otm

It's not like the Bucks had any choice in this. The supermax is like the neutron bomb of contracts. It leaves the star player intact and kills the rest of the team.

the clippers are badly overpaying PG and partly as a result of this seem destined to pay enormous sums of luxury tax, but you're correct that Giannis is easily more valuable than PG

this is far and away the best outcome for literally everyone who cares about the nba in every possible way except, like, Knicks lost-causers and pat riley; god bless giannis

Like it’s great that some teams only have to pay a guy 30m a year because it’s the first extension, but 45 mil for a reigning 2 time mvp is a bargain

congrats MKE!

I feel like even if you don't win a championship you have to just enjoy it, like in MN we were so disappointed when KG left and obviously it never quite worked out and it felt like a failure at the time but boy do I miss it, just someone who was always worth watching, someone who made it fun

otm