2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

league mad

The NBA is forbidding team executives from attending agent pro days to evaluate prospective draftees -- unless the pro days are conducted as part of the Chicago pre-draft combine in June, per memo shared with teams today.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 16, 2021

nba front office trying to exert the upper hand and fence in the power of the agents

Two Florida brothers ranked in the top 15 high school juniors in the country – Matt and Ryan Bewley – are signing two-year deals with the Overtime Elite professional league, sources tell ESPN, marking first prep underclassmen to sign contracts with an American basketball league.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 21, 2021

nice after school job

The deals for Matt and Ryan Bewley are expected to top seven-figures over the two years, sources tell ESPN. The OTE is planning a September 2021 start-up with Kevin Ollie as the head coach. Matt Bewley is the No. 3-rated prospect in ESPN's Class of 2023; Ryan is ranked 12th. https://t.co/LapOobF6uW

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 21, 2021

good for these kids, i find it hard to be compelled by this in any way as a fan of NBA and less so college

i think its interesting, the "pipeline" to the nba is bad, but maybe its getting better... or worse?

i have no idea how this league is planning on being profitable but support anything that blows up the current system

so theres an existing company called overtime which is doing this league

Launched in 2016 by William Morris Endeavor executives Dan Porter and Zachary Weiner, Overtime’s revenue comes from two sources. One is indirectly aligning with brands by integrating them into its online media content and making money off video ads. The other is direct revenue via e-commerce.

Overtime raised in April $80 million from investors, including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ investment firm, global entertainer Drake, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and several National Basketball Association players. To date, the Brooklyn-based company said it has raised more than $140 million.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/overtime-selects-atlanta-for-teen-basketball-league-that-pays-100000.html

idk

these top recruits do tend to have large social media followings fwiw

hello i am global entertainer Drake

the ncaa kneecapped itself by waiting so long to allow players to profit off their name, image, and likeness

my kids watch overtime videos constantly. they've seen the inside of more random high school gyms than actual nba games.

there you go

i have no idea how this league is planning on being profitable but support anything that blows up the current system

― call all destroyer, Friday, May 21, 2021 9:54 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

to be fair i don't think a long-term plan for profitability means jack shit anymore

william morris endeavor is ari emanuel’s company, they’ve got an ungodly amount of money and are trying to branch out all over sports. they bought the UFC recently and they’re basically trying to take over the world. good new yorker article about them last week

sorry that was jumbled but the company seems to have no problem raising insane amounts of money from people with really deep pockets, many of whom are super shady, there was a segment in that story where they had to pull out of an investment in saudi arabia after the khashoggi incident and after one the close friends of their investors was thrown in secret jail, kinda wild

cool going to check that out https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/ari-emanuel-takes-on-the-world

it was maybe not sufficiently critical for such a long piece but it was good info

should be the new yorkers slogan

i was gonna say "in every new yorker article ever." tho when the do ask critical questions of the subject it's always in the second to last paragraph. they save the last one describing the the final time they saw the subject of the article in some way that is exemplary of the entire piece.

Scoot Henderson is forgoing his senior season and will be joining the G-League Ignite squad‼️🚨 @thereal013 pic.twitter.com/nnA81FUNwq

— SLAM HS Hoops (@SLAM_HS) May 21, 2021

Scoot Henderson automatically a top 5 nba name

sounds like a 1940s jazz trumpeter

Scoot Henderson's Hot 2s and 3s

the william morris takeover part of that ari emanuel article is unbelievable what a fn snake lol

lmao Scoot Henderson perfect jazz name

the william morris takeover part of that ari emanuel article is unbelievable what a fn snake lol

― lag∞n, Monday, May 24, 2021 10:03 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

right??

unchill

Report: Pelicans players ‘not vibing with’ Stan Van Gundy https://t.co/DbkA96eMMT

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) May 25, 2021

Noted vibemaster Stan Van Gundy

management needs to hire an independent vibe check firm to get to the bottom of this

independent vibe check firm

Great ATCQ EP

lmao

haha

svg was great as an analyst in the bubble, he should do that imo

by "that" i mean "go back to being an analyst," not "seal himself in a bubble"

I would donate to a Kickstarter to have him permanently replace his brother

"The 61-year-old Van Gundy had success during each of his three previous stints as an NBA head coach, which is part of the reason the Pelicans hired him."

hmm

https://i.imgur.com/Xe09y7g.png

yeah they figured "well let's not make him GM it will be cool" but then the GM traded jrue holiday for eric bledsoe and also for steven adams and gave him an extension before he ever played a game

ah well nevertheless

two pretty good coaches in a row couldnt do much with the roster maybe the players are bad just a thought.

i'm willing to give SVG a pass on this year, i don't think the pelicans have a winning roster. their best player is a de facto rookie center who plays point guard and is horrible on defense, their second best player is a ball dominant wing who also doesn't play defense, they have no shooting, also a huge center who can't make a shot from outside 3 feet, all their role players are young and haven't won anything... the fact that they constantly blew games at the end of the season, idk. maybe he's not getting through to them that could be an unfixable issue but also it's a pretty janky team

personally think they have some good players but a. theyre just young and b. its not a well constructed roster as far as fit

but the main guys will grow into their primes and you have time to assemble the right supporting pieces

having said that if stan is just annoying he prob has a fairly limited shelf life there

feel like with guys like stan and thibs who have annoying voices arent the handsomest and are taskmasters players can only take them for so long

that franchise has a stink on it in general, the only person who has won anything in new orleans has been cp3 who we now know drags any shitty out of the way franchise into the playoffs and yes i include the clippers in that group

"but the main guys will grow into their primes and you have time to assemble the right supporting pieces"

im sure the will zion bolt to knicks/lakers chat will start as early as next season.

yeah there is that lol sad

he should consider the celtics tho

maybe they should just like move to seattle or sumthn

yeah being 23 and super good at basketball and having stan van gundy yelling at you about defense all the time, it doesn't sound very fun

stan used to live in my parents neighborhood when he was w/ the heat and i ran into him in public like 3-4 times over the years and every single time he looked like he had just been rescued off a desert island like 6 hours prior

lmao yeah feel like coaches who cant take care of themselves isnt the best look

have at it 2021-22 NBA "REGULAR" SEASON THREAD