2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

draymond for bron and brow

i think it COULD happen but it wont happen until after next season (if everything falls apart). think he would at least give it one more go with klay and give the front office a chance to make up for their mistakes this season. im pretty sure hes gonna take that second 200M+ payday too.

what was really so bad about this year for the warriors anyway? steph was must watch TV, prob the single most exciting player in the sport, he was a national story who made the team and the franchise matter. they played two de facto playoff games and lost both... so what. honestly it sounds way more fun than rooting for the clippers

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 25, 2021 12:31 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well they couldnt make up their mind what they wanted to do from the start. once they saw curry was still mvp level they shoulda pivoted from develop wiseman at all costs and focused on winning games and developing the youth as secondary. once they saw wiseman was gonna be years away from helping they shoulda traded him imo. instead they tried to force nico mannion minutes and brad wannamaker plus they never bolstered the roster after everyone got hurt leaving 7-8 guys to fight for the last 6 weeks or so (in which they were the hottest team in the league or close to it). i think they need to try and sign n trade oubre so they keep that roster spot open. Trade away at least one of their first round picks. they dont need a star but they need competent vets.

we all know whats really gonna happen tho: clippers lose early and kawhi comes to the warriors.

no he's coming to the heat (actually kawhi doesn't really care about winning at this point and just wants his little southern california fiefdom where he can live at home and only play 2 games per week)

the bad thing about this warriors season is that they drafted the wrong guy. everything else was decent.

right that's really the main issue

pelton and mike schmitz did a lottery redraft on windhorst's pod and they didn't have wiseman going in the lottery period. that felt like an overcorrection to me but yeah they should've picked lamelo or halliburton. no one else in the top 10 is really that exciting to me still tho, most of the good finds in this draft were later picks. so wiseman may still end up looking like an okay pick if you can just put lamelo and halliburton aside

yah its sad. its nice they still have options tho... picks, a good young prospect and some contracts to make the money work if necessary

https://theathletic.com/2611461/2021/05/25/warriors-offseason-steph-curry-style-bob-myers/

wow i'll have to go back and listen to that episode. i agree, that's a little extreme, but at the same time i haven't been able to figure out how wiseman becomes a really high-end player.

well he has to become a really good defender. offensively i think there's an avenue there for him since he's athletic, can run the floor, and has pretty nice form on his jumper. but if he's not giving you good defense then yeah i'm not sure what kind of player you have

The Warriors could have selected a better player than Wiseman, but there wasn't another center on the board. I'm not sure they knew that Klay was out of the season at that point because he got injured right before the draft. They hadn't traded for Oubre yet, so they could have drafted a SG and picked up a free agent center to back up starting center Marquese Chriss (who got injured on the second day of the season oops).

wild thing about that wiseman pick besides the fact that they didnt take lamelo is he played one college game total

he cld def still be a very nice player but itll take a while

they dont need to him to be at his full potential yet but they need him to be serviceable.. which he was not.

a jump from not serviceable to serviceable is pretty common for second year players, but on the other hand center defense is also considered one of the hard things to learn

No one knows what’s gonna happen with Wiseman. The thing is Ball is just so special.

you sayin' that lonzo is a... big baller?

Wiseman is kind of a throwback to the high school draft era. I remember when Jermaine O’Neal seemed bad for like 2 and a half years.

interesting that the two recent guys who slipped past #1 and made the mistake obvious as soon as they stepped on the court, lamelo and luka, both have superior feel for the game

also both did not play in america

also their names being with the letter L

also both of them are 6-7 primary ball handlers

LaMelo LaFrance Ball

i've thought of v young v skinny v dunderheaded young jermaine several times while watching wiseman xp to matt

he was on the blazers bench for so long

traded him for dale davis baby

classic

averaged 12mins a game in his 4th and final season in portland!

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/kEQAAOSwRIJf1Nmu/s-l300.jpg

lmao rookie card literally a senior portrait

https://www.rksportspromotions.com/sites/default/files/ONealJermaine9697UDRookExclusives.jpg

president of basketball club

i like that one its got the regular basketball then a very large basketball background

so no one was like "hey under a magnifying glass the texture of a basketball is not that pleasant to look at"

prob someone did then everyone else was like who cares man lets just finish up these dumb cards

hahaha

lmao at that whole exchange about the ball. lmao ball.

it looks exactly like salmon roe

these lakers jerseys that have the huge vertical stripe on the shorts with nothing on the jerseys really bother me

sorry i meant to post that in the jerseys thread but maybe the lakers can address it in the off season

it looks exactly like salmon roe

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:06 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

closeup of a very orange snake

sorry i meant to post that in the jerseys thread but maybe the lakers can address it in the off season

closeup of a very orange snake

― Deicide at Chuck E. Cheese (PBKR), Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:59 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes it looks like reptile scales to me. nothing against reptiles of course.

although if I saw a snake that color in real life --------------------->PBKR

Def triggering my trypophobia

uh oh (this guy is surely just angling to get bought off)

BREAKING: Meyer Orbach, the second largest shareholder in the Minnesota Timberwolves, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis alleging owner Glen Taylor’s pending sale to Lore-Rodriguez is in violation of franchise’s partnership agreement: https://t.co/NlM0Cd324s

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) May 26, 2021

The complaint filed by Orbach, a New Jersey real estate mogul who owns more than 17% of the Timberwolves and WNBA Lynx, also includes a significant revelation: Despite Taylor's public statements to the contrary, he has included no provision in the $1.5 billion sales agreement with Lore and Rodriguez that requires the new ownership group to keep the franchise in Minnesota upon taking control of the team, according to an exhibit in the complaint.

yep who cares tho

have to say no disrespect to minnesota it would be pretty funny if arod moved the team thereby becoming somehow even more hated than he already is

Jon K explained the suit, apparently the minority partners want their payout as soon as the deal is done.

but Taylor is trying to make them wait two years because of the stupid "mentoring" thing he wants to do where A Rod and Steve Internet learn the ropes from him

he leaked the no move clause thing just to make Taylor look like a dick in the local media