2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

lol!

lol

lmao backstory?

made by Jake of Jake and Amir (i think) for The Flagrant Ones podcast

https://vimeo.com/555555803

i listened to that podcast 3 months ago. i expected to find the soundcloud with millions of plays when i remembered it this morning. its tailor-made for ilh, and maybe that's why.

posting without comment: zach lowe called luke kennard’s contract a “negative contract” on his pod today

I love The Flagrant Ones!!

cool, I don't know the Flagrant Ones but I just looked it up and I definitely know and love the hosts.

i listened to that podcast 3 months ago. i expected to find the soundcloud with millions of plays when i remembered it this morning. its tailor-made for ilh, and maybe that's why.

― balance transfer eligible (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, September 17, 2021 1:03 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes this is truly targeted content

got randomly curious about what john stockton is up to today and looked him up and, oh, he's doing his own research and making anti-vaccine videos :( :(

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-stockton-anti-vaccine_n_60cc62d6e4b0e08c64b94ded

some good tweets at his expense in here though

Perfect:

He was also anti-championships sadly

— Eddie (@Piefan83) June 18, 2021

lol

rip big man

JJ Redick announces he is retiring from the NBA pic.twitter.com/mD2tae7L4r

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) September 21, 2021

great career tbh

yeah he was a contributor for sure

BOOM

NEWS: @Timberwolves Sign Brian Bowen II, Matt Lewis, Isaiah Miller and Chris Silva

Full release:https://t.co/9SmtgFbsjz

— Timberwolves PR (@Twolves_PR) September 20, 2021

That makes them title favorites for sure

ESPN Sources: Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Ben Simmons will not report for opening of training camp next week and intends to never play another game for the franchise. Simmons hasn’t spoken to team since a late August meeting when he communicated this message to Sixers officials.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 21, 2021

saw an article a few days ago saying philly doesnt really believe hes going to go through with it lol

let’s goooooooo

one of the two sides is going to call the other’s bluff here… either the sixers are gonna drastically reduced their (reported) demands for simmons or simmons is gonna show up and play. bcuz everything the gossipy national reporters have been saying makes it seem like they aren’t close to a deal

i feel like in most cases simmons could come back and play and ppl would get over it but i’m not sure that’s the case with philly fans

yeah lol

soon they will build two unlicensed ben simmons merchandise shops on opposite sides of the same philly street. one shop is pro-Ben, and the other shop is anti-Ben. the city's population will absorb the expletive-laden tirades between the owners of the two shops into their own "identity".

ben could start his own league

Is there a sport he likes

he likes the sport who'll tie his kangaroo down after he's gone

It's funny to see sixers fans mad that the guy they want to go away... wants to go away

Me after ATL GM 5:

Woke up this morning at 5am and couldn't stop thinking about the game last night. Just brutal.

Simmons has to go. It was one thing when the debate was "why can't he shoot 3s?" Quite another when the debate is "why can't he shoot FTs?"

― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:38 AM (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think the Sixers should take a reasonable offer for Simmons and move on. I would agree with Morey that Heild and Bagley aren't a reasonable offer.

yeah I dunno, if it gets ugly they may have to take a deal similar to the Butler for Saric/Covington* deal the Wolves had to take, I don't think Heild/Bagley is far off that. Could argue that at least in the general public his stock is lower than Butler's was at the time

*Bayless and a 2nd round pick were thrown in too but who cares

hield bagley is pretty clearly a lot worse than saric covington imho, also butler was an expiring contract where simmons is locked in for 4 years, i think philly will end up getting much more than what butler was traded for, hield haliburton + picks is prob more in the neighborhood, teams are trying to do some insane heist right now see how toxic philly can get but eventually someone will just step up with their real offer, i mean idk there may be a hield/haliburton type deal out there already and its philly thats holding out, in which case its everyone waiting on them to approach reality

at this point i feel like the kings would be kinda crazy to trade halliburton for simmons but they did just trade for tristan thompson so i guess nothing is out of the question

idk the fact that theyre the kings makes the trade make less sense but also makes it more likely

i dont think trading a halliburton level player for simmons is unreasonable tho

i was the simmons skeptic when you all were declaring him a future mvp and now im his last defender lol

i would say the celtics should try to trade smart + picks and filler for him but he def doesnt have the celtics mindtype and prob shouldnt be exposed to another psycho northeast fanbase

lol look at you defending simmons.

hes a good player, who should play center, and is kind of an unlikable headcase who isnt super passionate about basketball lol

i still think simmons can be very valuable but i do think you might need to build a team from the ground up around him to put him in the best position to succeed. i’m not sure him and fox make tons of sense together, your two best players not being able to shoot while having — hypothetically —traded your two best shooters in order to get him. i almost think like OKC or houston would be the best spot for him, put him somewhere with basically nothing in place with tons of assets and mold the team around him.

i think the problem here is that it’s hard to find a place for him where the team receiving him gives up enough to satisfy the sixers while also still retaining enough so that ben isn’t trying to force a trade again in two years. like, if you’re the wizards and you cash in brad beal for simmons, you’re gonna suck again and have him wanting out of a place he didn’t want to be in the first place. maybe portland makes sense if they were able to not trade lillard. the way the NBA works now if you’re getting a guy with 4 years on his contract that basically means you have 2 seasons before he can really start to force your hand if he wants out.

minnesota if you paired him and towns? but that’s two centers on the floor again so prob doesn’t work, and what do the wolves have to satisfy philly. it’s really hard to find a trade that works for both sides given how weird of a player he is. the celtics is actually an interesting one but it also kinda pushes time lord out of the picture & if you lose smart your guard rotation is perilous. this is why i return to places like OKC and houston where there’s basically a blank canvas. shai & ben fits to me i think

xp what adds to the conundrum is if he does indeed end up in a place like Houston it would almost be harder to get him to remodel his game to match his strengths because it would be hard not to put the ball in his hands all the time. OKC is interesting because their key piece is Shai who is a ballhandler already

constructing a trade for him is difficult because teams would want to send a center back so that he can play center but philly already has a center so then youd have to try to put together a multi team deal which is complicated, but i do think a mccollum + nurkic for simmons and some ok player type deal with a third team in the mix makes sense

mccollum + nurkic for simmons won't happen, if only because mccollum + nurkic are the 2 & 3 players in the blazer "core" and olshey is convinced he's already built a team that can contend

mccollum & nurk does feel like an overpay to me given the circumstances surrounding simmons at this point. but if you involve a 3rd team and nurk gets routed there for and both philly and portland get something else back, i could see it

he simply needs to be on a team where the other good players are guards/wings rather than an immobile center

i don't think its as hard to make him fit as people are making it sound

yeah he just needs to play center lol

hoping this all ends like the Aaron Rodgers drama and he just stays in Philly and everyone acts like nothing happens

no we need to see him on another team.