2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

Lmao you just can’t draw this up any better

who's taking odds on kyrie opting out the brooklyn saying thanks 4 the memories l8rzzzz

kyrie inspired by elon

Huh

Nets' Kyrie Irving: “[Hopefully]... we can just start fresh and be realistic with our own expectations and live with our team results, rather than being the polarization of the media scrum and having our names be dragged for a series that naturally happens in people’s careers." pic.twitter.com/rJGkcZU26P

— Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver) April 26, 2022

im struggling to think of an nba player that has ever been as full of shit as kyrie

He probably shouldn’t have been playing since like halfway through the season

Zach LaVine has been playing on an injured knee that’s ‘50% on a good day,’ per @JCowleyHoops

“the source said he will in fact have surgery almost immediately this offseason.” pic.twitter.com/vVyGnxZlr8

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) April 27, 2022

I send shots at the puppet masters, not the puppets. All puppets do is run around society, trying to gain popularity and state opinions. What a life! 🤷🏾‍♂️

My name is worth billions to these media corporations. My brothers and sisters who deal with this know exactly what I mean.

— A11Even (@KyrieIrving) April 28, 2022

fake deep bullshit artist

that conley signing by utah just didnt work out, same with the gay signing. hes probably cooked and should move to a reserve role.

jazz need to see if mitchell wants to stay, if he does you gotta move rudy. if he wants out you could get a nice haul im sure. id honestly shop both of them. then prob wait til the trade deadline to move bojan for a first or whatever.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/UTA.html

please nets do this

Here's the year-by-year breakdown of the max contract Kyrie Irving can sign in July:

2022-23: $42.7 million
2023-24: $46.1 million
2024-25: $49.8 million
2025-26: $53.8 million
2026-27: $58.1 million

(Kyrie would be 35 years of age by the end of 26-27)https://t.co/A71VAVVE84

— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) April 29, 2022

theyre gonna do it theyve go no options

guess they could try to get him to take a smaller deal might work dont think theres much of a kyrie market out there

58 million is insane he'll be paid more than a milli for each game he plays in

yeah i mean theyre in a terrible situation

the hoops gods require the nets to max out kyrie as further penance for trying to buy a championship

they got kyrie in a press conference talking about managing the team, a guy who only shows up when he feels like it

sounds like hes gonna bounce to me.

Zach on free agency: "I understand the relationship I've had with AK and the last five years here, I hope the city understands how much I care about the Bulls. I'm going into everything open-minded but knowing how much I've enjoyed my time here." pic.twitter.com/85OhzBkPBv

— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) April 29, 2022

Zion asked if he’d sign extension:

“Of course. I couldn’t sign it fast enough.”

— Andrew Lopez (@_Andrew_Lopez) April 29, 2022

i wonder if the kyrie thing is gonna end up like morey trading for westbrook knowing he wasn’t gonna be around to clean up the mess. sean marks might do it and then bounce in 3 years

i just dont see what choice they have unless kd is cool with them not signing him or trying to 'lowball' him

seems hard to make any safe assumptions about how kd feels about kyrie's contract situation

i don’t think players think about things that way. if he was fed up with kyrie personally or didn’t think he was reliable maybe he would tell the nets to cut him loose but that doesn’t seem to be the case. but KD is not gonna be like “our cap space will be eaten up by kyrie’s contract in year 4 of the deal.” he probably thinks they’re all underpaid to begin with. and honestly if KD ever wants to bounce and leave the nets holding the bag at the end he can just force his way out. if he wants to play with kyrie next year he’s not gonna care about the longterm ramifications

welp

Sources: 76ers All-NBA star Joel Embiid suffered a right orbital fracture and mild concussion in series-clinching Game 6 win last night in Toronto. He will be listed as out and there is no timetable for his return.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 30, 2022

oh man is that from the siakam elbow?

gotta be

embiid was taunting the crowd up 35, pascal retaliated next trip down the court

Man

Aren’t they buds?

embiid was taunting the crowd up 35, pascal retaliated next trip down the court

― symsymsym, Friday, April 29, 2022 8:49 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

eh looks like a standard move, albeit one from a flail-y driver like siakam

idk he was taunting directly before that it if was on purpose it was pretty slick but he got him good

siakam said it was accidental after the game fwiw: https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/embiids-airplane-celebration-in-blowout-doesnt-bother-raptors-siakam/

"I feel awful I hit his face. I was trying to make a move," Siakam said. "Obviously, I apologized to him after that. It was definitely not my intention."

well in that case

a deliberate retaliatory foul usually involves some kind of predictable moves as the two players interact. instead neither of them looked like they had any kind of plan at all.

its crazy that anyone would consider hiring mark jackson after all that behind the scenes stuff with the warriors came out

Mark Jackson has emerged as a finalist for the Sacramento Kings head coaching job, sources tell me and @sam_amick. Kings GM Monte McNair has begun to notify candidates whether they will move onto in-person meetings.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 30, 2022

Mark Jackson to the Kings! Sweet Jesus, make it so!

It’s too good

please god give us this

he must be incredibly desperate to get back into coaching bcuz that’s really one of the worst jobs in all of sports. michael malone is the only coach who has survived that job with his career intact in the last 20 years

Hey Eric Musselman’s doin some good work at Arkansas

yeah hes just taking whatever comes

i think the kings are realistically the only team in the nba that would actually consider jackson

Oh, I didn't know things were THIS bad with the Jazz... pic.twitter.com/JRhhLfojZs

— Tomer Azarly (@TomerAzarly) April 30, 2022

the playoffs really proved gobert right lol mitchell got torched all series

yeah interesting contrast in attitudes there

Mitchell is done with the Jazz. Mentally he already has a foot out the door and he's hated Gobert for a couple of years.

Hawks should get him

idk if i have a much better idea for the hawks but not sure adding mitchell’s defense to that team is really addressing their issues

think mitchell wants to be the guy too

mitchell makes sense to me on a team with a solid defense, like miami's gotta be looking at a herro-centric deal here, right?

yes. and beal also. they’re gonna try and push in again this summer it seems