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he such an idiot. hes had all these clips floating around from his twitch feeds and i just cant stomach listening to him.

ah man torn acl for danny green. this may be the end of the line for his career.

Great pro

if his rehab goes normally i bet he’s on a contending roster come the playoffs next year. some team
who is desperate for wing shooting will give him a shot

he'll get one more shot if he wants it but hes likely not playing until the 2024 season

hes 34 if i were him id be thinking about hanging it up, you really want to go through a year of intense rehab to maybe get a shot at a min deal idk rip

Report: Mike D’Antoni is the ‘leader’ for the Hornets job https://t.co/6f5QuMcaAR

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) May 13, 2022

lamelo is going to make an all nba team next year

would actually be a cool situation for mike dan tony

needs to bring along his defensive guy he had in houston tho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_D%27Antoni

did not know about his older brother, dan dan tony

haha

not the guy i would choose at all but uh good luck charlotte!

i like mike dan tony but don't think he can do too much there. happy to be wrong

wth is he thinking

ion think i’ve ever seen an nba superstar threaten to shoot a fan on twitter before 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/2cCTfJqx63

— 𝘣 🍿 (@TheClevelandEra) May 14, 2022

lol wtf

yikes

DRAYMOND: "You got this Ogre on TV...these are people employed to talk on TV about our game."

KENDRICK: "I can say what the f**k I want to say when I want to say it...You got the game f**ked up f****g with Big Perk. Carry on." pic.twitter.com/x8zE4ifRW6

— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) May 14, 2022

similar to how folks seems to be slowly hipping to the fact that letting politics morons spew whatever they want on TV is potentially bad for society I need a new yorker expose on how people like perkins and shaq have jobs talking nonsense about the NBA when they should know better but just don’t care to

let me tell you something at the end of the day theres just an appetite for two guys on tv disagreeing and if the topic is an obvious one well someones going to have to take the dumb side

and god draymond is such a trenchant ideas guy, he needs to sit down and watch barkley in the studio, constantly acting like your opinion is the best one ever thought doesnt help your case

if he really wanted to bring the cold hard basketball truths he wouldve said i dont shoot because im bad at it and its not good to do the things youre bad at

i mean perk didnt shoot either lol

one has to assume that ESPN and TNT have market research indicating that the Shaqs and Perks of the world have added value. Even though he's been on for like 15 yrs I still honestly think of Shaq as an interloper to the original (and all-time) Inside the NBA with just Ernie-Kenny-Chuck. But I'm sure all the dumb bits with Shaq are the most popular segments, so

at least on espn idk abt tnt the producers literally plan out the sides of the arguments ahead of time

kd wld never want to be a pundit but hes obvs a thinker about the game

Size for position, shotmaking, efficiency, IQ, consistency, being able to guard multiple positions, a wiling passer, coachable, energetic…in my humble opinion https://t.co/7MaEUhbxyg

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) May 16, 2022

the draft guy at the althetic has jabari smith ranked ahead of chet and it just seems crazy to me this is the contemporary version of teams just taking an athletic seven footer first just cause thats the valuable type of guy except in this case hes a big wing who can shoot and defend and tbf he is very big and athletic and can shoot the heck out of the ball but im watching his season highlight package now and feel very comfortable in saying that he had fewer than ten impressive drives all last year he just does not seem to have an off the bounce game hes a 3 and d guy youre really gonna draft a 3 and d guy number one

granted hes very young and has time to learn things but just never driving at all idk and chet is a natural baller he does it all and is scrappy too literally the one strike against chet is that hes a skinny man, smith might be soft its hard to say doesnt seem like hes in there mixing it up

agree entirely and apparently his numbers finishing at the rim are alarming. he shot 43% on two pointers overall. the athletic guy's argument is that jabari won't be played off the floor in the playoffs because he's a wing who can shoot and guard which makes sense except if you're not really that good how much does it matter if you're on the floor. wiggins isn't being played off the floor either but he also wasn't considered a useful player until he ended up on a team where he was the fourth option on offense

when ppl talk about chet i almost wonder if they look at his shot, like they just take for granted that he's a good shooter and we've seen bigs who can shoot and it just is what it is. but i feel like at that height the only guys i can think of who have better looking shots are KD and dirk. everything about his shot is natural and easy. i just don't see how he fails, he's too good of a shooter, he's guaranteed 40%+ from three, he can also dribble and move, if he ever develops a post or mid range game a la dirk he's gonna break defenses. jabari smith is very easy to understand but he also just might be a completely average player. i don't see how chet is worse than myles turner and his ceiling is one of the best big men to ever play

yeah that wont get played off the floor line is wild i hope the 1st pick wont get played off the floor you prob didnt take the right guy if he does

so ayton wants a max contract this offseason and phoenix doesn't want to keep him if it means they pay him at max. the questions I have for the ILH collective are: Will any team want ayton on their team as a max contract? And if ayton gets an offer sheet somewhere at or near to the max, will phoenix match it?

I mean, it's not a Ben Simmons level soap opera, but it's a storyline.

there's def teams that would give him the max. it's the rookie max and for any team signing him as a FA it's only 4 years, it's pretty low risk esp if you aren't in a cap crunch which the suns are.

as for matching, i bet they'd try and sign and trade him. maybe they'd match, but teams can also do all sorts of poison pill things or whatever. it doesn't seem like things are headed towards a longterm relationship there

ayton is eligible for a contract somewhere between ~32-34m a year depending on if he signs with the suns or goes somewhere else, kinda think no ones going to give him nearly that much idk there are some dumb teams tho

i think desperate teams in far flung markets would do it -- detroit, charlotte, apparently indiana was calling them at the deadline. portland maybe. the knicks? atlanta?

he's young and doesn't have a concerning injury history for a big. i think he'd be attractive to teams hoping to just make the playoffs for a few years and who are not worried about whether ayton can be a key player on a championship team

i didn't know about this until it was mentioned by kevin arnovitz on zach lowe's podcast today, but this long article on ESPN about how much de'andre ayton loves video games was, um, illuminating

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33898958/deandre-ayton-phoenix-suns-video-games

It's clear watching Ayton play NBA 2K on the big screen that he's a dedicated gamer. He says that family comes first for him -- as the father of a 1-year-old, Ayton always makes time for his son, Deandre Jr., and girlfriend, Anissa Evans. But then, every day, he'll settle down for several hours -- at least four or five -- to play NBA 2K. This is how Ayton reached Legend status, an achievement that occurs by reaching Level 40 for four seasons in the game. Ayton believes he's the only NBA player to become a Legend.

"I don't know how I did it this year because I got a child, but I did it," Ayton says.

Ayton typically wakes up around 6 a.m. after only getting about two hours of sleep. There's time for a quick round of gaming after eating breakfast, then he's off to practice. Then it's back home to finish talking trash and practicing moves on the virtual court. On game days, Ayton is focused, but that schedule still includes time for video games.

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i suspect when the suns let ESPN do this story they might not have had ayton's best interests at heart...

portland maybe.

not likely. i think pdx will do whatever it can to retain nurkic, but they may need to overpay him to do it. he's a better fit than ayton anyway.

i … could not disagree more but to each his own, though I don’t think either player is a real answer

nurk won't put the blazers back into the (super-max + max) bind they were in with lillard & cj, but ayton would, while not delivering enough value. a big part of nurk's 'better fit' for me is that he can hold down the middle but not break the bank. after the tear down the blazers need to sign some solid pieces to rebuild with. ayton ain't the answer.

with Portland’s current roster I’m not sure what the question even is

it's not one question, but at least a dozen.

if i was the blazers, i would simply win the draft lottery and then draft chet holmgren

they might be the most mysterious team in the league right now. no idea what their goals are, what style of basketball they wanna play, how they intend on getting better, who is even on their team. it sounds like dame is sticking around in which case they need to put a real team around him in one offseason

my lord that ayton gaming story is something

i suspect when the suns let ESPN do this story they might not have had ayton's best interests at heart...

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 16, 2022 6:09 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

this makes sense and also sucks

It wasn't just the Suns. his agent prob knew in advance, too.

my lord that ayton gaming story is something

― call all destroyer, Monday, May 16, 2022 8:25 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao that shit is wild why doesnt he sleep sleep is important

"I don't know how I did it this year because I got a child, but I did it," Ayton says, as his kid stares at him blankly, his mouth agape, his eyes wide

to be fair one year olds sleep a lot, unlike deandre ayton

i didn't know about this until it was mentioned by kevin arnovitz on zach lowe's podcast today, but this long article on ESPN about how much de'andre ayton loves video games was, um, illuminating

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/33898958/deandre-ayton-phoenix-suns-video-games

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 16, 2022 6:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i just listened to this pod and for someone as measured as arnovitz to refer repeatedly to ayton's "comportment" being a concern within the suns.....yeah there's something there.