2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

btw, phil knight is 84 years old, i hope he has a better succession plan in place than paul allen did.

lol

Blazers statement: An offer was made by Phil Knight. The team remains not for sale.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 2, 2022

i dont understand why the trust of a dead guy is hoarding an nba team

kidd?

― Spottie, Thursday, June 2, 2022 5:19 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he was pretty old by then, splitting time with raymond felton

my understanding is the will stipulated the team must be sold five years after his death but that also sounds like an urban legend now that I type it out xp

they have to consult the ouija board

Prospective buyers have to stay overnight at a haunted house, the one who survives to the morning becomes the owner.

we must not degrade the billionaires, please

windhorst talked about the blazers sale process a while ago and the upshot was that the trust had a bunch of more valuable shit to get to before it could get around to selling the blazers

"pfft, two billion? we'll get to that eventually, i guess"

Since December, the Blazers have fired their Director of Player Health and Performance, the VP of Communications, their basketball operations coordinator, a video coordinator, two assistant GMs and a Senior VP.

— Jason Quick (@jwquick) May 25, 2022

from the athletic today, never heard of this guy before but he sounds bad

🔥🔥🔥🔥 @jwquick pic.twitter.com/4cebiV4jbT

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) June 5, 2022

lol maybe I will dish the dirt on bert one day soon

please tell us the stuff

blurt the bert dirt

kolde is well known to any serious blazer fan as paul allen's hatchet man.

Yes!...ha ha ha...Yes!

https://hoopshype.com/rumor/heat-interested-in-patrick-beverley/

seems like his natural habitat

collect all the lowrys! the real ones! the shitty knockoffs!

got to think theres more to come rip utah jazz

Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder is planning to step down, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 5, 2022

zero idea what that team will look like next year but the best idea is probably a total burn down

you can only go out sad so many times in a row

After losing Snyder -- the second winningest coach in franchise history -- the Jazz plan to commence on a coaching search immediately, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 5, 2022

feel like they could do it later

Has a team ever hired another team's general manager to be their head coach? Asking for a friend.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) June 5, 2022

stay away from brad you freaks

bad stevens

ah interesting

ESPN Sources: In aftermath of Quin Snyder’s departure as Utah Jazz coach, All-Star guard Donovan Mitchell is described as “unsettled, unnerved and wondering what it means for the franchise’s future.”https://t.co/hR6H1tKGX0

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 5, 2022

when i heard a few days ago that multiple jazz assistants were bailing for other jobs that pretty much settled it.

i assume he is a take a year off guy for health and contractual reasons.

woj in omniscient narrator mode

“He definitely is going to have to address that and it will be addressed. I definitely think he can be in better shape. We'll address it and try to help him.”

- Pat Riley on Kyle Lowry 😯
(h/t @flasportsbuzz ) pic.twitter.com/f5isweTwD8

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 6, 2022

the Jerry West in him

Lakers coach Darvin Ham on Russell Westbrook’s role next season: “The biggest word we used was sacrifice.”

"I want him to get back to guarding at a championship level." From NBA Today: pic.twitter.com/HPu69MzXaM

— Malika Andrews (@malika_andrews) June 6, 2022

good luck Coach Ham!

YA GONNA NEED IT

pelton:

My projections translate performance in NCAA Division I and other leagues to an NBA equivalent and then adjust for age and position to project value over a player's next five seasons. Lastly, I add in ranking in the ESPN's top 100 prospects for the best consensus projection.

1. Chet Holmgren
Power forward | Gonzaga
Top 100: No. 1
Stats: No. 1

Consensus: 4.4 WARP

There's no change at the very top of my projections, with Holmgren still the top-rated in both the stats-only version and the consensus projections. Holmgren's versatility stands out. He's the first prospect ever in my database to project to block at least 5% of opponent 2-point attempts and take at least 30% of his own shots from 3-point range. Add in projected 59% accuracy on 2-point attempts and Holmgren figures to make a big impact at both ends even if he's not the kind of dominant creator who usually ranks atop draft boards.

2. Jabari Smith
Power forward | Auburn
Top 100: No. 2
Stats: No. 7

Consensus: 3.3 WARP

The one minor concern about Smith as a top prospect is his solid but unspectacular efficiency. Smith's projected .545 true shooting percentage as an NBA rookie is weaker than league average (.566). To become the dominant scorer he's got the potential to be, Smith will have to turn more of his long 2-point attempts (he shot 38.5% on 2s outside 17 feet, per Synergy Sports tracking) into 3s, which he made at a 42% clip -- or an effective field-goal percentage of 63% when accounting for the extra point.

...

11. Paolo Banchero
Power forward | Duke
Top 100: No. 3
Stats: No. 35

Consensus: 2.1 WARP

While the other two top prospects in this year's rankings are 1-2 overall in the consensus projections, Banchero falls outside the top 10 because of his unspectacular stats-only projection. Banchero wasn't as efficient as Holmgren and Smith. He was more accurate on long 2s than Smith (45%, per Synergy Sports) but not nearly as good from 3-point range (34%). Improvement there will help Banchero become an elite scorer. He could also stand to improve his impact on defense.

chet as the clear top prospect is exactly how i see things thank you kevin pelton. teams are really psyching themselves out

otm tho i hope they do psych themselves out okc is such a better situation for chet than orlando

unicorns don't belong in black holes

Everybody's working for the Wolves nowadays

https://www.canishoopus.com/2022/6/9/23161898/reports-dell-demps-to-join-timberwolves-front-office-minnesota-nba

Please don't draft this guy it would be confusing

Nikola Jovic out of Serbia, who played for the same club as Nikola Jokic and grew up a water polo player, headlines today’s Nuggets pre-draft workout.

Is there real interest there, and could Denver actually make him the pick?https://t.co/CsocXGV6Dy

— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) June 10, 2022

lol

need both of them and also bojan bogdanovic and bogdan bogdanovic all on the same team

the hornets get kenny atkinson, the rich mans’s james borrego

i think that’s a nice move for them

oh yeah i’m not trying to throw shade, he’s a good coach and will really help them.

Anthony Davis: "I haven't shot a basketball since probably April 5th." pic.twitter.com/5V7hzptXf8

— 𝙎𝙝𝙪𝙗𝙝 ⁶𓅓 (@OVOLakeShow) June 12, 2022

same

Anthony Davis trying to find a gold’s gym with a hoop open past 10 pm

donovan mitchell posted photos on his IG story working out with bam and hanging out with jimmy… this trade request is hurtling at the jazz franchise like an asteroid

lmao v subtle