2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

wonder if ivey might move up to 3rd are teams really so sold on n

banchero

feels like this trade would guarantee that Holmgren falls to fourth and becomes a phenomenon

every player with all-star potential is flawed coming into this draft, gonna be a few teams talking themselves out of certain guys. the knock on paolo is ironically size (arms too short to box out with god) and lack of lateral speed which limits his defensive options. jabari can't self-create or finish inside. chet is the monstar shawn bradley and ppl will have questions (fair or not) about his body in the nba. ivey is gonna confuse ppl that he's the next ja but that's probably not his ceiling.

banchero looks like tall derozan tbh

early detroit-era blake ime

yeah he doesnt have the physical gifts and his college stats were only ok could def see an athletic freak like ivy passing him up

I can tell the hawks are trying to move Collins by the amount of his highlights they keep posting on twitter

banchero measured 6’10.5 without shoes, which was bigger than teams were expecting, i think

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34113085/sources-kenny-atkinson-take-charlotte-hornets-job-stay-golden-state-warriors

not a great look for charlotte lol

wonder if the warriors told him he can have the job after kerr leaves

lol rough

I’m told the Hornets were not aware Kenny Atkinson was not taking the head coaching job until @wojespn tweeted the news.

Still working to confirm.

— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) June 18, 2022

poverty franchise

He prob saw miles bridges ig post from a few weeks back

love to personally humiliate michael "air" jordan

challenge him to a game of chance (non-basketball version)

could just be they gave him more money, seems like there's not really a budget over there

Word has been for a few months that he and his fam really just love it in the bay and he loves his job.

the reporting implies that he and charlotte developed some kind of disconnect after it was announced, which really could be.....any number of things, we're talking about charlotte.

lead assistant for the warriors is a sweet gig to fall back on.

oh yeah lets do this

Sources: Kyrie Irving, Nets are at impasse in conversations about his future in Brooklyn, clearing way for the seven-time All-Star to consider the open market. Lakers and Knicks expected to emerge among potential suitors.

Inside Pass at @TheAthletic: https://t.co/VbOOtrzdTB

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 20, 2022

Potential suitors list needs to include other things besides basketball teams... shamanic retreat centers etc

conscious tshirt brands, vegan meat companies

haterade wholesalers

Anybody got access to this?

NBA draft = NBA trade season ... so here's a jam-packed What We're Hearing column with all the weekend scuttle leading off with lots of Hawks talk and more on Indiana, Detroit, Memphis, Golden State, Denver, Dallas and Charlotte: https://t.co/Df4QnSgSQv

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 20, 2022

kinda crazy to me that marks & the nets don’t catch more heat for how poorly this whole era has gone. they’re gonna end up having given up everything to acquire kyrie and harden to win a total of a single playoff series and be left as, at best, the 4th best team in the east with no way to meaningfully improve their roster. just a total failure!

As casino owners will tell you, high rollers lose big more often than they win big.

yeah but if you have kevin durant on your team basketball should be a rigged game. you shouldn’t be losing to the house.

if kyrie walks and the nets get nothing in return its a total disaster, i mean it already is obv but people should be fired at that point.

if they dont want to resign kyrie they shd prob just trade him and kd, theres no future without kyrie and prob theres no future with him anyway

lol i totally forgot about ben simmons what a mess

package deal KD back to OKC?

kd to seattle

lol i totally forgot about ben simmons what a mess

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yeah thats the thing, on paper and skill/fit wise it makes sense kyrie/kd/ben but then you look at the personalities..

also kyrie just never plays, has terrible vibes, and talks about managing the team after just not showing up to work because er didnt feel like it for the entire three years hes been with them

kd to the celtics so they can beat the warriors lol

Feels like lots of crazy stuff is spring loaded this week

As well it ought to be. Crazy trades make the offseason way more interesting.

Miami’s PJ Tucker will opt out of his $7.4 million player option for the 2022-23 season and enter free agency, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Several championship contending teams are expected to compete for Tucker, who was a key part of Milwaukee’s title run in 2021.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 20, 2022

Come back to Milwaukee my man

yeah but if you have kevin durant on your team basketball should be a rigged game. you shouldn’t be losing to the house.

Perhaps it's time to acknowledge Durant is not the dynasty creating superstar on his own and requires an environment and leadership culture he can't cultivate on his own to win.

The Hornets are looking to trade one of their two first-round picks alongside Gordon Hayward to clear cap space for retaining Miles Bridges, per @WindhorstESPN.

— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 21, 2022

i would do that deal if i was a number of teams. hayward was good last year he just got hurt again

man I would very much simply hate to be the hornets

Yah it ain’t pretty.

actually nailing/developing a mid lottery pick but then having to attach a first to your obviously horrible free agent signing simply so that you can dump his salary and give the one good pick you've made his second contract... ladies and gentleman, michael jordan

it just sucks. they're not a serious franchise at all and good players are going to languish there until something changes.

meanwhile, this cracked me up

I mean, sometimes you get excited when you're starting a new job, and you just wind up saying stuff https://t.co/XvkZnO3YRS

— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) June 22, 2022

Matt Armstrong wrote this on thread NBA 2020-21 reg season 1st half thread on board I Love Hoops on Jan 12, 2021

Remember when people thought the hornets signing Hayward was a huge blunder

I don't understand the "cap space for retaining Bridges" claim though, can't you still go beyond the cap to re-sign your own guys?

they prob just dont want to pay the tax