2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

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

― lag∞n, Monday, June 20, 2022 10:45 AM (forty-four seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

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

Source: Wizards star Bradley Beal will decline his $36.4 million player option for the 2022-23 season and become an unrestricted free agent this summer, @hoopshype has learned. More on Beal’s future, Bobby Portis, Nicolas Batum, and others in the story. https://t.co/sT8KU2qBUr

— Michael Scotto (@MikeAScotto) June 22, 2022

xp yes, that is 100% management-side reporting claiming they need to move hayward to pay bridges, which they don't need to do at all.

Sources: Sixers pursuing P.J. Tucker; Matisse Thybulle and a pick being shopped to create cap space https://t.co/YZ8Z1Qx2rT via @phillyinquirer

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) June 22, 2022

Woj on ESPN’s mock draft just now:

If you’re a GM who hasn’t gotten an offer from the Sixers involving pick No. 23 and Matisse Thybulle, “You probably have had your phone shut off”

— Kyle Neubeck (@KyleNeubeck) June 22, 2022

Four months ago he could have included Thybulle instead of Curry in the Harden deal, but no . . .

really hoping that the nuggets select nikola jovic

selling off picks and players to sign a 37 year old to a 3 year contract…
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, June 22, 2022 2:06 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

da gm genius

gemius

dork elvis (stojko)

Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton is exercising his $5.7 million option to return for the 2022-2023 season, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 22, 2022

wonder if there's some under the table deal here cuz one would think he could get at least 10

he is one of giannis' buddies so i would suspect they have something lined up for him after this contract

The Sixers are attempting to trade Tobias Harris but finding no team willing to take on his contract, per @PompeyOnSixers.

— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 22, 2022

this seems like the route for connaughton

One possibility to explain Connaughton -- he and Bucks eligible to sign an extension next month starting as high as ~$12M a year and going as long as 4 years; so the opt-in could be part of a bigger play here.

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) June 22, 2022

The Hawks’ goal is to trade John Collins before the draft begins, per @JakeLFischer.

— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 22, 2022

for who Evan?

i know they want to open space for Okongwu which i appreciate, but we better get something here.

TRADES

Detroit has traded Jerami Grant to Portland for 2025 first-round pick via Milwaukee, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 22, 2022

that’s good I like this

yeah good move for them

solid trade

great to get him for a bad first, i guess we’ll see what the contract is

thinking a little more about this deal and i realized it closes the circle on the cj trade to new orleans with that bucks pick heading out, so ultimately that deal shakes out to CJ and larry nance jr for jerami grant and josh hart which is a much better deal!

we all love 2025 first round picks

im high on the 2025 draft

we will be so happy, biden will be reelected and finally put the trump years behind us, players will vibe off that

2028 sounds like a fake year that could never happen. 2025 is fine though

The Suns don’t view Deandre Ayton as a max-level player and are very motivated to find a sign-and-trade, per @wojespn.

— Evan Sidery (@esidery) June 23, 2022

oh cmon there's some stiff competition there. but this is a unique situation in that it seems like the Suns themselves are the ones revealing to everyone else that he's fools gold