kd to the celtics so they can beat the warriors lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 June 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
Feels like lots of crazy stuff is spring loaded this week
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 20 June 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
As well it ought to be. Crazy trades make the offseason way more interesting.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 20 June 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
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
― Spottie, Monday, 20 June 2022 22:46 (one year ago) link
Come back to Milwaukee my man
― frogbs, Monday, 20 June 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
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.
― octobeard, Monday, 20 June 2022 23:05 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
i would do that deal if i was a number of teams. hayward was good last year he just got hurt again
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link
man I would very much simply hate to be the hornets
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:50 (one year ago) link
Yah it ain’t pretty.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:54 (one year ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:58 (one year ago) link
it just sucks. they're not a serious franchise at all and good players are going to languish there until something changes.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:07 (one year ago) link
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?
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
they prob just dont want to pay the tax
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:41 (one year ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 06:08 (one year ago) link
Four months ago he could have included Thybulle instead of Curry in the Harden deal, but no . . .
― Cabernet Frank (PBKR), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
really hoping that the nuggets select nikola jovic
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
da gm genius
gemius
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
dork elvis (stojko)
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
he is one of giannis' buddies so i would suspect they have something lined up for him after this contract
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
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
― Spottie, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
for who Evan?
― Heez, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
i know they want to open space for Okongwu which i appreciate, but we better get something here.
― Heez, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
TRADES
Detroit has traded Jerami Grant to Portland for 2025 first-round pick via Milwaukee, sources tell ESPN.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 22, 2022
― Spottie, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
that’s good I like this
― Clay, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
yeah good move for them
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
solid trade
― brimstead, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
great to get him for a bad first, i guess we’ll see what the contract is
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
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!
― Clay, Thursday, 23 June 2022 00:50 (one year ago) link
we all love 2025 first round picks
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
im high on the 2025 draft
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
we will be so happy, biden will be reelected and finally put the trump years behind us, players will vibe off that
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
2028 sounds like a fake year that could never happen. 2025 is fine though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 23 June 2022 01:04 (one year ago) link
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
― Spottie, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:44 (one year ago) link
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
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:50 (one year ago) link
hes fine hes just not worth a max.
― micah, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
yeah but he's got that tantalizing young big man thing that teams find irresistible. they surely could have kept their cards closer to their chest and traded him for some good stuff. now they've telegraphed to the world that they don't think he's worthy of being part of their core
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
whatever one thinks of ayton it's just really hard for me to believe that the suns know what they're doing
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
looking more and more like that's the case sadly. RIP suns, your vibes were exquisite
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 23 June 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
must be a Ben Simmons type situation brewing here because during last year's Finals I thought it was no doubt he was worth the max
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 June 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link