2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

if the spurs are looking to get rid of their best player that means theres prob something wrong

― Spottie, Monday, June 27, 2022 1:39 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk they might just be looking at their roster and thinking more rebuilding is better than getting stuck in the middle, but theyre prob not really looking to move him teams are calling and theyre like yeah give us crazy value and of course well think about it

westbrook and simmons are such a cosmically bad fit i feel like they must have already played together

tbh anytime you hear rumors abt the spurs, its coming from the other team. i think atl is trying to create a market for jc and keep rumors that theyre targeting a young all-star for him. i dont think the spurs are that interested in trading dejounte.

spurs have basically 3 paths:
1. trade dejounte for a godfather presti offer and get their under-23 players (and there are a lot of them, and theyre all 6'5") all the run they want while they keep building through the draft for the next few years
2. make a run at ayton with a max offer s&t with the suns and add a another FA or two and try to become a playoff team now
3. maintain status quo, play it conservative and commit to methodical grinding mediocrity

i think ayton has untapped lead scorer potential, and if he learns how to sleep like a normal adult, he could be a top 3 center, so im hoping for 2, will settle for 1, dreading 3

its pretty funny how sam presti has all the draft picks and can easily make a trade that would kneecap any other franchise

ok

“The Nets are putting out there right now that they are prepared to lose BOTH Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant.” @WindhorstESPN

— Cody Mallory (@RealCodyMallory) June 27, 2022

if for a penny, in for a--hold up did you say a pound? noooo thank you

this is good imo, the nets should give up

send kyrie to the lakers and kd to any half decent team

tell simmons youll trade him if he plays good for a half a season and call it a day

theme for the 2020's definitely feels like "the death drive", nets FO is on trend

the backdrop to this is apparently that joe tasi isn't happy with the team's performance on the business side

maybe they should try building a team from scratch to cultivate an actual fanbase

consider locating their team in a place that doesnt have a team

i think if they put together something better than the knicks organically then they will get people on board, and thats a pretty low bar

they could def do better than they do now but theres just always going to be that knicks problem there

In talking with multiple sources around the NBA, many believe Hawks on verge of trading for San Antonio's All-Star guard Dejounte Murray - However, it's looking like John Collins is not part of deal. Would be Gallo & multiple 1st round picks. Spurs prepping for future & '23 draft

— Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) June 27, 2022

lol spurs love trading for washed euros on the end of the career that wouldve thrived on their team in their prime and then cutting them, can see it

they should at least try it once. they immediately tried to buy a team after moving there and then when that failed they were bad for a few years and then tried again

yeah i dont disagree on principle its just the right thing to do

but imo thy kinda fucked themselves by moving to ny calling themselves brooklyn and not changing the name the nets, their whole thing is contrived and lame while theyre competing against a team thats one of the most new yorky institutions, they tried to be cool and sleek play one million jayz songs and yell where brooklyn, but what new yorkers really want is shitty old timey stuff

fuckin spec house looking gray court

their arena has seats that are actually comfortable though

this is the second most important thing after having a watchable team

def the worst part of the entire thing is all the gray why is everything gray

the color scheme is lame theres too many repeat color schemes in the NBA let the spurs have the monochrome and do something else

I called 3:45 PM today for Fizdale’s firing in typical Knicks Friday news dump fashion. Was just slightly off.

— Robin Lundberg (@robinlundberg) December 6, 2019

they should have been renamed the brooklyn dodges and made a whole marketing thing about being ram tough

nets should move to vegas

they already luv 2 gamble, makes sense

they should rename to the giants to increase the cross-sport confusion on that name

is the trae young + dejounte murray combo doing anything for us? i can’t get a handle on it

that doesnt make sense at all to me but whatever they want

i think a trae, murray, hunter, okongwu and capela starting 5 could be good defensively

plus great on offense

i think the idea of a strong defensive guard next to trae makes all the sense in the world but i wouldn't pay a premium for murray who will lose a lot of his value playing off trae

didn't he average like 8 rebounds a game? can't see that dropping off

i feel like it makes sense in theory, ok second ball handler, better defensive guard. this all makes sense. but then i’m like, are they really getting that much better? they still have zero wing players outside of hunter who may not be much himself

xp the 9 assists a game will tho

yeah true, but it also solves the back up PG role which has been dire

the hawks desperately needed someone besides trae who can make a play and now they have that and dejounte is big enough to play the 2 and is a good defender, whether trae can break a lot of his bad habits around being a guy who just always has the ball and does nothing else will prob determine whether it works as well as possible

*if it happens lol

immediately went to espn.com

haa sry

dejounte shooting 33% on threes would have me worried about playing him off trae but i guess you just hope he does a lot of secondary playmaking

trying to think of any other way the hawks improve their roster this year honestly unless durant wants to come

would trae be willing to play off ball?

he would need to learn how lol. i get frustrated watch steph move off the ball bc trae tends to just stand there

none of the steph disciples actually want to play like him

shoot from half court check, move off ball ehh, play defense bro what

running is hard on your knees, swag is forever, i get it