2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

john wall back

Five-time NBA All-Star John Wall will secure a buyout with the Houston Rockets and become an unrestricted free agent, league sources tell @YahooSports.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 28, 2022

I am imagining this entire Kyrie scenario as him realizing Brooklyn didn't want him anymore, so he's now opting in so they don't have a choice and will play every game next season just to prove a "point".

kyrie is such a reflexive contrarian and reactionary that's very plausible

John Wall is planning to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers once he clears waivers, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 28, 2022

lol not even one day for the podcasters to speculate

i honestly don’t think he can play anymore i can’t believe he has been talked about for so long

john floor

at least the floor supports the teammates legs, more like john basement

those 40 games in houston weren't atrocious, i don't think he's changing anyone's destiny but he could help the clippers off the bench in some games that matter.

Worth a flyer at least

Clippers depth chart:

Wall / Jackson
Powell / Kennard
PG / Covington
Kawhi / Morris
Zubac / Batum pic.twitter.com/XKgTbbCZPu

— StatMuse (@statmuse) June 28, 2022

those are some players

if you remove wall & zubac you get the outline of their playoff roster. we’ll see

lol

Report: Nets learned of Kyrie Irving opting in with his public statement https://t.co/4CzFct3F1w

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) June 28, 2022

the organization paying him sits no higher than nba twitter. the world is flat.

Obv

ESPN Sources: Los Angeles Lakers star Russell Westbrook is planning to exercise his $47.1 million option to return to the franchise for the 2022-2023 season.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 28, 2022

pic.twitter.com/y3V4P1GwS1

— Russell Westbrook (@russwest44) June 28, 2022

He's being paid $47M to play basketball. Glad to hear that being asked to play defense won't break his soul.

“an insider close to the situation says that the Spurs have multiple teams making a strong push for Murray besides the Hawks. One Eastern Conference team, he says, is offering three first round draft picks and a desirable young player in a proposed swap.”

someone woke pat up? 👀 https://t.co/9RgbtHoVsT pic.twitter.com/wWIQ8vN4rO

— dru_star (@dru_star) June 28, 2022

Report: Miami Heat have checked in on Dejounte Murray https://t.co/b5pMVGz7sy

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) June 28, 2022

“I did get indications that a few weeks back, Miami checked in on Dejounte Murray,” the Five on the Floor podcast reported.

The report was followed up by acknowledgment that Murray seems to be headed elsewhere already, though nothing has yet been set in stone.

he doesn’t feel like a heat trade target to me. they usually go for older stars

yeah, and hes not helping their spacing issues either

i wonder if there's an eastern conference team that just picked up a bunch of movable first round picks in an otherwise explicable trade!

knicks? they were pretty protected, right?

Boston Celtics assistant Will Hardy is closing in on deal to become the next head coach of the Utah Jazz, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 28, 2022

and good luck to him

congrats to that man

we're so close to a gen z coach

At this point, it's widely anticipated that Jalen Brunson will go to the Knicks on a four-year deal in excess of $100M. It remains to be seen how New York will clear the rest of the necessary cap space and whether the Mavs can work a sign-and-trade to recoup assets.

— Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) June 28, 2022

P.J. Tucker is expected to join the #Sixers. Here’s how they can absorb his salary https://t.co/u25BG0GmBh via @phillyinquirer

— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) June 28, 2022

knicks? they were pretty protected, right?

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, June 28, 2022 12:28 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

shhh

can the mavs match or is he unrestricted? seems a bit high, but not outlandish.

he’s unrestricted bcuz he was a second round pick

you know what, if the knicks think they can make some noise with their weird little jalen brunson julius randle team then i hope they succeed

…couldn’t be me!

lmao, dallas losing brunson and gaining christian wood feels pretty lateral, dallas needs to Do Something imo

yea mavs losing one of their three shot creators is not good. and i dont really see a way for them to get another one..

the hardaway and bertans contracts are looking ROUGH
https://www.basketball-reference.com/contracts/DAL.html

losing bruson is bad why are they losing him wth

go to the knicks and get booed doesnt sound that good

what if he has a good relationship with his dad, the anti-riverses

then dallas shouldve hired his dad how did they let the knicks scoop them

How good is Brunson? I can't get a handle on what the general feeling is. Is he poised to breakout if he's more of an focal point or is he just a guy who's young and undamaged or hindered by a terrible contract in a time when there aren't many available?

brunsons dad would fit right in the mavs org. hes their type

UMS i think it’s the latter. he’s never going to make an all star team.

I would feel a lot better about that Tucker contract if it were two years. I've got a feeling we're going to find out he's cooked a month into the second year.

yeah brunson will probably be a borderline all star guy. he's probably best suited as a 6th man, or as a 3rd option on a good team? hes real crafty and seems to be an elite pnr guard. but hes short and not great on defense. will be interesting to see what he does with a higher usage rate, no luka to play next to, and way less shooting around him.

thx dudes I was wondering that...a lot of this off-season has "well we gotta do something" vibes

yeah its just the knicks

he'll also be 26 soon so hard to see him making another leap. per 36 the last two years he's been about 18/5/5 the scoring will prob increase a bit but the shooting percentages will drop