he could also change his mind
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
"normal people dare to be different"
good note from bobby:
The Nets are not allowed to acquire a player like Bam Adebayo from the Heat because of the Designated Rookie Extension rule.You cannot have 2 players acquired via a trade that were signed to that type of extension.Brooklyn already has Ben Simmons. https://t.co/AWvLLVh1Op— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) June 30, 2022
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
kd to sacto
Phoenix and Miami are among two of the teams that Kevin Durant has on his wish list, sources tell ESPN, but the Nets plan to move Durant where they can get the best possible deal. With four years on his contract, there's no shortage of teams willing to unload assets for Durant.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
or... OKC!
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
all those thunder fans will have to rebuild their kd jerseys from the ashes
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
lol
pic.twitter.com/h6dHgienID— Freezing Cold Takes (@OldTakesExposed) June 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:10 (one year ago) link
Thank u, KD, for the drama
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
bet him a kyrie schemed this out cause now theyll have to trade both of them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
this owns
― Clay, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
kd now been the hub of 3 of the biggest FA decisions/moves ever
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, June 30, 2022 2:13 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
do they? whats his value at this point?
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
on a one year rental looking for a contract his value could be pretty high.
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
man I fucking hate KD
― k3vin k., Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Kd for Lebron
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Reunions all around
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, June 30, 2022 3:18 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
idk hes hates them they hate him neither has any use for the other anymore
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
someone needs to stop this pod its gone too far
Kyrie foolishness, first round sweep, Harden trade fallout all clearly drove this, but…we can’t discount that all the legacy talk and chatter after the Warriors won the championship might have been the tipping point! pic.twitter.com/j2cpGcCfuP— Trenton Hassles Carmelo (@TrentonHassles) June 30, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
will definitely look back on this nets superteam era as one of the great ones
― Clay, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:26 (one year ago) link
remember when kd kyrie harden and ben simmons were all on the same team that was crazy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
pour one out for Steve Nash tonight friends
― Clay, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
rockets front office popping bottles rn
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
nash probably never been happier, just needs to find a way to offload simmo the goat now
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
something that is crazy to me is that sean marks and the nets front office has so far escaped all criticism for how the kyrie/KD experiment has played out. like, how is this not just an absolutely fireable offense in every sense? they failed as spectacularly as you could ever fail in terms of putting together a super team. they went after volatile personalities, didn't win anything, couldn't do anything to keep the team together, and are now going to be back at square one. it's straight up one of the worst GM jobs i've ever seen? what's the counter argument?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
well they are about to get a massive haul
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
the counter argument is that he wasn't actually running the team
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
also you could argue injuries and unforeseen circumstances (kyrie not playing cos reasons). getting kd was the actual move and they had to do whatever else to make that happen.
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 30, 2022 12:39 PM (forty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol yah kd was the gm and kyrie the coach
i guess you get to credit them for landing them in the first place, but yeah, a lot rides on how they can salvage this kd trade
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
Per source, the Dallas #Mavericks are expected to heavily pursue a trade for #Nets star Kyrie Irving. Assuming they lose Jalen Brunson, that pursuit will be very aggressive.— Evan Massey (@massey_evan) June 30, 2022
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
oh nooooo
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:47 (one year ago) link
im prob not gonna be working much the next 24 hours
― k3vin k., Thursday, June 30, 2022 12:19 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol the only proper reaction
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
there's been reporting that luka is not enamored with the idea of playing with kyrie lol
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
haha
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
i can corroborate those reports. source: common sense
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
cuban: u know kyrieluka: yeah hes a big dickheadcuban: yeah i want him to play basketball with youluka: *through gritted teeth* fuck
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link
poor kyrie simply act like an absolute pill for a decade and people stop wanting to be around you
― lag∞n, Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:55 (one year ago) link
― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 30, 2022 3:39 PM (two minutes ago)
― Spottie, Thursday, June 30, 2022 3:40 PM (one minute ago)
right this is what ppl say. but the whole role of the GM when you put together a super team is to manage the egos enough to keep it together for 3 or 4 years. what you do in terms of player acquisition etc "running the team" actually doesn't matter all that much. you have to have an infrastructure/culture that can get everyone on the same page. clearly they failed spectacularly in that regard and i'm just like... you threw this franchise into the trash can. yeah every team would have taken on kyrie to get KD but other teams would've actually been able to make it work. i don't think it was a foregone conclusion that all of this was just going to go to shit.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
so many teams could make this work, was forgetting NOP and TOR could make really good offers
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
denver should offer mpj+murray for kd+roster fill
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
xp right, they suck and basically started from scratch with a new coach/culture, that pretty much never works. gotta have some infrastructure. like maybe just buying into what atkinson had established could have been better than throwing a brand new ~vibes~ coach in there but mgmt was too weak to stand their ground vs kd and now they are here.
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
This was three years ago today… pic.twitter.com/j7VINeEtZD— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) June 30, 2022
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
With 4 years left on KD's deal, and his likely destinations being very unlikely to have the best trade package, this will be our biggest test ever of player empowerment. How much can he control his destination given the duration of the contract?— Nate Duncan (@NateDuncanNBA) June 30, 2022
Reminder for fake trade creators: Nets aren't doing a deal to tank. Houston owns their next five drafts. It's gotta be something for real basketball players.— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) June 30, 2022
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
he’s gonna end up on the clippers somehow, it’s the most joyless and surreal option probably
― Clay, Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
i don't get what team
a. can win a title in the next 2-3 years w/ durantb. can win a title in the next 2-3 years w/ durant if they trade enough pieces to the nets so that the nets are still competitive c. won't have their lives made a living hell by durant bcuz he got sent somewhere he doesn't want to play
to me it feels like it's going to end the way all this stuff ends w/ the player dictating where he wants to go and the team sending him out getting a bunch of picks
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:18 (one year ago) link
With Simmons needed to be sent out (to Heat or elsewhere) in any Bam/Nets deal, one HYPOTHETICAL permutation that would work within cap rules is Durant/Simmons for Bam, Herro, Lowry, Robinson and three first-rounders (including Jokic).— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) June 30, 2022
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
If the suns can do it without giving up mikal
― Spottie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
circling back to the marks thing, my feeling is that there was a decision at the ownership level to let kd and kyrie come to brooklyn and more or less run the show. i don't get the sense that marks was put in a position to wield influence over anything other than like slots 8-15 on the roster, where he's basically been doing fine. if joe tsai could fire himself that would be much more appropriate--he turned his business over to two absolute weirdos.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 30 June 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link