2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

there's been reporting that luka is not enamored with the idea of playing with kyrie lol

haha

i can corroborate those reports. source: common sense

cuban: u know kyrie
luka: yeah hes a big dickhead
cuban: yeah i want him to play basketball with you
luka: *through gritted teeth* fuck

poor kyrie simply act like an absolute pill for a decade and people stop wanting to be around you

the counter argument is that he wasn't actually running the team

― call all destroyer, Thursday, June 30, 2022 3:39 PM (two minutes ago)

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, 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.

so many teams could make this work, was forgetting NOP and TOR could make really good offers

denver should offer mpj+murray for kd+roster fill

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.

This was three years ago today… pic.twitter.com/j7VINeEtZD

— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) June 30, 2022

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

he’s gonna end up on the clippers somehow, it’s the most joyless and surreal option probably

i don't get what team

a. can win a title in the next 2-3 years w/ durant
b. 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

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

If the suns can do it without giving up mikal

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.

Man, I need some popcorn.

what if the nets just decide not to trade him

could happen!

the nets are not what?

The Nets, however, are not buoyed to honoring any of Durant's preferred destinations and plan to make a deal that allows them the greatest return of assets, sources told ESPN.

lmfao

KD and Kyrie “want to continue to play together,” but not in Brooklyn, per @wojespn pic.twitter.com/Tr1LxLHBa9

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) June 30, 2022

oh my god

kd and kyrie want "to continue to sabotage teams together" just not the nets because "that one is used up"

come home to DC kev

there needs to be a televised intervention with durant

Locked in. @ShamsCharania | #NBAFreeAgency pic.twitter.com/cfVstD007v

— Stadium (@Stadium) June 30, 2022

ESPN's Stephen A. Smith says Heat "has assets that Brooklyn doesn't particularly want" and that Durant "wants to be in" Phoenix, despite owning a home in Miami.

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) June 30, 2022

lol bison who is Jock Landell

there needs to be a televised intervention with durant

― J0rdan S., Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:53 PM (fifty-six seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha yess.

this is too good. anyone got 80+ mill in quality salared players plus picks theyre trying to offload?

honestly a pretty good player who can "shoot the piss out of the ball", he was the australian NBL mvp and finals mvp a year agoxp

he's kind of a tweener defensively, but he'll be a decent option to play stretch 5 off the bench

whole league is in shambles
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWhw8LtXEAEWnQo?format=jpg&name=large

i love when players go online and find the uniform photoshops theyre just like us

Maxey, Harden and Harris for KD and Kyrie, lol.

Preferred outcome is still:

Omg it would be amazing if a disgruntled Simmons is left alone on the Nets.

― Am I doomposting? I would say you’re not doomposting enough. (PBKR), Monday, June 27, 2022 7:18 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

jock was good in the olympics, i’m surprised he didn’t get more run with the spurs

simmons needs to demand a trade too

xp Wonder if they'll keep him

Hawks should offer Collins and Huerter and that dude we just drafted

Free agent Jalen Brunson intends to sign a four-year, near $110M deal with the New York Knicks in free agency, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. The Mavericks never received chance to make offer, sources said.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 30, 2022

this is pretty crazy really

Steph Curry and Klay Thompson played 45 games together this year, even with Klay missing half of the season.

Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving only played 44 games in three years as teammates. pic.twitter.com/jCWBwKdhf5

— SB Nation (@SBNation) June 30, 2022

The decision by Durant, who missed six weeks to a strained MCL this season after missing all of the 2019-20 season, comes after days of speculation that he was upset with the manner in which franchise had treated Irving, deciding against giving a fully guaranteed, four year, $245.6 million deal.

knicks gonna pay 110 mil and lose a second round pick to sign jalen brunson. very cool very nice

it is terrible how badly the franchise treated the maxed out troll guy who did everything he could to not play games xp

incredible stuff.

what the hell

BREAKING: Memphis Grizzlies F Jaren Jackson Jr., underwent surgery to repair a stress fracture in his right foot on Wednesday and is expected to be sidelined for 4-to-6 months, sources tell ESPN. Jackson is expected to make a full recovery. pic.twitter.com/RBFlyYiiUq

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 30, 2022

oh no!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWiALoQXwAMeUmp?format=jpg&name=small

Beal 5/251 with Wiz
Booker 4/214 extension

that beal contract is bananas

talking myself into the blazers being a way outside shot to land kd and then me finding a therapist again