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i thought i heard that the warriors had signaled no interest from their end pretty clearly

Likely they’re just driving the price up lol

think i read that kd said the dubs were the one team he specifically did not want to go to

yah but is it like "oh PLEASE don't trade me to the warriors. i would HATE to play for the warriors. that's the LAST place i want to be"

yeah thats the quote i saw

if it’s true that he’s being motivated at least in part by wanting to win a title “on his own” like steph was able to do then going to the warriors isn’t a solution

also given that the warriors accomplished their goal of winning another title while building a young core of players thru the draft it seems counterintuitive that they would then turn around and trade kuminga etc for KD

itd be tragicomic if the dubs trade their young players and then kd and klay get injured again

i very much doubt either side is all that interested no matter what rumors are out there.

yeah i do not at all actually believe kd wants to go to the warriors fwiw

Hard to believe the Dubs and KD are going to call do over

Don't even say that bise.

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i also miss kwame brown

lol

lolol i guess 2004 never happened and i guess kobe's entire personality never happened either

Wtf: https://www.reddit.com/r/warriors/comments/vqyok1/thompson_the_warriors_superstars_have_been_in/

Ah reading a little more closely that's just highlighting that the players would be ok with a reunion.

katie is a bitch

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lmao if nets just sit and ride this out

It’s prob the best for both sides? Motivated Kyrie in a contract year. Harris back. Ben could be a good fit if he plays.

wolves really pushing the we kept jaden mcdaniels line lol, i mean who cares you gave the store away anyway

Danny Ainge pushed hard to include Jaden McDaniels in the Rudy Gobert trade, sources tell @JonKrawczynski and @Tjonesonthenba.

The Wolves held firm and by Friday, the Jazz were amenable to greater draft pick compensation instead.https://t.co/oWZenZrvY4 pic.twitter.com/wIPJHLAolw

— The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) July 5, 2022

it’s very strange. do casual nba fans even know who jaden mcdaniels is?

i do not know who he is

reflecting upon the gobert trade seems pretty clear they were aiming for just being a playoff team for a while and rudy is a very reliable regular season floor raiser, also heard connelly is a big stats guy so he prob loves rudy lol

zach lowe talked to the good wolves guy at the athletic and he said there was an ownership push for this too and marc lore is also a big stats guy.

They will be better

i mean who cares you gave the store away anyway

When it comes to the Wolves, "being better for a few years" could be an all-time high point for the franchise, so it's not unreasonable to think the store that they gave away wouldn't have been very well-stocked anyway.

think you got lost in the metaphor there

lmao if nets just sit and ride this out

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i mean they have to at least pretend

some pretty funny reactions to them signing tj warren, which i don’t think is indicative of anything other than that they told tj warren they’d have minutes for him.

okay!

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good to know!

email me if anything changes i guess

I think fundamentally you guys aren't Wolves fans so you ask "Why?" instead of "Fuck it, why not?"

have definitely seen more wolves positivity elsewhere compared to here

at some point it's important enough to simply work on improving your franchise's reputation even if your ceiling is below the finals

I mean the value they gave up was ridiculous, I was pretty bummed out about it, now I'm just like oh well this is going to be something

But if we, say, top out similar to Utah I will be happy to watch good, competitive basketball

Also I think there was a good chance running it back with the same core could have ended up outside the playoffs, we squeaked in

should be better than utah i think, worst case the defense outside of gobert is just as bad as utah's was but the offense is better

Maybe could they work on improving the reputation of the Minneapolis police while they're at it. Couldn't hurt.

the "stats" stuff with gobert is really funny to me. do the t wolves have access to his stats in the playoffs

feel like theres a big downside risk of gobert starting another global pandemic too

this trade keeps making me think about when the sixers paired up horford and embiid

that Jody Allen statement might as well say they’re riding out the franchise valuation inflation market to the very end, to the moon, hodl etc, but then I really wish they’d sold to knight who would at least guarantee the team sticks around

i've heard that sentiment a few places but isn't knight quite elderly at this point?

yeah but he presumably would create a deeper trust to manage the situation going forward, as much as I can barely stand the guy I’ll admit that knight’s commitment to oregon athletic and educational institutions is rock solid (well, the ones he personally cares about, he’s that kind of billionaire)

I dunno, part of this is what is success? Is nothing short of a championship success? Let's say Denver never gets over the hump, was that team a failure? Was this Celtics team this year a failure? Stockton/Malone Jazz?

If this Wolves tops out without a finals, maybe? But it's certainly wouldn't be like the Nets or Clippers (obv Clips could def still work out)

I guess it depends. Jord def seems to approach hoops from a omniscient "Dr Manhattan of Hoops" way, I'm more just a rube

even wolves fans could prob find a way to get sick of exiting the playoffs in the first couple rounds after a while, and i do think making moves that put a cap on your team from a performance time flexibility or whatever perspective is def a con worth considering when doing deals, but mostly i just think overpaying like they did is bad policy, also i dont like rudy gobert

but on the other hand they might be pretty good idk theres always a lot of unknown with a new mix of guys whether the supporting cast holds up etc but they could def imho be a consistent playoff maker