2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

Kenny Lofton Jr. is doing WORK on Chet Holmgren early 👀 pic.twitter.com/vAszsD6Tmd

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 6, 2022

kenny lofton 😂😮‍💨

— Ja Morant (@JaMorant) July 6, 2022

imagine for a second that you're mark bartelstein and you're like "hey can we throw in a no-trade?" and they say sure. god that must be satisfying.

hey when you've got a guy coming off a season where you missed half the year and had a career-worst shooting from 3, youve gotta make sure and wrap that guy up for a quarter billi before the knicks try some funny business

this might inspire me to do a worst-run franchise c. 2022 poll

lots of competition this year

offhand i think there are 3 options, 4 if you're feeling spicy, but it would be fun to open it up to all of course

dont agree that okc will get less value back because they have to many picks. picks are a finite resource so if anything they can drive value up via cornering the market

well now i'm talking about it so i might as well do it worst-run NBA franchise as of the 2022 offseason

cannot get over this Bradley Beal contract, it reminds me of MLB 10-15 years ago when teams would sign 30 year old overweight sluggers who can't play defense to these insane 9 year contracts even though players fitting that profile almost always declined after 1-2 years and would usually become unplayable after 5. but the GMs wouldn't give a shit because they knew if they didn't turn things around fast they'd be fired anyway. actually this whole offseason has reminded me of that. they're making moves as if they knew the world was ending next year

...well...

lol

feel like the wizards were just like fuck were doing our own thing (being bad)

please applaud this business move

"People can’t accept the fact that athletes are now businessmen and no longer just playing basketball."

Draymond Green on Kevin Durant making the best "business" decision for his career 🔥pic.twitter.com/ps3k6GhaFD

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) July 7, 2022

im not a business man, im a business, man
trade me bc you want give a max extension to my conspiracy friend😎😎😎

*won't, jfc

most ridiculous part is there are actually people who celebrate when lebron is declared a billionaire or whatever

if you want me to be enthused about your business decisions you have to give me a cut thats the rule, im not talking about anything big just let me wet my beak, weve all got to eat

draymond is setting a new standard for guys saying dumb shit that they think it really smart

hes really passionate about it lol

Woah if this is where the Nets are at in terms of a trade

Report: Nets asked the Timberwolves for Karl Anthony Towns, Anthony Edwards, and 4 first round draft picks for Kevin Durant, per @VinceGoodwill

Minnesota had no interest in a deal. pic.twitter.com/aPXSre1ud0

— Top Ball Coverage (@TopBallCoverage) July 7, 2022

lmao good luck

lmaoooooooooooooooo kd is staying PUT

tbf they heard from utah that neighborhood gives out full size candy bars

How about a three team deal where the nets get Doncic and Embiid and the mavs and sixers get KD for one half of the season

xpost from the press conference, I get the sense they made some calls on bigger stars prior to gobert so I wonder if it had the effect of making the gobert deal more reasonable

seems like maybe the nets are going to pretend to try to trade kd then be like oh well well have to play this season out and hope it goes well enough that everyone wants to stay

either that or they really think the gobert deal one of the craziest overpays in the history of the league is "setting the market"

i mean i think they could get a gobert type deal but they cant get a based on how much better kd is than gobert type deal

would be funny if they make a nice run with kyrie being a perfect citizen then they resign him and he goes back to his old tricks

pretty likely tbh

does Kyrie have a catchphrase in this spec script?

"I'm a baaad widdle boy!", said with a wink to the camera.

https://media.giphy.com/media/2g8oHF3rTCGSA/giphy.gif

watching highlights of the griz/okc game, Kenny Lofton jr will definitely push Zion in the competition for the Kia NBA Thicc Boi of the Year award next season

today i learned that former baseball player kenny lofton (no relation to kenny lofton jr.) played hoops at arizona with steve kerr and sean elliott

what thats crazy

haha i just looked up kenny lofton jr on wiki because he is not in the least built like kenny lofton the baseball player

lol, yeah

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/ken-lofton-1.html

bummer, started watching the okc game right now and chet is in street clothes

Brow Holmgren

magic/rockets starting on ESPNU of all places thanks to the nhl draft

show some respect

i'm sorry the what

the nhl draft is like the military draft, they dont have enough ppl voluntarily playing hockey so canadian teens sign up for the nhl draft to see who will make the ultimate sacrifice in service of their country

I really wish I wasn't in the "state of hockey" really annoying culture

Fans made Jalen Williams take a photo of them with Chet Holmgren in the Summer League 😂

(via jalenjdubwilliams/IG) pic.twitter.com/pBhH1Fdx8v

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) July 8, 2022

lol

Sources: James Harden is taking a $15 million paycut for next season that allowed Philadelphia to elevate roster — with sole focus on a championship run in 2023. Harden opted out of his $47M player option and now plans to sign a new two-year deal with a player option in Year 2.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 8, 2022

some quality shams mushmouth prose here

Everyone around Harden has understood the focus on his workout regimen this offseason and a championship goal for 2022-23. His close relationships with those around the organization, including Michael Rubin and Daryl Morey, played a major role in trust between the two sides. https://t.co/q1eDY9xrDy

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 8, 2022

love to play a major role in trust between two sides

lol yeah... this relationship is so stable that everyone can get out of it after two years max