2022 NBA OFF SEASON DRAFT FREE AGENCY TAMPERING ETC

that lineup is hilarious i need to see it now. jazz gonna come out of the rudy/dono pairing with like 14 picks and prospects. doing it right. they can also flip like 6 other rotation guys for picks or whatever at the deadline (bojan, conley, beasley, gay, clarkson, pat bev)

Danny likes picks.

they should try to get every pick

Brian Windhorst:

“The executives are going on vacation… At this point, the Nets’ preferred situation is for Kevin Durant to stay with them. There is no trade that they’ve got that they like.”

(via @ESPNNBA) pic.twitter.com/sLlSFfMPnl

— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) July 15, 2022

KD: I'd like to be traded.

Nets FO: *shrug emoji*

kd is gonna trade himself via recess appointment

keeping them both is the right play imo. they have a ton of talent between KD/kyrie/simmons that they’re virtually assured of not being able to replicate in the next 5 years via trades. KD will never hold out. just run it back

Kuminga looks like a much more natural player nowadays

I was listening to the zach Lowe podcast today and he was discussing grimes, toppin, 4 firsts and 3 swaps as a sort of median proposal, which is just hard for me to fathom

I think the knicks are going to “set the market” so to speak

compared to the gobert trade that would be pretty light!

The Gobert trade should have been voided

that is true

it’s clearly massively fucking up the trade market

tradeflation, thanks biden

some wild trades this summer def and theres prob going to be some more, will be funny when kyrie gets moved for two firsts after all that

kyrie has a lo-o-o-ng history for teams to look at now. the warts stand out so far that you can't miss them.

4/80 keldon Johnson extension

Russ fired his agent

What a statement from Russell Westbrook’s now former agenthttps://t.co/6eaq4Hem5h pic.twitter.com/ShSZ7q5SaD

— Michael Corvo (@michaelcorvoNBA) July 16, 2022

it's late on the east coast but i'm having some trouble parsing that?

good for keldon johnson though, nice to see that guy get paid.

BIG BODYYYYYYYY

Cad my take is that his agent has probably been telling him he’s gotta suck it up and buy into a new role cos the market is telling him he’s done. And his best shot to rehab is stay w the lakers and accept a new role vs getting traded and bought out and be on his 5th team in 5 years and have the stain of being bought out. Russ prob too prideful to accept that and would rather get traded and play for a crap team putting up empty stats.

*4 not 5

Russs last two likes apparently

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— 🐐. (@VARbasten) July 16, 2022

Cad my take is that his agent has probably been telling him he’s gotta suck it up and buy into a new role cos the market is telling him he’s done. And his best shot to rehab is stay w the lakers and accept a new role vs getting traded and bought out and be on his 5th team in 5 years and have the stain of being bought out. Russ prob too prideful to accept that and would rather get traded and play for a crap team putting up empty stats.

The confusing part is the agent says the new role that Westbrook must embrace is a "starting role" that has been offered him?

he prob just didnt want to be rude and say play defense do normal basketball things

Love to not be rude while airing my ex-clients dirty laundry (not that he's wrong).

its a fine line

i guess it is CYA for the agent but it’s still a very strange public statement.

❤️ drunk ally Charles

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anyone gives you any shit, tell em Charles says f*ck you!” - Charles Barkley pic.twitter.com/c1tUbvX5ga

— Ned Balme (@NedBalmeLives) July 15, 2022

good stuff chuck

all he has to do is apologize for making fun of fat women and he's uncanceled

Apparently lebron, Derozan and Kyrie are playing on the same team in the drew league starting in about 15 minutes. NBA app has a link under games.

Lol can’t even be bothered to tryout for lebron

Drew League Commissioner Dino Smiley on Kyrie Irving's no-show today: "I don’t know. They were pretty sure he was coming. But you know how Kyrie is. I guess he changed his mind in the middle of it." Dino said there is a possibility that Kyrie plays in a game on Sunday.

— Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) July 17, 2022

i'm dying at these sincere attempts to cover the drew league

The broadcast was hilariously bad. Made me appreciate the nba product more

Los Angeles Lakers’ Big 3 of LeBron James, Anthony Davis and Russell Westbrook huddled for a phone conversation to confirm their commitment to each other through the uncertainty, league sources told @YahooSports: https://t.co/7a4Ykdgo6V

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) July 18, 2022

max contract recognize max contract

"guess we gotta make this work so we should probably... communicate"

They should rent a banana boat together

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folks its that time again

yesss

"There is a school of thought speaking to people around the league that they think the Kevin Durant trade request wasn't actually about him getting out of Brooklyn, it was about getting Kyrie Irving out of Brooklyn."

ESPN's Dave McMenamin on The Lowe Post. pic.twitter.com/Ae4WClbcOv

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) July 19, 2022

conspiracy theory based on nothing: nets will not trade kd at all, kd only publicized the trade demand so he could remain in kyrie's good graces but he's secretly relieved to be rid of kyrie

― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, July 12, 2022 5:53 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink

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didn’t he specifically mention the nets “treatment” of kyrie as the reason he wanted to be traded?

yeah doesnt really make sense feel like this is a psyop by the nets

some arguing about durant to new orleans on espn today...is there anything to that? to me, it would seem weird to blow it up without ever having seen how it works with a healthy zion

espn is bored

july-august is sports purgatory