stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

the decision 2

Vogel to coach suns

disappointingly sane hire.

Yah of all the big names he’s prob the best

the coaching carousel spins again

nice. I forgot Vogel was available

glad it's not Ishbia's pal Isiah Thomas lol

messy

Sources: Kyrie Irving has reached out to Lakers star LeBron James in attempts to see if James would come to Dallas. Irving is a free agent this offseason.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 5, 2023

i am guessing the answer is no

smh

is kyrie trading luka too

he should

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fx3yunzXsAUc8Vc?format=jpg&name=900x900

btw if anyone wants to listen to a non finals, non playoffs offseason pod there is a good free hollinger & duncan podcast from last week on players up for veteran extensions. good offseason/longterm overview

NBA fine with Victor Wembanyama's debut happening in Sacramento

who was asking this question and what sort of answer did they expect

seems unlikely he'll be on the board at #24 but you never know

sacramento is good now!

BREAKING: Phoenix Suns have notified star Chris Paul that he will be waived, making the future Hall of Famer one of the top free agents this offseason, league sources tell @NBAonTNT, @BleacherReport.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) June 7, 2023

ok!

lakers pls

lakers gonna lake

i bet he'll go to la, but he should come to sa with wemby

paul’s actually good still I don’t want him to go to LA

Can the suns bring him back cheaper?

yeah i think they can

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/09/nuggets-trade-draft-picks-oklahoma-city/

if I’m reading this right, the nuggets traded a protected 2029 first round pick and in exchange got…2 firsts and a second?

that is my basic understanding of it

a first and 2 seconds but yeah it doesn't necessarily add up

i guess OKC have too many picks so they're trading down a bit to defer a first round pick? maybe they think they'll be good next year and/or they think the draft pool will suck?

Also a bet that by 2029 the Jokic/Murray team will be on the downside and that pick might be better than their own.

would depend what the protections are on the pick if that's their angle

yeah so okc trades from their glut of current 1sts for a future first that has a chance to be good. denver adds some late 1sts in the near term to have a pipeline of cheap talent to add to the team. with the more restrictive CBA teams like denver need homegrown talent more than ever.

yeah and the word from the cap heads is that teams like the thunder might find themselves in a tough spot with a bunch of potentially good players all needing contracts at once

they already have way too many picks, i saw this with the late ainge celtics, it's very easy to suddenly have too many picks

the new cba sucks. the current one was just starting to work as intended.

xp this was always the weird thing about okc trading for so many picks, whats the point if you never cash them in for a big piece? you cant play 20 guys that you draft in 7 years or w/e

hopefully the spurs dont make the same mistake, they should be trying to trade up into the midfirst round to get another guy to go with wembanyama.

oh stop it luckbox franchise man

wow 9 franchises have had more #1 picks than the spurs, sounds like a skill issue to me

spurs have mostly just been really good drafting and developing, and theyve had some timely lottery luck

ya I’m just joshing

btw have we talked about ja morant's team all of a sudden saying "it was actually a toy gun" like 3 weeks after the fact haha

lol everyone thought of that one the first day they should go on twitter more

simmons and russillo have already started to try to get ahead of the pendulum swing on this one and argue for a pretty lenient penalty, not sure what others are saying, needless to say i’m stoked for the discourse

saw this somewhere

https://i.imgur.com/a5WWS4y.png

this should happen immediately

we do love lamelo

https://theathletic.com/4599695/2023/06/10/raptors-hire-darko-rajakovic-coach/

Raps get a new coach.

so they... didnt waive cp?

“We did not waive Chris [Paul]… He’s just one of the great winners our game has ever seen… I’m really hopeful to have an opportunity to work with him.”

New Suns head coach Frank Vogel weighs in on CP3's future in Phoenix 🗣️

(via @TheVolumeSports)pic.twitter.com/Cm79DOrYNq

— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) June 10, 2023

ya shams came out with a tweet like 30 mins later saying they were stil think bout it, however they still might waive him

I veto any jaylen brown trade to portland sorry to be a party pooper