stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

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

what you should want jaylen

after game 7 I’m pretty down on jaylen also he is a bonehead. That trade presumably pushes portland way deep into taxville (assuming they resign jerami grant for a bazillion dollars which they will, unfortunately) and maybe gets them to like 5th in the west, not great!

the whole idea that portland can assemble an insta-winner around dame via trading for an all-star caliber veteran is very far-fetched. they lack too many pieces and the free agent market isn't fluid enough or deep enough for them to pick up a fistful of proven, solid players in one off-season. dame's backed the FO into a corner about making a big acquisition. they should just start shopping dame really hard, see what he could bring, and concentrate on a patient rebuild by developing or reclaiming younger guys.

that is what i have been saying for 2 or 3 seasons now!

i also enjoy saying the famous phrase "reboot with scoot™"

i thought they should have traded cj before they maxed him, but the dame contract seems justified considering he's top level. by contrast moving cj might have allowed them to develop a more balanced roster and have cap space to keep them. it's all coulda shoulda woulda.

sure portlands plan to continue to build around dame is doomed but seeing as theyre gonna do it theyre not gonna get better than jaylen

and maybe gets them to like 5th in the west, not great!

iirc there’s an 8 seed in the finals

a well-coached 8 seed that's one of the best orgs in the league built specifically for the playoffs. dame + jaylen + grant + chauncey billups + an absolutely flailing FO is not that

heat, nuggets: welcome to the nba offseason

Aphex Twin 🙌🏽 🧘🏽‍♂️

— Jeremy Sochan (@JeremySochan) June 4, 2023

as if i couldnt love him more

hahah nice

thinkin about the bucks and middleton, tough spot

yeah it sucks they probably can't win a title without him but he's constantly injured and also one of the NBA's premier hot-and-cold players right now

plus the new lux tax is bad for them, maybe they can get him to take some sort of reasonable deal

unclear if he can regain his previous form or even stay healthy at all

season recap

A year unlike any other.
This was the 2022-2023 NBA Season.

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— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) June 13, 2023

new wizards president says he has permission from ownership to do a rebuild, wiz have some dece guys

will be funny when they get more for kuz than beal or zinger

wonder what toronto will do too, fred declined his option and is gone, they could get an absolute haul for siakim if they feel like getting a lil younger

they really ought to trade him if they want to be Good again in the near future and not just okay for a while

seems like a guy whose value is gonna fall off quickly from here and they're not currently contending so

yeah toronto has so many good players but none that are like focal points offensively to make it all work. they owe SA their 2024 FRP unless it's top 6, so they have some incentive to suck next year.

i'd think that OG and siakam could get them a ton of young players+picks. they have basically no salaries tied up in the long-term, so they could quickly pivot to a barnes-centered okc-style rebuild if they wanted, though the jakob poeltl trade makes less sense in that context.