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?
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 June 2023 17:09 (ten months ago) link
Also a bet that by 2029 the Jokic/Murray team will be on the downside and that pick might be better than their own.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 9 June 2023 17:12 (ten months ago) link
would depend what the protections are on the pick if that's their angle
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 June 2023 17:18 (ten months ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 June 2023 17:33 (ten months ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 June 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 June 2023 18:42 (ten months ago) link
the new cba sucks. the current one was just starting to work as intended.
― Spottie, Friday, 9 June 2023 19:28 (ten months ago) link
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
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 9 June 2023 19:54 (ten months ago) link
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.
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 9 June 2023 19:55 (ten months ago) link
oh stop it luckbox franchise man
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 June 2023 20:04 (ten months ago) link
wow 9 franchises have had more #1 picks than the spurs, sounds like a skill issue to me
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 9 June 2023 20:33 (ten months ago) link
spurs have mostly just been really good drafting and developing, and theyve had some timely lottery luck
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 June 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
ya I’m just joshing
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 June 2023 20:49 (ten months ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 June 2023 20:49 (ten months ago) link
lol everyone thought of that one the first day they should go on twitter more
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 June 2023 20:51 (ten months ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Friday, 9 June 2023 21:13 (ten months ago) link
saw this somewhere
https://i.imgur.com/a5WWS4y.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:07 (ten months ago) link
this should happen immediately
― ciderpress, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:09 (ten months ago) link
we do love lamelo
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 June 2023 20:10 (ten months ago) link
https://theathletic.com/4599695/2023/06/10/raptors-hire-darko-rajakovic-coach/
Raps get a new coach.
― Cashews Everything Around Me (Leee), Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:18 (ten months ago) link
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
― Spottie, Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:24 (ten months ago) link
ya shams came out with a tweet like 30 mins later saying they were stil think bout it, however they still might waive him
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:37 (ten months ago) link
I veto any jaylen brown trade to portland sorry to be a party pooper
― Clay, Saturday, 10 June 2023 21:52 (ten months ago) link
what you should want jaylen
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:03 (ten months ago) link
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!
― Clay, Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:09 (ten months ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:43 (ten months ago) link
that is what i have been saying for 2 or 3 seasons now!
― Clay, Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:47 (ten months ago) link
i also enjoy saying the famous phrase "reboot with scoot™"
― Clay, Saturday, 10 June 2023 22:48 (ten months ago) link
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.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 10 June 2023 23:11 (ten months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 June 2023 23:19 (ten months ago) link
and maybe gets them to like 5th in the west, not great!
iirc there’s an 8 seed in the finals
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 June 2023 23:39 (ten months ago) link
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
― Clay, Saturday, 10 June 2023 23:41 (ten months ago) link
heat, nuggets: welcome to the nba offseason
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:10 (ten months ago) link
Aphex Twin 🙌🏽 🧘🏽♂️— Jeremy Sochan (@JeremySochan) June 4, 2023
as if i couldnt love him more
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:42 (ten months ago) link
hahah nice
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 03:44 (ten months ago) link
thinkin about the bucks and middleton, tough spot
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:37 (ten months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:39 (ten months ago) link
plus the new lux tax is bad for them, maybe they can get him to take some sort of reasonable deal
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:41 (ten months ago) link
unclear if he can regain his previous form or even stay healthy at all
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:45 (ten months ago) link
season recap
A year unlike any other.This was the 2022-2023 NBA Season.📺 https://t.co/Jar3o0Xcx5 pic.twitter.com/taQiuyT42D— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) June 13, 2023
― Spottie, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:03 (ten months ago) link
new wizards president says he has permission from ownership to do a rebuild, wiz have some dece guys
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:44 (ten months ago) link
will be funny when they get more for kuz than beal or zinger
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:45 (ten months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:50 (ten months ago) link
they really ought to trade him if they want to be Good again in the near future and not just okay for a while
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:34 (ten months ago) link
seems like a guy whose value is gonna fall off quickly from here and they're not currently contending so
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:35 (ten months ago) link
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.
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:36 (ten months ago) link
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.
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:44 (ten months ago) link
yeah, i tend to believe the line of thinking that the raptors tipped their hand by making the poetl trade. if they were planning on rebuilding that would be a weird move to make. it also seems like masai turned down mega offers for OG at the deadline despite his all but certain impending free agency. it seems like they still want to push it
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:45 (ten months ago) link
i do think "we're gonna go against all good sense and push for contention in the eastern conference" as a strategy seems less crazy given what we just watched in the playoffs than it did 2 months ago
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:47 (ten months ago) link
the skillsets of og, barnes, and siakam overlap too much. if i had to guess, they'll ship og and hold onto the others
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 15:50 (ten months ago) link