stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

bane is a wonderful role player but hooo boy

i guess once all these guys eventually extend it will normalize but $41m a year is more than shai, ja, mitchell, garland, zion, bam, fox...

feelin a little better about the jerami grant contract

how was bane eligible for such a big raise on a rookie extension without all-star/all-nba? is it just the cap space growth?

i like halliburton a lot but thats a deal you make with the confidence that hes at least the second best guy on a contender.

yeah bane is getting a 25% of the cap max which is non supermax so it’s just a reflection of the cap raising

all the writers on twitter are saying it’s a no brainer deal

he's really good! i dont know what the correct amount of money is for guys who are really good.

like, the top (x) guys in the league, its obvious, just max and relax. for those secondary stars, i guess the standard operating procedure is to max them too but feel less good about it. the third guy...you cant max him and have any depth without plunging to tax hell. is bane their second best guy?

he’s their third best player… he is better than MPJ who is a similar third best player (well theoretically anyway) on a max w/ other young core guys, but memphis does not have a jokic

what’s nuts tho is that JJJ is actually on a declining contract. $27m this coming year then $25m then $23m… gotta be one of the team friendliest deals in the league. that last year he’ll be making less than like half the league at this rate

JJJ: good contract for memphis

the point abt jokic is key, if youve got an mvp-caliber player which at this point is not a lot of guys (jokic, giannis, embiid, maybe tatum, maybe luka, maybe steph still, not lebron anymore), fuck it, throw the bag at the team that meshes well with that guy. it's worked for the last few champions. i get that youd rather overpay a guy and then trade him if it gets untenable (ie disgruntled star, luxury tax not worth paying if the team is mid) then to let him walk for nothing, but it just feels like these teams cannot fuckin help it no matter how many cba guardrails they slip into to protect themselves from themselves.

problem for memphis: ja is not that guy

more like "mark" cuban am i right

strus to cavs done i guess

idk whats going on here

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— The Amateur NBA Analyst (@droppingdimes02) July 1, 2023

Love seeing guys getting paid

— Jayson Tatum (@jaytatum0) June 30, 2023

love how supportive jayson is

nba players should not tweet about supreme court justices imo

justice arent guys, theyre rentiers

Breaking: Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has requested a trade out of Portland, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. The Miami Heat and Brooklyn Nets are among leading suitors for one of the NBA’s 75 Greatest Players ever. pic.twitter.com/nw8OIepAHz

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2023

so...jerami grant's deal...

he’s hitting his agent like “i can just e-sign it right? did they email you last night?”

bittersweet gotta say

miami probably the most desperate to do this deal, but brooklyn probably has he better offer available, right?

yeah the obvious deal is with brooklyn

i think the main question is whether dame wants to go to a place where he could plausibly win a title in the next few years (miami) or a place where he would be the center of the franchise w/ the ball in his hands and a pretty good team around him but not likely any better chance of winning a title than he had in his prime portland years (nets)

and i guess the sixers are gonna be in there too

well i guess that answers that lol

The Portland Trail Blazers have been informed that Damian Lillard wants a trade specifically to the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, multiple sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. https://t.co/CE2lJVcuod

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2023

but with no no-trade clause why would they have to do that

it’s just the right thing to do

no it isnt

love to be Mr Loyalty as my brand and then immediately slip into Fuck That Guy Zone it’s almost like they’re complimentary

Until now dame has always said "a contender". naming a specific team only undercuts any small leverage the blazers had in cutting a deal. that's not asking for loyalty, that's asking the blazers to lay over and play dead.

he would absolutely make miami a lot better offensively, but if we poke the suns for being top-heavy, the heat would have probably the same problem?

if the blazers trade dame for the two firsts and tyler herro, lol

so...jerami grant's deal...

― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, July 1, 2023 12:06 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

also, lol

teams with the best deals for dame

picks deal: nets

picks and guys deal: celtics

its a shame, if you're portland you should probably ask for herro bc hes the best player miami is willing to part with, but he might be too good if u r just trying to tank. also miami can only trade like their 2027 and 2029 picks so you'd need pick swaps which would probably not matter anyway, its not like the heat will ever be bad. hindsight is 20/20 but the trade market for him wouldve been huge in the summer of gobert.

on the plus side for blazers fans, at least they dont have to pay him $63M when he's 36

i mean they dont have to trade him to miami

no they dont and they shouldnt, its a bootycheeks deal for them

if he’s going to Miami this is a three+ team deal, portland is possibly the worst destination in the nba for herro considering the glut in the backcourt even with dame gone

The Heat is Lillard’s preference here. But he also has a deep respect for the San Antonio Spurs organization, sources told ESPN. https://t.co/IXhiZwJ24V

— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) July 1, 2023

lol cannot see the spurs doing this at all even though theyve got hella cap space, picks, and some young players

i think the celtics will try to trade jaylen + 3 firsts for him

lol chauncey prob sweating bullets about now

this is a terrible time for twitter to be on the blink

I too have exceeded my rate limit

im able to get on regular twitter, but tweetdeck is not loading 4 me

know its been said but cannot believe he did this mere hours after they gave grant that huge deal lmao

blazers might need that grant deal to hit the salary floor now lol

secret twitter is hopping