stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

RFA Austin Reaves has agreed to return to the Los Angeles Lakers on a four-year, $56 million Early Bird maximum contract, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Agents Aaron Reilly and Reggie Berry of AMR Agency negotiated the new deal to keep Reaves in L.A. long term.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2023

Fair deal

yeah solid, kinda scary the lakers making all these good small moves over the last six months

rly mad no one threw a big offer at him, thats a very very good deal for the lakers.

That team is looking good sadly

yeah lakers should be back in the mix if flawed again, still relying a lot on a 38-year-old (what the fuck man) bron, but this iteration of the team seemed to mesh well quickly

Basically kept all the main rotation guys and added taurean and Vincent

and jaxson hayes (derogatory)

They do need a brow injury contingency plan for sure

Front offices talking to Portland today were left with impression that GM Joe Cronin is pursuing a star-level return package for Damian Lillard – and that Cronin plans to look well beyond the Miami Heat to find one. https://t.co/9NWtJN9JLm

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2023

4/80 for Dillion brooks to the rockets is hilarious

5/260 lamelo extension. Maybe he should probably play idk just a thought

im still a lamelo believer but yeah playing is essential

4/80 for Dillion brooks to the rockets is hilarious

― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Saturday, July 1, 2023 6:26 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

just awful lol

Rockets continue to add 40% chuckers.

Poor sengun gonna have no room to work

Like who were they bidding against in these deals

they needed to sign someone to hit the salary floor but why give dillion brooks a 4 year deal hes not good

2/40 if you have to.

Russ 2/8 clippers he musta really wanted to stay

brooks deal structured as descending which is good i guess

russ prob smart just to stay where its going well for him at this point

Yah home town too. Prob wants to finish up there

bron's probably going to enjoy embarrassing the rockets this season

of all teams to give brooks 4/80 the rockets feel least offensive to me insofar as they’re not gonna be in the playoffs anyway, only have offensive players and could use a guy like him, and they have cap space money to burn

and on a descending contract if he stays out of the headlines for a year or two it will be tradable i imagine

White Donte 4/50 Knicks

has there been a ruling yet on whether he’s good

Reaves deal is sus as hell

i don’t get that at all for the knicks. they have a bunch of guys who play the 2 and 3 already.

hes the most knicks fan looking nba player so they had to get him

Donte is good imo, a Bruce Brown type when he’s at his best. Good rebounder for his size, above avg shooter, smart, really bad finisher.

Also he’s a good defensive player

Who? 🙄

— Jalen Brunson (@jalenbrunson1) July 2, 2023

i think bruce is a lot better with the ball in his hands… donte strikes me as a josh hart type yeah

Haha those three sarcastic wildcats gonna have a good time together

https://stathead.com/tiny/F5SBA

Brown way more of a guy trying to get to his floater and put backs, Donte more perimeter and off ball movement cutter.

The Lakers are incredibly deep.

C: Anthony Davis, Jaxson Hayes
PF: Rui Hachimura, Jarred Vanderbilt
SF: LeBron James, Taurean Prince
SG: Austin Reaves (RFA), Cam Reddish, Max Christie
PG: D’Angelo Russell, Gabe Vincent, Jalen Hood-Schifino

A West Finals team got better overall. https://t.co/uKVxViBi1C

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) July 1, 2023

This is a great price. The Los Angeles Lakers won the week. They have a real chance to get their 13th title now. https://t.co/U9ucLjxGnb

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) July 1, 2023

i feel like KOC is the kinda person who would get scammed out of thousands of dollars by a woman he met at a bar

i think they are better than they were at the start of last year. dlo stinks less than westbrook did, and reaves will be playing more. the rest of the depth guys are whatever, i wouldnt book them in the 3rd round but i could see top 6 seed in the west easy.

to me as far as the regular season goes there is denver and then there is memphis and prob sacramento and after that it’s a bunch of teams that could finish between 3 and 10 in practically any order. the lakers two best players don’t play in like half the games

4 and 10* tho i wouldn’t exactly book sacramento in as the 3 seed but they feel like the third safest best to be in the top 6

Ja is going to miss 25 games I don’t know about a 2 seed from them

Lakers have good reg season depth to help keep them afloat, something they didn’t start the year out w last year. Jaxson Hayes as your only backup big behind brow is a massive risk

I was expecting a quiet free agent season from the Thunder, but bringing Vasilije Micić over is interesting. It's been rumoured every year around this time. Helps them to look like a deep squad, although Holmgren seems a long way ahead of any other center option they have.

jeff green signing with the rockets is the first good nuggets news in free agency so far

i feel like KOC is the kinda person who would get scammed out of thousands of dollars by a woman he met at a bar

― J0rdan S., Sunday, July 2, 2023 1:58 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

the lakers have hit a few singles but overall it’s not a very talented roster, as jordan says this seems obvious.

if it was bron and ad in their primes theyd be on to something, as it is now yeah theyre in the pack, theyve made some nice lil moves tho, very unlakers of them

Yes love that passive aggressive Twitter bio drama

Tyler Herro has removed “Miami Heat guard” from his bio and changed his header pic.twitter.com/JxwRAYbG8V

— NBACentral (@TheNBACentral) July 2, 2023

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said on Sportscenter this morning that “it’s more than conceivable” that James Harden remains in Philadelphia #Sixers

— Erin Grugan (@eringrugan) July 2, 2023

perhaps all the teams that might even consider harden are too busy figuring out if they can snag dame to think much about harden, yet

he may have underestimated the impact that demanding a trade every season while also getting much worse at basketball would have on his employment prospects