stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

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

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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

why worry about such mundane stuff when you've already banked more than a hundred million

has dame been traded yet

i listened to the windhorst et al pod segment about it and they were talking like it wasnt going to be a very big return for him because of the bad contract age injury history didnt even mention the nets or celtics but did mention the sixers these guys are supposed to be wired right idk, tbf none of them mentioned what they were hearing was all presented as speculation

oh utah too dark horse, but if utahs in splashing around picks why not the other teams

because dame went to college in utah but idk does that mean he wants to go back, i guess it would be the ultimate contrarian move

theres also a rumor that garland is available which talk about a very good young player rare to see a guy like that on the move

if you wanna hear lengthy discussion about whether boston could would should trade for dame lillard there is a podcast for you it’s called the bill simmons podcast ft ryen rusillo

im sorry none of those words mean anything to me

one of the problems with trading for dame or garland is that their lineup would be kinda fucked, playing either of them next to white would be pretty dicey just too small

he’s not being traded to utah c’mon now none of us are new here. he’s not going to san antonio either. if he was going to accept a trade to a team like that he’d just stay in portland

agreed that both of those sounds pretty silly, tho utah at least might be good

philly is the most interesting just interestingwise

but their 2029 pick is the only one they can trade lol

maybe they can get another couple somehow then throw maxey in too would be better than miamis offer and dame would prob be cool with it

sounds like an auspicious year

still think the nets are the cleanest deal but who knows if they want him, after the superteam failure they might be happy to try to actually build a team, which would be smart, maybe they take a shot at garland, thats what id do

if the celtics and nets sit it out maybe theres not a big deal for dame out there, but i bet someone puts a big offer in

ppl keep saying philly can offer more than miami & i don’t understand that at all, at best their offer is basically the same — a few picks and a small no defense shooting guard. maxey is a valuable “asset” but a terrible fit in portland this is the exact same issue miami has

i think maxey is prob better thought of than herro but yeah pretty similar, one thing working against miami is their picks arent that desirable cause the teams is always good, also maybe philly can get one more pick than miami can idk pretty speculative they only have one pick right now

a big problem is that the new york teams don’t seem to be willing to lose their shirts for him even tho they could both put together a massive 5 pick style offer. but it doesn’t seem like the knicks are involved at all & if all brooklyn needs to do is beat miami’s offer they don’t need to do all that. but how badly do the nets want him, nobody really knows

the teams that are most motivated to get him — miami, philly, clippers — just don’t have a lot to offer. it’s not a great place for portland to be

i suspect that someone will trump those teams offers but its also possible that for whatever reasons no one will, there are only 30 teams after all

if the clippers were willing to move pg then they might be in the mix

i 100% believe portland is giving him an effective no trade clause i also believe dame doesn’t want people saying that the blazers were forced to take some shitty offer for him. so does dame start expanding his list or does it become one of these things where the league like bands together to get the guy to his team & to get the team save face level assets in return. i kinda feel like it’s gonna be the latter but we’ll see

that is how he would get to miami lol

*steepling fingers*