stashing assets for the 2023 nba offseason

celtics werent going to resign him because of the luxury tax but they threatened to match dallas offer anyway so its more of a paying them to go away type situation than a real trade

but theyre def worth... something, unclear what, they do trade hands a lot

i'd rather have three lottery tickets than none is prob about the logic here

there is a second-round pick exception in the new cba that makes them easier to sign so i think there is a thought that they're more valuable due to that

nikola jokic the two time mvp and current world champ was a second round pick after all

allegedly

feel like shams-woj should leave these little signings to the local writers no but fans of the team care but its prob part of their quid pro quo with agents

Free agent guard AJ Green has agreed to a multi-year contract with the Milwaukee Bucks, with the first year fully guaranteed, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Agent Matt Bollero of ProMondo Sports negotiated the contract.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 6, 2023

i do not wish to know the names of agents or their companies

Matt Bollero of ProMondo sports, the real MVP. Got AJ Green to come out of retirement and everything

lol

wtf

Britney Spears Slapped in Face by NBA Star Victor Wembanyama Security https://t.co/BHNrzz3jHo

— TMZ (@TMZ) July 6, 2023

eesh

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, the man listed on the police report as the one who slapped Britney Spears is Damian Smith, the Director of Team Security for the Spurs

lot of news today

On threads with the burner. Come find me

— Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) July 6, 2023

ok whatever

ESPN story on the Blazers matching Matisse Thybulle's $33M offer sheet with the Mavericks https://t.co/6tI7OtUooY

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 6, 2023

Funny that the pic is of him shooting

ha yeah

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, the man listed on the police report as the one who slapped Britney Spears is Damian Smith, the Director of Team Security for the Spurs

― lag∞n, Thursday, July 6, 2023 10:51 AM (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the headline and how it's playing sucks for wemby, makes it sound like it was his entourage when he was just traveling with official team security

why did the spurs director of team security backhand slap britney spears….

feel like that thybulle contract is one where the mavs got saved from themselves

because she look intersting?

Xp

well at least this is all out there on the record now

News: Regarding report about message to non Heat teams, Lillard's agent, Aaron Goodwin, tells me: "I do what I should for my client. Some teams I did call. Other teams have called me. It's a respectful relationship with most teams. Truthfully, he wants to play in Miami. Period."

— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) July 6, 2023

Good job of poisoning the well, Aaron!

dame heel turn is funny.

this is what happens when you live in denial

which party is in denial here

dame wouldnt admit to himself that he wanted to and should leave

and the org too wouldnt admit that they should trade him

the other thing is he spent years saying ring chasers are trash and now he will only play for the team that lost in the finals — in Miami Florida — which if you’re gonna go go hard but it doesn’t have the same whiff of authenticity he cultivated

he should go to pelicans imo

Top level global superstar athletes are almost universally weird people. They have almost always sacrificed every vestige of a normal life to get to the top. It's like Lillard just woke up last Friday and said to himself 'No more Mr. Nice Guy! I'm getting that fucking championship ring and if anybody gets in my way, they're dead meat.'

Britney Spears Eyewitness to Slap Says She Screamed 'This is F***ing America' https://t.co/FmCB1uIcOO

— TMZ Sports (@TMZ_Sports) July 6, 2023

everyone (i don't mean on ILH) always jumps on the player for not upholding his contract or whatever but to me this is purely a function of a leaguwide ownership decision to try and counteract superteams by granting themselves the ability to make offers to star players that the players can't refuse, but also thinking that would neuter player movement instead of just getting us to the place where we are now where the players w/ the ability to force trades just do that instead. was dame supposed to say "yeah i might not want to be here in a few years, so thanks for this extra $125 million but i can't in good conscience accept this contract extension" ... the blazers put themselves in this place by throwing money at dame when they didn't need to -- dame's response to that was completely rational (accepting the hundred million dollars). that he now is trying to dictate where he goes next... yeah i'd be doing the same thing too. whether the blazers should just trade him to wherever they want is a different discussion but to me there is only one side to blame as to why we're here

the other thing is he spent years saying ring chasers are trash and now he will only play for the team that lost in the finals — in Miami Florida — which if you’re gonna go go hard but it doesn’t have the same whiff of authenticity he cultivated

― Clay, Thursday, July 6, 2023 11:32 AM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

his "run from the grind" comment will now haunt him forever

he should just be like listen i was wrong being on a super team is sick actually and also be wearing a hawaiian shirt while saying it and drinking a tropical cocktail

it's not like he's pushing to join the nuggets, or even like the lakers or clippers which have major headline star power. if he wins the title or even makes the finals he'll prob be the main offensive driver of whatever team he's on & no one will end up caring what he said years ago

whether the blazers should just trade him to wherever they want is a different discussion

A trade requires a willing partner on the opposite side. Dame's agent, on his behalf and probably with dame's blessing, is actively trying to discourage every team but Miami from pursuing him, so "wherever the blazers want" is chosen from a pool of one team, like a Bingo drawing where every ball is marked B-1. It's quite a heel turn from Damian Lillard, the Perfect Team Player.

if he wins the title or even makes the finals he'll prob be the main offensive driver of whatever team he's on & no one will end up caring what he said years ago

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 6, 2023 12:08 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

uhh tell that to KD

yeah this isnt going away lol, unless he goes to pelicans

if dame really wants to be the peoples champ he needs to let me convince him to go to pelicans

uhh tell that to KD

― nobody respects the chair (Spottie), Thursday, July 6, 2023 3:11 PM (eight minutes ago)

you may have read the part where i said "unless you're KD"

on wait i deleted that part lol. KD is a diff case, dame isn't trying to get himself to the nuggets

before the books all adjusted their lines due to the possibility of a trade the heat were +1000 odds to win the east, which was the same as the knicks & behind the cavs and sixers. if they don't make a trade nobody will pick them to even get out of round 2. so the idea that dame is "ring chasing" by going there doesn't line up w/ what people seem to think about their team

if dame makes to miami hes gonna get some major blowback, the medias gonna go nuts with it the fans will be posting and so forth, on some level who cares it doesnt really matter, but on the other hand it is what it is

tho itll prob only really be remembered if the heat win a chip

outside of portland that is obvs portland will remember

its funny bc miami is not a "big market" but it IS the cocaine and bbl place which is kind of a market magnifier and plus rat piley just looks like a gangster which is also v big market plus you add the shaq years and the heatles and you're like whoa when did miami-dade county get 12.4 million ppl so yeah dame asking to go there is v suspicious

outside of LA miami is the place nba players like most seems like

was dame supposed to say "yeah i might not want to be here in a few years, so thanks for this extra $125 million but i can't in good conscience accept this contract extension" ... the blazers put themselves in this place by throwing money at dame when they didn't need to -- dame's response to that was completely rational (accepting the hundred million dollars). that he now is trying to dictate where he goes next... yeah i'd be doing the same thing too.

players take less money in exchange for more flexibility all the time. dame taking the money and then trying to force his way out after free agency already started is ‘rational’ and will probably be successful but it doesn’t make him a good guy and it doesn’t make the situation the blazers’ ‘fault’

well we know from the heatles experience that something about miami pushes ppl's buttons specifically, like the city doesn't deserve good players bcuz the rich ppl who have the seats you see on TV all amble into games 30 mins late

i think its both sides fault they were in a dysfunctional relationship and everyone saw it but them, they needed basketball therapy