NBA 2019-2020

Eboue said:
:lol: they're arguably in better shape than boston even after all those picks. the nba is wild
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They are undeniably in a better position now, and they had to start literally from scratch in 2015.

I also like how they treat their players. Apparently they tried really hard to put D’Lo on a team he wanted to go to and didn’t require much back. They will benefit from this in the future. It’s the opposite of Celtics who promised Baynes they would only trade him to a contender and then sent him to Phoenix a few hours later.
 
Organic Potatoes said:
Poetic, almost. Boston outdone after a series of supposedly brilliant maneuvers over the years by the team they swindled in the first place. Also Philly, after the greatest tanking scheme in history, left with merely a good team centered around a broken center and a point man that can’t shoot.

Best laid plans of mice and men...
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Phila have a really good team right now. Horford’s deal will restrict their moves going forward but Richardson and Horford is great return.
 
Eboue said:
:lol: they're arguably in better shape than boston even after all those picks. the nba is wild
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Hold your horses. The Celtics were comfortably better than them last year even with that cancer in the locker room. Now he's gone they'll be a genuine contender in the East....which is what they were before that dope came back from injury.

Not to disparage what the Nets have done over the last year. I enjoyed watching them- they were very similar to the Celtics before Kyrie joined in fact. The Durant move was a no-brainer- he's arguably the best player in the league once he's healthy. The other guy is a different story: amazingly gifted, but he's a moody bitch who spouts pseudo intellectual garbage whenever the mood takes him and rubs people up the wrong way. Best of luck with him and whatever fortune cookie claptrap he starts blathering on about during the year.
 
De Selby said:
Hold your horses. The Celtics were comfortably better than them last year even with that cancer in the locker room. Now he's gone they'll be a genuine contender in the East....which is what they were before that dope came back from injury.

Not to disparage what the Nets have done over the last year. I enjoyed watching them- they were very similar to the Celtics before Kyrie joined in fact. The Durant move was a no-brainer- he's arguably the best player in the league once he's healthy. The other guy is a different story: amazingly gifted, but he's a moody bitch who spouts pseudo intellectual garbage whenever the mood takes him and rubs people up the wrong way. Best of luck with him and whatever fortune cookie claptrap he starts blathering on about during the year.
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A Boston fan criticizing a black person. Typical. smdh
 
De Selby said:
Hold your horses. The Celtics were comfortably better than them last year even with that cancer in the locker room. Now he's gone they'll be a genuine contender in the East....which is what they were before that dope came back from injury.

Not to disparage what the Nets have done over the last year. I enjoyed watching them- they were very similar to the Celtics before Kyrie joined in fact. The Durant move was a no-brainer- he's arguably the best player in the league once he's healthy. The other guy is a different story: amazingly gifted, but he's a moody bitch who spouts pseudo intellectual garbage whenever the mood takes him and rubs people up the wrong way. Best of luck with him and whatever fortune cookie claptrap he starts blathering on about during the year.
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Celtics are going to miss Horford a lot. Their roster really isn’t that good.
 
Sarni said:
Celtics are going to miss Horford a lot. Their roster really isn’t that good.
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They will, big time. He was my second favourite player on that team.

But the roster is pretty strong I think. They have a decent chance of making the Eastern Conference finals.
 
To any Raptors fan here...how is the salary cap situation looking for you guys if kwahi doesn't sign? If he signs long term or 1+1 is there any room for mid tier star.
 
UweBein said:
In terms of potentially winning the NBA next year it's not a good move, but it will definitely help them to make at least the playoffs.
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I completely disagree. If the Dubs had just let KD leave for nothing their starting five for opening night next season would look something like; Steph, Draymond, Damian Jones, Iggy (although I would have expected a great deal of load management throughout the season) and one of Alfonzo McKinnie/Jordan Bell/Quinn Cook. I think they would have liked to have re-signed Kevon Looney as well but because of their luxury tax issues he may have proved too expensive. Since Steph, Klay, Draymond and Iggy's salary already added up to close to 107 million and the cap is 109.1 million then the only route open to them to sign players other than their own would be the taxpayer MLE which is about 5.7 million for 2019-20. I don't think that starting five would scare anyone and to be honest may not even make the playoffs especially if Klay doesn't come back until late February/early March or later.

By signing Russell, the Dubs now have an excellent back court, Draymond Green, Damian Jones and the possibility of McKinnie/Bell/Cook as a fifth starter. I believe Looney will now be gone but he may have been gone anyway. That team should at least be competitive and more than likely make a run at the playoffs. When Klay comes back the Dubs now have a trade piece in D'Angelo Russell which could then be used to either bolster the bench or pick up another pretty good player depending on what is needed. If they make the right trades a run at a Championship could still on the cards.
 
charlton66 said:
I completely disagree. If the Dubs had just let KD leave for nothing their starting five for opening night next season would look something like; Steph, Draymond, Damian Jones, Iggy (although I would have expected a great deal of load management throughout the season) and one of Alfonzo McKinnie/Jordan Bell/Quinn Cook. I think they would have liked to have re-signed Kevon Looney as well but because of their luxury tax issues he may have proved too expensive. Since Steph, Klay, Draymond and Iggy's salary already added up to close to 107 million and the cap is 109.1 million then the only route open to them to sign players other than their own would be the taxpayer MLE which is about 5.7 million for 2019-20. I don't think that starting five would scare anyone and to be honest may not even make the playoffs especially if Klay doesn't come back until late February/early March or later.

By signing Russell, the Dubs now have an excellent back court, Draymond Green, Damian Jones and the possibility of McKinnie/Bell/Cook as a fifth starter. I believe Looney will now be gone but he may have been gone anyway. That team should at least be competitive and more than likely make a run at the playoffs. When Klay comes back the Dubs now have a trade piece in D'Angelo Russell which could then be used to either bolster the bench or pick up another pretty good player depending on what is needed. If they make the right trades a run at a Championship could still on the cards.
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Russel trade was the best way to keep Durant's contract. Not many understand that even without Russel trade it would have been very difficult to keep Looney and/or Cousins.
 
chetan said:
To any Raptors fan here...how is the salary cap situation looking for you guys if kwahi doesn't sign? If he signs long term or 1+1 is there any room for mid tier star.
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If both Kawhi and Green don't sign, we're still above the salary cap. Re-signing Gasol has actually put us in a bit of a pickle.
 
There goes any affinity I had for the Lakers. Grew up idolizing Magic and Showtime, then Shaq and Kobe, then Kobe on his own, then Kobe and Pau. Long hoped the Lakers would return to the top but not how LeBron is building another super team.
 
mazhar13 said:
If both Kawhi and Green don't sign, we're still above the salary cap. Re-signing Gasol has actually put us in a bit of a pickle.
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Basically you guys are fecked if Kwahi doesn’t sign. That is what I liked about russels trade to the warriors, making best use of the salary cap situation.
 
Kawhi going to go from hero to villain pretty quickly. The KD route.
 
ZDwyr said:
Kawhi going to go from hero to villain pretty quickly. The KD route.
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No, I love Kawhi, I will always love Kawhi, KD acted like a dick and showed himself up on social media, while Kawhi always been a perfect professional.
 
Ayush_reddevil said:
Looney back to the warriors
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I'm shocked but happy. The Dubs now have 129.6 million in guaranteed contracts for 8 roster players which includes Jacob Evans and Jordan Poole. They'll also probably be able to stretch Shaun Livingston's 2 million in guaranteed money over 3 years but that's another 670 thousand to add to the total -so essentially 130.3 million. The hard cap for 2019-20 is 138.9 million so they have about 8.6 million left to fill out their roster.

Jordan Bell has also been traded to the Timberwolves along with Shabazz Napier and Treveon Graham.

As an afterthought, I just hope Bell, Napier and Graham to Minnesota is not the precursor to somehow ending up with Andrew Wiggins for Russell. :nono::nono::nono:
 
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It looks like the Knicks and Dubs are working on a massive deal according to Peter Vecsey.

 
chetan said:
To any Raptors fan here...how is the salary cap situation looking for you guys if kwahi doesn't sign? If he signs long term or 1+1 is there any room for mid tier star.
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Masai will blow up the team and start afresh. One of Ibaka or Gasol will be traded to free up space, and we'd bring in some draft picks to build the team around Siakham.
 
So basically Kawhi to Lakers all but confirmed. I hate it so much, there goes the promise of a competitive league we had for a couple to days, and this is much worse than KD going to Warriors. At least Warriors built their team by making good moves and developing their young players. Lakers will have built their superteam by being Lakers.
 
Sarni said:
So basically Kawhi to Lakers all but confirmed. I hate it so much, there goes the promise of a competitive league we had for a couple to days, and this is much worse than KD going to Warriors. At least Warriors built their team by making good moves and developing their young players. Lakers will have built their superteam by being Lakers.
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That's unfair Sarni. We built this team with a bit of luck but generally we drafted okay, developed that talent and then traded those mufeckas for AD and Board Man!!!
 
Bubz27 said:
That's unfair Sarni. We built this team with a bit of luck but generally we drafted okay, developed that talent and then traded those mufeckas for AD and Board Man!!!
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I don’t think you drafted okay though. That’s why you had to send three players and a thousand picks to get AD. The best player you drafted in the last 5 years you had to trade away to get rid of Mozgov’s contract, you’ve let Randle go so you could sign Rondo and Stephenson. You didn’t draft terribly, and had some nice picks in late first round with Hart and Kuzma, but in general most of your moves sucked. I mean, you are still paying $5million a year to Luol Deng.
 
Sarni said:
I don’t think you drafted okay though. That’s why you had to send three players and a thousand picks to get AD. The best player you drafted in the last 5 years you had to trade away to get rid of Mozgov’s contract, you’ve let Randle go so you could sign Rondo and Stephenson. You didn’t draft terribly, and had some nice picks in late first round with Hart and Kuzma, but in general most of your moves sucked. I mean, you are still paying $5million a year to Luol Deng.
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Yeah I know. Was being sarcastic.

Although people only say Russell was a good luck because of what he's done since he left. In that case, health permitting, I think people will say the same about Ingram in 2 years too. And Lonzo will be a good player.

The Deng Mozgov summer was unbelievably bad. To be honest, it's been a pretty shite 6 years for Lakers.
 
I underestimated Kawhi. He understands that it's all just about winning championships. Good move for him, if it goes through.

LeBron might have a shot at winning 2-3 more rings. Excellent for him.
 
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