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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline?
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The Big3 Tourney 67 22.41%
Will Lakers draft Ball 40 13.38%
Where will the Pauls go 54 18.06%
Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? 41 13.71%
Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking 97 32.44%
Total: 210 votes
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Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

SpiritOfSanDimas posted:

Not to rag on your link specifically, but I really hate this sort of bullshit intellectual NBA writing where its like "What Godard film is JR Smith?"

Its just screaming 'I HAVE A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE BUT I ALSO LIKE SPORTS.... BET YOU DIDNT THINK YOU'D FIND SOMEONE LIKE ME HMMMM?". Its everywhere and it drives me nuts

These days I can only stand emotionless Nate Duncan style pure autistic salary cap number crunching

I'm about to cloud up and rain down on you boy, Jerry Stackhouse is a great

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Eltoasto
Aug 26, 2002

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.



I mean, giving Iggy serious money is a bad idea. I like the theory that billionaires cannot stand not being able to compete and will do anything to tear down GS, even if it means overpaying for their bench players.

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs

This is so loving tight

NickRoweFillea
Sep 27, 2012

doin thangs

Jerry Stackhouse posted:

Even though the Warriors are agents provocateurs, is it OK to like them?
https://66thtake.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/hercules-and-the-hydra/
PS I am happy the Hornets drafted a good player with a good name.

This is also so loving tight, thank u Jerry

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!
https://twitter.com/DanCookWCCO/status/880931032140324868

Source is a local radio host, son of old Lakers GM and current elderly media relic/mascot Sid Hartman

G-Hawk
Dec 15, 2003

Eltoasto posted:

I mean, giving Iggy serious money is a bad idea. I like the theory that billionaires cannot stand not being able to compete and will do anything to tear down GS, even if it means overpaying for their bench players.

Time for a leaguewide pact that any team with cap space will offer a max contract to every single warrior free agent each offseason

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

Eltoasto posted:

I mean, giving Iggy serious money is a bad idea. I like the theory that billionaires cannot stand not being able to compete and will do anything to tear down GS, even if it means overpaying for their bench players.

Spurs with Iggy could beat the Warriors as long as they didn't use Spurs approved Bowen tactics to injure Leonard again.

Space Camp fuckup
Aug 2, 2003

Jerry Stackhouse posted:

Even though the Warriors are agents provocateurs, is it OK to like them?
https://66thtake.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/hercules-and-the-hydra/
PS I am happy the Hornets drafted a good player with a good name.

This is really good

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ĦHola SEA!


NickRoweFillea posted:

JaMychal Green

If Green is "really" a 37% shooter like he was this season, he is absolutely a guy who can be a critical piece on a title team. He could be the power forward Danny Green

Jerry Stackhouse posted:

[4] The CIA was, incidentally, quite fond of Barthes, promoting his work in the belief that it would lead well-meaning academics into a dead end. They weren’t necessarily right, however. Is it possible that, just as a discarded weapon, which may have been a tool of state repression, can be picked up by a revolutionary and used to murder the agents of capitalism, images, symbols, myths, rhetoric, and theoretical concepts can also be turned against their creators? To be clear, I am not asserting that they can, but it is an interesting and important question to consider.

They can be and they have to be. This is if anything THE key power capitalism has had in coopting and suppressing dissent, that it has absorbed deep cultural signifiers and novel concepts and turned them into marketing gimmicks, tools of wealth aggregation, and weapons of coercion. That is Gramsci's hegemony in action, and it can be emulated or socialism can never be successful, which I reject.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Three years for Teague could be good and a nice upgrade / fit

Lugnut Seatcushion
May 4, 2013
Lipstick Apathy

DeimosRising posted:

If Green is "really" a 37% shooter like he was this season, he is absolutely a guy who can be a critical piece on a title team. He could be the power forward Danny Green


They can be and they have to be. This is if anything THE key power capitalism has had in coopting and suppressing dissent, that it has absorbed deep cultural signifiers and novel concepts and turned them into marketing gimmicks, tools of wealth aggregation, and weapons of coercion. That is Gramsci's hegemony in action, and it can be emulated or socialism can never be successful, which I reject.

same

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

euphronius posted:

Three years for Teague could be good and a nice upgrade / fit

If its something like 3/60 then he comes off right as the rest of the team is getting paid, so it's not like its any cap room.

This all depends on how much of their 33 million they are spending on Teague, but their bench if still awful and last year that cost them a lot of games.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Paracaidas posted:

https://twitter.com/DanCookWCCO/status/880931032140324868

Source is a local radio host, son of old Lakers GM and current elderly media relic/mascot Sid Hartman

Brolander
Oct 20, 2008

i am but a vessel

SpiritOfSanDimas posted:

Not to rag on your link specifically, but I really hate this sort of bullshit intellectual NBA writing where its like "What Godard film is JR Smith?"

Its just screaming 'I HAVE A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE BUT I ALSO LIKE SPORTS.... BET YOU DIDNT THINK YOU'D FIND SOMEONE LIKE ME HMMMM?". Its everywhere and it drives me nuts

These days I can only stand emotionless Nate Duncan style pure autistic salary cap number crunching

that web site kind of rules but i know what you mean and it's awful, about as bad as forced pop cultural reference Bill Simmons articles

Space Camp fuckup
Aug 2, 2003

It kind of reminds me of stuff you'd see on Free Darko except more educational and less condescending. Bethlehem Shoals kind of disappeared up his own rear end in a top hat, I can't stand reading his stuff anymore.

Spite
Jul 27, 2001

Small chance of that...

Spacebump posted:

Spurs with Iggy could beat the Warriors as long as they didn't use Spurs approved Bowen tactics to injure Leonard again.

Do they actually have the money?

Also he low-key loves drama and I'd expect him to resign with GSW for too much money. Then blow out his knee or back for good.

soggybagel
Aug 6, 2006
The official account of NFL Tackle Phil Loadholt.

Let's talk Football.
MY BABY RICKY IS GONE AND BURIED

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ĦHola SEA!


Space Camp fuckup posted:

It kind of reminds me of stuff you'd see on Free Darko except more educational and less condescending. Bethlehem Shoals kind of disappeared up his own rear end in a top hat, I can't stand reading his stuff anymore.

That makes more sense, I couldn't figure out what he was talking about. Jerry's writing is nothing like Shoals imo

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

G-Hawk posted:

Time for a leaguewide pact that any team with cap space will offer a max contract to every single warrior free agent each offseason

It worked last year. They lost Harry Barnes and had to settle for second best.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/880925828510621697

Cute, but why don't y'all just agree to meet at like 10 am tomorrow so you aren't negotiating contract details at 3 am

E2M2
Mar 2, 2007

Ain't No Thang.

zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/880925828510621697

Cute, but why don't y'all just agree to meet at like 10 am tomorrow so you aren't negotiating contract details at 3 am

I think it would be 9PM PST.

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ĦHola SEA!


zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/880925828510621697

Cute, but why don't y'all just agree to meet at like 10 am tomorrow so you aren't negotiating contract details at 3 am

Both sides sleep-drunkenly trying to get the other to slip up and reveal team secrets. Andre is a snake and he's out to sabotage SAS

Redgrendel2001
Sep 1, 2006

you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/880943606948782080

zoux
Apr 28, 2006


So would that make him the highest paid?

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/880925828510621697

Cute, but why don't y'all just agree to meet at like 10 am tomorrow so you aren't negotiating contract details at 3 am

Because both sides want to know right away if they can come to terms before other FA and/or cap is gone around the league.

G-Hawk
Dec 15, 2003

Morey was on some show earlier talking about how the thing is all the GMs go to LA at 12 et (9 pst) tonight, and then fly to the east coast tomorrow morning so that they can maximize in person meetings in the first 24 hours or so

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

zoux posted:

So would that make him the highest paid?

Yes by a huge margin

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Lockback posted:

Because both sides want to know right away if they can come to terms before other FA and/or cap is gone around the league.

Well they're going to go sleep at some point, so sleep first and then find out. Have a lock-in at Spurs HQ.

Cool Buff Man posted:

Yes by a huge margin

Apologies to kind Nick, but John Wall makes a lot more sense as the highest paid player than Conley.

DC Murderverse
Nov 10, 2016

"Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Paracaidas posted:

https://twitter.com/DanCookWCCO/status/880931032140324868

Source is a local radio host, son of old Lakers GM and current elderly media relic/mascot Sid Hartman

this is not Kyle Lowry. i am upset.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

zoux posted:

So would that make him the highest paid?

Until curry gets the megamax

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop
FA- Teague
Say that out loud

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ĦHola SEA!



Woof, 42 million a year on a 99 million cap for a guy whose best season was .149ws/48 for 8.8 total winshares, almost exactly the same as Jeff Teague

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ĦHola SEA!


zoux posted:

Well they're going to go sleep at some point, so sleep first and then find out. Have a lock-in at Spurs HQ.


Apologies to kind Nick, but John Wall makes a lot more sense as the highest paid player than Conley.

Mike Conley is better than John Wall. John Wall is not a great player despite his reputation

Cloud the Cat
Apr 21, 2010

Nooo Ricky noooo, Minnesota you are now off my christmas list!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

How many WS is "gently caress is wrong with you boy" worth

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

zoux posted:

Apologies to kind Nick, but John Wall makes a lot more sense as the highest paid player than Conley.

Lebron has the highest season salary. Plus that contract wouldn't kick in until 18-19.

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

zoux posted:

How many WS is "gently caress is wrong with you boy" worth

hitze
Aug 28, 2007
Give me a dollar. No, the twenty. This is gonna blow your mind...

DeimosRising posted:

Mike Conley is better than John Wall. John Wall is not a great player despite his reputation

listen bud

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

ĦHola SEA!


zoux posted:

How many WS is "gently caress is wrong with you boy" worth

If only he could figure out what's wrong with the Wizards (their star player is a somewhat above average starter who can't shoot for poo poo)

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MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

Lockback posted:

Timberwolves should offer a max to Hayward. Let Butler and Hayward run the offense.

I am offering him he max for my rec league team, where he is equally likely to sign

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