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What is going to be your favorite offseason storyline?
This poll is closed.
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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Spite
Jul 27, 2001

Small chance of that...
By the end of the night every all star is going to be in the west somehow.

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Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

chunkles posted:

So since the Rockets are meeting with Amir Johnson, what happened to him? Is he still a reasonably good defensive player? I've barely watched him ball in Boston.

He's still useful and about the same as he's always been but gets injured a little bit more

shirts and skins
Jun 25, 2007

Good morning!

Spite posted:

By the end of the night every all star is going to be in the west somehow.

East demoted to 2nd Tier of North American basketball

Promotion/relegation instituted

\/\/\/\/\/loving Hell! Happy Holidays I guess

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.

euphronius posted:

That jrue deal

Whoa boy

5 years $170 million.

Holy.
loving.
poo poo.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

1. West
2. Spanish league
3. East

Adun
Apr 15, 2001

Publicola
Fun Shoe

warcrimes posted:

For one year and he's publicly stated he's going to LA after. PG doesn't make them better than GS this coming year.

He said that about Indiana because it was a team that's going nowhere and couldn't compete.

And sure, PG by himself might not make him better but the whole Ainge/Celtics talking point this off-season was that they'd be able to trade for a star and then get another one for free in FA (Hayward). So PG + Hayward can't at elast compete in the Finals? I find that hard to believe given how good of a coach Brad Stevens is and any injury issues that might pop up for GSW

Like the whole 2-for-1 thing was a pretty big talking point

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

the Pelicans gave Jrue 5/170? :stare:

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

Cool Buff Man posted:

He's still useful and about the same as he's always been but gets injured a little bit more

thanks. The Rockets could use 20 minutes of competent defense.

Redgrendel2001 posted:

5 years $170 million.

#PrayForKibner

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Spite posted:

By the end of the night every all star is going to be in the west somehow.

They had to do it to get new blood in the all-star game and create more chances at ridiculous overpays

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch
That's too much money for Drew Holliday

Boosh!
Apr 12, 2002
Oven Wrangler

Redgrendel2001 posted:

5 years $170 million.

Holy.
loving.
poo poo.

That upset Minn fan should be ever thankful

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Carlosologist posted:

the Pelicans gave Jrue 5/170? :stare:

Hmmmmm

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
The Pelicans had no choice. It's either let him go or pay him and the Pelicans GM is very bad since the Anthony Davis era started.

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

https://twitter.com/OKCPD/status/880984935473053696

G-Hawk
Dec 15, 2003

alright so i was complaining about people doing this earlier but in this case i dont give a poo poo


someone gave holiday 170 million real rear end american dollars? They're not like, some other shittier dollars?

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

G-Hawk posted:

alright so i was complaining about people doing this earlier but in this case i dont give a poo poo


someone gave holiday 170 million real rear end american dollars? They're not like, some other shittier dollars?

That's the twitter rumor

We will know in 50 mins

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Redgrendel2001 posted:

5 years $170 million.

Holy.
loving.
poo poo.

Demarcus Cousins is only making 18m next year, that's like backup center money now. This is crazy

boxcarhobo
Jun 23, 2005

jesus christ, i nod off for like an hour and the whole nba has exploded

Spite posted:

By the end of the night every all star is going to be in the west somehow.

NO, YOU CANT HAVE MY KEMBA

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
lmfao that's $34 million per year. Over a third of your cap space. This night is going to kill me.

warcrimes
Jul 6, 2013

I don't know what's it called, I just know the sound it makes when it takes a J4G's life. :parrot: :parrot: :parrot: :parrot:

Maybe they should have been investigating the OKC owners

DeimosRising
Oct 17, 2005

¡Hola SEA!


Carlosologist posted:

the Pelicans gave Jrue 5/170? :stare:

Oh my god that's awful. That's the worst max since Arenas probably that's just horrific. Send a first to Minny for Rubio at 1/4 the price and you probably get better overall production factoring in games played.

Some people here massively overvaluing Paul George by the way, he is not a top tier player by any measurement but hype

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

boxcarhobo posted:

jesus christ, i nod off for like an hour and the whole nba has exploded


NO, YOU CANT HAVE MY KEMBA

Grats on your #3 seed

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012

warcrimes posted:

Maybe they should have been investigating the OKC owners

Why would you investigate innocent good people like the bennetts

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy

as long as the OKC Police haven't murdered anyone recently, this tweet owns

kingcobweb
Apr 16, 2005

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?"
Week-end. Next question

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.

Carlosologist posted:

the Pelicans gave Jrue 5/170? :stare:

Still just rumors.

boxcarhobo
Jun 23, 2005

zoux posted:

Grats on your #3 seed

like, the east is so bad now that if dwight howard doesn't completely poison our team, or god forbid even works out for us a little bit... well, hell, we might make the 2nd round!!

G-Hawk
Dec 15, 2003

at this rate I expect at 12:01 woj to break 5 teams have folded, Lebron has gone to Sacramento, and Boston traded all of their picks for a plumlee

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Same https://twitter.com/FredKatz/status/880967849916944384

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun
Good.

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/880988130811277312

Squinky v2.0
Nov 16, 2006

Behind you! A three headed monkey!

College Slice
The PG trade is a big fuckup for the Pacers and the fact that this thread is basically talking about the deal entirely in the context of Danny Ainge reveals yr anti Mormon attitudes.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch

That's a good deal

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

Squinky v2.0 posted:

The PG trade is a big fuckup for the Pacers and the fact that this thread is basically talking about the deal entirely in the context of Danny Ainge reveals yr anti Mormon attitudes.

literal death to all mormons imo

G-Hawk
Dec 15, 2003

...4 years for Nene? I mean, okay, I guess.

I get it, morey just basically paid Nene more while taking up less cap room

shirts and skins
Jun 25, 2007

Good morning!

AggressivelyStupid posted:

literal death to all mormons imo

uhh

hmm

Cool Buff Man posted:

That's a good deal

Particularly in the context of 5/125 for Jrue loving Holiday good god

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

G-Hawk posted:

...4 years for Nene? I mean, okay, I guess.

It's only 3.75 million a year, or as I like to think of it 1 out of 10 on the Jrue Holiday Scale

e: and knowing Morey I wouldn't be surprised if that last year is one of those partial guarantee things.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

shirts and skins posted:

uhh

hmm


Particularly in the context of 5/125 for Jrue loving Holiday good god

5/125 would be a steal lol

Adun
Apr 15, 2001

Publicola
Fun Shoe
The real question is: will the Cleveland Cavaliers be the first team ever to go 12-0 through the first three rounds before ending the playoffs 12-4

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The nene deal is basically an extended cap exception . He will probably be bought out or stretched next year but it lessens the cap hit

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G-Hawk
Dec 15, 2003

euphronius posted:

The nene deal is basically an extended cap exception . He will probably be bought out or stretched next year but it lessens the cap hit

yeah thats a new and exciting Morey way to manipulate cap rules

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