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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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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.
https://twitter.com/ADH702/status/882003527077425152

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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

He literally took less to save on luxury tax

Jesus loving Christ

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.

euphronius posted:

He literally took less to save on luxury tax

Jesus loving Christ

https://twitter.com/Bulls_Jay/status/882004347818782721


The Players Union should be on his loving rear end.

Lugnut Seatcushion
May 4, 2013
Lipstick Apathy
Koward

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

love 2 undermine the players union #respect #unionbusting

Blunt Instrument
Apr 4, 2008

How can you shoot
(hot dogs at) women or children?

Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much! Hahaha! Ain't ball hell?!

Yes KD we'll be your friends

... if you eat this bug

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

Blunt Instrument posted:

Yes KD we'll be your friends

... if you eat this bug

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

I'm going to buy tickets just for the chance to boo kd

Historys greatest heel

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
What the gently caress

https://twitter.com/sam_amick/status/882004955317493760

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

We need to have a kd intervention

This is madness

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

kd would probably scab in the event of another lockout

Lugnut Seatcushion
May 4, 2013
Lipstick Apathy
Forcibly disband the warriors imo

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

the Hes Just Doing Whats Best For His Career!!!! takes seem ever stupider and stupider the more kd does things.



golden states getting like 40m dollars extra in favorable contracts next year its absurd

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.

See that's fine to me.

Well I think it's dumb, but that makes sense to me on the competitive side of it.


The Lux Tax saving cut is dumb as hell and sets another bad precedent.

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The most Uber of players

Lugnut Seatcushion
May 4, 2013
Lipstick Apathy
Maybe they're trying to get under the apron

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
https://twitter.com/ailene_voisin/status/882006163197317120

https://twitter.com/AdamSchein/status/882002763017834496

:jerkbag:

Squinky v2.0
Nov 16, 2006

Behind you! A three headed monkey!

College Slice
The $ number he took has to be significant for cap math in some way beyond just saving on the tax... right?


Like, why go that arbitrarily low unless you're trying to hit a certain number, whether it's for this year or how next looks on paper or something.

Spoeank
Jul 16, 2003

That's a nice set of 11 dynasty points there, it would be a shame if 3 rings were to happen with it
I just realized this is 100% KD's way of getting credit for the incoming 2018 championship hahaha

Bush Did Outer Heaven
Jan 18, 2005

The Sweetest Payne
Millionaires handing bags of money to billionaires is the most american thing there is. I'm only sad KD couldn't wait until the 4th to announce his intentions to save Joe Lacob money for the toilet arena.

e: and that Rudy Gay tale is fan fiction. there's no salary that Durant could've taken to alter golden state's capacity to sign Gay.

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

euphronius posted:

He's going to have to move to Sacramento :qq:

we gettin meta now boyz

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

saving on a tax bill increases their window by several years, it could entirely be because of that yes.


kds the 2nd best player in the nba, on the best team of all time, and is about to take a 10m+ dollar paycut to save his billionaire owner some money and its somehow only going to be the second biggest bitchmade move of his life

xbilkis
Apr 11, 2005

god qb
me
jay hova
Incredibly selfless move by Kevin Durant to accept $25,000 a year to join the Harlem Globetrotters. You just can't put a price on winning for that guy.

Lugnut Seatcushion
May 4, 2013
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/AlbertNahmad/status/882007692163915776

Metapod
Mar 18, 2012
Durant can go gently caress himself that's my take

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Metapod posted:

Durant can go gently caress himself that's my take

Lessail
Apr 1, 2011

:cry::cry:
tell me how vgk aren't playing like shit again
:cry::cry:
p.s. help my grapes are so sour!
that whole movement of labor defense of kd being bitchmade sure is hilarious now

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

The whole east should marshal its forces to defeat Durant Gannon

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe

Squinky v2.0 posted:

The $ number he took has to be significant for cap math in some way beyond just saving on the tax... right?


Like, why go that arbitrarily low unless you're trying to hit a certain number, whether it's for this year or how next looks on paper or something.

Nope.

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:
haha what a bunch of salty bitches

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

KD a fool but no one will care if he signs his max next year so idk all the handwringing about this

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer

Metapod posted:

Durant can go gently caress himself that's my take

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Ghost Dog posted:

saving on a tax bill increases their window by several years, it could entirely be because of that yes.



That must be what it is about. He's going to get his obscene contract next year, but taking this cut pushes away the day when they can no longer afford to keep this team together anymore.

All that talk about how happy he is with the Warriors organization and his teammates might be true.

Cool Buff Man
Jul 30, 2006

bitch
https://twitter.com/ByJayKing/status/882008364863045632

well I hope that's true :)

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

Carlosologist posted:

KD a fool but no one will care if he signs his max next year so idk all the handwringing about this

torpedoing every single other players bargaining position is not a good thing, and everyone thought he was going to take a max or close to this offseason but instead hes taking a 10m dollar paycut so???



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBQ2mjkvYY8

Lessail
Apr 1, 2011

:cry::cry:
tell me how vgk aren't playing like shit again
:cry::cry:
p.s. help my grapes are so sour!
finally that sv disruption i've heard so much about

predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

This year doesn't matter. Lacob would pay an extra 25 mil without blinking.

It's what it means for 2 and 3 years down the road with the repeater.

Ghost Dog
Aug 17, 2016

predicto posted:

All that talk about how happy he is with the Warriors organization and his teammates might be true.

:rolleyes:

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

predicto posted:

This year doesn't matter. Lacob would pay an extra 25 mil without blinking.

It's what it means for 2 and 3 years down the road with the repeater.

Who cares

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predicto
Jul 22, 2004

THE DEM DEFENDER HAS LOGGED ON

Durant, apparently.

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