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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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AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

no but kyrie is terrible at defense so its a good thing clearly

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Eltoasto
Aug 26, 2002

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



AggressivelyStupid posted:

lets see you get traded without a gm kyrie!!!!

One crazy trick to keeping the team together!

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

anyway lebrons leaving for philly so ya gotta #TrustTheProcess

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


Dan Gilbert is so dumb. Like the dumbest dumb person.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I foresee Kyrie averaging 28 points a night on a .400 team.

Eltoasto
Aug 26, 2002

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



BWV posted:

Dan Gilbert is so dumb. Like the dumbest dumb person.

To be fair, I wouldn't want to lose a bunch of money paying the luxury tax for a 2nd place team either.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
Of course all this poo poo goes down after we signed the PG of the future - Darren Collison.

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y992a9ow

who says no

BWV
Feb 24, 2005


Eltoasto posted:

To be fair, I wouldn't want to lose a bunch of money paying the luxury tax for a 2nd place team either.

I would when you can use creative accounting to write it off as a loss.

These guys complaining about paying the tax is all a smoke screen. Even in the 70s Halberstam was writing about how they treat players as depreciating assets in order to avoid real life taxes on their other businesses that are all owned by the same company.

Bush Did Outer Heaven
Jan 18, 2005

The Sweetest Payne
I mean Gilbert's a fuckhead, but I think this is more like Kyrie's gone nuts and thinks he's about to go be the MVP on the knicks or whatever.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
Just gonna leave this here.

https://twitter.com/PFTCommenter/status/888487743151648768

AggressivelyStupid
Jan 9, 2012

i have adjusted my crazy trade to be even better http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=ybhu9h74

Doltos
Dec 28, 2005

🤌🤌🤌

Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:

I mean Gilbert's a fuckhead, but I think this is more like Kyrie's gone nuts and thinks he's about to go be the MVP on the knicks or whatever.

Why the gently caress would you put this out in the ether I can already sense our next few first rounders disappearing

GobiasIndustries
Dec 14, 2007

Lipstick Apathy
Great job Dan.

chunkles
Aug 14, 2005

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

Bush Did Outer Heaven posted:

I mean Gilbert's a fuckhead, but I think this is more like Kyrie's gone nuts and thinks he's about to go be the MVP on the knicks or whatever.

If Kyrie is can carry a team by himself I'll admit the Earth is flat

Vanilla Mint Ice
Jul 17, 2007

A raccoon is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
According to the article kyrie thought about requesting a trade right after they got the ring. This just seems like a case of alright I got my ring now I want to be the number one guy again no matter what

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/888488529881292801

Libertine
Jun 21, 2004

When I die, I hope they say I made the eSports industry a better place than I made millions of dollars.
Three more years of Gasol?

FrankeeFrankFrank
Apr 21, 2005

Say word son.
How can this get so hosed up so quickly?

EDIT: So Cleveland is like the 4 seed next year right? and that's if LeBron plays his balls off and doesn't just say gently caress it and have a season ending "injury" before x-mas.

Back to the lottery cleveland.

FrankeeFrankFrank fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jul 21, 2017

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Pinche puro Gasol

Bush Did Outer Heaven
Jan 18, 2005

The Sweetest Payne

Doltos posted:

Why the gently caress would you put this out in the ether I can already sense our next few first rounders disappearing

Man, I dunno that the Knicks will be giving up any FRPs here. Surely they'll discuss Melo-Kyrie permutations here. DeMarcus Cousins, Jimmy Butler, and Paul George have all been traded on 1 or 2 year contracts for various bags of peanuts. Kyrie's got two years left. Cavs ain't gettin much now that this is public.

chunkles posted:

If Kyrie is can carry a team by himself I'll admit the Earth is flat

yeah I mean if Kyrie is just that detached from reality, I don't know whose fault it is.

Bush Did Outer Heaven fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Jul 21, 2017

Sharparoni
Jan 11, 2004

THE MOST EXCITING MASCOT IN THE LAST 4000 YEARS OF COLLEGE SPORTS


The time has come to fulfill the prophecy

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y8o63sz8

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming
I dunno, Kyrie's probably worth a late lottery pick and some pieces (Carmelo). He'd pair well with Frank if he pans out, too.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
Ahhhhh yesssssss...the favorite part of my day when I'm bored. Hilarious trade machine time!

http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yb52gyuu

I couldn't give up future MVP and Hoosier Daddy Victor Oladipo.

Eltoasto
Aug 26, 2002

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



Kyrie is the Anti-Durant

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/888490238020014080

Hmmmmm is Kyrie bad :thunk:

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/888490311768457216

Dejan Bimble
Mar 24, 2008

we're all black friends
Plaster Town Cop

Kyrie is a combo guard at best and really a short shooting guard who handles the ball and doesn't play defense because he's small and doesn't care. It's not surprising. Hisnumbers pre lebron were absolute dog poo poo. As the designated scorer of 5 man all offense attack machine he's a very good component

When's this fuckin Carmelito trade going down

Bigass Moth
Mar 6, 2004

I joined the #RXT REVOLUTION.
:boom:
he knows...
I trust Dan Gilbert to find a piece to equally replace Kyrie and prepare for LeBron's exit after the year to continue the Cavaliers' playoff successes.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?
Building around Kyrie is the surest possible way to get a number 1 overall pick, someone get the Sixers on the phone.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
Hahahaha

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/888491529869938688

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

NBA twitter is lit right now y'all

https://twitter.com/iFollowAllen/status/888487183450914816

sssSSSSSsssssSSSSS

Paul Zuvella
Dec 7, 2011

There is literally no way Kyrie is traded while Lebron is on the roster. It seems like an extremely bizarre time to announce a thing like this. He has 2 more years on his deal. Lebron walks next off season and he's traded.

He is probably just setting the scene for that to happen.

MourningView
Sep 2, 2006


Is this Heaven?

zoux posted:

NBA twitter is lit right now y'all

https://twitter.com/iFollowAllen/status/888487183450914816

sssSSSSSsssssSSSSS

Lmao

Paul Zuvella
Dec 7, 2011

Also what a bizarre time to do this, essentially after Free Agency is over.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/888493088141737984

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

of course the spurs

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Pop requires you to play defense and not smoke weed though.

Also how lol is Starting Cavaliers Point Guard Derrick Rose

Vanilla Mint Ice
Jul 17, 2007

A raccoon is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
He wants to be The Man and he thinks he'll get that spotlight in san antoni of all places?

He's gonna join paul george in the lakers next year

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Space Camp fuckup
Aug 2, 2003

Kyrie is the most overrated player in the league

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