NBA Offseason G/V: Let Me Hear You Post It

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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.

NY better be willing to take Kanter and a McDermott/Pick or something to offload Melo wut?

Dexo fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jul 24, 2017

# ? Jul 24, 2017 17:16

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 10:51

ButtWolf: Dec 30, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kanter, Singler, Ferguson, McDermott and a pick. Do it. I don't even particularly care for Melo anymore, but he is a weapon.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 17:39

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Kanter seems like a lot to give up for melo.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 17:40

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Where's Dolan on Gulenism

# ? Jul 24, 2017 17:46

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

euphronius posted:

Kanter seems like a lot to give up for melo.

Really? Enes "Can't Play" Kanter seems like too much to give up?

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:08

Bush Did Outer Heaven: Jan 18, 2005; The Sweetest Payne

If this is OKC's Farewell Tour of Relevance, I really hope it's as much Sam Presti's beautiful dark twisted fantasy as possible.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:17

Mr. Mambold: Feb 13, 2011; Aha. Nice post.

Metapod posted:

Never doubt the stupidity of the Knicks or prestis ability to rob a gm

I've always believed that's exactly what melo always needed

Melo's wife just needs to fly over OKC in a jet to veto that poo poo.

zoux posted:

Where's Dolan on Gulenism

He's a ghoul,doh, he's on board

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:18

Salvor_Hardin: Sep 13, 2005; I want to go protest.; Nap Ghost

zoux posted:

hahaha

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:27

Shear Modulus: Jun 9, 2010

Dolan likes to invent charges of alcoholism and other types of debauchery to defame his less-powerful critics so I'd put him more on the Erdogan side of the NBA's Gulen-Erdogan spectrum.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:31

Declan MacManus: Sep 1, 2011; damn i'm really in this bitch

Dexo posted:

NY better be willing to take Kanter and a McDermott/Pick or something to offload Melo wut?

That's the kind of stupid loving decision I could see the Knicks making yeah

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:36

Doltos: Dec 28, 2005; 🤌🤌🤌

All I want for this Melo trade is to not receive a dumb as gently caress contract back in return because then just keep Melo wth

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:42

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.

Kinda hard to trade a dumb as gently caress contract without taking back a slightly (more/less) dumb contract

Especially when Melo has refusal rights to keep him from going to a team dumb enough to trade anything of notable value.

https://twitter.com/kobebryant/status/889540897527832576

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:44

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Dispatches from the Musecage.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:45

WhyteRyce: Dec 30, 2001

It's going to happen guys

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:45

Spacebump: Dec 24, 2003; Dallas Mavericks: Generations

I've found one of the worst reporter hot takes.
https://twitter.com/RemadnaWKRN/status/888760152010215424

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:52

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

leftist heap posted:

Really? Enes "Can't Play" Kanter seems like too much to give up?

You can play him a lot on the regular season and some playoff matchups

# ? Jul 24, 2017 18:56

Metapod: Mar 18, 2012

WhyteRyce posted:

It's going to happen guys

Lol

euphronius posted:

You can play him a lot on the regular season and some playoff matchups

So can melo

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:01

euphronius: Feb 18, 2009

Kanter earns less . Tough to compare directly I guess they are different players .

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:03

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.

The Knicks need guys that can play next to Zingis and Ntilikina(hopefully he works out)who won't take away from their development by taking tons of touches away from them.

Also THJ I suppose(though jesus that contract)

Melo takes touches away from them. Kanter not so much.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:05

Paul Zuvella: Dec 7, 2011

euphronius posted:

Kanter earns less . Tough to compare directly I guess they are different players .

You can play melo with Steven Adams, you can't play Kanter with Steven Adams.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:11

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

Dexo posted:

The Knicks need guys that can play next to Zingis and Ntilikina(hopefully he works out)who won't take away from their development by taking tons of touches away from them.

Also THJ I suppose(though jesus that contract)

Melo takes touches away from them. Kanter not so much.

Melo's usage rate was 29.1% last year, Kanter's was 27.3%. He'll obviously have a lower impact because they just won't play him as much but Kanter doesn't have much value if he isn't chucking

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:13

Tae: Oct 24, 2010; Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!

Please stop putting high usage bigs next to Zingis

Just have Hernangomez start next to him and just finally figure out if Zing is a 5 or 4 instead of this wafering bullshit Hornacek pulls.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:16

Hashtag Banterzone: Dec 8, 2005; Lifetime Winner of the willkill4food Honorary Bad Posting Award in PWM

Dexo posted:

The Knicks need guys that can play next to Zingis and Ntilikina(hopefully he works out)who won't take away from their development by taking tons of touches away from them.

Also THJ I suppose(though jesus that contract)

Melo takes touches away from them. Kanter not so much.

I don't think you can play Kanter and Zingis together.

Melo at least spaces the floor for Zingis. Kanter can't even do that.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:17

Intruder: Mar 5, 2003; I got a taste for blown saves

Is Lebron a Rocket yet

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:22

Doltos: Dec 28, 2005; 🤌🤌🤌

Tae posted:

Please stop putting high usage bigs next to Zingis

Just have Hernangomez start next to him and just finally figure out if Zing is a 5 or 4 instead of this wafering bullshit Hornacek pulls.

Nothing wrong with putting a high usage big next to King Zing. He just needs to be able to catch the ball.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:26

Kibner: Oct 21, 2008; Acguy Supremacy

Tae posted:

Please stop putting high usage bigs next to Zingis

Just have Hernangomez start next to him and just finally figure out if Zing is a 5 or 4 instead of this wafering bullshit Hornacek pulls.

Probably won't be able to confidently tell if the Zinger is a 4 or 5 until he's 23 or 24. Will take that long for his body to fully develop.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 19:45

PantsFreeZone: May 31, 2013; by Nyc_Tattoo

Kyrie poo poo all over LeBron's plans

he saw Russ get Durant'd and said gently caress naw to that noise

# ? Jul 24, 2017 20:59

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.

PantsFreeZone posted:

Kyrie poo poo all over LeBron's plans

he saw Russ get Durant'd and said gently caress naw to that noise

I concur

# ? Jul 24, 2017 21:00

Paul Zuvella: Dec 7, 2011

James Jones was the glue holding the Cavs together

# ? Jul 24, 2017 21:02

Lugnut Seatcushion: May 4, 2013; Lipstick Apathy

PantsFreeZone posted:

Kyrie poo poo all over LeBron's plans

he saw Russ get Durant'd and said gently caress naw to that noise

Winning MVP?

# ? Jul 24, 2017 21:06

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

E2M2 posted:

They got like 1.6 billion people, how do they have such lovely players?

Table tennis is extremely important.

Spite posted:

But that doesn't help them against GSW. I feel like Kyrie is actually a matchup problem in Cleveland's favor. Iguodala is the only person on GSW that can slow Kyrie down, but Iggy has to stay on Lebron.

Klay's been really good against CP3 and even Curry can hold his own at times. He won't be able to score enough to keep Cleveland in games.

CP3, Love, DJ, LBJ is a formidable quartet that would upgrade the Cavaliers a lot. CP3 may have the highest basketball IQ in the league.

Tae posted:

...DeAndre is not a threat.

DJ has four of the top seven eFG% seasons in NBA/ABA history:

code:

Player 			eFG% 	Season
Wilt Chamberlain 	.7270 	1972-73
DeAndre Jordan 		.7140 	2016-17
DeAndre Jordan 		.7107 	2014-15
DeAndre Jordan 		.7028 	2015-16
Wilt Chamberlain 	.6826 	1966-67
Tyson Chandler 		.6789 	2011-12
DeAndre Jordan 		.6757 	2013-14
Artis Gilmore 		.6703 	1980-81

Since 2009 when he entered the league only LBJ and Curry have better FG numbers than him.

code:

FGNP	Player
1546	LeBron James
1450	Stephen Curry
1301	DeAndre Jordan
1290	Dwight Howard
1065	Kevin Durant

# ? Jul 24, 2017 22:40

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/mcten/status/889600621518757890

this is gonna be cool

# ? Jul 24, 2017 22:43

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

Rose and Carmelo need to go the CLE so the 2018 NBA finals looks closer to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yvmORtYbYk

Paul Zuvella posted:

Deandre may literally be the best finisher at the rim in the league.

He knows how to dunk and is hard to stop and he doesn't do tons of those dumb dunks that ricochet off the rim.

Mr. Mambold posted:

What if LeBron retires after this year? He brought a championship to Cleveland. What's he got left to prove?

He needs to win one dozen rings so that he can ascend to the top of Bill Simmons Hall of Fame Pyramid. Only then will some of the fatheads on TV be quelled.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 22:44

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

James Dolan�s MSG threatens to sue Steve Ballmer�s Los Angeles Clippers
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/james-dolan-msg-threatens-sue-133029840.html

WhyteRyce posted:

https://twitter.com/BenAxelrod/status/889128430628999168

"The grass is always greener on the other side."

Not just a quote about marijuana.

EvanTH posted:

I think it's telling that the biggest event in fight sports in the last several years is this joke of a contest between arguably the best boxer in history (49-0) and some famously mouthy guy who doesn't box...

Femur posted:

this is all staged drama because that poo poo sales.

poo poo is scripted

# ? Jul 24, 2017 22:51

El Gallinero Gros: Mar 17, 2010

Zogo posted:

Rose and Carmelo need to go the CLE so the 2018 NBA finals looks closer to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yvmORtYbYk

He knows how to dunk and is hard to stop and he doesn't do tons of those dumb dunks that ricochet off the rim.

He needs to win one dozen rings so that he can ascend to the top of Bill Simmons Hall of Fame Pyramid. Only then will some of the fatheads on TV be quelled.

Even then they'll just complain about superteams and the perceived poor quality of play in the league.

# ? Jul 24, 2017 22:52

chunkles: Aug 14, 2005; i am completely immersed in darkness
as i turn my body away from the sun

Metapod posted:

https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/889512805254045696

👀👀👀

Intruder posted:

Is Lebron a Rocket yet

these things take time. it'll probably take morey at least three days to a week to trade for lebron in my expert opinion

Harden at the Drew League with Clipper Darrell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coMOWCN9vKI

# ? Jul 24, 2017 22:59

Zogo: Jul 29, 2003

Houston Stripper Maliah Michel Responds to Drake 'Retiring' Her Jersey
https://www.yahoo.com/music/houston-stripper-maliah-michel-responds-160721130.html

El Gallinero Gros posted:

Even then they'll just complain about superteams and the perceived poor quality of play in the league.

That's true. Although it is much easier to prove that superteams have been around since the league's inception (and quality of play) compared to telling LBJ to go out and win a dozen rings.

John Kundla just died. He coached the Lakers/Gems superteams of the 1940s and 1950s:
http://www.kare11.com/sports/basketball-hall-of-famer-john-kundla-dies-at-101/459153013

# ? Jul 24, 2017 23:04