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| The Big3 Tourney |
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67 | 22.41% |
| Will Lakers draft Ball |
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40 | 13.38% |
| Where will the Pauls go |
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54 | 18.06% |
| Will LeBron jump ship to the Spurs or ?? |
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41 | 13.71% |
| Will every team in the league just pivot towards tanking |
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97 | 32.44% |
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WhyteRyce posted:NEW WRINKLE TO THE STORY 
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Jun 21, 2017 18:51
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You want to know the funniest thing about the D'Angelo trade? The Nets also had the 22nd pick. Magic and Pelinka suck at negotiating so much, they couldn't get the Nets to throw in the 22nd instead of the 27th pick
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Jun 21, 2017 18:55
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euphronius posted:Career revived by contract year lol Career revived by not playing under Byron Scott
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Jun 22, 2017 00:21
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Cool Buff Man posted:Does Magic have a plan at all Lol, of course not
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Jun 22, 2017 22:11
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Rick posted:Ingram is apparently on the table now for Paul George. However deals can't be completed until the pick is made now at this point. Hey Rick, you got a link or a source on this? Just curious as how good of a source its coming from
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Jun 22, 2017 22:16
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I say it every loving draft, but I need to start a consulting firm to go through people's twitters and find all of the tweets they need to delete
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Jun 23, 2017 03:33
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Dejan Bimble posted:I like the Lakers' draft aside from Lonzo, Kuzma and Hart both measure well and are skilled and multipositional. Bryant is a whatever swing at someone who might absorb some of those center minutes that right now all belong to Zubac and Tarik Black I assume Lopez is gonna take up most of the minutes at center
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Jun 23, 2017 20:58
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So apparently Jordan Clarkson has removed all Lakers references from his social media, so he might be traded or he might just be redecorating
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Jun 23, 2017 23:53
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xbilkis posted:https://twitter.com/Mitch_Lawrence/status/878361026030321664 That would be a really, really scary team Especially since they already match-up really well against the Warriors
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Jun 23, 2017 23:59
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Rick posted:If they're making a push for Lebron, having Chris Paul would have to make them the non-Cavs favorites. They have no way of getting to a max at all without one of those guys leaving. It is a real trip to realize it was extremely possible for the Lakers to have had Shaq and Magic on the team at the same time
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Jun 24, 2017 03:15
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Ammanas posted:dejounte murray is raw as f but promising
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Jun 24, 2017 21:08
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Shear Modulus posted:well the whole goal in setting it this late was to extend the regular season several weeks into the offseason and invent a new thing to get more eyeballs at a time when nobody's watching NBA on tv. who knows how it did but based off my own lack on enthusiasm im gonna guess hardly anyone watched it It might have worked better had the conference finals not been sweeps and the finals a gentleman's sweep. Like, since mid-may, we've only had 5 games when there could have been 13. Its no shock that it feels like the season ended ages ago
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Jun 27, 2017 08:15
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Something I hadn't realized, but the Lakers haven't done a press conference to introduce Lopez yet. They already had one for all of the draft picks, but not a single word about Lopez. Maybe thats just the kind of thing that happens when your fire your entire front office and your main spokemen all resign in sympathy? Just a thought
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Jun 27, 2017 23:12
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pubic works project posted:Okay which one of you is the spy?!?!? Dokmo is Magic?  Wait, that isn't right *erases entire whiteboard*
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Jun 28, 2017 00:57
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Jun 28, 2017 05:50
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Dexo posted:Congratz Knick fans, turns out your owner gives a drat. Being heckled at his concert was the final straw
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Jun 28, 2017 06:50
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the gently caress?
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Jun 28, 2017 16:40
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No Good Clippers Get poo poo on
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Jun 28, 2017 16:41
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I hope Lou Williams didn't sell his house
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Jun 28, 2017 16:43
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So It Goes posted:Can the rockets really not, say, trade Beverly to a random team for a protected first or second rounder or something. I know they have to dump salary but why is all of it going to clippers instead of some of it and getting (low) value for other assets being sent to other teams Because the Clippers are giving up the most valuable player in the trade, so they get to set the terms. The Clippers also need to match incoming vs outgoing salaries, so they need to take back on salary for the trade to be legal, its not just that the Rockets need to send out salary for them to get CP3
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Jun 28, 2017 19:07
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So It Goes posted:The clippers are trading because cp3 told them he would leave in FA. As a comparison, when lebron signed and trade with Miami Cleveland got back like a protected pick. Miami dumped Beasley to Minnesota, not to Cleveland when clearing up room. Maybe salary matching rules were different back then. There were a lot of difference in that case -LeBron was already a free-agent and had decided where he was signing, the Rockets trading for Paul prevents someone else like the Spurs beating them in FA -The Heat had the capspace to sign LeBron outright, the Rockets do not. Becuase of that, the Rockets need to actually match salary, while the Heat just used their capspace. The heat only had to create a little bit of space on top of their already massive capspace. The Rockets would have had to traded away even more salary than they did in this trade to create the cap space to sign Paul outright (you only need to match about 90% of the salary in a trade). -Additionally, Paul's FA max would be more than 10M+ higher than his current contract, so they would have had to clear even more space to sign him as an FA. This way, they can trade less to get him, get their MLE and BAE (you don't get those if you start free agency under the salary cap), and get his bird rights so they can sign him to long term contract after this season
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Jun 28, 2017 19:22
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EvanTH posted:https://twitter.com/SLAMonline/status/880472665919770624 That would be a really loving good team if Thibs can teach them how to play defense
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Jun 30, 2017 06:04
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RASHIBA WALLACE posted:How is Lowry as a defender? I get the sense playing alongside Butler would take a lot of the defensive burden off of him He is a point guard, so I'm gonna guess he isn't very good
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Jun 30, 2017 06:29
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Ricky  Also, I'm not sure I'd rather have Teague over Rubio
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Jun 30, 2017 23:01
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Jesus loving Christ, the NBA is too much sometimes Also, the PG trade confirms that he is gone because I can't imagine that he couldn't bring back a better haul unless everyone was convinced he was bolting for LA Must. Not. Raise. Expectations.
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Jul 1, 2017 04:37
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chunkles posted:well gently caress Or Popovich will retire after the season since he only promised to stick around until Aldridge expired
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Jul 1, 2017 05:43
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E2M2 posted:He probably just is eating right and working out again. Yeah, its hard to get the time in for the kind of workouts that make you look chiseled since during the season, most of the workout time is going to be skill and strategy focuses. I'm not one of those guys saying they don't lift or whatever, but that lifting is less important during the season than other things and gets lower priority.
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Jul 1, 2017 22:33
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Jerk 
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Jul 2, 2017 02:14
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The cap was 3-5 mil lower this year because the caves and warriors swept everyone
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Jul 2, 2017 21:09
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Man, that is a bad contract
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Jul 2, 2017 21:38
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Eltoasto posted:I dunno, 7-8 mil seems to be the going rate or cheaper for players that can only do one thing. Its MLE money and I don't really think he is worth that anymore, especially considering how far into the luxury tax they are
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Jul 2, 2017 21:55
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Ghost Dog posted:they cant spend that money on anything else, hes still a good shooter, and its probably like a year and a half too long but i dont think they make contracts that just say When You Fall To The Inevitable Doom Of Age You Don't Count Against The Cap Anymore Yes, and his defense was so bad, they could barely play him in the playoffs
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Jul 2, 2017 22:06
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InnercityGriot posted:The Lakers are after Dion Waiters and Rajon Rondo? Well, guess it's time to focus on the Dodgers Magic is in charge of the dodgers too Go Rams? 
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Jul 3, 2017 03:47
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I'd rather give hill 30 mil for one year than give rondo the vet min
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Jul 3, 2017 18:33
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leftist heap posted:Why didn't Steph also take a discount? Doesn't he want to win?? Well, he had previously been on one of best contracts in NBA history, winning 2 MVPs at half of the max
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Jul 4, 2017 00:20
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WhyteRyce posted:The ironic thing is that tech bros tend to look down on peers who aren't perpetually chasing cash and more lucrative offers. Unless they're trying to convince you to join their startup and get paid in equity until they secure VC. I know a lot of dumb people who agreed to those kind of arrangements
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Jul 4, 2017 01:10
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Will confirm the magic powers of not having bowl cuts
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Jul 4, 2017 17:04
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Cool Buff Man posted:So the Lakers are getting Rondo  Why do you say thing that you know will hurt me (and Rick)
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Jul 4, 2017 18:18
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poo poo, I really wanted to gloat all over my Celtics friends about how poo poo Ainge actually is ECF should be fun this year
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Jul 5, 2017 01:00
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Yikes!
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Jul 5, 2017 01:44
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