i have something to say about the offseason THE 2016 NBA OFFSEASON

going east would make things interesting too

the best thing of the league and in fact all of humanity is for kd to go to the celtics

I only say this bc the spurs are 3rd on his list

KD is not going to any of the garbage ass east teams

kd is def going to the celtics it might have already happened actually

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heh

pretty sure the globe just reported it, yeah xp

embiid has been cleared to play basketball too

everyone saying philly promised to take simmons #1 is the only reason he worked out for them so its more of a meet n greet / photo op than anything

yeah its a done deal

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something got to give

prob two things

wld make sense for them to move noel since u him and simmons are both non shooters

embiid doesn't exist

neither does saric

it would be fair to say that nikola mirotic's peak trade value was before he ever played in the nba right? the sixers should trade saric before he comes over

i like noel a lot i think he's clearly a valuable NBA player but i would trade any/all of those guys if it helps make simmons better

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^ should go into the NBA Fashion thread

apparently vince wilfork is gonna be in the body issue too

Dwight opted out. duh

Dwight going in search of new strip clubs to conquer.

poor danny https://twitter.com/espnsteinline/status/745441409314893824

no one wants that pick lol just pick someone i guess

hayward seems... ambitious

its okay though, the celtics will have high lottery picks the next 2 years too unless the nets build a real team out of nothing

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― lag∞n, Tuesday, June 21, 2016 2:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I will believe embiid is real when he plays 70+ games and gets off of Twitter so this is really Simmons-okafor-Noel which ain't bad but still a long way from doing anything at all

It's p lol if steins reporting is correct that philly keeps trying to give okafor to Danny for #3 and getting rebuffed, Danny's probably trying to get them to take some garbage bag full of second rounders and end of bench guys instead to clear some space

I've made my peace with that third pick not really being worth much and the most likely outcome is some moderate upgrades to this years squad of fourth and fifth best guys, seems like everyone is all too aware that ainge is trying to shank them for a real player with that third pick and he'll just have to wait and ninja his way into the next harden type situation

i'm surprised based danny can't at least get milwaukee interested in dealing middleton. bucks could use another point guard, which they can acquire by drafting dunn at 3, as insurance against both MCW's proven bustitude and the possibility that point giannis may not work as a primary offensive strategy

oh well, time to start watching film of the dragan i guess

the problem is that middleton is really good

ya

yea i wanted the celtics to go after him last year and was surprised that afaik they didn't even try sending him an offer sheet

really hoping one or more of those mediocre east teams w/ bunch of talent steps forward next year (bucks, pistons, the orlando magic theory)

tho obv the west equivs are all better (jazz nuggets twolves) since the east isn't allowed to ever have the prospect of being the good place

i think the pistons could take another considerable leap, in no small part stemming from possibility that hack-a rules will get changed but also bc the basic core of that team is sound and still young - no reason to think drummond, jackson and tobias harris won't get better

yeah also they have the stan factor

manu opted out

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:[ xp

i know ive said it before but lakers executing the sixers tanking process better than them and receiving zero flack for it is really something

kobe masked anything else they were trying to do

letting kobe play a zillion minutes of low efficiency bball for a couple years was a brilliant tanking mechanism+cover-up all in one

+hiring byron scott

whats funny is its still unclear if they were doing it on purpose lol

they were 1 million percent not trying to tank on purpose

ya i tend to agree the tell being their repeated failed attempts to sign free agents

tho tanking cldve been their backup plan