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

its destiny

sully would be v solid for the nets and as such now I can only hope that another team signs him

he wld be an improvement on that roster def but not really enough to move the needle imo

this was one of the weirder consequences of the sixers not fielding a real team this past season:
https://youtu.be/VTrmvi2FgYE

in the past week the Blazers have spent over two hundred million dollars on meyers leonard, allen crabbe, evan turner, and festus ezeli

: /

i prefer to think of it as over one fifth of a billion dollars

really starting to feel like the offseason winners are the teams that didn't do anything or only touched the max guys

yuup

big free agent class next year

1. Lillard/Napier
2. McCollum/Crabbe
3. Turner/Harkless?
4. Aminu/Davis/Leonard/Vonleh
5. Plumlee/Ezeli

From the salary floor to the luxury tax folks

Also there's gotta be a frontcourt trade brewing bc yikes that's a whole lot of mediocrity bunched together

imo that is a pretty unexceptional team for the amount of $ they spent

all the signings except evan turner of course are defensible imo but ya taken as a group theyre not too impressive

yeah if any team is indicative of the downside of the ballooning cap and how it can hurt a team it's portland's ridiculously bad summer

and don't forget they'll have to max mccollum prob next summer and i think plumlee will be eligible for a rich extension too. and haven't even matched whatever $50mil offer harkless eventually gets.

yeah i think the blazers may have locked themselves into an undesirable situation. their sick backcourt means they're a player away from being really really interesting and i would have been holding out for that possibility.

they played the warriors really well and everyone is young and will get better and they (over)paid for some depth. Think they'll be fine. They're prob not gonna lure a big name so that's the next best thing. The turner overpay is p weird tho.

I'm sure we'll find out what happened with the Turner thing at some point. I think the idea was with the extensions they're signing next summer they had to use the money now or never use it, so the FO just outright panicked when parsons slipped away

http://imgur.com/S8QJMWn
joel embiid is very large

"they're prob not gonna lure a big name" is what everyone says about the celtics but i'd rather keep my options open and come up empty than spend that money on guys who will be 3/4 bench players

damn that meyers leonard contract sucks for him

crabbe or aminu gon be starting ahead of turner before the years out

Meyers had his chance to prove himself last year but underperformed and then got injured

the gap between evan turner and aminu or harkless or whoever you have backing him is pretty tiny (arguably nonexistent in this specific example) compared to the gap between turner and some actually good wing like say gordon hayward

there's a reason you need star players to contend in basketball and it's because the star players are just worth way more than the average players, it's not linear

i think they're better than this but sorta wonder if the the turner contract is a suns-ish moment where the rebuild got sped up and inadvertantly gummed up the plans

that is a v good theory, something i've been stabbing at but hadn't really internally articulated

i think dame & CJ are too good for that but they spent a lot of money this offseason & i don't see how they got better

tho ezili at less than $8 million per year is pretty nice tho

tho they do still have guys like harkless and vonleh who could get a lot better suddenly

i really don't think harkless is significantly worse than ET and could be a fair amount better

they have bunch of guys w upside

jaylen brown not really showing out tonight (tbf neither is bender)

yabusele looks like he might be legit! (eventually.)

timmy out http://www.nba.com/spurs/tim-duncan-announces-retirement

good career

retires days after release of pokemon go. coincidence?

aw

Little different from how bean went out eh.

GOAT

theyll be able to replace his production, but im legit worried what the locker room might be like! esp once manu is gone (i presume) next year. the true test of this team will be if they can win a title without him.

spurs will be spurs, they won't change imo. maybe when pop retires.

pop shd retire too

timmy played 19 seasons and the worst one was 50 wins, that's pretty fucked up

Marc Stein ‏@ESPNSteinLine 36s37 seconds ago
Dirk Nowitzki to ESPN on Timmy: "He was always about winning, never about making a brand out of himself. That's what I appreciated the most"

Peace out all-timer

swim free timmy

Miss u timmy

If the Celtics had gotten kd this year it would have been funny for Tim to retire then sign with them this spring to ring chase just to be like sorry your tanking in 1997 didn't work and you got Ron mercer instead

he owes us

http://www.si.com/vault/2012/05/21/106194128/21-shades-of-gray One of my favorite bball articles ever

rip to the biggest man, the fundamental, the lover of The Crow