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

stein reported that the pistons might go after horford, which seems odd given literally every fact about drummond (including his age)

stan van might have nightmares about centers that can't shoot FTs

his value will skyrocket if they get rid of the hack a shaq

made a general thread for USA hoops

USA Basketball

http://i.imgur.com/OAbCdQt.png

yeah its been p much established that maker went thru high school twice and is actually 23-24

nuggets have infinite wings now huh

Ian Begley @IanBegley
DeMarcus Cousins explains his tweet on Draft night: "Bad timing," he said. "It sounds ridiculous, but I was in a hot sculpting class."

LMFAO

boogie is the greatest i wish he'd just come to boston already

hahaha

<3 <3 <3

spottie et al, what would you think of the warriors letting barnes go to sign batum

I'd rather they find a cheap wing and spend on post play

batum is better than barnes so if barnes is getting a max deal its not impossible that he gets something big

other wing options would be parsons, bazemore

return of the bazed god

Batum would be cool but he's injury prone

batum has played 70+ games the past 4 seasons, idk what the line is for 'injury prone'

batum wld be good as heck on the dubs

agreed

Always seems like he's out with something. Also played through a bad toe for like 1/3 of the last season and his production dipped. that 70+ games per year is kinda surprising

dubs can legitimately improve their team from this year's

And yes he's better than Barnes at everything. I'm all about batum

without durant i mean xp. obv durant does it

Yeah he's second on my list after durant

v much fear the improvening of the warriors. my preference is that all talent spurn them bc of 73-win jinx.

like i wish ppl would stop talking like KD to the warriors is a distinct reality bc it makes me v v mad, way more mad than lebron and everybody going to miami bc they took a mediocre heat team into a juggernaut. kd would take a juggernaut into a word that should be illegal to say aloud.

*whispers* a fuckernaut

the way i see it, there were 4 teams that were legit contenders and kd leaving okc for gs or sa would mean theres 3, right? bc okc would barely make the playoffs without him.

Thems the breaks when you have an mvp making the 6th most on the team

thats...that is NOT what kurtis blow said, those ARE NOT the breaks

Otm

*mounts hobby horse* this is a problem that is immediately solved with a hard cap and no max salary imo

for the sake of my own entertainment i don't really want the nba to turn into the nhl.

oh not that, to clarify i think there should limits on contract lengths bc fuck 12 year contracts or w/e, but a player should be able to make as much as a team is willing to pay within the cap (so i guess its still a de facto max salary but just a way way higher ceiling)

i agree with eliminating max salaries but hard caps are so boring for roster management junkies of which i am increasingly one

Are you all a bunch of CPAs or quants or something? Cap management makes me zzz.

no it's just that the more ways you can fuck w/the cap the more options are open and the more crazy things you can discuss.

i like the nba being biased towards teams retaining stars

i have a hard time feeling bad for people making 25 million a year missing out on money because of max salaries

the problem this year is the cap jump which cldve been avoided by denominating contracts as a % of the cap instead of in dollars

i've actually never heard that floated before, that's a pr obvious and smart idea

thx

crazy thing is its in some way already the case, players get 50% of revenue

(also getting rid of max salaries)

That sounds like profit sharing!

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 2m2 minutes ago
AP Source: Timberwolves adding NBA’s 1st Chinese owner

well i'm voting for trump now for sure

gotta man

what your man got to do with me?