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

devin booker looked so in control for the last month of the season

ya bookers a star forget abt it are they playing him in the summer league thats ridiculous

the airballs tho

― micah, Sunday, July 10, 2016 12:15 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yuuup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53VFp663uu0

2015 draft class looking real strong

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojVerticalNBA 48s48 seconds ago
The Portland Trail Blazers have matched Allen Crabbe's four-year, $75M offer sheet with Brooklyn, league source tells @TheVertical.

Myers Leonard looking on.

Rachel Nichols ‏@Rachel__Nichols 3m3 minutes ago
So happy for Stephen Jackson, who just told me he's going to camp w/the #Warriors this fall to give another shot at playing. @DaTrillStak5

willing to get back on the bandwagon

bring back baron

lol

it's kinda amazing to me to be living in a time when people earn money that can be expressed in reasonable percentages of a billion dollars to play basketball
all hail the free market

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojVerticalNBA
The Miami Heat have matched Brooklyn's $50M offer sheet for Tyler Johnson, league source tells @TheVertical.

wow nets cant even overpay for anyone

Brian Robb ‏@CelticsHub 31s32 seconds ago Las Vegas, NV
Current Nets depth chart:
PG: Lin, Levert
SG: Bogdanovic
SF: Hollis-Jefferson, Kilpatrick
PF: Booker, McCullough
C: Lopez, Hamilton
Yikes.

leonard staying too 4/41

happy Lin's back in NY, at least

pretty sure those arent the positions of half of those guys but yeah that team is grim

i cld tell u something abt exactly two of those players

Trevor Booker probably the guy i'm least happy to be starting there

kilpatrick and bojan can shoot but not play defense, hollis-jefferson can play defense but not shoot, and i don't know who the rest of those ppl are besides lin and brook lopez who we all know

nets gonna sign sully prob lol

omg that would actually work

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