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

smart teams gon keep their powder dry for next summer

Kurt Helin ‏@basketballtalk 21s22 seconds ago
Report: Dion Waiters drawing interest from Philadelphia, Sacramento

heh philly shd sign waiters and barnes

lol he is too perfect for Sac

please god no sactown's fans have suffered enough

waiters might legit turn the kings new arena into Jonestown

*reads report of celtics booking a dwight meeting* father, why have you forsaken me

Adam Kaufman ‏@AdamMKaufman 32s33 seconds ago
No way to predict how offseason will unfold for #Celtics, but no understating significance of C's officially being on map for NBA stars.

kd giving the celtics a meeting is def kinda huge for a team thats never in their history even landed a 2nd tier free agent

that line of thinking is great until you come in second for every free agent and end up with a roster that looks like the mavs

but KD even granting them the time def cements their place in the current ecosystem in some regard

gotta be in the game before u cn win man B-)

even something like KDs simple praiseworthy comments about the celtics earlier this year can go a long way.

feel like it also just represents the reality of the situation where the celtics r considered a good org

they're good enough, smart enough, and doggone it - players like them

woj Sources on @TheVertical: Clippers promote Lawrence Frank to EVP of Basketball Ops, charged w/ reshaping front office

doc in trouble?

woj Sources on @TheVertical: Clippers promote Lawrence Frank to EVP of Basketball Ops, charged w/ reshaping front office

doc in trouble?

doc in trouble?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Docsdaname2000.jpg

How many 'player X loses a bunch of weight in the offseason' tweets will we see this offseason

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Jusuf Nurkic is putting in major work this offseason. The center has lost 35 pounds already, and says he's still feeling strong. #Nuggets

Could be doc just finally admitting he's not a good gm

He'll probably have some crack about how he can be a coach and a doctor but not a gm too ^cue local reporter fake laughter

I'm reading between the lines of it being Lawrence frank who has been in docs orbit for a while so it's prob with his OK vs bringing in an outside rando

kd giving the celtics a meeting is def kinda huge for a team thats never in their history even landed a 2nd tier free agent

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 1:51 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

X-man :(

Seriously though players read all the same stuff we do and they know ainge has too many assets not to at least add a b-level star this year or next then he's just gotta get that last superstar domino to fall, would you rather go up against late-prime bron with what ainge will assemble or whatever happens to like the wizards

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/06/29/report-dwyane-wades-camp-has-sent-out-feelers-to-spurs-and-mavericks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

this is just agent shit, right?

cld see wade leaving if he got a big offer from a good team that was more than miami wants to pay

Guess he's happy with his 3 rings

wade on the spurs wld be so weird

buncha grey hairs already

so he's just reaching out to teams that beat miami in the finals?

lol those are the good teams

he's like the doc rivers of players

ha i was trying to recall which gm did that

dont get this ploy, spurs aint gonna shell out big bucks for him. all the signals from pop and rc are that they want to go young. theyre calling in a bunch of their draft and stash players (livio jean charles from '13, nikola mulitinov from '15, and check out davis bertans aka the new red rocket, a throw-in 6'10" SF from the kawhi-george hill trade). i think a bunch of those guys will play in austin most of the year as well as their first rounder from this year.

i think durant is the only guy theyre willing to throw max money at. conley's going to stay in memphis, it looks like, and i think most of the max money dudes will, too. if wade wants to take a vet's min contract to play backup to danny green, thats a possibility.

im exaggerating bc obv he would start over danny green, but spurs need outside shooting, too. they missed having guys like belinelli. that 2014 champs team had 6 players who shot over 40% from 3. this year the only players shooting 3s accurately at a high frequency were ginobili, mills, and kawhi. mills' shot disappeared in the playoffs. they need danny green to shoot better than 33% this year, but that would be like a record year for wade from 3.

all of this is to say that i think the spurs are going to keep it p low key if and when they strike out on durant. i think they want to keep some flexibility for next year's big FA class and cap jump. pau seems like a good fit to either start C if duncan retires or play first big off the bench if duncan stays (either way, he's getting starter minutes).

if wade leaves miami i have full confidence that riley will sign purple shirt guy in retribution

hahahaha

the spurs seem like a longshot but the mavs makes logical sense if he was ever gonna leave

i think it's just agent shit tho...

yikes

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

which is better, lower or higher Defensive FG%?

lower left is not the desired quadrant

Brian Windhorst ‏@WindhorstESPN 1m1 minute ago
As they prepare Durant pitch, Thunder looking to clear cap space. Rivals believe they plan to chase Al Horford too

they wld be good

westbrook oladipo durant horford adams is some world destroying shit if they can stitch a bench together

Biyombo will go from 3m a year to 12m+ because... He did pretty much the same thing he did the previous two years.

http://i.imgur.com/yNH3x2X.jpg

his defense seems to be trending towards elite levels tho

Your 2016/2017 Knicks!

Derrick Rose
?
Carmelo Anthony
Kristaps Porzingis
Joakim Noah

Twitter response from Knicks fans is obnoxious (go figure). It's a reasonable playoff roster. The NBA is about being better than the teams around your level, not min-maxing. This team can play with Charlotte, Indiana, and Boston. Even my beloved Pistons. :(

I'll be optimistic about injuries and Porzingis improving and say the Knicks are a lock for the playoffs.

Sure as long as next years playoffs start in May 2011

I'm hoping Joakim has a bounce back year because I kind of miss him and am interested to see him liberated from the Bulls but him and rose have both enters prove-it territory for me as far as general health and effectiveness

I might be discounting a monster jump for the zinger though, if Hornacek comes up with a reasonable system and plays him at the 5 all the time where he should be in the 2016 nba, that alone plus an average melo year probably could be a playoff team. That big jump usually comes in year 3 though

westbrook oladipo durant horford adams is some world destroying shit if they can stitch a bench together

― Clay, Thursday, June 30, 2016 2:46 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Woo lord trying to score against this would be terrifying. Donovan could take half the game off and just say "go where al points if you're unsure"

knicks feels like one of those rosters you can talk yourself into being "intriguing" until you actually see it play but idk yeah maybe hornacek comes up with something.

Sure as long as next years playoffs start in May 2011

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Thursday, June 30, 2016 9:23 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

hehe