2020 nba offseason draft free agency etc

gotta use the trade machine

lol i just noticed malik beasley's stats in 14 games with the twolves, how real is that

i also forgot they have dlo now, what is this team

they could win 15 or 50 games next year and i wouldn't be surprised either way

i would be surprised with 50 wins cos their defense might be worst in the league and the west is stacked with competitive teams.

Per source, Sixers are close to a deal with Tyronn Lue to be next HC.

— Jon Johnson (@jonjohnsonwip) September 3, 2020

sensible pick

good luck to him

i wonder what new orleans is going to do now

Chauncey Billups is looking for a job...

Coming this winter to ABC it's player/coach JJ Redick in the Christmas Extravaganza "And a Shooter Shall Lead Them"

donovan out in okc, surprised that actually happened

amazing phrasing by woj here:

With reduced league revenues amid pandemic, there remains uncertainty on how long the Thunder might continue with key veterans in place before changing course on playoff contention. The timetable on so many plans in the NBA remain fuzzy. This was an extremely amicable parting. https://t.co/jUHQ2kiuEo

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 9, 2020

think that means gallo is gone, theyll probably shop cp3, too

billy dont tank

fire sale forthcoming

paul's still got two years $85m left on his deal....

he was so good (and healthy) this year that i think his trade market expanded significantly

not saying *i* would trade for him but

some interesting phrasing by presti in that article, too. seems like billy should be able to get another head coaching job right away if he wants to.

could see him go to a place like indiana to help them overachieve

sounds like chicago is going to take a look at him which makes sense

billy dont do it

Our brilliant son Zion still needs a coach.

Yah NO would be a good fit

coach bud getting fired

My advice for @Giannis_An34 is to sit down one-on-one with Milwaukee Bucks Owner Wes Edens and figure out his strategy to make the team better and bring a championship to Milwaukee.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) September 9, 2020

lol Magic the coach killer

Magic cannot but resist to inject unsolicited drama anywhere he casts his gaze.

thinkin about how the rockets gave up two first round picks and two first round swaps to trade chris paul for russell westbrook

morey is incomprehensible

i can’t be convinced of anything other than morey knowing it was a suicide mission for the franchise and not caring bcuz he doesn’t like fertita and knows he won’t be there holding the bag anyway and this at least allowed him to do something weird

recall morey on tv bragging about how many wins russ added to their team according to infallible secret metrics

cp3's best qualities brought out by leading a team, russ' worst qualities brought out by leading a team. so the trade worked out well for the reputations of each of those players. just not for the rockets.

thunder also got pretty lucky this year, good health, won a lot of close games, but still obvs terrible trade by the rockets

https://i.imgur.com/xERlAk2.png

My advice for @Giannis_An34 is to sit down one-on-one with Milwaukee Bucks Owner Wes Edens and figure out his strategy to make the team better and bring a championship to Milwaukee.

— Earvin Magic Johnson (@MagicJohnson) September 9, 2020

ESPN Sources: MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo's 3-hour lunch with Bucks co-owner/governor Marc Lasry on Friday covered the season, how Bucks can improve roster, Lasry confirming willingness to spend into luxury tax and agreement they’ll talk again after Giannis returns from a vacation.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 14, 2020

rip coach bud

i think all of these things are true

1. the rockets had to break up cp3 and harden for personality reasons
2. morey knows swapping 4 picks for harden's super max contract is a horrific longterm trade
3. morey knows there's little chance he'll be working in houston during the final two years of the westbrook contract
4. morey convinced himself in the short term the team could get better by switching out cp3 for russ and going all in on d'antoni ball

whoops i meant swapping 4 picks for westbrook's super max contract

could be, all not very wise for the health of his career tho, smart teams will certainly take note of stuff like that

i just had a vision of him in philly and i think that is correct

yesssssss

I think (4) is wishful thinking only in the context of (1) -- paul was obviously a better fit for dan tony ball

westbrook allowed them to play much faster. the trade made them worse but did allow them to go into the red stylistically

they were rolling for a minute pre virus playing westbrook out of the high post, prob wouldntve worked in the offs but they didnt even really try

he wasnt taking threes during that run but he reverted back

yeah

by the time you get to the capela trade you can't convince me that d'antoni and morey didn't realize they could seize the opportunity to run an experiment knowing they wouldn't be the ones cleaning up the mess

westbrook also had covid and by his own reporting couldn't workout for a month, and then got a quad injury. i don't think there's any way to win multiple playoff series playing the style they were playing but there are worlds in which it could have looked a lot better than it did.

The rockets have a bad owner which is probably driving a lot of this

yeah was thinking there easily cldve been pressure to get cp3 out of town whatever it took cause harden didnt like him

harden at least indirectly contributed to the capela trade as well because he wanted to iso more and pick and roll less