2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

no one talks about it but i think it's really, really hard to build a high-level team around zion

you need to pair him with a defensively minded 5 who can space the floor and theres not many of those

same problem you have with all bigs who cant shoot or defend. cc sabonis

The Pelicans have totally mangled the last two years and are fully on course to lose Zion some day, agent John Koktostin of @CAA tells @ringer.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 3, 2021

is bill breaking news now?

no one talks about it but i think it's really, really hard to build a high-level team around zion

that bill tweet is an obscure joke i think

I honestly nearly forgot all about Zion

Caruso is one of the best defensive players in the league and the lakers have like 5 nba players right now so I find this very strange

anyway i don’t understand the zion/pelicans thing at all. like, they were the no 1 pick two years ago what are they supposed to be doing, in the western conference no less. if he didn’t want to go there he should’ve just forced a trade before the draft. they’re running around like a headless chicken because he thinks they’re supposed to win, which is impossible given where they are, and then is like, hmm this is bad. yeah no kidding!

I like the idea of trading a first rounder for devonte Graham if you’re a really good team and he’s under contract

i think bill is making fun of woj and the pelicans at the same time

I am perplexed by why the league let the bulls have a great offseason

pels are extremely cursed and have done themselves no favors. like they probably should have spun off all those young lakers players from the AD trade immediately and now they're losing ball for chicago flotsam and i don't think ingram has a super high standing at this point.

my conclusion from the last two offseason is that rob pelinka is not a good GM and the lakers are not a well run organization

don't think i saw it here but normal powell staying in portland for $90/5, seems like a lot of money for a third undersized scoring guard!!!

i like him but yeah……

it seems like that was always lined up for norm but yeah, it's a lot for norm

the lakers are coasting, their minimum signings haven't sucked but a lot has to go right for them to get where they want to go

https://i.imgur.com/2HrksU2.png

blocking the trending area on twitter has done amazing things for me

rly coming to terms with the spurs being a mediocre franchise now. that collins signing is such an own goal. spurs twitter is in deep denial of how bad things have gotten.

looking rly likely that they will either sign john collins OR S&T demar derozan for lauri markkanen. i dont hate lauri at the right price, and collins wd be v good but also this team is sending rly strange signals.

if the spurs sign lauri that will officially be too many whites and a penalty will be assessed

it been a banner day for the whites at spurs hq today. drafted joe wieskamp (college white from iowa), signed mcbuckets (nickname white), collins (hurt white), and could pick up lauri (nordic white). they already have jak poeltl (teutonic white) which means IN THEORY they could have the first all-white lineup of the 21st century, p fucked up

spurs are really in no man’s land, like what would it take for them to win a playoff series with this current roster. still they had one of the greatest sustained runs in NBA history what’re ya gonna do

guess the contract number hasn't come out yet but the wizards trading westbrook for some good role players and a pick they used to get aaron holiday and then signing spencer dinwiddie is a pretty good series of moves

ILH's whipsaw opinion on Zion happened so fast I guess I missed it.

call all destroyer at 10:37 2 Aug 21

blocking the trending area on twitter has done amazing things for me

how do you do this?

i think a good zion team is doable but the pels are not a good org so i doubt they'll figure it out

xxxxpost I am almost positive there was a period of an all-white Wolves starting lineup in the K Love era, due to some injury/general Wolves weirdness issues

i changed my twitter trend location to the cayman islands which got rid of trends for a while but they're back now, they seem to have set certain ones as global now so they'll show up no matter what country you set. gotta get a browser extension that blocks them i guess

haha okay....found it, was 8 years ago...you guys ready?
*drumroll*

the Minnesota Timberwolves all white everything starting lineup....

Luke Ridenour
Alexi Schved
Nikola "Big Pek" Pekovic
Andrei "AK-47" Kirilenko
Kevin "Good Vibrations" Love

xp i use a firefox extension…it blocks trending, puts retweets on a separate tab, and does a couple other useful things. i can’t remember what it’s called offhand and i am away from comp for a couple days.

Oh. pic.twitter.com/NbZ2y4l64l

— BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) August 3, 2021

Sam Dekker signed to the Raptors. not really noteworthy but he lives on the floor below my mom, every time my kids are over she tells them "don't stomp too loudly, you're going to annoy Sam Dekker"

haha

warriors signed bjelica and otto porter.

otto porter on the minimum is a pretty good look

otto porter going from the max to the minimum, fun times

He can’t stay healthy right

Free agent G Patty Mills has agreed to a two-year, $12M deal with the Brooklyn Nets, his agent Steven Heumann of @CAA_Basketball tells ESPN. Deal includes a player option.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2021

surprised he could only get $6m per year

LOL

Free agent F Carmelo Anthony has agreed to a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, his manager Bay Frazier tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 3, 2021

makes sense. he and bron are good buddies and melo would like a shot at at ring.

the lakers are gonna be the best team in the history of 2013

GM lebron...woof

they got malik monk too

Breakdown of the Steph Curry extension:

2022-23: $48.0 million
2023-24: $51.9 million
2024-25: $55.7 million
2025-26: $59.6 million

Rules of the CBA allow the first year salary to be 105% off the prior years salary even if it exceeds the maximum allowed ($41.6M).

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) August 3, 2021

i don’t think carmelo on the minimum is bad, the blazers relied on him too heavily but i think he’s shown he’s still a rosterable veteran wing player. malik monk as a KCP replacement is pretty great at least on offense, i’m surprised there wasn’t more interest in him he could have a few brynn forbes style playoff games

Carmelo Anthony — 37 years old
LeBron James – 36 years old
Trevor Ariza – 36 years old
Marc Gasol – 36 years old
Dwight Howard – 35 years old (turning 36 Dec. 8)
Wayne Ellington – 33 years old
Kent Bazemore – 32 years old
Russell Westbrook — 32 years old

My main problem with what the lakers are doing is that this looks like a very very bad defensive team