2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

Schroeder is a player who makes other players depressed but on a good team that’s less of a problem

I know Sengun is an experienced professional and this is summer league but it really looks like the rockets got a steal here

i h8 schroeder but this is a great deal for the celtics

whats the ideal starting 5 in boston?

― pure rim rest (Spottie), Tuesday, August 10, 2021 7:52 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

smart
richardson
brown
tatum
horf

arguments could be made for rob or schroeder too, i like the big backcourt tho and i think they need horfs playmaking but horf/rob could be a kind of two starters scenario where they play similar minutes

i think the celtics have done enough that i feel comfortable saying they’ll be a top 6 seed in the east this season

but maybe i’m still deluding myself into thinking that josh richardson had value

has*

celtics basically punted this offseason for flexibility next year yet somehow managed to get some decent players

feel like this should be a good situation for richardson, he wont be asked to do too much

celtics could surprise via good defense and continued development of their stars but injuries aside yeah there are a number of teams in the east its hard to imagine them surpassing

very much a prove it year for j rich

Didn't watch any Duke last year but this Jalen Johnson pick for the Hawks is looking mighty good in the summer league

celtics could make it back to 50 wins with this team, playoffs they're still the same though

i think jalen johnson played like a dozen games before stepping away bcuz of covid and entering the draft. ppl seemed to think he was a bit of a tweener but also that he dropped too far in the draft. he was a 5 star kid

they also got a tiny pg from Auburn who has been fun so far but i think they might have just got him to make trae feel big

lol

celtics could make it back to 50 wins with this team, playoffs they're still the same though

― ciderpress, Wednesday, August 11, 2021 12:10 PM (twenty-two minutes ago)

at this point it's hard to imagine any team aside from the nets and bucks being in the east finals so it's hard to judge what success is for the other teams. i guess a. getting to the second round and b. being competitive

i guess there's a scenario where the nets are banged up and end up seeded against the bucks in the second round again, the rest of the east has a very strong incentive to try and make that happen

im pretty stoked for udoka era celtics, i like his vibe + just a change will be nice

and the prospect of adding brad beal next year is interesting

or maybe this year who knows

is that actually who the celtics want or just a best player available route

theres a feeling that there may be some collusion between him and his mentee/childhood friend jayson tatum to make it happen

dont think it would be a perfect fit but nevertheless adding an allstar/scoring champ is generally a good thing

thought tatum and KD paired nicely in the olympics. celtics should look into it.

getting kd would be cool

ok

Udonis Haslem will return to the Miami Heat on a one-year, $2.6M deal for his 19th NBA season with the franchise, source tells @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) August 11, 2021

it’s like a reverse hack where instead of hiring a player as an assistant coach they’re hiring an assistant coach as a player

i’m sad tho that his final game in the NBA won’t be getting ejected for sticking his finger in dwight howard’s face

lol otm

yah he really set that up perfectly now he has to find a way to top it

I didn't know mascots made that kind of scratch.

I think it’s very possible that the rockets ended up with 4 really good players from this draft. I can’t remember that happening ever

Omer Yurtseven looks pretty darn good, was he just in the g league last year?

i think so, they didn’t even have him on a contract until this week i think. he looks like a pretty good back up 5 with shooting

v important info: there is a student at my school whose first name is ginobili daaaaaaaaang

Automatic straight As

lol

JONATHAN KUMINGA COMING AT EVERYONE 🤯🔥 pic.twitter.com/8NliUyJ0Yk

— ESPN (@espn) August 13, 2021

he's been looking pretty good!

he’s a big kid for a wing player

Poor guy, moves to a new country and spends his formative years working his ass off to get in the league only to have NBA twitter nickname him "kum bucket".

he’s a big kid for a wing player

yeah he’s going to be more of a 4/5 than a 3/4 imo

He looks kinda stiff to me, idk about the whole thing

Zeke Nnaji with a disastrous summer league, but they have something with Hyland. Seems pretty clearly to be an nba shooter

The Los Angeles Clippers are trading Patrick Beverley, Rajon Rondo and Daniel Oturu to the Memphis Grizzlies for guard Eric Bledsoe, sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 16, 2021

why

?

some more tradable expiring salary for memphis, and i think it saves a bunch of money for the clips though i am not seeing details on that yet

Cap ramifications for LAC/MEM:

LAC
🏀Eric Bledsoe: $18.1M and $19.4M ($3.9M GTY)
💰LAC will see their tax bill drop from $125M to $95M (savings of $30M)
💰$8.3M TE for LAC

MEM
🏀Patrick Beverley: $14.3M
🏀Rajon Rondo: $7.5M ($750K likely bonus)
🏀Daniel Oturu: $1.5M

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) August 16, 2021

clips save 30 million bucks off their tax bill