2017-18 NBA REGULAR SEASON THREAD PART 1 ALL OF AMERICAS FAVORITE TEAMS ARE BACK

as true today as the day it was posted

Sources: Suns dismissed three assistants w/ Earl Watson - Nate Bjorkgren, Mehmet Okur and Jason Fraser. Okur/Fraser were player development.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) October 23, 2017

not memo!

he had a nice fuck off instagram post that bledsoe liked, looks like it's been deleted :(

nothings gonna change in PHX til that asshat sarver sells the team

this could change things drastically for the Pistons
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/how-one-of-the-worst-free-throw-shooters-in-nba-is-now-making-freebies-consistently/

that form looks, pretty weird

yeah but it's consistent! and hitting the rim soft like. i want to believe.

if he cld become just a 60% ft shooter that wld be pretty huge

after that he can learn how to play D lol

hey one thing at a time. being playable at end of games is a big development (if this holds true)

ESPN Sources: Eric Bledsoe met with team this morning before shootaround and he was sent home. He will not play tonight against Sacramento.

— Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) October 23, 2017

wonder if the suns would take IT and a first from the cavs (not the nets pick) for bledsoe

cavs balked over sending an unprotected 1st (+kevin love) for paul george iirc

suns had their chance with IT

they cn prob get a better 1st than cavs for bledsoe, prob dont have any interest in signing IT to a big deal

i'm skeptical they can get more than a low first round pick for bledsoe especially if everyone knows they have to dump him

prob true but it doesnt have to be as low as the cavs, like denver or the clippers are both likely to finish with worse records

Point Guard market is kinda saturated tho. Only a few 'win now' teams that really need one. Clippers, Nuggets, Spurs. maybe the pistons, bucks?

The Suns don't deserve Bledsoe or IT. Let them go fish among teams who'll give up draft picks.

bledsoe's contract is 2 years at a decent number but i'm not sure who gives up a decent pick for him.

McDonough has to get fired too. He had such a good thing going a few years back but has made every single possible wrong move since. seems pretty incompetent.

love to rubberneck the fall of the wunderkind lol

The Bucks are a team that has expressed interest in trading for Eric Bledsoe, according to league sources

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) October 23, 2017

makes a lot of sense.

The Bucks definitely need more pieces to put around Giannis. And they play in the East, so the leap to the Conference Finals is much shorter.

theyve got a bunch of mediocre players making bledsoe type money they cld package w a pick http://www.espn.com/nba/team/roster/_/name/mil/milwaukee-bucks

yeah that's a good fit

way to preserve trade value man

McDonough RE: Bledsoe's tweet: "He said he was at a hair salon... I didn't believe that to be true. He won't be with us going forward."

— ABC15 Sports (@abc15sports) October 23, 2017

lol they are paying Larry Sanders 5 milli this year to smoke weed.

haha cmon Bledsoe. thats worse than "my account got hacked"

haha

Bucks don't have the assets to get Bledsoe. but I hope they can make it work anyway

their 2018 1st round pick plus cap filler like greg monroe wld prob get it done

doesn't seem like the suns are in a position to demand too much...

unless theres a hysterical bledsoe bidding war

they could hold steady, sit him and wait for an injury too

someone will prob offer them a first + a matching salary and theyll call it a day, makes too much sense

i wouldn't be surprised if they get basically nothing back

like two seconds, a halfway interesting guard and matching salary

possible def guess just depends on how many teams are interested, bledsoe is the type solid starter who can do everything pretty good that every team wants, defends two positions etc

If i'm suns im trying for Bledsoe / Chandler for Monroe / Henson and a 1st. Bucks get out of a the bad Center deal a year earlier and they pick up a starting center and a good starting PG.

that wld be a fn home run for the bucks, tho chandler isnt really on their timeline

if i were a gm id be tempted to take a shot at him even if i didnt really need him, good guy to have around, just doesnt like hair salons for whatever reason

i don't follow nba much but basically any player on a shitty team can tweet that they don't want to be there and they'll get traded? seems pretty sweet.

isnt a dealbreaker imo, now if he dioesnt like barber shops hes clearly a team cancer

remember the kings basically got buddy hield and a first for demarcus cousins in similar circumstances who is like twice as good as bledsoe

kings tho lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DM2G-LgVAAAhkTT.jpg

boogie situation was insane 1 he was widely regarded as a cancer 2 they had better offers on the table but vivek thought hield was a young steph