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

yeah for sure

in brighter news lebron will prob have to bump love into his starting lineup for the allstar game now

That really sucks about Cousins

The Kevin Love tweets are amazing

IT doesn’t go through the starting lineup line 🤔 (via @cavs) pic.twitter.com/69cOlx4AvN

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) January 27, 2018

man IT is really up to some srs shenanigans

seems unwise in a contract year coming off injury!

cavs should absolutely ship IT2 the fuck outta there

yeah seems p inevitable at this point

you know who might be a good fit, the san antonio spurs

ha nah

i mean no one on our team can score, but we already have enough chronic injury issues and there's no one on the team i'd give up for a IT2 rental.

a. hes not chronically injured and b. at this point they cld prob resign him at a reasonable rate c. hes been known to be a total bitch on fucked up teams but was a model citizen on the spurs east

fine, he's terrible on defense though and thats p much all we have going for us

also we are signing lebron next year so i dont want to jeopardize that

if anyone can figure out how to deal with ITs terrible D its pop!

*i dont think the spurs can get lebron

its actually pretty hard to find a spot for him on a contender given current salary cap realities

when he went to the heat its was all set up ahead of time, then when he went back to cleve it was the perfect situation with good young players on cheap contracts and assets to trade to fortify the team

lakers cld maybe make something happen

no they cant

lol

I'm sure morey could figure something out

$80m committed next year + ~$25m in cap hold for cp3 doesnt leave a lot of flexibility http://hoopshype.com/salaries/houston_rockets/

some moves would need to be made

ariza is coming off the books so it would mean saying bye to him. capela is going to be a RFA, but they dont need to renounce him to afford him.

if bron opts into his last year, they could do what they did to get cp3 by trading equal salaries (ryan anderson + eric gordon + whatever).

morey does a good job of gettig bench players on the cheap, but that is a v v thin roster after cp3-harden-bron. not even sure that its good enough to beat gsw.

if bron opts into his last year, they could do what they did to get cp3 by trading equal salaries (ryan anderson + eric gordon + whatever).

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:15 PM (fifty-two seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why wld the cavs do that trade?

https://www.theringer.com/2018/1/27/16939834/demarcus-cousins-achilles-new-orleans-pelicans

Players who rupture their Achilles don’t have a strong history of returning to full strength. A 2013 research paper published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine found that of 18 NBA players who ruptured their Achilles over 23 seasons, only eight returned to play for longer than one season. A player of Cousins’s caliber is naturally likely to return to the court, but those that do make it back onto the court have mixed results. Players like Elton Brand and Wes Matthews were never the same after returning. Isiah Thomas suffered a ruptured Achilles at age 32, then retired. Dominique Wilkins also had the same injury at age 32, then played until he was 39 and was named to two more All-NBA teams.

Interestingly, the study found that 29 years old was the average age a player ruptured their Achilles. Cousins is 27. Nonetheless, the study found that 17 of the 18 players saw their minutes decrease after returning. While the sample size for football is small, NFL players have seen a similar decline in both opportunity and production.

Every player has his own story, but history proves worrisome.

also theyd have to let capela walk, maybe theres some sort of anderson gordon capela trade that cld interest the cavs but im not sure what exactly the rules are around trading capela who is a restricted free agent is in that situation

xp because if they don't they lose him for nothing?

i dont think taking on ryan andersons $20 a/year for a rebuilding team can be consider something

Crabtree did his Achilles pretty young and has been m/l the same. Horrible injury tho.

like $30m+ in not young complimentary player contracts prob isnt what the cavs are looking for if they loose bron

oh im not saying they would do that, but that is one of the few ways it could happen

maybe the cavs cld be convinced to do some sort of deal with a signed and traded capela, and the rockets cld prob move gordon easily to anyone but that anderson contract is def a bit of an albatross thats gonna be hard to unload

honestly think the rockets wld be better off sticking with their current team and praying for someone on the dubs to roll an ankle

the way i break it down is durant to warriors only happened because of the sudden jump in the cap creating an opening that lasted exactly one season and now everybody is tearing their hair out trying to match the warriors when the CBA situation has resettled and made it v difficult to replicate that process. which is why the warriors should be broken up by adam silver.

capelas rapid improvement has him on a trajectory towards being a star player too

the less horrible thing that ppl should hope for is that the warriors wont be able to afford mega luxury tax once klay and dray seek mega pay xp

Currys contract and dray/klay getting locked up under value we’re just as big of reasons xps

which is like 2 years away lol

xp

yeah that too!

interesting segment in that lowe-windhorst pod abt how legalized gambling cld lead to another cap spike, next cba they sld really agree to just denominate salaries as a % of the cap

basically this warriors squad cannot be beat via arms race

the less horrible thing that ppl should hope for is that the warriors wont be able to afford mega luxury tax once klay and dray seek mega pay xp

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison), Saturday, January 27, 2018 1:31 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cmon a perfectly timed rolled ankle isnt that horrible, i mean the rockets cld have a shot at beating the dubs with an injury that doesnt even knock a player out a la steph the year they lost to the cavs

oh yeah i know, im not saying hoping for an injury makes u hoops hitler, but all things being equal i'd rather beat a team full strength than not

anyway, lebron to spurs has been confirmed by woj*

*wonderings of j'boy

injuries are part of the game man, and just to be clear im not rooting for it, but the rockets as a professional franchise have to factor the possibility into their thinking

one thing I was unclear about wrt that gambling segment on the lowe pod -- why does the NBA have the leverage to push for a 1% tax on all bets? does the NBA have to approve of its games being bet on or something? they arent the government iirc

yeah good question idk maybe they do have to agree in order for the sportsbooks to use their trademarks or something

alert we are very close to m gasol demanding a trade

Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace announces in email moments ago to MVP season-ticket holders that Mike Conley will require season-ending surgery "to smooth a small bone protrusion" in his left heel. Conley is expected to make a full recovery ahead of training camp.

— Michael Wallace (@MyMikeCheck) January 27, 2018

or maybe its just a deal to prevent the nba from mucking the whole thing up in court for years xp