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

team valuation with signed bron vs. crippling luxury tax bills would be an analysis i'd actually be interested in.

price of these teams seems mostly based on scarcity with some concern for the location thrown in, ie its more a status symbol than a business

the valuation disappears as soon as lebron goes tho. and not really able to able to capitalize on that if you're operating at a loss while he's there

most recent forbes valuation for cavs has them #11 in the league at $1.2B. in 2013 they were #16 at $434M....franchise values have basically tripled in that period but i think there's still a lebron bump in there somewhere.

i wldnt pay a cent over 1.1b

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2017/01/27/how-lebrons-cavaliers-lost-an-nba-high-40-million-last-season/#35f665e77699

take these numbers with a huge grain of salt obviously. i mean signing lebron to a long term deal you could probably leverage that into higher local tv contracts merch sales attendance w/e but don't think that's enough to overcome the luxury tax for a small market team like cleveland. maybe in nyc. otherwise its hard to realize on that increased valuation, you really only get the benefit when you sell the team

so he is going to LA now is he

xp yeah that's the kind of stuff i'm curious about, along w/what gilbert's best approach would have been if he actually wanted to sell the cavs.

its hard to figure where it makes sense for him to go, fielding a legit team while making room for a $35m contract is difficult, if he wanted to take a lot less then all sorts of things become possible

this is something i've really been struggling with--if he hates the cavs and if the lakers can't get their shit together what's plan c?

bron should just throw a curveball and go to like the jazz

philly?

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it's happening i have the proof

there it is

philly is the popular choice but idk if he would go to an east coast city that he has no connection to. for a guy obsessed with narrative it's just weird.

i think the clippers will at least get a meeting.

if the cavs are willing to do a sign n trade, which one wld think they wld be, it gets a lil easier

i vote Toronto narrative is that the LeBron wins the first championship outside of the US beat that MJ

maybe bron buys the cavs and moves them to LA

toronto is currently destroying the celtics so maybe theyre good

if i'm a gm and ainge comes calling i straight up hang up the phone, remove from contact list and change my number, maybe even go as far as to change jobs.

― fgti spinner (Spottie), Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:01 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Irl lol

What is the poker thing if you don’t know who the mark is it’s you, if your phone rings and it’s ainge you’ve already been got

lebron to spurs was already confirmed days ago yall

o rite duh

Dark horse he makes up with Riley and goes back to the heat but this time Riley convinces him to leave his broken down friends behind and gets him some younger help

this trade is successful! http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=y9u7a7ny

haha same wavelength hibachi

Ha nice touch getting dion back where he started in that trade too

cavs getting blown out by the magic rn btw

9 point 4th quarter !!!

man the cavs suck

porzingis leg injury apparently??

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porzingis leg injury apparently??

― k3vin k., Tuesday, February 6, 2018 9:31 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah knee injury. MRI was supposed to happen. read that he was walking on his own.

As I recall, in the month before The Decision, the putative front runners were NY and Chicago.

oh my god that Giannis dunk, never seen anything like it

How are the Cavs getting worse game after game?

looking like the pacers collapse a few years back

umm

Giannis Antetokounmpo just hurtled over a 6'6" human like us mere mortals stepping over a puddle pic.twitter.com/4tks5c4gPd

— Luka Wobčić (@World_Wide_Wob) February 7, 2018

Jeez.. Middleton’s reaction haha

Rwb p much perfect start to this game

that dunk is not normal

good dunking right there i like it

Porzingis left knee torn acl

oh no

rip

its just too bad giannis cldnt have jumped over him while dunking first

Man wtf zinger

Y’all ruseelllllllll

21 pts first q so far

you know who could perfectly use marcus smart the thunder

he's better than roberson