2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

the david griffin era… yikes

yeah it’s not great

Washington and coach Scott Brooks couldn't come to an agreement on a new deal and are agreeing to part ways, sources tell ESPN. Brooks' deal expired after the playoffs.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 16, 2021

that was a "we'll extend you but no way in hell you're making $7 million a year" decision

Considering the Pels traded away their best all around player (at the time) for the draft rights to literal middle schoolers and Eric Bledsoe... I don't even think SVG did a particularly bad job??? Like if Zion and Ingram didn't go down right at the end they're at least in the play-in. There must have been serious beef between one of those 2 and Stan like to dump him like that after 1 year like Indianan did Bjorkgren.

Pelicans assistant coach Teresa Weatherspoon is expected to emerge as a candidate to replace Stan Van Gundy in New Orleans, league sources say.

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 16, 2021

If i was a betting man I'd put a lot on this actually happening; basically the only way Griff will be able avoid a public referendum for such a reactionary decision. Literally every Pels player I've heard in interviews has nothing but effusive praise for her, NOLA has a female owner, she's been key in development of all their young draft picks... if it's ever going to happen I think the time is now.

Plain and simple SVG couldn’t get them to play defense. A ton of talent on that team and they just can’t play defense.

i’m not sure i buy the talent part as far as defense goes but the players clearly didn’t like him and defense is mostly about buy in

zion is amazing and all but i have a hard time seeing how they’re gonna play good defense in the near future with him on the floor

Mavericks GM Donnie Nelson and the franchise have decided to part ways, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 16, 2021

well well well

haralabob takeover imminent

lol. well that clears up any doubt about sourcing.

Lmao and a literal day after Cuban whined publicly about how that athletic article was "bullshit" and Nelson had his full support and confidence. I think I'd trust Trump's public word over his at this point.

lmao

haralabob takeover on hold!

KOC just reported Haralabos Voulgaris is also OUT.

— Esfandiar | Darth Es (@JustEsBaraheni) June 16, 2021

multiple eyes emojis

Denver #Nuggets superstar and #NBA MVP Nikola #Jokić at the hippodrome in his hometown Sombor, shortly after he landed in Serbia.

Earlier today, he announced that he will NOT play for the national team this summer pic.twitter.com/x7QTxFAVrR

— Marko Ljubomirović (@LjubomirovicM) June 16, 2021

wow mavs front office carnage

they were doing such a good job too, weird

lol

mavs should be thinking about masai

between this shit and the sexual harassment scandal who knows if reasonable people even want to work there though

all things considered cuban will spend money and they have the most valuable longterm franchise piece in the NBA it should be a pretty attractive job

if hell let you do it, the "whoever has cubans ear is the most powerful person in the org" part of the harlabob article is pretty damning if true, type of situation people who know whats up stay away from

cubans intense involvement in the team is already a red flag, obvs ownership is going to want to sign off on big moves but you really dont want to be assistant gm to the owner

i'm sure cuban will find the "data point" who's right for the organization

id back up the truck for masai if i were him, agree to move my seat away from the mavs bench and so forth

yeah that would be incredible for them.

i think it’s one of those things where there’s so few GM jobs, and so many of them are taking over rosters in terrible shape, the ability to take over a team with the luka that just finished 5th in the west and took the clippers to 7 should be pretty attractive to most candidates. a guy like masai could be picky but there’s not many like that, i’d imagine

the luka

I'm not seeing anything yet about haralabob being out btw, seems to be sourced from some live podcast KOC is doing

if they're gonna hire a new GM that guy is prob gonna want haralabob out so it seems inevitable

heres your office pay no mind to the professional gambler recently described as the most powerful person in the organization who btw our franchise player cant stand to look at

lamelo roty btw

lamelo lafrance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjz5t9iTkw

luka press conference statement tomorrow...

Luka Doncic, from Slovenia with his national team, on Donnie Nelson's Mavericks exit:

"It was kind of tough to me. I really like Donnie. I know him since I was a kid and he was the one that drafted me. It was tough for me seeing that, but I'm not the one making decisions there."

— Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) June 17, 2021

Not yet, anyway.

The New Orleans Pelicans have been unable to put together the right elements to make Zion Williamson and his family happy, per @TheAthleticNBA

"Multiple sources have told The Athletic that certain family members want Williamson on another team." 😳 pic.twitter.com/6kfWYLqX4V

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) June 17, 2021

pelicans gotta be like “okay… and…”

Move them to Seattle pleeease

if you want to be drafted onto an already good team you should try being the 20th best player in the draft and not the 1st best

woww

Rick Carlisle -- who led Dallas to the 2011 NBA championship -- informed Mavericks owner Mark Cuban today that he won't be returning as coach next season, Carlisle told ESPN. Carlisle had two years left on his contract. He spent 13 seasons as Mavericks coach.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 17, 2021

Damn

he should check out the boston celtics job listings

Rick Carlisle statement to ESPN: pic.twitter.com/zdKA8sWa4Y

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 17, 2021

Cuban is such a shithead

we need the behind the scenes tell all asap

Just a normal org doing normal things

everything seems fine over there

someone teach rick to crop out the keyboard