2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

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

some of these all-in teams are paying crazy amounts in lux tax, its Good IMO

steve ballmer is legit one of the richest human beings on earth pay the $30 mill bitch

i don't think this is actually all that much about tax savings. beverley is expiring, they're probably not planning on being a contender this season with kawhi out, and they also probably think they can fix bledsoe after the batum and jackson reclaimations.

bev made an ass out of himself and the franchise in that phx series too

i can't stand bev on the court and don't think he's that good. i've also seen a lot of dire bledsoe playoff games. so it's probably a wash.

surely you can turn pat bev on a 14M expiring into something better than negative asset eric bledsoe

idk, can you? beverley is in that special place where he's a limited player who is only useful to teams that want to win and also makes kind of a lot of money. i have no doubt the grizz will find a way to flip him but they can do it for future assets while the clips need to get someone who can play at a similar level now.

not sure what the clippers really need to be prepping for if kawhi is really gonna basically miss the whole year, gonna be a rough climb

well they can get a look at bledsoe this coming year and see if he will help, if not his guarantee for 22-23 is pretty small

clippers need good value to pad out their bench and bledsoe is not that. i would have expected bev to be traded for young player/s who could be given heavy development minutes for a year while kawhi recovers. if bledsoe doesnt regain form (which he wont) the clippers are back where they started except bledsoe cant even shoot.

yeah what i’m saying is there was no trade for beverley that was getting useful young players back (let me know if you can think of one) so this is arbitrage on an expiring contract.

yeah

Pelicans closing in on 3-year deal to keep Hart - via @ESPN App https://t.co/C751rJeZMj

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 16, 2021

marcus smart getting the full 4/77 extension

nice