2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

maybe the bigger what if is not chasing the regular season record

even tho it was extremely sweet

the thing w draymond is that his one non duplicable attribute is his mind. you can look at players with similar size skill and athleticism and map them onto his general role in your head but dray’s brain is 1 of 1, it’s just the thing you can’t see

that said it’s a great analogue for simmons the way draymond grabs a defensive rebound and goes up the court with the offense at his fingertips. that’s the situation ben needs, with shooters spacing around him he can pass to

This guy is really plugged in and gets fed a lot of "scoops" by local teams, betting the rumor are true. Also, it's the Wolves so of course it's going to be the most absurd/hilarious reason

We have said on Ch. 5 at 5p and 6p that this isn't anything related to basketball.

— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) September 22, 2021

yeah i dont think simmons will be playing inside linebacker blowing up plays before they happen like dray does, but still playing a dray type role makes sense for him

the closest thing to dray on the mind wave level is prob marcus smart

rosas, man. unbelievable what supposedly intelligent people will do.

the simmons center thing, i get it but don't get hung up on the positions, i think the way i look at it is ideally you want to have only one nonshooter on the floor so however you accomplish that around simmons is what you want to do. and even then most teams end up having to play minutes with two nonshooters, like the warriors will probably start draymond/looney and then not finish that way.

With degrees from MIT and Stanford, Gupta is an analytics ace who began his career at ESPN, where he developed the popular website feature known as the "NBA Trade Machine" that calculates the salary-cap ramifications of any potential deal that a fan wants to plug in.

Gupta developed the trade machine, nice

salute

in other news andrew wiggins refuses to get vaxed and i guess won't be able to play home games?

Loooooooool ok WCCO reporting, it's a wrap

BREAKING: Gerson Rosas is out as Timberwolves President of Basketball Operations for creating a toxic culture and an "inappropriate relationship." WATCH NOW as Mike Max has the latest on the firing on CBSN Minnesota: https://t.co/K69mHc1wEh | Read more: https://t.co/MPCRQV3UDA pic.twitter.com/VsNinAf1yB

— WCCO - CBS Minnesota (@WCCO) September 23, 2021

alright well there you go

my understanding is the sixers have been trying very hard to make him into a shooter the whole time and he simply will not shoot, interview with doc today where he said simmons has a shooting coach and a free throw coach lol

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I forget everyone hasn't been reading the Philly papers/sites, etc. for the last 4 years on a daily basis so hasn't lived through this stuff.

Simmons didn't just not shoot 3s or long 2s. His rookie year he shot 78.7% of his shots from within 10 ft of the basket.

It was assumed by most fans/media that, as a young player, he was going to develop an outside shot and every offseason we would get bombarded with stories about Simmons working on his game with shooting coaches, videos of Simmons shooting 3s (many posted by him or his people), and pre-season discussion with the staff about him shooting more.

The opposite happened: his second year in the league he shot 89.7% of his shots from within 10 ft of the basket; 94.2% his third year; then 91.0% last year.

what are the details on this “inappropriate relationship”? the athletic called it a “consensual” relationship

i'm not tracking everything i'm seeing closely but i guess my sense is consensual relationship with a subordinate.

when your title is president that aren't really any coworkers you can bang appropriately.

Yeah having sex with his assistant is the word

Saw a rumor they were at a Twins game together

Jon K posted a long story about the lead up to this, apparently things had been bad before the incident

Posted in the Athletic thread

wow some ppl were ready to unload on this guy

rip bob

Report: Mavericks drop Haralabos Voulgaris https://t.co/d9MOBTT3Fa

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) September 23, 2021

Best org in sports

why did they wait lol

Valar Morghulis, Haralabos Voulgaris.

you guys aren’t gonna believe this but sounds like kyrie has not gotten vaxed yet.

That dude basically drove Rick Carlilse out right?

possibly yeah

the stuff i’ve read and heard makes me think he was one of a number of factors that led to that and probably not the biggest one. i think luka was done with rick.

yeah my read is luka got them both fired, maybe not intentionally tho

luka and carlisle had a power struggle that carlisle was never gonna win plain and simple. haralabob and donnie nelson had a separate power struggle over the front office that they both lost. it’s all in that athletic article

it said the luka hated the mere sight of bob too

if anything it seemed like haralabob and carlisle got along to some extent, one of the big conspiracies in that article was that haralabob was dictating rotations to carlisle

just remembered the mavs hired kidd lol

haha wow yah hadnt thought about that til just now. solid org doing solid things

Seeing stuff on Twitter that new management was upset that Rosas didn't want to do a Simmons for Dlo package, which is that is the case shoot him into the sun, jfc

from a good source? i'm sort of generally skeptical of that from all sides.

Nah just chatter so I didn't link it but just because something seems too dumb to be true doesn't mean it's not true in Timberwolves land

yeah for sure. the part i struggle with is imagining daryl morey floating a simmons for dlo+ deal that rosas would even have the opportunity to turn down.

yeah doesn't feel right. though i do kinda wonder - like who are they gonna get at this point?

doesn't really feel like a big fish like Dame is gonna happen

cj

getting dame in exchange for simmons would be straight up highway robbery, so the only way it ever would have happened would be if dame had issued an ultimatum to trade him. no such ultimatum went down.

ESPN Sources: Manu Ginobili is returning to the San Antonio Spurs as a special advisor to basketball operations. Ginobili will take on a player-centric role that’s focused on the development of players on and off the court.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 24, 2021

Cool about Manu

xps DLo seems like his reputation in the league has a high variance, I wonder if Morey would trade for him then flip him. Dunno where though

daryl morey would quit the sixers before he ever traded ben simmons for d’angelo russell

will be interesting to see how this all plays out

seems like phillys going to have to move him for a not ideal deal sooner than later

theyre trying to compete they need to have players who are actually playing

i also don’t understand how his trade value increases at all from this point. i bet this has a similar feel to james harden last year where after like 5 games there’s a real motivation to get something done

this is fun little thing i stumbled upon amidst more pels/zion drama. it's a book proposal from a former shoe company rep who had some dealings with zion and his family, lots of other players, and eventually got sent to prison. it's like 50 pages but the first 20 or so are very entertaining and have all the zion stuff. sounds like the actual book will be coming out at some point:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ABYp4nBty_sDJYPXATaufvJuxVqs4XBv/edit

BREAKING: SFDPH tells @_ericting that at large indoor events, unvaccinated "cannot enter indoor areas regardless of the reason they're unvaccinated."

So Warriors' Andrew Wiggins can't apply for religious exemption. He will miss all home games if he doesn't get vaccinated soon

— Alex Shultz (@AlexShultz) September 24, 2021

https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/article/Andrew-Wiggins-vaccine-home-games-NBA-Chase-Center-16485633.php