2021 nba offseason draft free agency etc

Bradley Beal says he is not vaccinated. He cites personal reasons for why.

— Chase Hughes (@ChaseHughesNBCS) September 27, 2021

Yalllll go right ahead and play around with that vaccine if you want to.

— Kamiah Adams-Beal (@KamiahAdams) January 23, 2021

beal's wife so.... no surprise there

rich people and their partners have so much time to do their own research

really want these people to explain the provenance of aspartame to me

im just asking the real questions here

I would ask the question to those who are getting vaccinated 'why are you still getting COVID?'

- Bradley Beal

— Quinton Mayo (@RealQuintonMayo) September 27, 2021

sorry to hear about your rona stint jordan. hopefully its all uphill from here for you

yeah get well jord!

this vaccine status/covid stuff is going to be a huge wild card this year

could potentially be a huge advantage for teams in cities with mandates having big players sit out

yah this will prob be bigger than anything from last year

hopefully they add it to NBA2k as well

Bradley Beal on his bout with COVID-19, which cost him the Olympics: "I didn’t get sick at all. I lost my smell. That’s it.”

Beal adds that no one will talk about adverse reactions to the vaccine and how it impacts player health. No NBA player has missed time due to the vaccine.

— Ben Rohrbach (@brohrbach) September 27, 2021

SIGH

nobody tell bradley beal that i got vaccinated and still caught covid

I would ask the question to those who are getting vaccinated ’why are you still getting COVID?’

here are the remaining nba players after this mess

https://i.imgur.com/V39jskF.png

Sixers fans went all in on “actually it’s good to say this about your teammate” but you’re seeing the downsides rn

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, September 26, 2021 12:09 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

How's this for a downside, lol:

Joel Embiid not a huge fan of the Ben Simmons offseason videos pic.twitter.com/mHKFRRBYLJ

— Everythings Phine (@evrythingsphine) September 27, 2021

lol what a quote

lmso he simply cannot help himself

Bjelica to Wiggins in the hallway:

“Get the shot."

Wiggins: Tough crowd in there, man.

— Dieter Kurtenbach (@dieter) September 27, 2021

get em

Bjelica signing already paying off

Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., has agreed on a five-year designated max extension that could be worth up to $207 million, his agent Mark Bartelstein of @PrioritySports tells ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 27, 2021

Wonder if getting the vax is in the contract

Porter Jr., deal is worth $172M unless he reaches the designated max criteria and makes one of the three All-NBA teams this season.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 27, 2021

thats a gamble for the nuggets

gotta do it

He shot the ball too well to not get the max

i strongly suspect that some of the players that pulled the "that's private" card today are vaxxed but trying to play both sides or be cool or something, so it's delightful to see dame just calling it all bullshit in the nicest way he can.

Damian Lillard on getting vaccinated.#RipCity pic.twitter.com/h0trtXtwHz

— Orlando Sanchez (@orlandokgw) September 27, 2021

about as good as you can play it, right there.

was also nice to see dame's responses to if he's seeing it through in portland basically come down to him saying everything but "yeah, i was going through some stuff, sorry"

Kyrie is Goated

— D'Angelo Russell (@Dloading) September 28, 2021

haha. perfect

Lmao

KAT literally called proud people's excuses for not getting vaxxed bullshit today

proud?

Also says the Wolves will be 100% vaxxed soon and said he appreciated two holdouts that they convinced to get it

this kyrie situation is dicey!

In a report from @VinceGoodwill, Kyrie Irving is expected to get the COVID-19 vaccine, with close friend Kevin Durant influencing the decision:https://t.co/XgxXrPTZJS

— BasketballNews.com (@basketbllnews) September 28, 2021

less dicey now

it is really hard to imagine that any player who is actually in line to play will hold out from getting vaxxed imo. the antivax rationale is flimsy enough (read: nonsensical) that this is really all about saving face, even if just for one's own internal logic. there are a lot of inept orgs in the nba but i have faith that they will all find ways to satisfy that need for their just asking questions antivax players.

unless they secretly seek an excuse to get a player out of their rotation...

(was thinking about wiggins with that last comment but his contributions are a net positive... right?)

hes above replacement level but not above league average

agreed

The funny thing about that the best thing about wiggins is he doesn’t miss games

Avery Bradley: "I think I might be the best on-ball defender in the NBA."

— Kendra Andrews (@kendra__andrews) September 28, 2021

that's true when he's playing offense and no one is guarding him

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2021/9/28/22698824/ben-simmons-trade-philadelphia-76ers

League sources say the primary motivation for Klutch Sports’ aggressive holdout is to steer him to a team built around him on offense. No matter the roster makeup in Philly, he will only ever be no. 2 as long as Embiid is healthy.

ben simmons: i very badly want to be on a losing team

a team built around him on offense

lmao, do I want to see that team.

aspiring to be julius randle now

The Pistons would do something that weird

already did

https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/headshots/nba/players/full/2991070.png&w=350&h=254

i do think there's some logic to the idea of building an offense around simmons if he is going to truly reach his potential, as i've been saying i think somewhere like OKC or houston would be the best landing spots for him as teams w/ some assets that could mold a team around him. if we're operating under the theory that ben can't play with a(nother) center because the spacing just doesn't work then there's not tons of contending teams where you're like, yeah just drop simmons in there -- after trading away perimeter talent, presumably -- and we're ready to rock

i don't think simmons has to be the best player on a team, in fact he almost certainly can't be if you really want to contend. but he does need to be the best big on the team, i think, unless there's some unicorn scenario where you find that chris bosh in miami kinda player who can play center and hang around at the three point line basically the entire game. jokic could probably make it fit but the nuggs are locked in to two wings long term now so i imagine they're not making any drastic move. lillard would be great but if you're playing simmons and nurkic at the same time are you just replaying the issues in philly?

ben needs to end up on a team where the other star is a guard or a wing who can ball handle and shoot. the problem is that any trading team -- as of now -- is going to have to trade a veteran, star level player of that caliber to match what the sixers want, so you're basically getting rid of the player who you need to pair with him. teams like okc (shai), or houston (jalen green), or detroit (cade) have more of a shot of making something work around ben that could be better than what the sixers were doing, so i see where he's coming from.