The NBA Thread

[Rodey]

LoVE the Torrey Craig addition.

[Balor3012]

There's no rhyme or reason to the Hawks lol. Are they trying to have no defense

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by luccic12

There's no rhyme or reason to the Hawks lol. Are they trying to have no defense

What do you mean? They signed the great Rondo and Khris Dunn!

[Rodey]

4/$72 for Bogie? Man, fuck the league. Deer could have offered pretty much exactly the same deal.

[Balor3012]

Originally Posted by Rodey

What do you mean? They signed the great Rondo and Khris Dunn!

I keep forgetting about Dunn. Bogdan and Gallo are on my mind

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by luccic12

I keep forgetting about Dunn. Bogdan and Gallo are on my mind

I was being sarcastic, but yeah. I think they were like, "maybe we need some semblance of defense" and that's what they arrived at.

[Rodey]

They might average 130 a night, but give up like 140

[Lee3691]

I don't understand the Bogdan decision either, if it its "only" 2 million. Can the Kings match the offer and then just trade him later in the season to Milwaukee?

[drakan]

So the biggest news around the draft was the Clay injury?

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by Lee3691

I don't understand the Bogdan decision either, if it its "only" 2 million. Can the Kings match the offer and then just trade him later in the season to Milwaukee?

https://twitter.com/sam_amick/status...550499840?s=20

More details on the Bogdan Bogdanovic deal with Atlanta (with Kings having 48 hours to match), per source to @TheAthletic: Trade kicker of 15%, aforementioned player option in Year No. 4. If Kings match, Bogdan would have, in essence, a no-trade clause for one year.

[Rodey]

Sad that I actually like what the Deer have done outside of feeling like they have a huge gap at shooting guard. A lot of people are high on DDV, I'm not. Don't think he's ever going to be anything better than maybe a 6th man.

[drakan]

In like 5-10 years we are going to have $100 million per year supermax contracts.

[TypicalBilly14]

Glad to see Tatum is going to be with the Celtics for a while.

[Balor3012]

Marc Gasol was really bad this season

[Balor3012]

According to Shams Pau Gasol is an icon in LA? Think that's a bit much lol

[dontdrink36]

Originally Posted by drakan

In like 5-10 years we are going to have $100 million per year supermax contracts.

Not if the ratings trends continue and the TV contracts get smaller.

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by luccic12

According to Shams Pau Gasol is an icon in LA? Think that's a bit much lol

He’s beloved. Especially after Kobe died.

[BotheLaneFan]

Markeiff Morris re-signs with Lakers.

[Lee3691]

Originally Posted by BotheLaneFan

Markeiff Morris re-signs with Lakers.

What a bargain. His brother gets 4 years/64 million, and Markeiff, who is actually a better rebounder, but not quite the scorer, gets a minimum deal.

[justinandimcool]

Adebayo, Ingram, Bogdanovic locked up. no good free agents left tbh. time for tiers!! my favorite thing!

offseason winner/loser scale

tier 1: great teams that got greater
Lakers

tier 2: really good teams that got really gooder
Brooklyn
Clippers
Philadelphia

tier 3: meh teams that are probably pretty good now
Phoenix
Portland
Atlanta

tier 4: good team that is in reallllly good position for 2022
Dallas

tier 5: not much happened that affects 2021 but the future cap/pick situation looks nice
New Orleans
Oklahoma City
San Antonio

tier 6: really good teams that got worse for 2021 but are still in okay position for 2022
Toronto
Miami

tier 7: really good teams that maybe got worse but at least made good signings
Boston

tier 8: good teams that did not get obviously worse but it’s hard to be excited
Denver
Utah
Indiana
Memphis

tier 9: good teams that are probably out of the picture now
Golden State
Houston

tier 10: bad teams that maybe improved but probably not, though are still interesting
Minnesota
Washington
Cleveland
Charlotte

tier 11: bad teams that didnt have much to work with but some good things happened
Chicago
Sacramento
Orlando

tier 12: team that hasn’t signed their big extension yet and really needed a home run but got screwed over and ended up with a ground rule double
Milwaukee

tier 13: bad and somehow there’s less hope than before
New York
Detroit

[Lee3691]

Justin - would love to see your season w/l predictions. I usually do very well on those, but not last year - thankfully all my bets were credited back to me with the pandemic.

[Rodey]

Glad the Deer got their own category, Justin. Getting fucked over by the league for Bogdan screwed up the offseason. I still think they are a better positioned team with the moves they made, but the moves they made would be even better if they had Bogdan.

[justinandimcool]

Originally Posted by Rodey

Glad the Deer got their own category, Justin. Getting fucked over by the league for Bogdan screwed up the offseason. I still think they are a better positioned team with the moves they made, but the moves they made would be even better if they had Bogdan.

i’m not high on Divincenzo either but they need him to make a huge jump

Originally Posted by Lee3691

Justin - would love to see your season w/l predictions. I usually do very well on those, but not last year - thankfully all my bets were credited back to me with the pandemic.

that would be fun with the added challenge of 72 this year. the over under lines came out today but it’s hard to predict without knowing the schedule caveats this year. 6 division games vs 4? are there any east west games? is Toronto still in the Atlantic?

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by justinandimcool

i’m not high on Divincenzo either but they need him to make a huge jump

He's shown signs, but I'm with you. Deer camp is very divided on his potential. There are some who feel like this will be the year he breaks out and we're actually opposed to trading him for Bogdan because, in theory, he could be a more well-rounded player.

He's a much better shooter than he's shown so far in the NBA, so hoping that translates this season. Great defender, if nothing else.

[BotheLaneFan]

Deer need DiVincenzo to be Alex Caruso. I don’t know if he can be.

[Balor3012]

I feel like the Bucks (well Bud) needs to just say fuck it and play DiVincenzo 33 minutes a game and see what happens. I know he loves to spread minutes out but at some point you need to find what you have in guys

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by BotheLaneFan

Deer need DiVincenzo to be Alex Caruso. I don’t know if he can be.

He's already better than Caruso, though?

[Rodey]

Originally Posted by luccic12

I feel like the Bucks (well Bud) needs to just say fuck it and play DiVincenzo 33 minutes a game and see what happens. I know he loves to spread minutes out but at some point you need to find what you have in guys

They need to start someone at shooting guard and I don't think it's going to be Forbes or Pat C. Though I do feel like they're going to platoon SG a bit.

[Rodey]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ounmpo-packing

So, let's analyze this situation:

- Giannis wants Bogdan. Him and Thanasis have been talking to him for months about coming to the Bucks.

- Kings and Deer workout a sign-and-trade.

- Lasry allegedly boasts about deal on a board of governors' call, but multiple people don't recall that happening. Really dumb on Lasry if that happened.

- Butthurt Schlenk (probably) files a complaint

- League investigates tampering for basically the first time ever and Bucks get fucked.

Clown show league, really.

[Lee3691]

I am not sure if it is tampering. I think the Bucks could have only offered like 4 years/60 million.