Around the NBA - July 2017 Edition

Suns want to upgrade at PG. Have for a few seasons now.
They WON'T part with Booker or Chriss unless its for a super stud.

They also have a young, Brandon Knight sitting pine behind Bledsoe. I think Knight the better leader.
I could only see Suns involvement if they are getting Kyrie Irving. They could give up Bender and Bledsoe. Still have Irving, Booker, Jackson, Chriss, Len.

 

this exactly and lebron could of stayed in cleveland to continue making his runs to the finals but NOPE. Oh well, thank god cleveland isn't our squad, what a cluster fuck

 

Screaming A Smith "Portland doesn't know what its doing!!" But I think it was the 2006 draft with Aldridge and Roy and 6 trades.

 

We are so lucky to have two all star players that want to be here. Everybody bitches in this forum a lot, including me but god damn are we lucky and that kyrie irving shit just made me feel it

 

That was definitely Smith. I'm talking about the Oden draft. One or both of those guys went on and on about how it was bad for the league to have Oden and Durant on the west coast, specifically the PNW

 

I can think of a handful of posters who don't "bitch a lot".

 

you get what I am saying

 

I bitch just the right amount!

 

When Hayward left SLC, I knelt down to my "Shrine O' Dame" and thanked my lucky stars. Our unique position of having players who actually feel a connection to this town is not lost on me.

 

I get what you meant

 

This was the suggestion I saw from Bill Simmons, which I thought was actually quite good:

Knicks get: Kyrie, Shump's deal
Suns get: Ntilinka, Frye's expiring
Cavs get: Melo, Bledsoe, NYK 2018 1st

A good (and cheap) prospect plus and expiring is decent value for Bledsoe, who has never made the jump to star-caliber and is expensive. Especially for a rebuilding team.

 

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New Blazers Court:

 

I've been saying it for a while but turner should be our back up pg. keep cj at the two. Harkless aminu and layman can cover the three.
SwNnigan vonleh at the four. Nurk Davis at the five with Collins as a floater.
Turner can switch off to cover the sg or sf based on matchups but turner and crabbe should be able to stop most benches backcourts and then some.

 

Dame/turner/Napier
Cj/Crabbe/connaughton
harkless/aminu/layman
vonleh/Swannigan/Leonard
nurk/Davis/Collins

I think we should have strict five man rotations. Lesson the minutes on our stars and let the second unit play together as one for he most part. I think that second unit migh compete with the best benches in the league if swannigan works out.

 

Still no word on Pat July 25th coming up this Tues.

 

This made me smile:

 

While the Blazers are stuck in the youth movement and Developing ( Seems like for a decade now.) The Wolves are Wheeling and dealing trying to build a contender.