Exclusive The OFFICIAL 2019 NBA Offseason Thread

You seemingly vouched for his credibility by stating he's been in the know on so much.

 

@dviss1

 

So they can compete for a championship, that only 10 teams out of 30 have won in 50 years! 7 of them multiple times.
Or the fans will go side ways!
Ive said for many years the NBA is a Marketing Machine (and I was a marketing guy) and its all about entertainment and the FANTASTIC fans! The league like most industries product, is segmented, GOOD, BETTER, BEST . All come down to brand equity and distribution (TV, SEASON DUCATS etc.) = revenue.

 

It was still AD’s choice though, and AD is an adult. Maybe he decided he wanted LA to have more money to bring on more guys. I get why the LBJ / RP relationship and all that seem strange, but guys not taking the trade kicker is fairly normal.
If AD thought Klutch / RP wasnt presenting him, he would fire him.

 

Watch the Lakers go from 10th seed too 1st seed in one off-season.

 

You dont compete for a championship by over paying for mediocre players though, thats actually usually a way to keep yourself from building s team, you can do that with maybe one player, but once you’re overpaying for 2+ guys your cap situation gets bad real fast.

 

When Nerlens Noel turned down his giant extension and took the qualifying offer, why did everyone bag on Noel, and not his agent?

 

Didn't he get destroyed in the media too?

 

Noel did. Yeah. But this tweet, and all of the diwscussion seemingly in this forum on the topic, fault Klutch and Rich Paul. Not the player. AD wanted to go to the Lakers, clearly. You think he's being manipulated by his agent to lose money just to help the agent's other player? Who is already well paid? By losing that money, Rich Paul is also losing money. Maybe it's the player, not the agent?

 

If their is anything for red flags with RP/LBJ to me it would be that they leave teams in a state of being pretty much screwed. Really though all those teams have choices, they dont have to give in to getting older guys and giving up draft picks, but they choose to in order to keep Lebron, its the teams choice.

 

Here's what y'all don't seem to get:

How does an under contract athlete get EXACTLY what he wants?

He speaks publicly about wanting out and he sacrifices money to get exactly what he wants.

It's the price that's paid to force a team to trade you to the team YOU want to be traded to.

 

Lebron James owns/runs Klutch thats where it starts and we know why Davis changed representation. The Lakers have been tampering all along with Davis.

 

They’ve been tampering for years

 

I agree, my point was though that if Org's don't be aggressive in doing something in the spirt of something fandom will react one way or another. As long as there is an attempt to be competitive in a NICHE/Country club market, it can appease fans.

 

I hope the coaches get a second challenge if their first challenge overturns the call. lf the coach is right and the ref wrong, then it shouldn't count against the coach.

 

This is gonna really slow down the game flow at the ends of games.

 

If Kawhi goes to the Lakers, it’s all over folks.

 

But you can't review non call

 

Maybe, but this seems like a big positive for small market teams.