Exclusive Official Buyout Thread (Aka Neil's dumpster dive for bargains)

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    Lma is a hoe
     
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    They cemented that when they got Harden. They really just wanted to make sure.
     
    Strenuus, Mar 27, 2021
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    Is it true that the cap hit on signing a vet now is around 500k? If so, you have to figure Olshey will add two players. No reason not to if he can stay under the tax.
     
    Scalma, Mar 27, 2021
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    Can you imagine if they did win it? The most meaningless ring ever..and for KD? He would have the cheapest 3 rings of all time
     
    PHXBlazer1, Mar 27, 2021
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    Are you surprised? He's always wanted to ride the gravy train.
     
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    Conversely, if they DON'T win it, it will be a fatal blow to all of their legacies. And they probably know it.
     
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    And we will all rejoice
     
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    LMA struggled taking a backseat to rookie Damian Lillard. Now he's gonna go team up with Harden, Durant, Irving and Blake? LOL
     
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    Sorry but the Payton/Kobe/Malone/Shaq team was higher on my list of teams to fail.
     
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    Nurkic played a playoff game in 2017 too and we lost that one.
     
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    Not a buyout guy but it’s surprising to me that Rondae Hollis Jefferson is just sitting out there. I know he can’t shoot but he’s a wing with plus defense. That has to have some value.
     
    Scalma, Mar 27, 2021
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    That was even better than Hakeem and Clyde sweeping the Shaq-Penny Magic. Or the KG Celtics beating the Lakers.
     
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    he's a hoe who has made 220M dollars
     
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    It's been well established here that a bad defensive team can't win a championship, therefore we don't have to worry about the Nets winning anything. Right?
     
    Tince, Mar 28, 2021
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    the only thing I've seen established is that over the last 2o years, only two teams that won the championship did NOT have a top-20 defense. And there is some relevant context for those two exceptions: the first team was the Lakers in 2001 when they had the 21st ranked defense. But, that was the middle title of a threepeat, and the two other championships sandwiched around that outlier was when their defenses ranked 1st and 7th. The other exception was the last of three championships for the Warriors when they ranked 11th in defense. But there two previous championships came when they had the 1st and 2nd ranked defenses

    in other words (now this is not 'established', just theory), those two exceptions were teams who could obviously play great defense and could bring it when they had too

    another thing that has not been established but certainly argued is that super-teams seem to play under a different set of rules. Brooklyn is a super-team. Not only that, they appear to have generational offensive talent. Harden/Durant/Irving have combined for 27 all-star games, 18 all-NBA teams including 12 first team honors, and 3 MVP's. And they didn't get all that for defense

    Brooklyn is an experiment trying to break the rule in a dramatic way. And by the way, as bad as Brooklyn is on defense, they are still 3.4 points better on defense than Portland. Brooklyn ranks 26th, yet they are still closer to the 11th ranked Thunder than Portland is to Brooklyn
     
    wizenheimer, Mar 28, 2021
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    Especially if you have small offensive guard’s!
     
    Hoopguru, Mar 28, 2021
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