Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

Examples?

 

Lesson is: don’t tank. All those hard tanks got nothing. POR was right to just try to win as many as possible. Humiliating your organization just to get a 4-10 is a bad move. Win win win. Always win. That is the path forward. Forget super stars and mvp votes. Battle in to the post season. Can you imagine how UTA die hard fans feel? All they did was lose and it got them nowhere.

 

Maybe Utah or Washington will do a straight swap with us since they're so regretful of their decisions to tank this season?

 

Dallas should consider trading the pick to the Bucks for Greek Freak! They would be contenders for a championship for the next three seasons

 

Maybe Utah or Washington will straight swap with us since they're so regretful of their decisions to tank this season?

 

It got them *checks notes* the 5th pick in the draft.

We also didn't make the playoffs and *checks notes* we pick 11th.

 

1. The Spurs getting #2 and Harper is a pain in the @$$. I don’t like the Spurs at all. Never have. Respect to ownership and some players but have always strongly disliked Pop.
2. Dallas getting Flagg is serious irony. Congrats to their fans — though Nico isn’t off the hook that easy.
3. Not buying conspiracies in the modern day lottery. I just don’t.
4. Adapt and overcome. Clingan, Deni, Toumani are 3 I buy into. Sharpe? Yes, but he has to show it next season. Scoot looks like a starter. How good depends on how much “want to” that he has.

5. #11. Seriously? Getting to 6 was doable and they f’ed that up in the regular season. Okay. So be it. Then lose a coin flip to Houston, again. Coin flips are not good for Portland. And miss the lotto ball by 1 again — just close enough to lose on both Wemby and Flagg? That’s some 1st rate Greek tragedy … not really but the point is made.

Don’t trade the pick. Get a good player at 11. I have my 3 favorites for the pick as I’m sure others have theirs. If it becomes another Deni-deal, I get it. Otherwise, keep it simple, and take the pick. Make at least two trades — Grant and Ant.

 

People keep talking about this Queen kid. He wouldn’t get ANY time ahead of Clingan and Ayton. Unless they think he is a PF?

 

Not a huge deal. He's a rookie. He can pickup spot minutes during injuries for the first year. You don't draft for what the player does for you next season.

 

Because Wemby is the most important star of this generation. And the Spurs are one of the most trustworthy organizations. Especially with big men.

 

Sounds about right. Let's start Ayton Grant Ant and we can bury Scoot/Sharpe/Clingan on the bench.

 

Id much rather have #5 than #11.... So wouldn't say Utah got nowhere.

I'm all for trying to win 100% - but with youth. I never understood what the purpose of the AntGrantAyton big 3 was on our team.

 

Kyrie and Dame can rehab together next year on the Bucks!

 

If you need an immediate contribution from an 11 pick you've already screwed the pooch.

Sorry Sly...

 

Rocco:

7’3” w/o shoes
9’6.5” standing reach
260 lbs.
18 years old

 

If I were the Flagg I'd be pissed about who my GM is going to be. They do have good fans. Assuming both come back from their injuries you do have two HOF teammates... sorry with Klay that's three HOF teammates on the back end of their careers but still you have a chance (if healthy) to immediately contend for a title. If I was Flagg I would make a point of having a good, independent of management, relationship with ownership. If you feel like Nico is up to some whack shit, just have him fired. I think Flagg will be good enough to have that dynamic.

It while I said what I said about being happy for Mavs fans after Nico fucked them this season it does sting a little more that it was a team behind us that got Flagg. He would have been what we need.

 

Not that I'd put it past our current franchise but Bobby Marks is absolutely useless. His information almost never reflects any reality besides the objective stuff... that being cap related. His trade ideas never make any sense, he openly says that he no longer has any sources in the league. I'm pretty damn sure Marks knows where all of the bodies are buried at ESPN because his personality is non existent on top of everything else.

I mean what guy who actually was an assistant GM and doesn't keep up with front offices around the league once they move to TV basically just so he doesn't have to come up with trades based on any legit rumors... or maybe Marks is still really plugged in and he just doesn't give a fuck about the fans and does his boring ass shit instead of giving us anything of value. That probably is it because I swear that dude has never proposed a trade that made sense or has happened and I feel like he would have tripped and fallen into being right by now if he wasn't actively trying to be wrong. He does, to his credit always say that his lame ass shit is not sourced at all, I just don't know why ESPN uses him.

 

Fell asleep and woke up pissed off bc of this BS… I’m still salty about it.

It’s not even about us not moving up, or falling back.

F the Mavs, and F the Spurs too. The fact that they went 1 and 2 is probably worse case scenario imo. Maybe the only thing that would have been worse is if the Spurs were the ones who ended up with Flagg.