Event 2018 NBA Draft

We can’t trade our TPE for Faried and #14, can we? Faried makes $13.8M next season and TPE is $13.0M from what I remember.

 

It also seems pretty stupid to announce to the rest of the NBA that if you want this player then you better move up ahead.

 

Great then, The Ringer guys think Denver are willing to give up #14 and Faried for nothing and that’s what we would give them. Problem is Dallas, Atlanta and Sacramento would be on it too, possibly also Brooklyn, and all of them could also give them late firsts or early seconds. We could give them #24 but I don’t really want us to.

 

I still think we have to include the 24th pick, i just can't Imagine a nba Team give up a lottery Pick for nothing, i mean okay they get rid of that faried Contract but i don't know man

 

I remember the craziest promise to draft a player......I think it was the '05 draft. The Hawks promised to take Marvin Williams with the #2 pick. Even though they already had Josh Childress, Al Harrington and Josh Smith on the roster. They chose to NOT draft Derron Williams and CP3 even though I believe their starting PG was Tyronn Lue!!!! What the fuck were they thinking?

 

Quite possible, then again Raptors gave up two first round pick to get rid of Carroll last year and Lakers gave up Russell to get out of Mozgov’s contract (nobody knew they would also get Kuzma in the same deal and how good he would turn out to be).

Denver need cap space to extend Jokic or else they put themselves deep in luxury tax. Their owners seem tight with money so you never know. Thing is, somebody will offer them a late first along with cap space anyway, or an early second.

 

Damn HCP, you can't bring up the 2005 NBA Draft and question other teams when the Blazers traded the 3rd pick when they could've had Derron Williams or Chris Paul too.

 

Totally agree. I was just bringing up the "promise" aspect of it. We blew that one for sure!

 

All because we had Telfair on the roster. The only good thing about Telfair is that he was part of the trade that got us Brandon Roy.

 

Man, they LOVED Bassy! Swore he was bringing us to the next level.

 

Damn, I just went back and looked at that '05 draft......there were some good players chosen later on.
17-Danny Grainger
18- Gerald Green
21-Nate Robinson
22-Jarrett Jack
30- David Lee
34- CJ Miles
36- Illyasova
40- Monta
45- Lou Williams
56- Amir Johnson
57- Gortat

 

He was coming off what seemed like an ok freshman season.

 

I finally gave my Telfair jersey to Goodwill last year.

 

You could have sold it to @EL PRESIDENTE

Nevermind, he probably already has it.

 

I got the sweet throwback one from the 77 team. I won't give that away. My jersey collection is really bad.

Telfair Throwback
Darius Miles
Webster
Oden

The only good one I have is the All-Star Lillard jersey I won on this site.

 

Dallas and Portland are literally the only two teams that could take on Faried without sending salary back on draft night.

 

That was the John Nash era a distant relative of Billy King.

 

I still have a throwback Zbo one like this one

 

Basketballinsiders combined mock draft (4 mockers) has us taking:
Simons, Hutchison, (Jontay) Porter, Huerter

I've heard positive things here about Hutchison and Huerter. Simons looked really
good to me. Don't know much about Porter. What are some of your thoughts
on these 4 guys?

edit:
according to this: https://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2018/5/8/17315330/2018-nba-draft-rumors-lakers-workout-tracker
Simons impressed the Lakers.