OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA THREAD - July 2021

Unless you're counting playoffs, there hasn't been that many games over the past three seasons.

It's probably more like 43%. Still not great.

 

He has only played 5 fewer games then K Love and some are wanting the Blazers to get Love. I personally would rather see them get someone that isn't injury prone before either of them.

 

https://theathletic.com/2740987/202...povich-blasts-kevin-love-predicts-tokyo-gold/

This is both hilarious and also something that never should have came out.

 

This is why I want nothing to do with him. Love is done.

 

Thompson for Dunn and a pick

 

*Dunn

 

Ouch. Love has bus tire tracks all over his uniform.

 

i think colangelo has 0 Fs left to give. He's being replaced by Grant Hill after the Olympics.

 

What?



ATL just exchanged Dunn for Delon? That's a great deal for them.

 

This deal is a classic case of how three team deals develop. The deal gets leaked by Woj. He even has Atlanta's company line of how Thompson will be used to backup Capela.

Then 30 minutes later Thompson is sent to Sacramento and Woj says the reasoning is that he's now SAC's insurance policy.

 

I believe all the recent 'get love' chatter was the thought of also getting the 3rd pick in the draft

 

So the Lakers have four guys under contract correct? And three make a billion a year. Where are they or what situation are they at for filling out the roster I’m too lazy to look it up and assume it’s not official anywhere yet with the trade

 

They have LeBron, AD, Russ and Gasol under contract and their salaries add up to 120M. They have their draft pick Isaiah Jackson his salary will be 2.5M which will put them at over 122M.

They have bird exceptions on Schroder and Caruso. Wes made 4.3M this season and they have early bird exception for him which means they can offer him around 5.3M. Everyone else besides Horton-Tucker were on vet min deals.

Horton-Tucker will be hard for them to retain because he played so well made 1.8M and although he's restricted they only have early bird exception for him... so they can only match 3.15M.

They'll do something clever with a Schroder sing and trade if that won't hard cap them, they'll keep Caruso and probably Wes. They should have the taxpayer MLE. Then they will get 3 good players on vet min deals who want to live in LA, play with LeBron and are ring chasing.

 

Dallas just dumped Josh Richardson for nothing.

 

Yeesh - I hope Enes went and had a Karen Silkwood-level shower after this:

 

making room for a large Normie Powell offer. Ugh

 

Kyle Lowry. Now they have around 45 million in space to spend between Lowry and THJ, and all indications are that they want to re-sign THJ as well.

Ugh, the Lowry thing is scary though because every team is chasing him and he can only choose one team. Whoever fails to get him is going to have a ton of money left over. We can only hope Powell is already off the market by then. Lowry's decision will impact a lot of teams decisions.

 

Lowry and Luka? Why?

 

good question. I don't see the need

however, with Richardson traded I can see Dallas liking Powell...a lot

 

If they get Lowry you can count them as another team in the West that got better as we stand pat.

If we lose Powell and nothing significant changes over the off-season I don’t even think we make the playoffs next year.