Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

I don’t see Reggie or Klay in this draft but who knows

 

What's the old quote the world protects the idiot

 

So all Flagg needs to do is refuse to play defense and he will end up a l*ker.

 

I like the premise, but I'd be surprised if the Blazers used all the resources they could gather from the pick, Simons and Grant in this year's draft. I'm thinking more along the lines of them spreading the picks they might acquire over this year, next and maybe up toward 2029 when we already have two first-rounders and some of our current young players will be closing in on contract years.

 

All these occurred within 12 (usually ~6) months of a major trade...

2025: Luka -> Flagg
2023: Wemby to SA (his preferred location)
2019: AD -> Zion
2015: Love -> KAT
2012: Chris Paul -> AD
2011: LeBron -> Irving (+ Bennett, Wiggins in subsequent years)

Anyone who doesn't think it's possible because the lotto is monitored, should watch McMillions on Netflix.

 

Though it would've been nice that Portland got Flagg so that a 15 year dynasty was secured, I'm of the opinion the team already has "Kobe-Odom". It even has "Bynum" and "Ariza".

As such, I simply think the key for Portland is to find a Ron Artest. Someone along the Kukoc/Cliff/Kersey tier player that gets selected outside the lottery.

Trade for assets and then, go crazy and pick up lengthy wings/forwards and international wings in every draft.

Maybe even gamble on "Pau Gasol" in Sabonis by trading the #11 (many of you have forgotten how Pau Gasol's reputation was similar prior to being an "actual winner").

 

If I came on here last summer and told you guys that the Mavs would trade Luka for Anthony Davis and Max Christie and then the Mavs would win the #1 pick with 1.8% odds, you would tell me I was fucking crazy and stupid.

THAT is why it's extremely hard to believe that this shit is legit.

Occam's Razor.... when faced with multiple possible explanations for an event, the one that requires the fewest assumptions or variables is likely the correct one. The Dallas Mavericks gave up a young superstar for a bad haul so that they would eventually get the #1 pick. The NBA is an entertainment league. Viewership is down a TON. They're desperate to get eyeballs back on their league. They put one of their top 5 best players back in Los Angeles and now they have rebuilt one of their other dynasties in a matter of four years with one of the best young cores we have seen in a while. Or was it the galaxy that decided the Spurs should return to power?

Or maybe the Mavs GM is a complete moron and the Mavs beat insane odds to win the #1 pick.

 

Neither did anyone when they were drafted, which is why they went 11.

 

So who trades their 2025 picks now?

 

Yeah, because anytime you can get big market San Antonio to get a generational prospect over, say, small market Houston, you rig it like that every time.

 

Brutal

 

Well lastest 5.0 draft has us picking another midget guard. Do we really need another guard
TEAM: Saint-Quentin (France) USA today 31 minutes ago

POSITION: Guard

HEIGHT: 6-3

DRAFT AGE: 19.1

After a slow start to his season in France, based on his priors before this season, it was only a matter of time before Nolan Traoré eventually started to heat up.

He is averaging 16.6 points and 5.4 assists per game while shooting 48.1 percent on 3-pointers over the course of his last five games, per RealGM. Traoré was named 2025 Best Young Player of the Basketball Champions League and is inarguably one of the best playmakers in the 2025 NBA Draft. If he is more consistent at the next level, he could become something special.

 

Brooklyn is a big market. Flagg would look pretty good there. Chicago is a big market. He'd look great there. But instead they send him to Dallas as a reward. Seriously, why do you guys fucking watch?

 

Maybe if we had traded Dame to his preferred destination the NBA would have given us a number 1 pick? Naaaah doubt it.

 

I think Camara is close enough to Artest. Size-wise, great defense, scoring (at least when he was with the Lakers)

Either way, take the best available.

 

Brooklyn is a second tier team in NY.

Dallas is just as big of a market (8.3M MSA) as Chicago (9.4M).

It's not necessarily about the market size. Wemby idolized those Spurs old teams....

 

Why do they give a fuck if he idolized the Spurs if they're a smaller market that doesn't drive ratings?

If it's not about market size and ratings, the conspiracy shit goes poof, no? Since the theory is it's all money based.

 

I’m glad Utah, Charlotte, Washington, Phili, & Spurs didn’t get Cooper.