Dame giving us a clue on what he thinks of the tank. Apparently he’s referencing Nino Brown from the movie New Jack city.. A poster in the comment section seemed to figure out that Dame is all on board and that it’s going to lead to bigger things
The Magic/WAS game is somewhat win/win. Orlando losing to a beatable team would suck, no question. But it probably also likely puts Washington out of reach in case John Butler Jr. decides to get hot. They probably already are out of reach, but strengthening the floor of that pick isn't the worst outcome...
I wanted to bite my tongue buuuuuuuuut 1. It's absolutely hyperbolic. Especially when you're talking about using the No. 44 pick in the draft on a guy that averaged 25.3 ppg in a league that routinely produces a number of NBA players every year. Also, we're in a league where Jusuf Nurkic and Rudy Gobert still are starters and there still are players like Izebuike on rosters, so teams still are finding places for lumbering giants. 2. The post it responded to was a pretty whimsical imagining of a summer league team that included two 7-4 guys and two 7-1 guys. I didn't realize it was opening up the door for someone to take themselves so seriously that they need to be Debbie Downer on a post like that to appear to have substantial basketball insight. It was kind of like the guy who's in a circle of friends, and one of their buddies shows up and says he and his girl just got a puppy. You'd be the guy that says "Dogs are overrated. They make messes in your house and bite your guests." Geez, was that response that important that it was required to rain on someone's little parade, or are you just so important that everyone has to know your opinion no matter how tangential it may be?
It was the Grizzlies which are going to be 4 picks in the 15-30 range, along with maybe the GSW pick. Not really any upside there.
If we end up with the fourth pick and both are available should we trade Shaedon for the fifth pick just so we can make this happen?
That will put us on our own in fifth lotto position. The Pacers are in a razor thin game with the Thunder but I think the Thunder will likely pull it off. The fact is if the Magic hold on we hold our own destiny. If we lose out then we'll have the fifth best chance at the first pick.
Pacers win along with the Magic which gives us a cushion as far as the Pacers go and one game if/when we lose tonight on the Magic.
The Magic play the Pistons on Sunday. That is likely to be another win for the Magic and that would give us a 2 game cushion, assuming the Wolves beat us. So that would mean that we could win the Spurs game and as long as we lose all of the games against the playoff teams that we have for the rest of the season, we will still be in the 5th spot by ourselves with a 10.5% chance at the number one pick and a 42.1% chance to move up.
I don't want to start a new thread for it, because it's just a dumb thought exercise at the end of a long season, but... Say the Blazers win the #1 pick, BUT, the plan is to trade it (**I would not trade it, Wembanyama looks generational, think he could be win now, I get it, would totally, 100% keep the pick, but that's not the point here**) realistically-ish(because we'd all keep the pick), what or who would you target to win now with Lillard? And by realistically, I mean, does the other team entertain that swap as well. Me and my boss were chatting about swapping it for Embiid, and trying to figure out what else we would want on top of him, which brought along this thought.
#1 (Wemby) shouldn't be traded but I'd take one of Jokic, Giannis, Embiid + 5 future unprotected 1st rounders
