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[NBA] Thread: Dame Ascending to Final Form
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lol they are going to be out a lot of crab cakes. The Warriors tend to coast through the regular season.
Everyone thinks this is a positive, it could easily be a negative. Boogie's style of play doesn't mesh at all with the way the Warriors play. Either he's going to except the lesser role and they'll ease him in to get use to it. Or it's going to explode on them.
By explode do you mean plant him on the bench as they win another title?
I think he’s just using this as a rehab year so it won’t be an issue. Players are an average of 8% less productive the year after an achilles injury.
Now if he ends up being good again and signs a long term deal there that’s “fuck everything” moment.
Fortunately, there’s no real viable path for the warriors to do this. As it’s the taxpayer midlevel, they can only offer 120% of his salary next year, and if he plays well, other teams will offer way more
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He had 0 offers on the table. Any team could have stopped this. He reached out to GS, and they were like uh sure ok. I assume boston stepped in after contact with GS and he decided to go with a team where he can take things incredibly slow and not worry about it.
I really don't get everyone talking about how this absolutely makes them a bonkers team, when he's dealing with one of the worst injuries you can get in the sport and could come back completely different as a player.
Everyone should just join the Warriors now and make a championship ring meaningless.
Impossible, they can’t afford another Max contract
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hahahahaha
German magazine "Der Spiegel" has an article: "Its as if the Beatles got Mick Jagger. Perennial champion Golden State Warriors got its next superstar in DeMarcus Cousins".
Apparently "Der Spiegel" doesn't know the NBA.
I certainly don't want to dictate the players choices. They have a right to pick their destination same as I do but the league was getting pretty boring already due to lack of competition and that doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon.
Goddammit
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1013990534589739008
EDIT: Notice in that link to a 2016 free agent tracker that while teams are signing dudes to multi-year megadeals, the Warriors got KD (of course) and then gave everyone else they signed a 1 year deal. If teams had even just an eighth of the foresight to try to sign guys for shorter contracts, the market would be back open again. But it's the players' fault I guess.
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I wonder if this isn't the issue so much as players are now making so much money that a guy like Kawhi doesn't care that he's looking at a $180M contract instead of a $220M contract or whatever. Also, yeah KD and LeBron are technically underpaid from a pure capitalist perspective but max contracts also elevate the floor for the non superstar players.
I don't understand this. What is the cap smoothing, they are talking about?
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cap smoothing means when the new TV deal came in a couple seasons ago, instead of increasing the cap all at once in a single season, the impact is smoothed out across the next several seasons.
I personally think that would have been a much better way to do it. A bunch of utterly undeserving players got paid because there was more cap space than players in a single season, and the ones who got paid were just the ones lucky enough to be FAs at the right time.
Also, this:
The NBA is gonna need a tiers list just like fighting game characters. Warriors the only team in the S tier though.
omg nerf Durant riot plz.
I totally understand the PA not supporting cap smoothing but maybe they should have smoothed max contract values and/or given under-contract players a raise? I like Mike Conley but him signing what was at the time the most valuable contract in NBA history was silly.
Odds are they aren't going to lose much but when they do it will be a big deal.
I don't know why you would blame him for not being in New Orleans anymore. I'm pretty sure the Pelicans could have offered him more than the mid-level if they wanted him.
Pretty sure they did!
I don’t blame Boogie in the slightest though. You get to go casual with your rehab, increase your value if you come back and are good, and if you don’t well hey it’s a free ring regardless!
Virtually no long term downsides to doing this. Good for him!
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/23979341/zach-lowe-demarcus-cousins-golden-state-warriors-nba
He was on the market for less than 48 hours. I don't believe that for a second. I know he's hurt but he's a 4 time all star and only 27.
He's chasing a ring while recovering, betting on a big payout in 12 months
He's a top ten player when he's healthy. Those guys don't stay on the market for 48 hours, their deals are usually done before FA even opens. If the Pelicans wanted him, he'd still be there.
Steam
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Kyrie
Smart
Heyward
Horford
Boogie
that is an OP lineup
You can rest easier now. Jeff Green is taking his talents to DC.
I had read that part of the problem was that both Paul and Lebron's contracts were due to be negotiated that year and it was advantageous to each of them to raise the cap immediately instead of smooth it.
in the nba, the better teams usually win. need some hearthstone up in this.
This doesn’t even include their best player!