Lots of players on trading block but not much in news of potential deals yet. Deadline is Thursday, 3pm EDT. Biggest name being thrown around is Durant with new Suns owner supposedly wanting to make a run at him.
Why the hell should the Nets trade him? He just signed a big money extension, at some point a team has to say to one of these "unhappy" superstar dipshits fuck you very much, you'll play through your contract and you'll fucking like it asshole. It's particularly galling in Durant's case, he tried to assemble a whole superteam and every decision turned out to be a bad one and it's the biggest case of "you've made your 40 million dollar bed now lie in it" in the NBA as far as I'm concerned, at least LeBron won his title before things fell apart.
Moving Durant is very attractive to the Nets if he’s willing to compromise on the title viability of the team he would move to- the Nets had the best title chances of any team that could sign or trade for him, which is why he lost the fight with Joe Tsai in the offseason
Any team that could offer the Nets a compelling enough offer is a team likely far away from competing EXCEPT
OKC & NO and fuck maybe Utah have all shown viability that wasn’t apparent in the off-season and could throw enough 1st rounders at Brooklyn to swing something without fucking the current young rosters
I only partially agree with the opinion of "It's all Lebron's fault! He's the GM". That is, of course, true on some level that he is a powerful person in the organization and has a lot of influence in shaping the roster, but the responsibility does, ultimately fall with the actual GM. It certainly makes it more challenging if Lebron is pushing for a bunch of bad ideas, but the challenge of the job is to convince him of a better vision with a team that can actually win, or to make the best team regardless of what Lebron thinks and take the heat. Its not likely he's going to be fired or thrown under the bus if he ignores what Lebron wants and builds a team that is actually competing for a championship. Like, we all have to do this in our jobs, figure out how to persuade powerful people to make the right decisions. Why do we exempt the GM of the Lakers from that?
I only partially agree with the opinion of "It's all Lebron's fault! He's the GM". That is, of course, true on some level that he is a powerful person in the organization and has a lot of influence in shaping the roster, but the responsibility does, ultimately fall with the actual GM. It certainly makes it more challenging if Lebron is pushing for a bunch of bad ideas, but the challenge of the job is to convince him of a better vision with a team that can actually win, or to make the best team regardless of what Lebron thinks and take the heat. Its not likely he's going to be fired or thrown under the bus if he ignores what Lebron wants and builds a team that is actually competing for a championship. Like, we all have to do this in our jobs, figure out how to persuade powerful people to make the right decisions. Why do we exempt the GM of the Lakers from that?
Because the “gm” is Kobe’s old agent and has no fucking qualifications whatsoever and everyone doubts he has the spine or pull to say no to LeGM.
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Moving Durant is very attractive to the Nets if he’s willing to compromise on the title viability of the team he would move to- the Nets had the best title chances of any team that could sign or trade for him, which is why he lost the fight with Joe Tsai in the offseason
Any team that could offer the Nets a compelling enough offer is a team likely far away from competing EXCEPT
OKC & NO and fuck maybe Utah have all shown viability that wasn’t apparent in the off-season and could throw enough 1st rounders at Brooklyn to swing something without fucking the current young rosters
I don't see how title viability is relevant to Durant's destination. He's only one year into his contract which doesn't have a no trade clause so it's not like they need his approval for anything.
But the Nets can't get fair market value for an oft-injured player that's still top 5 in the league and has 3 years left on his contract after this season. It's virtually impossible. I think spending one more year to try and get players that aren't insane or deathly afraid of the free throw line makes more sense.
It wasn’t even the bad deals that got him, it was the sexual harassment
It wasn’t even the sexual harassment that got him, it was the bad deals
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
The brain worms you'd need to want that guy near your organization let alone one that you only got the opportunity to acquire because of the seller's sexual misconduct history.
Magic lose a close one to the knicks , humanity is doomed and we are cursed to wander this empty desolate plain of existence to the day we are mercifully banished into the emptiness of oblivion.
If Lebron ends up with say 42k points (a little low in my opinion), someone will need to come in at 19, play 90% of all games, and average 27ppg until they're 43 in order to pass that. Miss any significant time due to injury and there's no chance at all.
Modern load management makes that 90% figure the least realistic part of that whole hypothetical.
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ButtersA glass of some milksRegistered Userregular
Don't forget the mental aspect of this. The youngest possible candidate to the scoring record in Luka has made it pretty clear he has other interests besides basketball and does not plan on playing as long as LeBron.
If Lebron ends up with say 42k points (a little low in my opinion), someone will need to come in at 19, play 90% of all games, and average 27ppg until they're 43 in order to pass that. Miss any significant time due to injury and there's no chance at all.
Denied about an hour later. Haynes is either chronically full of shit or floating trial balloons. Hopefully the former but likely both.
I wouldn't fault Haynes too hard on this one. A spokesperson confirmed they are friends and Thomas is on the board of directors for Ishbia's company "United Wholesale Mortgages." Maybe his source was wrong but I doubt Haynes made this up.
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The Kings are currently 30-23.
More than 1/3rd of those losses are against teams which are on their second night of a b2b.
They have a record of 1-8 against teams that are playing their second night in a row.
Guess what doesn’t happen in the playoffs
LtB!
Dame doing crazy things, Blazers trailing.
If he was staight on to the hoop, thats a legit half court shot right there. Dang.
EDIT: And of course the moment I posted...
Any team that could offer the Nets a compelling enough offer is a team likely far away from competing EXCEPT
OKC & NO and fuck maybe Utah have all shown viability that wasn’t apparent in the off-season and could throw enough 1st rounders at Brooklyn to swing something without fucking the current young rosters
He's a comparison for a player being in a bad situation that they put themselves into, not the contract hissy fit.
Because the “gm” is Kobe’s old agent and has no fucking qualifications whatsoever and everyone doubts he has the spine or pull to say no to LeGM.
I don't see how title viability is relevant to Durant's destination. He's only one year into his contract which doesn't have a no trade clause so it's not like they need his approval for anything.
But the Nets can't get fair market value for an oft-injured player that's still top 5 in the league and has 3 years left on his contract after this season. It's virtually impossible. I think spending one more year to try and get players that aren't insane or deathly afraid of the free throw line makes more sense.
Who fucking thought this was a good idea?
That might be the whole list
It wasn’t even the sexual harassment that got him, it was the bad deals
Billionaires really are all insane.
-Lebron James
Denied about an hour later. Haynes is either chronically full of shit or floating trial balloons. Hopefully the former but likely both.
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*redo the math averaging 37 a game
They can play longer, but how many of them will have the drive to do that and not relax once they've got a shitload of money?
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I wouldn't fault Haynes too hard on this one. A spokesperson confirmed they are friends and Thomas is on the board of directors for Ishbia's company "United Wholesale Mortgages." Maybe his source was wrong but I doubt Haynes made this up.