Official 2017 NBA Offseason Thread: Media Days begin

[freeze]

melo and wade both get bought out next year and then head to cavs. kyrie gets traded for cp3 shortly afterwards.

wade and cp3 play one on one for number 3.

No way there building that super super friends team in ****** ohio when there nothing to do between games. How you gonna be banana boat boys with no banana? They gotta be somewhere close to water bruhs. Somewhere sunny and fun so when these wild dogs are getting washed, they can go and dip their toes in the community pool and get refreshed like cocoon.

Bet 1k what I said will happen pleghiboi.

Double that

then add 12.

Divide by 2.

Add 7.

Subtract 13.

No.

 

[charlie parker]

Jimmy Butler doesn't make his teammates better. He's a proven scorer, effective one on one player but not a playmaker.

Jimmy Butler isn't a leader or a "Vet" presence.

Wiggins, and KAT are going to get less touches, hindering their progress

and the Wolves still won't make the playoffs.

Terrible

 

[whiplashtw03]

Lakers signed undrafted free agent P.J. Dozier.

LAL still making moves. Team gonna have all kinds of length, athleticism, and multi-position, multi-skilled players who can play inside/out.

Magic trying to build another Showtime squad.

2017 Projected Lakers Roster opening night (playoff bound)

PG: Ball

SG: Ingram

SF:  PG13 **

PF: Nance

C:  Lopez

Deng (F), Clarkson (G), Hart (G), Zubac (C), Nwaba (F/G), T. Bryant (C), Kuzma (F), Dozier (G/F)

** Randle, Brewer (expiring contract), and Black (expiring contract) to IND 

It's on.

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

I think the teams will sign players with the offers players will like and don't with the offers they don't like.

#magicjohnsontweet

 

[VARNELL HILL]

 

[noblekane]

stop putting nance as a starter the guy aint good enough to start on an nba team

 

[shenggg]

i cant wait to see lonzo ball play lol. hell definitely be the most anticipated rookie since lebron

 

[Nipsey3000]

Jimmy Butler doesn't make his teammates better. He's a proven scorer, effective one on one player but not a playmaker.

Jimmy Butler isn't a leader or a "Vet" presence.

Wiggins, and KAT are going to get less touches, hindering their progress

and the Wolves still won't make the playoffs.

Terrible

Jimmy butler is a top 15 player in the league. A bulldog on defense and leads by example.

You act as if the t wolves expect him to morph into magic Johnson

 

[bayarea23]

These ****** let the Warriors get Jordan Bell????

We just got another sleeper man in the 2nd round... This guy will fit right in our system. Don't have to worry about offense from him. High motor guy, look another defensive guy to throw in an already very good defensive team.

 

[gvhp2223]

The cheap *** bulls just sold a player for 3mill....no way they buy wade out.

Excuse me?

Do you have any idea how a buyout works and what the purpose is?

D-Wade will opt-in to a $24M contract.

A month later, the "cheap *** bulls" could buy him out for $21M, saving themselves $3M. Wade now can go get $3M from the Cavs and still get all his money. It works for everyone.

 

[a-friend]

I think the teams will sign players with the offers players will like and don't with the offers they don't like.

#magicjohnsontweet

What the hey. Pretty sure I never said that.

Ever.

Side note: This is a playoff squad in the West if they decide they want to play, not tank.

PG: Ball
SG: Ingram
SF: PG13 **
PF: Nance
C: Lopez

 

[noblekane]

why do teams give in like that?

id let him rot on the bench with his 24 mill

 

[bayarea23]

why do teams give in like that?

id let him rot on the bench with his 24 mill

Cause you dont pay $24mil to a bench player, specially if you can agree on a buyout the could save you millions.

 

[noblekane]

What the hey. Pretty sure I never said that.

Ever.

Side note: This is a playoff squad in the West if they decide they want to play, not tank.

PG: Ball
SG: Ingram
SF: PG13 **
PF: Nance
C: Lopez

next guy to put nance in the starting line up im ******* choking them with a tilamonk beef jerky stick from ampm

 

[a-friend]

Nance is fine.

 

[Benny Hinn]

I'm already annoyed by all the 6er fans coming out of the woodwork

But Embiid is such a likeable dude it's tough to root against him

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

I guess the people praising sacramentos picks were being serious

Love fox but yeah, good luck to their other selections

 

[you go boy]

Why couldn't the Celtics just pick Jackson despite the no workout? I heard Tatum is the better player right now though and is more polished. Maybe they made the right choice.

 

[buc em]

Even though I love Josh Jackson they already have two players that do a lot of the same things in Crowder and Jaylen Brown. Tatum brings a scoring element that nobody else on that team has besides IT.

 

[addict4sneakers]

I don't like Stringer in Minnesota. Not next to Maple Rudy.

Someone has to go

 

[hardens beard]

I don't like Stringer in Minnesota. Not next to Maple Rudy.

Someone has to go

The fact that they like to occupy the same is concern. But to me the bigger issue is jimmy's lack of leadership.

 

[bishopstrongbow]

 
Jimmy Butler doesn't make his teammates better. He's a proven scorer, effective one on one player but not a playmaker.

Jimmy Butler isn't a leader or a "Vet" presence.

Wiggins, and KAT are going to get less touches, hindering their progress

and the Wolves still won't make the playoffs.

Terrible

This.

Bulls fans who watch the games have been saying this. He's a ball stopper. Hence why I never believed the Jimmy to Cle rumors, there's not enough air in the ball for him and kyre and bron to pound that **** into the ground.

Only reason jimmy didn't want to leave Chi is because he wanted that Super Max deal. Team and Org has been trash for some time. 

I also believe this was the very best offer the Bulls received for him, which goes into what I been telling people, Bulls and these talking TV heads overvalued him. His real value is what the Bulls just got.

Sucks though that the Bulls traded 2 first to move up in the '14 draft to get Doug McDermott and passed on Lavine, only to trade Doug 3 years later to OKC for Cam Payne 

 and then trade Jimmy for Lavine 

This is why I have detached myself from the Bulls. Not worth my time.

 

[stillin729]

Do the 76ers have enough handicap spaces for their team? Liberty bell curse

Jealously

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Yikes at that point about moving up to take doug

I just don't get why they took Lauri. Oh well

 

[bishopstrongbow]

I kind've like Lauri. But I would have been Dennis Smith Jr or Monk asap.

They need scoring