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CB won.

>>149694142 (OP)
Is Tatum respected yet?

This is the Bronny year.

most sane mavs fan

>>149694174
no, he did

>>149694199
Do you also accept the celtics *

>>149694211
no. thats an * no one respects

>>149694199
Cantman has more aura

>>149694142 (OP)
go bulls

>>149694142 (OP)
superman this friday is the only thing keeping me going this week. that and I get a cool shirt in the mail I ordered off of postmark and pay day is tomorrow. long work week as im off for the rest of the week.

life without basketball is so bleak. barely anything to look forward to

>>149694374
Are you playing anytime soon?

>>149694374
I haven't watched a movie since 2020

>>149694374
Just maybe you wouldn’t be an incel if you respected women

Oklahoma city thunder record/OKC without Chet

Presti is a retarded faggot, CBA will rape this team, Chet should've been traded a long time ago

Dream scenario is that Grimes signs to a tradeable contract and VJ plays so well that Grimes becomes replaceable. Rockets do not employ a true SG and have four starting-caliber PFs.

If the Sixers could trade Grimes for Tari Eason or for DFS and a pick that would be amazing.

>>149694638
im not an incel, I respect women but this has nothing to do with them at the moment

Have any anons here played basketball together?

>>149694781
You said last week you wanted to take a women without to watch Superman but it looks like that aint happening now is it?

>>149693984
So? There are other 7fts who shoot 3s but they aren't making maxs. Besides, what does being 7ft mean when you weigh under 200 pounds and get bullied by smaller players?

>>149694847
yea well thats not happening. ill enjoy it alone like I did with jurassic world. also its in a mall so I can enjoy myself alone without the company of people.

I'm an incel because women don't respect me.

>>149694869
weapschizo...

>>149694803
ireland and i hooped together once and he got his shit pushed in. true story

>>149694680
Maxing out your 3rd option who's got an injury history is crazy work, I thought Presti was smarter than this

>>149694847
why you gotta put that anon on blast? niggas cant enjoy superman by themselves on a Friday night?

>>149694944
Was just in England for two months. I should've challenged you to 1 on 1, winner gets 2 Greggs sausage rolls

>>149691000
…randle

>>149693945
its fine as long as the player is White

>ReeseGawdess and...Carmelo...Anthony...got 2k covers before Curry...just a reminder that even in his 2016 season, after winning 1 chip, he did not get a solo cover or nearly as much hype and a supermax contract as the supposed "small market team okc shai gilgeous alexander
we are living in a society.

>>149694956
If I asked 5 women I know if they wanted to see a movie Friday night. At least 2 would say yes

>>149695453
Reminder the 2017 and 2018 finals were all advertized as lebron vs kevin durant. For some reason nobody in the higher levels truly took curry serious as a superstar.

>>149695590
This is what I always tell people when they try to tell me "LE MODERN STARS ARENT LE HYPED LIKE CURRY! STILL OBSESSED WITH OLD PEOPLE!" hilariously those same retards will obsessively talk about Lebron being the goat all day everyday. But thats another problem entirely.

I said this some threads back. But i think Curry will receive a somewhat equivalent treatment to what Kobe got recently where his legacy was downplayed and people started pretending anybody could have 3 peated alongside shaq, as if they didnt watch Shaq in his Orlando years where he was averaging the same while being less fat. Unless people want to just admit that there was no competition in the early 2000s unlike the 90s (but then that would go against the Jordan played against no competition narrative)

Anyway its genuinely sad how history has been rewritten.

Golden State won their first championship in like 40 years, their entire team effectively being homegrown drafted against LEBRON. And it was considered a fluke that wouldn't be repeated. While they had a 67 win record.

OKC wins ONE championship with ONE more win and its all "WUH WUH IS THIS A DYNASTY? IS DIS DA NEW DYNASTY? HISTORY BEING MADE! YOUNGEST TEAM EVERS! SHAI BEST SEASON EVERS! GIVE DIS MAN 70 MILLION AND PUT HIM ON 2K"

while curry was still getting paid 11 million a year after his first ring, and that is half the reason they were even able to get durant.

>>149694971
be a man and put your american citizenship on the table, im sick of needing to stay up late just to watch the finals

>>149694803
Not that I know of, however at my local rec I yell out "FORWARD SLASH NBA FORWARD SLASH - NBA GENERAL" before we start full court.

>>149695590
Durant is a more polarizing figure than Curry, for marketing purposes "Durant vs. LeBron" is better.

>>149695766
Every pundit was discussing a potential Warriors dynasty right after they won their first title. No one was calling it a fluke, either.

>>149694142 (OP)
>The 4chan monkeys and casuals, left with no other choice but to concede that The Dallas Mavericks won The Trade, are now realizing that the big media monkeys and casuals are now also beginning to concede an absolute victory occurred and it did NOT belong to the l*kers, who are now having to face the possibility of a departing LBJ this offseason and, due to his player option kicking in at the conclusion of next season, Doncic doing the same next year, leaving the losers of The Trade to "build" around Ayton and Reaves

The time for arguments has passed and I am here only to field further apologies and concessions.

>>149694690
Grimes is a "somebody has to score" empty stats statsheet stuffer. Also undersized for the SG position, not a great defender either.

Da Bears.
Da Blackhawks.
Da Bulls.
Da Cubs.
Da Pars Saint-Germain.

>>149693945
I think it's fine if you're from a place with little or no basketball culture to impress on you. It's perfectly natural to gravitate towards an individual player when nobody's telling you about team identity, culture and history. I wouldn't expect someone to remain loyal to a team they know nothing about outside of their favorite athlete's time playing there.

>>149695547
Woah we got Billy badass over here

>>149696261
I think it's cooler when they pick a team and run with it for no explainable reason like the Bahamas wizards fan

I do not rate Myles Turner and I am worried for the Bucks this season.

>>149696327
>for no explainable reason
tuas constant concussions mindbroke him by proxy, which is why he ended up becoming deranged enough to root for the wizards

>>149696362
I wonder how hard it is to get a wizards jersey in the Bahamas of all places. It's all golden state/lakers/suns/bucks here for some reason. I saw a little white kid wearing a giannis jersey yesterday kek

>>149695770
Am I the only one that would eat this niggas ass like it was a Wendy's 5 dollar meal deal? He's cute af.

>>149696513
Skitz.........

>>149696332
same, I dont think Turner is going to be as effective as BroLo was before Rivers came

>>149696513
Keep this information to yourself, weapschizo

>>149696087
>Every pundit was discussing a potential Warriors dynasty right after they won their first title. No one was calling it a fluke, either.
Do people really just get away with disinformation like this this easily?

they're still doing this emirates cup shit? the format blows

>>149696825
What does one NBA cup win equal ring wise

>>149696870
Nothing it makes the bubble ring look like dalla's 2011 ring in comparison

>>149696825
What the fuck is that East C group...

>>149696825
my cavs better finally win this shit

>>149696870
i think the thunder winning the cup, regular season and finals in the same year will age well and will be looked back on very fondly. it's definitely not the same weight as winning a treble in soccer but it's enough to say the 24-25 thunder were not a fluke.

>>149696870
About 0.01 rings. Lebron got the first one and even the most rabid bronsexuals dont mention it

Still waiting for an NBA cup winner to make it out of the first round of the yoffs

we saw you say thunder won the cup..

this Chet contract is fucking stupid

>>149696332
>>149696580
turner is literally a direct upgrade from brook but yeah it doesn't even come close to addressing their biggest issue which is their backcourt

I am expected to remain a virgin for the next fifty years....

>>149697906
you dont have to spend $100,000,000 to upgrade from the fossil of BroLo

>>149697906
They are basically paying a supermax contract for a guy who does not move the needle.

>that chet contract
why???

Why did they extend chet? They had one more year and then RFA? Why?
>>149698041
The fit is also just great with giannis.

>>149697906
Turner is mostly an upgrade but he's a lot softer than Lopez. Lopez bangs and one of his undersold traits is that his teams rebound well because he bodies dudes even though he's not getting the rebs

>>149697867
good, more time with mommy SLURP

Interested to see how long Taco Jay will be out for. he really should take at least a 1 year break.

>>149698141
not a big deal considering teams can just waive max players without any consequences.

>>149698593
starter/6moty salary in dead cap over half a decade is a pretty significant consequence

>>149697867
>governess

redpill me on cooper flagg

>>149698727
White Mamba

>>149698589
yeah boston's not doing that shit lol

>>149698789
i wonder who he's going to rape

someone should give gayson an aura implant while he is out resting up from his surgery, they should install a clutch too cause he sucks in crunch time

>>149698141
They built their championship team and now they're set for years unless injuries happen/shai becomes washed.

>>149698880
Typical light skin

indian cope session came up on my youtube home page kek

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dO7zupfAMWo

conk nipple will win rookie of the year
change my mind

>>149698141
Presti thinks he's Howie Roseman

Presti is a good GM. But hes made 2 mistakes these last few years.
Trading sengun for what turned out to be trash (thunder fans are still in denial about it but this was a massive blunder)
Trading for hayward. (Not too bad given they had too many picks to begin with)
The chet bag might be nr 3 and worse tha n sengun

>>149698593
>without any consequences

>>149698593
>teams can just waive max players without any consequences
why is it that leafs always make the dumbest posts on here

>Stein] UPDATE: Both Phil Handy and Popeye Jones have agreed to join Jason Kidd’s coaching staff in Dallas, league sources tell @TheSteinLine and @DLLS_Sports. Handy and Jones will join Jay Triano as newcomers … with Mavs coaching consultant Frank Vogel now Kidd’s associate head coach.

Some good assistants

these /generals are getting more and more low-T


post hot nba cheerleaders from your goon stash

>>149699480
>t. adam silverstein
your league is a joke

>>149699520
Popeye Jones was just in the NBA, he can still play good minutes

>>149699520
just the meme names that cazzies know.

Celtics terrified

>>149699520
who wants a Handy ?

>>149699605
somehow better than toronto's starting 5

>>149699605
can this team take a game off the cavs?

>>149699650
ware got smoked by allen lol

>>149699638
I see leafs screech about people not rating their team all over the internet and I legit do not understand it. A guy like Quickly is making 33 mil a year. How the fuck do you defend that

>>149699650
no

>>149699688
¡cóñỳõ!

>>149699650
>>149699670
>>149699740
Why are all these posts in lower case?

NBA CUP KINO IS BACK LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>7foot Holocaust victim who cannot dribble gets 250 million

Sam Presti is the most retarded GM ever holy shit.. haha

>>149700007
he on his way out the door got his next job already lined up Ballmer going to make him the highest paid GM

we got Jared mofukin Dudley

>>149700007
let my nigga eat to, everybody getting paid why not him

>>149699709
Raptors collected so many terrible contracts for guys I don't rate so fast it actually got their long time GM fired. I feel completely vindicated in my own ability to evaluate NBA talent now.

>>149700105
>leaves OKC to crime infested LA to build around Lames Larden and No-Knees Klaw

Nice bait, it took Presti 15+ years to stock up on picks and many picks werent even a good return at all

Presti is an fucking idiot and thunder will get swept by Lord Wemby and his spurs

>>149700160
Chet looks like HIM from Powerpuff girls,

I fucking hate his face and lack of toughness, he doesnt fit on OKC let alone deserve 50 million, this is an overpay I cannot stress this enough

>>149700007
not even going to be the worst contract this summer. Very interested to see what happens with Trae, Herro, and Fox

>>149700186
he fleeced Ballmer's ass
Ballmer comes from an industry that buys out the competition

>>149700160
AVRA

lol rip bozo

New Curious Mike just dropped????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKO8vdbuQHE&t=6s

>>149700366
true disciple of kobe right there

>>149700284
TIL
"avra" is the hebrew word for "fraud"

BEN MCLEMORE DINDU NUFFIN

>>149700403
shouldnt have averaged 6 points the entire playoffs ya dick'ead

>>149700007
Presti wanted to sign him now and not in 2026 when
>Wemby extension eligible next season
>Luka player option
>Jokic already announced he's waiting until 2026
>Duren extension eligible next season
>old heads like LeBron and maybe KD will be UFA
better to pay Chet $250M now than have to compete with whatever Wemby and Jokic will be offered a year from now

imagine how much cornbread and oxtail chet can buy with that $250 million

>>149700574
The shit cookies got to him

>>149700688
he might finally crack 200lbs

>>149700719
kek

>chet got the MPJ contract
proof that the league forces the championship teams to ruin their team so that they can force this scripted parity bullshit

>ace bailey is him
>vj is a chucking retard
acechads won

Chet was playing like an All-star before his hip injury. He deserves the money, and you pay him so he's locked down. They can always move him if they need to, they aren't lacking in picks like the Suns or Nuggets/

>>149700653
Wemby is done bro he never playing again

>>149700824
he's missed half of his career

>>149700403
i just watched the whole thing he's actually a good dude good luck mike

>>149700936
He probably knew it was coming for a while. I always thought he was beefing with Malone and Murray though, I was surprised to see him thank them.

>>149700824
>Chet was playing like an All-star before his hip injury

no he wasnt. He was playing like the 3rd guy behind SGA and Williams

>>149700824
>cope: the post

>>149701084
He definitely was not. He was outplaying Dub and even SGA for that beginning stretch of games. DPOY level defense and his shot wasn't completely fucked the way it became after he came back.

>>149701295
>DPOY level defense

LOL

>>149701125
Let the shaisexual live in his world

>nooooo Chet already has a ring in his 2nd season and will only improve! Let him walk away to a shitty team! He can't overshadow Wemby!
It would be funny if it wasn't so grim.

>>149701346
Held Jokic to 16 points in that season opening game but go off. Was definitely playing better than Mobley at least

>>149701295
He fell on his back like a bitch in the warriors game where he got injured in

And probably could've tanked that fall like Jdub did in game 4 against Pacers if he wasnt a lazy selfish fuck, bulked up and roided a bit like Lebron and KD,

OKC is retarded for this extension,

>>149700653
>muh 7 foot emaciated white boi will be offered more money than ever

And would he thrive on another team?? Mesh well? OKC is where hes learned everything and gained chemistry, let the fucktard walk if hes crying for extra gibbs

>>149701584
>s if he wasnt a lazy selfish fuck, bulked up and roided a bit like Lebron and KD,
Lebron and KD are not the defenders Chet is, and have never had to anchor a team's defense like him. Him bulking up would be robbing him of his athleticism, the same way it did AD.

Hartenstein gotta get the fuck outta there after this
he should be demanding to be traded

>>149701795
Why?

>>149701860
they paying a super fragile 180 pound twink that amount of money and Hart doesn't get a bump up
I'd demand out
how you think Turner feels right now? or Poetl?
teams like the nuggets/lakers would GLADLY pay for a semi decent back up 5

>>149701950
Hartenstein already got a $30m/year contract from OKC.

It was and is still an overpay and part of that overpay is to make Hartenstein happy with whatever role OKC needs him to perform at any given time.

>>149701950
no other team is paying 30m for hartenstein

>>149701950
Hart is making 25m+ a year as a non-shooting big, you're absolutely retarded
>how you think Turner feels right now? or Poetl?
Neither are as good as Chet and both are overpaid what they're worth
>teams like the nuggets/lakers would GLADLY pay for a semi decent back up 5
Cool. So why don't they pay that much?

>>149701620
AD is complicated, he was playing reallyGood in his dallas debut before he got injured and is a good defender/player when healthy, he's just natural injury prone

And chet is alot worse than you think because he seldomly dunks,

Isnt anchoring the offense and cannot fucking dribble, and hes trained with KD and seemed to learn nothing

>locking down your best players is le bad!
>these other players should be mad and totally request trade!
You're so fucking scared of a Thunder dynasty.

>>149701950
It's white privilege. Hartenstein is only half white so he doesn't get a max. Chet's full white.

>>149701950
And every other team in the league except the Spurs would give Chet that exact same contract. You don’t pass up a slightly worse Wemby. That’s just stupid

>>149702054
>and cannot fucking dribble
Neither can Jokic. I don't know what kind of handle you expect a 7'2 guy to have

>Ben Mclemore is only 6'3
Is he going to get his cheeks busted? Hope he kept money for protection...

>>149701950
>how you think Turner feels right now? or Poetl?
You mean two ringless bums? I hope they realize they shouldn't be paid as much as a CHAMPION

>>149702054
>isn’t anchoring the offense
Why the fuck would he anchor the offense AND the defense when they have SGA and Dub?

Lol I bet harden had his rapper boyfriend screaming with his legs up

Enough said. Worth every penny.

>>149702073
>slightly worse Wemby
Chet Holgrem rings: 1

Victor Bustanyama playoff wins: 0

>sga making 35% of the cop
>chet/jdub 30% a piece
I'm glad the thunder dynasty ended already. Paying 3rd sometimes 4th options like all nba I hate it

>>149702004
>>149701987
>>149702108
the point im making is Turner making $26 mill Poetl making $19 mill to be starters and carry the load why do that when you could get Hartenstein money and play 15 minutes a game

>>149698026
prostitutes exist, anon

>>149698141
ME TIE DOUGHTY WALKER

>4-3 against not the defending champs and some shit team that everybody pretended was secretly good in a desperate attempt for the ratings to not crater
>sign all these underperforming shitters to huge extensions
that's a 1 and done

>>149701584
>best case scenario
Chet makes the jump--at 23 like Mobley and Jokic did, or in his 3rd season like Durant and Embiid did, however you want to look at it--and OKC saves a ton of money down the line as he continues to develop like other bigs do in their mid to late 20s.
>worst case scenario
OKC has to salary dump a young lottery pick which is way easier and likely requires much less draft capital than salary dumping an old veteran big on similarly shitty contract.

>>149702216
this
fuck them all these bandwagon jeets gunna be mad when okc falls apart cause they invested in a fraud mvp and a stickfigure big
KWAB (2026)

>>149702216
okc got the money for it now

>>149702225
Nobody offered Turner or Poeltl Hartenstein money.

Hartenstein got lucky. OKC got killed on the glass in the '24 playoffs. He had a great year in NY. Because NY had only signed him to a 2-year deal, they were only able to offer him a contract for $18m/year, which they did.

OKC had Chet and JDub (and most everone else) on rookie deals, they took advantage of NY being unable to make a bigger offer and massively overpaid because Hartenstein was what they needed, and they didn't need to trade anything to get him.

I'm sure the Hartenstein contract makes guys like Turner and Poeltl sick. But he was in the right place at the right time to get that deal and they weren't.

>>149702216
>Oh no.... the Thunder dynasty is "over"....
>they can't just replace their irrelevant role players with elite first round picks for the next decade on rookie contracts....

>>149702259
>Jokic is a year older
>Murray is a year older
>AG is a year older
This is bad

>SGA is a year older
>Dub is year older
>Chet is a year older
This is good.

Nuggets are exiting their primes.
Thunder is entering theirs.

>>149702284
Turner didn't give anyone else the opportunity to match the Bucks, he just took it.

I am a part of Diddys inner circle

>>149702315
>irrelevant role players
lmao that cope is hilarious

Jokic the fat pathetic Serbian is 30 years old
he can't rely on low seeded teams every year.

>>149702339
we know, chris

>>149702315
yeah becoming a dynasty with rookie first and second rounders is a great idea !!

>>149702284
because their agents made them sign too early they should be fired
we just saw the nuggets deal with Vulva fall apart
JJJ gets injured right after signing
lakers stuck with jaxon mid
turner poetl couldve got more imo

>>149702360
>Serbian flag runs to defend his fat waifu

>>149702341
Caruso is signed for 4 years. By the time in contract is up he will be washed and replaced.

>>149702328
exactly this he should fire his agent

>>149700824
"He was playing great until he got hurt" is going to be the summary of Chet's whole career. Dude got hurt five seconds into his career, missed his entire rookie season, then came back and broke his hip like some 90 year old with osteoporosis just doing routine shit. Guys who get hurt doing routine shit when they're young and don't even have a ton of miles on them rarely become reliable as they get older and play more games.

They will most likely bitterly regret this contract in a year or two. But hey, at least he actually won something before becoming an expensive paperweight like Embiid

>>149702405
>"He was playing great until he got hurt" is going to be the summary of Chet's whole career.
No, it will be that he is a champion. As many rings as Jokic and more likely to win a 2nd ring than Jokic and Giannis as well.

>>149702216
>>149702266
Even as a oklahoma fan who had anxiety whenever they lost in the playoffs

I hope they lose badly, they literally walked right into the second apron, 50 million.... thats more than Luka, D-White, Bam, etc

I'm so sick of the le dynasty shit, i can't wait for it to die off

>>149702435
nobody rates bus rider rings

Holy fuck losing weight is such a pain in the ass i drink a shit ton of water to suppress the hunger

>why the fuck are the Thunder paying Harden? He averages 16 ppg
This is how y’all sound right now

Ayesha just lit up the bat signal saying it's a bull night

>>149702405
>then came back and broke his hip like some 90 year old with osteoporosis just doing routine shit
Why'd you skip the entire season he played healthy?

>>149702396
>y-y-you're serbian
kek

>>149702448
Lol you're not an OKC fan.

>>149702455
Not true at all. People say Kobe is an all-time great despite being a bus rider for 3 of his rings.

>Thunder's winning percentage without Chet last season: 84%

>Thunder's winning percentage without Hartenstein last season: 70%

Carry the hell on....

>[Mind The Game] Kevin Durant explains why Brooklyn didn’t workout the way it should’ve: "I think we didn't get the full Steve Nash like I wanted."
KD is such a loser man lol

>>149702477
Harden wasn't getting a max and ultimately okc cheaped out over 2 mil. The whole situation was about okc being cheap. A max is super restricting just because of how it's structured and doesn't get lessened by the rising cap while also there actual team building penalties for overpaying people now besides just money.

>>149702491
Iguodala is on his way

Chet is better than Bosh ever was and he's only in his 3rd real season. He's worth the money.

Chet can sit in the corner and play center on defense. He is the thunders true mvp

>>149699688
Charles was right they fat as fuck down there I don't care how many put together milfs you find and interview on the Riverwalk. They fat.

Just remembered a nigga in this thread earlier said the Warriors were not considered a fluke when they wont their first chip. Don't know how any moderately intelligent individual justifies discussing with literal subhumans here.

>>149702540
>babb - "its everybody else's fault"

Holy mother of AVRA

>>149700007
Presti just took a year off their championship window with that bullshit

>>149700653
I mean Presti could have easily told him that he wasnt as valuable as Wemby, Luka, Jokic

>>149702631
How come 3x mvp jokic never got a 2gay cover?

It makes sense that the Thunder would give Chet the extension over Jdub. There’s maybe 5 guys in the league who have Chet’s impact on defense, and while Jdub is a better player, you can find someone to take his place a lot easier than Chet.

>>149702626
Could be worse. We could've had people that thought the 2024 * was legit.

>>149702628
Same podcast
>(KD talking to Steve Nash about their time in Brooklyn:) “I felt like we were committed, but everybody else wasn’t.

>>149702646
Nobody would buy it

>golden state didn't sign any new bulls for ayesha this summer
What's going on? Is the horford thing actually happening? I could see Kevin Love going there too.

>>149702646
A fat bawb generally isn't marketable. People play video games to be something they aren't.

Why didn’t the Thunder just give Chet a veteran minimum contract? It’s not like anyone else wants him.

>>149702688
>It’s not like anyone else wants him.
retard

>>149702660
Kd played arguably the best basketball of his career there

>>149702660
drayboon was right about KD
poster from yesterday was right, KD just gives LeDiddy fans ammo to take shots at Curry
looking back i wish KD never got a ring

>>149702518
>Lol you're not an OKC fan

Cause they just retardedly destroyed the team, people begged Presti and the big 3 to take some kind of cut,

Instead they sign the highest max and pushed themselves into second apron hell like fucking stupid dumbasses

And they haven't even made any trades this postseason

>>149702671
they still have drayboon

whiteboy summer

>>149702731
How have the pushed themselves into 2nd apron hell went the contracts don't start for another 2 seasons? You're dumb as hell

>>149702716
Name one team that wants a 180 pound soaking wet injury prone stick with absolutely zero bag on offense. And if you say some shitter like the Wizards then let them overpay him. How the fuck are the Thunder supposed to win a championship ever again?

>>149702722
KD being a beta and not tardwrangling kyrie killed the team. Insane a team of KD + Kyrie + Larden didn't accomplish anything.

>>149702772
They already signed the contracts, dipshit. They aren’t going to wait 2 years just because.

>>149702774
>with absolutely zero bag on offense
He averages 15 points a game. You can count the amount of centers in the league that score higher than him on your hand; it's Wemby and Jokic

Giannis injuring Kylie is what killed the team

>>149702216
The sad truth is that it's almost obligatory though because there's always some fucking retard owner out there looking to poach people from a title team for three times what they're actually worth because they don't consider context. So you either have to dole out ludicrous contracts to everyone and fuck your entire cap situation, or let the idiotic teams that are overbidding for your players have them

Like, Bruce Brown got 2 years and $45 mil from Indiana after the Nuggets won, was eventually discarded with like half a dozen other assets for Siakam because they realized after 30 games he wasn't worth that contract, got traded again and now just signed for vet minimum. So the contract he got was about 15 times what he's worth now and he didn't even last half a season with the team that gave it to him. But they couldn't wait to give it to him because, you know, championship experience and all that.

When you're locked into a bidding war with billionaire dumbasses who think they know things but don't actually know shit either you walk away with nothing or pay a premium for anything. These idiots need to learn to collude like NFL owners do

>>149700366
shaq gotta be so disappointed he repped Ben years back. if guy had been an all-star he'd have been fine.

>OKC will only have 2 seasons at best to contend before needing to shed their players like Celtics do in this offseason
>still not doing a single trade either
Nuggetsbros

>>149702787
You don't even know how contracts work, do you retard? They have 2 more full seasons before they need to free up cap space

>>149702794
Then pay Wemby that much. Chet is a $20 million/yr player at his absolute best, and that’s without the massive injury concerns

>>149700653
wemby and jokic are a whole other tier higher than chet who gives a fuck what they make compared to him

>>149702776
Kyrie is a weakminded bitch and a LeBronbabby but at the same time I can't fault him for not taking the vaxx. What crock of shit that whole thing was

>>149702635
hmm pay him $250M now and make him happy or make the same offer a year from now when it could be 25% lower than what wemby signs for.

>>149702216
How WE feeling parity CHADS? We are now at 7 years in a row without repeating winners, and the first 6 years of this decade both by far the longest streaks ever for the NBA.
So who are WE backing for this year? Think the Knicks, Cavs, Twolves, and Rockets would be the favorites currently to keep the streak alive. Maybe the Clips or Mavs could be dark horses in there

This is actually insane

>>149702834
Which is why they'll get supermaxes instead of just maxes. Also Wemby is only marginally better than Chet

>>149702796
most of that stuff was before the aprons. The aprons have completely changed the game. Players like Kuminga, Giddey, Grimes, etc. are eating shit right now because teams aren't throwing out those kind of reckless contracts anymore unlike in the past. Chet has higher value than those guys but definitely not 250 mil value as a 3rd option especially with that injury history

>>149702835
Not getting it became secondary to him sperging out about it publicly and going full kanye. If KD had manned up and told him to stay off Twitter and take his meds he probably gets that non GSW ring he always wanted

>give a free throw merchant fraud the biggest contract in league history
>throw all your remaining money at the guy you’re lucky to get a double double from
>let the guy who dropped a 40 burger in the finals with one hand walk
Absolute geniuses they’ve got down there in Oklahoma.

>>149702774
>How the fuck are the Thunder supposed to win a championship ever again?

That's the funny part: they won't

>>149702876
I know. That’s why I said it. Fucking idiot.

>>149702873
>let the guy who dropped a 40 burger in the finals with one hand walk
Why do you retards say dumb shit like this when Jdub is gonna be signing his contract in pretty much the same week?

>>149702328
>>149702374
There is no cap space to go around this summer anywhere but Brooklyn, where they are not trying to win.

You are asking for these dudes' agents to go around and tell the Lakers

>yeah just construct a 3-team deal where you send Reaves out so that you can have the privilege of signing a slightly-better-than-mid center for more money than any other team is willing to pay him

Turner already lucked out with Milwaukee stretching Dame, and that only got him like $20m over the course of a 4-year deal.

>>149702906
With what fucking money? You can’t field a team with 90% of your cap tied to 3 players, on top of the awful contracts they gave to Caruso and Hartenstein. They’re not going to go into the 2nd apron, and it’ll be harden all over again

>>149702846
the twolves arent a serious team
shart gunna try and get traded by this time next year

Is horford actually available/good enough to be a starting center at 40 are teams just delusional because the center market is dry?

>gm gathers a million picks for a rebuild
>team is so good it wins the chip from the west in their first fully healthy season
>he now pays those players while still having insane draft capital
>we will now act like he doesn't know what he's doing because whoever wins is the new villain for next season

>>149702932
>You can’t field a team with 90% of your cap tied to 3 players
You can if the rest of the team is on team friendly contracts or rookie contracts.
>on top of the awful contracts they gave to Caruso and Hartenstein
??? Those are great contracts, specifically made to be moved once the cap sitaution tightens up. You retards act like Presti doesn't have a million picks and isn't a top 5 player scout in the league. They've already got Hartenstein's replacement with Sorber.

>>149702951
There is no way he would be a good starting center at 40. Not even LeRoids is a good starter at that age

>>149702932
see >>149702816
Chet and JDub extensions don't kick in until after next year. Hartenstein will be an expiring deal at that point and easy to move, if they have even picked up his team option (they won't). Caruso's contract is extremely tradeable.

OKC will keep drafting guys on rookie deals and cycling them through around the big 3. Time will tell how well it works, but they've got a great blueprint.

>muh picks and scouting
I've heard this before

>>149702873
the thunder bought into their perceived greatness, when really it was a generational ref carry on both sides of the ball. will be interesting to see if the league allows it to happen again.

>>149703010
The difference is that Presti scouts players like Tony Parker, Dort, Mitchell, and Wiggins, not Zeke Nnajis or Julian Strawthers

>>149702492
>playing 1 out of every 3 seasons
>29 minutes per game

Oh I take it back give him all the money this is definitely a great idea

>>149703034
what about when he doesn't

>>149702993
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills people saying this dude can be relied on for an 82 game season at 40. LeDiddy strains his bussy every 10 games even with the supersoldier serum and God tier genes.

>>149703054
1 miss for a hundred hits is a pretty good ratio

>>149702834
>who gives a fuck
chet, the player you're trying to sign. if chet and okc have an even better season than last year, what the fuck are wemby and jokic accomplishing for chet to accept he doesn't deserve to be paid like one of the best center's in the west.?

>>149703029
>when really it was a generational ref carry on both sides of the ball. will be interesting to see if the league allows it to happen again.
Love the preemptive coping kek

Comparing a team near entirely made through trades and the draft to a team carried by 1 dude with all the draft picks being misses is crazy work. Thunder have officially reached the villain status of making people irrationally seethe. At least that makes the storyline for the upcoming season a little fresh. Feel like this year will freshen things up storyline wise compared to the last few, a new arc you could say 0gwry

>>149702919
not everyone is as allergic to the tax apron as you think, there's like half a dozen teams that are already over the 1st apron. pacers already said they were willing to make moves and possibly go into the tax to retain him.

>>149703054
lmaooo what a picture

>>149702646
what's anal reeks doin on there her team is like 0-20 and she sucks

>>149703153
the pacers lied

>>149703184
and so did giannis about dame getting bought-out and waived but that didn't stop turner from committing treason

>>149703116
>irrationally
it's pretty rational to dislike clear league favoritism unless you enjoy humiliation

>>149703204
Taking a more reasonable bag is NOT treason

>>149703204
Turner committed treason because the pacers lied and everything is a domino from that. The bucks aren't even paying him ridiculous money, the pacers are just being cheap as always

>>149703029
Not after those ratings. I’d be shocked if the Thunder even make the play-in

>>149703153
It's not a matter of teams not wanting to pay the tax or not wanting to operate at the first apron. It's the fact that these teams DO NOT HAVE CAP SPACE and can only pay Turner that much in a sign+trade.

A sign+trade can't take a team above the first apron, so any team doing it would have to send out roughly equal salary which will usually be a pretty decent player. Additionally, the team would have to send something to Indy to sweeten the deal.
Any team trying to pay Turner big $$$ would have to go to a lot of trouble to do it. The Bucks made a completely retarded decision to do it. He should count himself lucky with what he got.

>>149703221
it is when you don't even let anyone else try to match your former arch-rival's offer

>Thunder easily could have had Giannis with all the picks they have saved up
>decide to instead go with the stick with zero offensive contributions, and screw themselves out of getting the players needed to put them over the top

>>149703218
He is learning chinese as we speak

>>149703282
It would be kino if he took that Tel Aviv offer and balled on some jews

>>149703281
>easily could have had Giannis with all the picks they have saved up
How can they have someone that wasn't actually available?

>>149703182
Anon, the WNBA is just as popular as the NBA and Angel Reese is good at basketball and Caitlin Clarke is an all time great player despite shooting 40% from the field and 29% from 3 this season which is unironically worse than the washed version of Russel Westbrook despite playing with a smaller ball and therefore playing on easy mode....look, just stop noticing things, okay?

>>149702723
>KD just gives LeDiddy fans ammo to take shots at Curry
Everybody does it. Even retarded curry himself. Hes so "humble" that he unironically thinks both Kyrie and Lebron dropping 41 on them in the 2016 finals had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that both Draymond and Bogut were out. And currdawg couldnt buy a basket when it counted. Especially that final game (To be fair his type of injury is indeed the one that should get worse the longer and more games played) And this is without me even mentioning the bullshit personal fouls on curry. Literally everything had to go against the warriors way

Even draymond is a Lebum dickrider too now. And retards use the fact that he said the warriors needed KD. To validate their biases.

>>149702646
no aura

>>149703303
That offer was fake though. Their GM said that they have no interested to sign him kek. Kinda embarrassing for an NBA player, it's like a fat chick rejecting you

>>149703336
>Even draymond is a Lebum dickrider too now.
He's been on his meat for YEARS. I don't get why alpha thug nigger draymond is so enamored with him but he's always been gassing him up and bee-lining to him postgame

>>149703260
can teams below the tax not sign free agents for an amount that pushes them over the tax? how would the pacers with $18M in tax space, not be able to sign turner for $24 and be -$6M into the 1st apron?

>Boston lost pieces and won't have Tatum for the season
>Pacers lost pieces and won't have Haliburton for the season
>Bucks just let Dame go
Is the East going into next season the most open conference in recent memory? The Cavs and Knicks have to be the favorites right now and both of those teams are not confidence inspiring and paper tiger esque

>>149703204
If you are are a Pacers fan upset about Turner leaving, don't be.
Turner is about to turn 30 and has been in the league forever. He used to be an all-defense caliber player. He has not been in that conversation for 2 years. He looked like complete dogshit in the last 2 rounds of the playoffs. He can't get out to the perimeter the way he used to.
Offensively, he's a one-trick pick & pop pony who benefited from having the best P+R orchestrator in the league as his PG.

Turner is still a good player but he's been in a steady decline for a while now and he won't really be missed on the court, especially not next year when Haliburton is out. Carlisle was already leaning towards the Toppin+Siakam frontcourt late in the playoffs.

>>149703361
>it's like a fat chick rejecting you
lmao I'm gonna use this analogy from now on

>>149703426
Don't worry it's business as usual in Boston

>“My expectations are always the same — compete like hell to win the next game,” he said.

>Stevens said he doesn’t want to hear any mention of the term “rebuild” this upcoming season.

>“That’s not going to be part of the lexicon in our building, and that’s the way we’re going to focus moving forward,” he said.

>>149703424
Pacers had Turner's Bird rights. They could have offered him anything up to a max contract and gone above the cap and into the first apron. They chose not to.

>>149703426
yeah, especially now that sixers are looking like they're botching another free agency offseason

>>149703388
we have seen Draymond knock over Lebron's own teammates just so he could be the one to help Lebron back up. mid play at that.

>>149703318
Just offer like 47 picks who fucking cares? Better than paying the max to some dude who can’t stay healthy and is arguably not even the 3rd best player on his team

>>149703505
Giannis doesn’t want to leave the bucks and he’s beyond un touchable for them. You make zero sense here. No offer would have gotten Giannis.

Besides, the thunder team won 68 games and the championship. Why break it up now? Especially since they are very young.

>>149703570
If he never leaves the Bucks I give it 10 years until the "did giannis waste his career" narrative gets into full swing

>>149703570
>hurr just keep the same players for an instant championship
When has that ever worked out? The dynasty was there for the taking, and they fell into the trap of loyalty. Enjoy watching Chet in street clothes as the Thunder lose by 40, I guess.

This is my current tier list of the east

>>149703330
>29.5% 3 pointer
this is the female steven curry?

>>149703570
>Giannis doesn’t want to leave the bucks
Giannis wants to leave the Bucks and the Bucks want him gone.

>>149703618
I’m sure if he did, he would have said so upfront and he would have been traded by now. We have this conversation every year.

>>149703570
It doesn't matter if Giannis wanted to stay with the Bucks. He doesn't have a no trade clause like Beal or Lebron, the Bucks could have traded him if they got a good offer.

>>149703604
You don’t break up a team that just won a championship and also like I said, they wouldn’t like Chet walk for nothing. Trading him for Giannis is was not an option.

Meal :')

>>149703618
that nigga shams made up bs for clicks, he had no plans to leave

>>149703653
You also don’t sit there with your thumb up your ass after winning a championship, normally, but that’s what Presti decided was best.

>>149703650
The bucks made it clear they would not trade Giannis under any circumstance no matter the offer unless he asked out.


Remember, the bucks declined to trade him for Luka when Nico offered.

>>149703640
>We have this conversation every year.
And it was a legitimate conversation until Dame tore his Achilles and ended any chance that the Bucks had of being competitive with Giannis.

>>149703672
That’s exactly why they drafted new players and extended the players that got them said championship.

>>149703676
to be fair, Luka is not worth Giannis

>>149703617
kek did they ever seriously play in the nba? wtf

>>149703688
Yeah, I’m sure…Brooks Barnheizer is gonna tear this shit up. You sure got my ass.

It's Nuggets' ring to lose

>>149703699
It’s kind of funny how the lakers went from “WE GOT LUKA DYNASTY SECURED” to “hey, maybe we need to take a year off. We don’t really have the talent this year” in 1 playoff series against the wolves

>>149703699
>Luka is not worth Giannis
He definitely is. Giannis is racking up injuries more and more

>>149703672
You do when 7 of your rotation players are on rookie deals or just entering their primes, and you just won a championship despite your second option having a major injury and your third option coming off missing half a season. Presti knows more about winning than you do.

>>149703676
Luka for Giannis straight up is not a fair trade for the bucks

>>149703470
oh so every team is just gonna have carry as much dead cap as possible if they want to keep their core together. got it.

>>149703721
>Giannis is racking up injuries more and more
And Luka isn't? Even the Wolves weren't willing to give up ANT for Luka lmao.

>>149703715
>nuggets told his ass to cut the shit and play
Based.

>>149703738
If you can get Luka to stop drinking 6 modelos per hour then a 26 year old fit Luka > Giannis

>>149703720
all it takes is teaming with lebum and u go from MVP candidate to trash
many such cases
if only there was some kind of common factor between them all

>>149703715
he was right

>>149703722
I’m sure the Celtics thought the same thing last year. Now they’re rebuilding. You make the big moves whenever you can.

>>149703721
Both are, expect Giannis is a 30/10 machine while playing DPOY level defense.

>>149703758
How when they are getting paid millions of dollars. They signed a contract and they must honor it.

>>149703756
That was my immediate thought after the trade. There’s only one ball, and LeBron isn’t giving it up.

>>149703715
>ace lost
>jonas lost
Man nba teams really started cracking down on this because of kyrie and simmons

>>149703755
>If you can get Luka to stop drinking 6 modelos per hour
Yeah, and Zion would be a top 10 player in the league if he could stop eating. No teams should operate under Pelicans logic
> 26 year old fit Luka > Giannis
That's definitely debatable, especially as the league is getting bigger.

>>149703738
You are delusional. Luka is 26, an mvp candidate and already led a team to the finals. Giannis is 31, hasn't been out of the second round since he won the title in 2021 and is injured every year in the playoffs.

>>149703765
I saw him afraid to guard durant in '23. Fraud

>>149703799
Wasn't injured this year, and a proven championship winner >>> getting gentleman swept in the finals. Luka does not playing winning basketball and the Thunder just proved that defense wins championships.

>>149703800
Who has Luka locked up. I watched someone who can’t dribble with his left hand make Luka look dumb on defense. Ant fried his ass as well.

>>149703758
Babb

>>149703799
>Luka went to the finals, and is an mvp candidate
>So he’s better than the guy who won the finals and the mvp

>>149703720
what killed this lakers offseason? was it pelinka bad mouthing DFS or LeBron acting like a toxic piece of shit after opting-in?

>>149703775
>Jonas when he gets paid 10 mil to play in Denver

SGA:
>More Rings than Luka
>More MVPs than Luka
>A better whistle than Luka
Lukababs really fuming at the champ

>>149703827
The Thunder proved that defense wins championships when the league lets you play more physically than every other team.

>>149703848
so just like the celtics the year before?

>>149703843
LeBron refusing to pass the baton is always the answer.

>>149703830
Lukas awful defense can be built around. Giannis' knees blowing up and his athleticism going to shit can't easily

>>149703848
More like you can play more physical than other teams when you have 6 A+ defenders and not cones like Luka or Jokic on your team. The Thunder played no different than Rockets, Pistons, or Orlando; they just had the better defenders

>>149703827
>Wasn't injured this year

Yeah but he was injured the last two years. Also he still hasn't learned to do anything more than layups and dunks which means he will always need to rely on his athleticism which mean more injuries as he gets older.

Also the Thunder proved that depth wins championships, not defense. The Mavs defense was pretty good against the Celtics but no one could score other than Luka so they had no chance to beat them

>>149703882
And the thunder just kissed their depth goodbye, so we’ll get some more evidence of that this year.

>>149703617
You were told to stop noticing things

>>149703870
You could put the Thunder’s starting 5 (well, Caruso or Wallace over Hartenstein) on the all-defense 2nd team, and I’m not sure anyone would bat an eye.

>>149703715
>he'll have to settle for making millions to play light minutes on a potential championship team and will have to wait a year or two before returning home to retire in luxury at 40

literal greek tragedy I hope he recovers from the trauma some day

>>149703882
>Also he still hasn't learned to do anything more than layups and dunks
Did you watch him this year? His midrange has become money, and he's made a massive improvement as a playmaker. He's already adjusting for the later half of his career.
>. The Mavs defense was pretty good against the Celtics but no one could score other than Luka so they had no chance to beat them
More like the Mavs defense was just worse than the Celtics, which makes sense when they have Derrick White, Jrue Holiday, and Jayson Tatum instead of 2 mediocre defenders in Kyrie and Luka.
>>149703892
>And the thunder just kissed their depth goodbye
By drafting Barnhizer, Sober, and getting Topic back?

>>149703892
>170 million for 3 starters

Seriously Presti is a retard. At least he got one ring but they had a chance to be a dynasty

>>149703799
>The casual, much like his unwashed peers, thinks Doncic led The Dallas Mavericks, the undisputed winners of The Trade, to the NBA finals and not their league-best frontcourt combined with their top ranked (post trade deadline) defense

It is additionally laughable when you realize that the casual would very likely also think the l*kers were a superior squad (3rd seed) than the 2023 Dallas Mavericks (5th seed), and yet Doncic only won a single playoff game with homefield advantage against a lower seeded team that would get demolished by the very same team that The Dallas Mavericks went 3-1 in this past regular season against (where 2 of those victories were WITHOUT Doncic anyway) as well as defeated in last year's playoffs as a less stacked team that didn't have homefield advantage.

>>149703866
>moving the goalposts
Giannis has a ring, Luka does not. Mavs traded Luka because they realized he can’t be a franchise player

>>149703979
>coveting the 2023 mickey mouse ring this hard

>>149703987
But enough about chokic

>Norman Powell on the Heat:

>“Thinking back to my childhood and being a big fan of D-Wade…watching the Heat growing up and wanting to play for Heat organization is one of the teams is a childhood dream you wanna play for.”

Why do you basically never hear this for the Celtics?

>>149703987
We know 2023 is an * you don’t have to tell us kek

>>149704002
>>149704011
Both 2021 and 2023 were mickey mouse as fuck. Admit it. Don't run, be a man.

>>149703974
If Doncic is such a defensive liability how did they have a top ranked defense with him getting more minutes than everyone else.

Mavs are missing the playoffs this year btw

>>149703841
>okc should trade sga to the lakers for lebum because he has 4 rangz and sga only has 1

>>149703775
some sort of clause needs to exist as a form of compensating the player or team getting shafted in a trade. like if KD wants to get traded to another contender in the same conference he should have to give back some money to the team he ruined.

>>149704019
What, one BAWB?

>>149704019
Norm is from san diego

>>149703660
That beer looks so tiny in his hands

>>149703656
cum, diarrhea, and viagra?

>>149704023
>The casual immediately makes a non sequitur statement, and in doing so simultaneously makes he known that an argument against any of the points I made would be impossible

I accept your concession of defeat, although yours is considerably more flaccid than most.

>>149703933
>go all in on hitting on multiple picks in the draft every single year
I’m positive that’ll work. What a great front office.

>>149702852
This has to be reversed, right?

>>149704019
wow thats awful. the tatum thing not the bird thing.

>>149704056
That's generally what small markets have to do since nobody wants to play in fucking oklahoma

I bought my brother a Jalen Brunson jersey for his birthday. It was 25% off at Fanatics and I got free shipping.

>>149704056
what about going all-in on hitting just one draft pick?

every friggin posts about JV there's gonna be some greek fans chimping about him. is unemployment still not fixed there jesus christ

>>149703933
Kyrie was doing this shit and you are here telling me that the Celtics won because of their defense. He had a legit meltdown everytime he played in Boston and people blame Luka that they lost the Finals because of his defense kek

>>149704093
? He passed wide so Jrue wouldn't deflect it and Kleber wasn't paying attention. Nothing strange about this.

>>149704105
nah kyrie was so fucking shook playing in boston

>>149703933
>>149704093
Discussion of the 2024 * not only shouldn't happen but shows how pathetically low IQ you are for even entertaining it.

Celtics didn't "win" shit with their defense. Everyone was hurt.

>>149704093
the star player gets the blame man i dont make the rules

>>149704056
>chet
>dub
>jwill
>cason
>ajay
Those picks alone could be the starting 5 on a 40 win team. They’re pretty damn good at drafting.

>>149704111
You literally see Horford run into the passing lane anon. It's Kleber's job to move in that situation.

>>149704093
They had Kyrie shook, throwing the ball to ghosts. Sounds even better than defense desu, you have a player so caught up in his own head that he's essentially guarding himself.

Damn clippers got fleeced

Mavs shouldn't have been in the finals either. ANT was injured and even before that the Nuggets dealt with a Murray injury. The *als of 2024 consisted of two fraudulent teams.

>>149704136
Don't forget no Kawhi round 1

>>149704127
why the fuck is he passing to kleber when he's got a 1v1 with no big under the rim to contest a drive?

why is their so much rape in this league

>>149704154
I shouldn't have to tell you why you shouldn't drive into a zone anon

>>149704157
rape must be a magical feeling with how all these rich people risk everything to rape people

>>149704136
Trueee

>>149704130
Yeah that was the crowd though, not the players. In Dallas he was cooking that same defense.
What the fuck were they even saying that had him so shook, I don't get it

>>149704019
Based

>>149694186
>bet that shit stink too

>>149704177
Kyrie is superstitious so he unironically bought into the bad juju from stepping on the leprechaun lol

>>149704019
hoopa flagg is the future

>>149704167
so lets pass it to maxi pad instead of collapsing the defense

>>149704157
mamba mentality

>>149704203
Moving the ball IS what collapses the defense retard

chet for 250 > JJJ for 240 > brown for 285

NBA Africa is not off to a great start

this man didn't sign a prenup? he got played HARD

>>149704289
can you at least argue how much she gets to a judge in America? if a chick i'd married for 6 months stood to take half my assets i'd probably go on a killing spree

>>149704307
and people wonder why homicide rates are so high in America

>>149704307
depends on the state/county

>>149702772
When they kick in, its practically second apron idiot, so they only have two seasons ish to win the title again

>>149704328
This,

I always forget this is a huge risk with marriage,

Realistically he has to kill her, or himself and I do not condone violence, this is fucking insane lol

>>149704307
Pretty much zero chance she gets any of that.

>>149704307
Incel post

>>149704289
shes not going to get shit for only a 6 month relationship unless howard goes out of his way to give her it

>>149704307
I think Dwight will be alright. Divorcing after 6 months and asking for half is basically fraud. Judges look into shit like that, the wife doesnt just automatically get paid

>>149704388
shocked dwight has anything left to gold dig for considering he's been paying child support for 5 kids

>>149704289
Isn't he gay? I always see jokes about this

>>149704431
just a little nasty

>>149704019
Boston fan on a team with kyrie and AD lol

This nigga married his beard

>>149704495
cringe

>>149704382
She might if Howard cheated

>>149703614
the bucks are 1st round exits
the celtics are going to tank especially if they get off to a bad start

Ring #2 incoming

Dwight Howard the type of nigga to get half his worth taken from him just to prove he's not gay. And he still gay af

>>149704497
Tax purposes

>>149704538
zesty

>>149704538
They don't give rings for second round exits

>>149704538
Aura

>>149704569
yo shutup

>>149704608
I forgot that nigga even existed

>>149704608
some dudes should not be allowed to be filthy rich. the suns owner is one such individual.

>>149704608
zestygay bros...our bag crown...

>>149704608
Is 50 million dollars not enough to survive in the USA anymore if you are a star player?

NBA deals are officially out of control.

>>149704289
This whore deserves a prison sentence and dwight a smack in the face

>>149704608
suns fucking up the market again

>>149704608
>$147 million — Steve Nash career
>$145 million — Devin Booker 2-year extension

If the salary cap didnt exist ballmer wouldve probably thrown 200 million a year to jokic by now

>>149704624
the nba signed a multi billion tv contract. its literally only fair that the players get their fair share. thats why you gotta unionize bro bros.

>>149704685
but i thought he only cares about horses.

I don't know why you guys keep getting caught up on the raw numbers. The next big contract is always bigger than the last. All that matters is the percentage of cap it takes up, which is capped at 35% anyway

https://x.com/OldManAndThree/status/1943020475128377772
THJ basically confirmed he's moving to Nuggets, just waiting for the announcement. prolly tomorrow since today they just announced Brucy.

I get the sixers wanting to keep their rookie alive for once but do the jazz and spurs seriously have to keep faking injury reports for the summer league?

one gorillion dollars

Holmgren's contract doesn't look that shitty now does it?

one bazillion dollars

the system works like this: This year's dollar is worth .90 cents the next. It's designed like this for a reason: to keep you active and engaged for more

lol lmao

>>149704894
That just makes basketball a cyclical slopfest. Have a 3 to 4 year window then sorry gotta do it all over again, contracts got too inflated and half the team left

>>149704900
My Magic winning EAST GROUP B

>>149704900
East group C is a joke.

Pat Riley malding over Butler making $45M only for Herro to ask for at least $55 the following year

spicy group

>>149704966
maybe if hali wasn't kill

>>149704608
Did Presti negotiate that contract on their behalf or something?

>>149704093
Kylie is a bitch and choked away the series but Kleber is also a mannequin that didn't deserve any minutes during the playoffs.

>>149704910
Congratulations! You just discovered reality.
What is realty?
"a cyclical slopfest."

>>149704608
Where is Trae Young getting traded to?

>>149705104
I wish my warriors...

>devin shooker is the chosen one to become the suns dirk figure
how do phoenix fans stand it

>>149704266
Tourism?

>>149705104
With the moves the Hawks made this season and the fact that the East is the most wide open it may have ever been the Hawks are probably the most optimistic they've been in decades

>>149704614
Today I will remind them

Someone on leddit made a chart for playoff fallers and risers.
>the absolute state of Embiid

>>149705104
Bulls for Vuuchie Mane

where can I watch hooper flagg vs bronny tomorrow? I don't think the usual streaming sites will even have it.

>>149705134
Nuggets just got a banger

>>149705134
famous playoff riser tracy mcgrady

>>149705140
lebum is 12-20 in the playoffs in the western conference
>but what about muh bubble
lol no

>>149703614
bucks and 6ers multi tiers too high.
boston capitulated
flip hawks and bulls

>>149705104
Brooklyn for MPJ

>>149703614
swap bucks with hawks

>>149705185
he just couldn’t win with those cats

>>149705134
There's no way for me to sort this on BR but Embiid has probably the highest playoff on/off in league history

bailey jay. all i'm sayin

>>149705201
>have fewer playoffs wins than all but 5 teams
>win almost half your playoff games

I can't decide if this is an accomplishment or not

>>149703614
How’s a team with a new coach favorites?

>>149705123
yes should be a fun team at least

>>149705257
knicks whistle

>>149705206
The Bucks still have Giannis who is top 5 in the NBA and that's enough to sometimes win series you shouldnt. Admittedly looking at it they should probably go in dark horses instead. For the 76ers the likelihood is they won't be very good but the ceiling for them if everyone is healthy and playing as well as they can is stupid high. We saw what McCain flashed last year, we've seen what Maxey can do, what Grimes can sometimes do, and fuck it in the magical world Embiid is healthy he is an all time great scorer if nothing else. That's enough to be a dark horse when I dont trust the Knicks or Cavs. Boston should probably be a tier lower yeah but idk i believe in the coaching and like Simons + don't think their center play will actually be bad.
>>149705215
Hawks had a good offseason but I won't believe they're in that tier until I see them play
>>149705257
Why would I care about that when the team itself just made the conference finals and unlike three+ other teams in the east isn't hobbled by injuries or departures this season

>>149705251
line trap cant hang with these new dudes on hormones since they were 5
>>149705250
it was a plot point concerning his fraudulent mvp i member
>>149705257
with a coach that's a downgrade on top of it

>>149705123
But they just got Tingus and NAW. I know the East is shit but this team missed the playoffs last year. They lost to the Heat who were the 10th seed in the play-in kek

>>149705309
Wasn't Jalen Johnson out?

>>149705306
Linetrap has a certain charm even if it's visually faggier to watch. I'm just nasty btw not gay

>>149705288
>why would I care about who coaches
???
Just say you’re a casual dude
Or that you don’t know about Rick Brunson

>>149705324
Oh yeah. Maybe they can be the 4th/5th seed if they actually try. Magic, Knicks, Cavs, Pistons and probably Bucks will be better than them though. Most likely 76ers too

Shit they are gonna be in the play-in again lol

>>149705327
you're gay

>>149705288
Giannis's shoulders are heavy from carrying that trainwreck of a team. They've completely rotated the team from their championship season, which was arguably heavily dependent on league wide injuries. Ironically Middleton was healthy in most pivotal games. Lametime 3nNoD gone is a net neutral. Doc couldn't coach a paper bag, but if you have 3 and 1 of your groceries inside he'll dump it for sure.

>>149705346
Going from Tom Thibedeau to Mike Brown is not going to be the deciding factor in whether they win this year, plus this is my ranking for the east not whether they win in the finals

>>149705288
People need to stop discussing Embiid hypotheticals as merely unlikely. At this point they're pure fantasy. He's not some otherwise sturdy individual who had a setback for some random reason and can come back mostly like he was before if everything goes right. He's a structurally unsound athlete whose injuries are just inevitable manifestations of his body's inability to deal with the requirements of his job.

If Joel Embiid plays basketball for any extended period of time some part of his body will simply break down. He's not going to get better. Every time he gets hurt he comes back it affects his weight and conditioning and as he gets heavier and more out of shape he's just more prone to get injured. 7 foot tall, 350 pound men who already have bad knees and bad backs don't get healthier as they age. It's over. It is so fucking over. I don't want to hear ay more of this "if the Sixers can stay healthy" bullshit. Might as well talk about Kobe making a comeback because it's just as likely.

>>149705385
Depends on if he lets Rick Brunson take control or not

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>>149705389
Embiid being healthy this year and me getting a gf this year have the same chance of happening

>>149705394
according to this
>https://hoopshype.com/rumor/knicks-demote-rick-brunson-from-associate-head-coach-role/
he is taking a lesser role on the team. of course in practice is a whole other thing.

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>>149705257
coaching doesn't matter

>coaching doesn’t matter
Tell that to Rick Carlisle

>>149705134
>TMac stat
thanks for exposing yourself, thats how I know this entire stat sheet is complete meaningless stupid bullshit

>>149705201
how does this stat even make sense and how the fuck is it being measured? Lebron has been in more game 7s in like a 5 year strecth than the warriors ever have throughout the entire 2010s to 2025

Wtf is this dumbass stat?