The 2016 NBA Offseason Thread

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  • af.r.i.c.a.
    af.r.i.c.a. Members Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Beta wrote: »
    Damn can we get more than a lol?

    respeck....put it there

    Lmao?
  • S2J
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    Within a piece on Kevin Durant‘s free agency, Royce Young of ESPN.com passes along a handful of interesting tidbits, writing that Durant has privately “raved to friends” about newly-acquired Thunder guard Vincent Oladipo.

    Doubt durant leaves.The other options aren't gonna provide what okc can

    C's have no star or elite players,Clippers capped out,Heat lol,Warriors will have to lose depth(barnes,ezeli,bogut or iggodoula) to sign durant,Spurs will have to lose depth to sign durant.

    Negative @ bold.

    Curry, Klay, KD, Draymond, Cheap C/Varajao/the rookie

    Bench: Igoudala, Livingston, Barbosa, Clark, Rush, rookie/varajao,cheap big

    SA would have to only lose Diaw and Green.

    Its feeding off the stars and environment that make role players role players.

    People gas up dudes like Speights, Bogut, Ezeli etc. Man you put 90% of the guys in the league around a group of stars and tell them just focus on X, voila u have a quality role player.

    Just ask yourself why dudes like James Posey, Ariza, Jordan Farmar etc come crashing down to earth once they leave championship teams. Its bc their not THAT good. Their role can be replaced

    You don't NOT go to GS/sign KD
    bc 'oh no we'd lose Mo Speights, Ezeli, and Bogut' . Please
  • R.D.
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    Somebody got to go or they bringing in Horford for what ? Why does KD want to play with Horford? Like what could be the basketball reasons, what does he upgrade from last year?

    I'd be shocked if it's just about basketball and a team can't get him to leave in the next two years

    They won't do anything but make Horford a spot up shooter so get somebody who can actually shoot

    In a 2 hour meeting, I'm sure Pop, Cp, Kerr, Stots lol could tell him all kinds of ways they would get him easier shots in a real offense
  • S2J
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    Only role players for GS that are unique are Iggy-1 of a few that can guard LeBron head up, and Livinston-6'7 pg

    Gs is keeping both of them to get KD. They'll be more than ok as far as depth
  • R.D.
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    Iggy is washed
  • Ghostdenithegawd
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    R.D. wrote: »
    Iggy is washed

    Huh?
  • ckfree
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    and what the hell is ramona shlebourne or whatever talking about

    'not giving the lakers/knicks a meeting is bad business'

    wtf

    lakers/knicks in 2017: 'you didnt take our meeting last year so were not interested TAKE THAT KEVIN DURANT'

    according to woj teams will have to really impress durant (obviously) and says hes leaning on a 5 year deal with okc and really loved the recent trade and loves the city -- also 2 year with okc deal not out of the question although not what he really wanted -- says gs intrigues him for reasons outside of basketball and s.a because of the their basketball operations and history but they are less favored than gs

    then its everyone else for the sake of hearing their pitch really
  • Olorun22
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    Kd has to think about his legacy. Ring chasing isn't the business especially when the gm has put forth the effort win with good drafts and trades. Why go to SA you'll never replace TD or DR. and in GS Curry is the man there so I don't get it
  • Beta
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    Hawks stay losing players lol
  • S2J
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    S2J wrote: »
    Within a piece on Kevin Durant‘s free agency, Royce Young of ESPN.com passes along a handful of interesting tidbits, writing that Durant has privately “raved to friends” about newly-acquired Thunder guard Vincent Oladipo.

    Doubt durant leaves.The other options aren't gonna provide what okc can

    C's have no star or elite players,Clippers capped out,Heat lol,Warriors will have to lose depth(barnes,ezeli,bogut or iggodoula) to sign durant,Spurs will have to lose depth to sign durant.

    Negative @ bold.
    You don't NOT go to GS/sign KD
    bc 'oh no we'd lose Mo Speights, Ezeli, and Bogut' . Please

    The thunder are deep as is,he doesn't need to leave his team and go to teams that will lose pieces just to sign him.That's the point you litigating geek

    ? 'pieces'. Pieces don't win titles. Miami won a title with Joel Anthony and Mario Chalmers rounding out their 5.

    And if u wanna get technical Klay Thompson is a "piece". Draymond is a "piece ".

    Period point blank, if KD dont give a ? about "legacy" and the perception of riding Curry, and ring chasing etc--- all the off court stuff- --GS with KD is better than okc with KD, ON the court. Whether they have those easily replaceable pieces or not.
  • southsil4lil
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    Looks like we're trying to bring back DMo and letting Terrance Jones walk, hopefully we figure out a way to get rid of Corey Brewers contract next
  • Tommy bilfiger
    Tommy bilfiger Members Posts: 22,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    S2J wrote: »
    S2J wrote: »
    Within a piece on Kevin Durant‘s free agency, Royce Young of ESPN.com passes along a handful of interesting tidbits, writing that Durant has privately “raved to friends” about newly-acquired Thunder guard Vincent Oladipo.

    Doubt durant leaves.The other options aren't gonna provide what okc can

    C's have no star or elite players,Clippers capped out,Heat lol,Warriors will have to lose depth(barnes,ezeli,bogut or iggodoula) to sign durant,Spurs will have to lose depth to sign durant.

    Negative @ bold.
    You don't NOT go to GS/sign KD
    bc 'oh no we'd lose Mo Speights, Ezeli, and Bogut' . Please

    The thunder are deep as is,he doesn't need to leave his team and go to teams that will lose pieces just to sign him.That's the point you litigating geek

    ? 'pieces'. Pieces don't win titles. Miami won a title with Joel Anthony and Mario Chalmers rounding out their 5.

    And if u wanna get technical Klay Thompson is a "piece". Draymond is a "piece ".

    Period point blank, if KD dont give a ? about "legacy" and the perception of riding Curry, and ring chasing etc--- all the off court stuff- --GS with KD is better than okc with KD, ON the court[/b]. Whether they have those easily replaceable pieces or not.

    The same thunder that had them down 3-1 and had the warriors soul searching before klay had an epic game 6 and okc went full ? the last 3 games? You act like this the grizzlies or somethin.I'm not doing this night court ? we'll agree to disagree
  • EmM HoLLa.
    EmM HoLLa. Members Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ckfree
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    if you want to know how crazy the new cap is

    then look no further than delladova looking at 9-10 mil per

    according to chris mannix
  • TheBoyRo
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    Tomorrow can't come soon enough
  • Tommy bilfiger
    Tommy bilfiger Members Posts: 22,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The salary numbers will be inflated cuz of the cap going up this year and next.Noah at 18 a year is equivalent to 13-14 mil a year on the old cap.

    Jimmy,kawhi,paul george,cousins,john wall,harden etc ALL on bargain contracts starting next season.
  • S2J
    S2J Members Posts: 28,458 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    S2J wrote: »
    S2J wrote: »
    Within a piece on Kevin Durant‘s free agency, Royce Young of ESPN.com passes along a handful of interesting tidbits, writing that Durant has privately “raved to friends” about newly-acquired Thunder guard Vincent Oladipo.

    Doubt durant leaves.The other options aren't gonna provide what okc can

    C's have no star or elite players,Clippers capped out,Heat lol,Warriors will have to lose depth(barnes,ezeli,bogut or iggodoula) to sign durant,Spurs will have to lose depth to sign durant.

    Negative @ bold.
    You don't NOT go to GS/sign KD
    bc 'oh no we'd lose Mo Speights, Ezeli, and Bogut' . Please

    The thunder are deep as is,he doesn't need to leave his team and go to teams that will lose pieces just to sign him.That's the point you litigating geek

    ? 'pieces'. Pieces don't win titles. Miami won a title with Joel Anthony and Mario Chalmers rounding out their 5.

    And if u wanna get technical Klay Thompson is a "piece". Draymond is a "piece ".

    Period point blank, if KD dont give a ? about "legacy" and the perception of riding Curry, and ring chasing etc--- all the off court stuff- --GS with KD is better than okc with KD, ON the court[/b]. Whether they have those easily replaceable pieces or not.

    The same thunder that had them down 3-1 and had the warriors soul searching before klay had an epic game 6 and okc went full ? the last 3 games? You act like this the grizzlies or somethin.I'm not doing this night court ? we'll agree to disagree

    Look I know yall love this ? but somebody else need to say something :joy: So bc its ya mans yall gon just chill and let this fly?

    So current OKC is better than GS with Durant would be? Is this what we doin? Lls
  • EmM HoLLa.
    EmM HoLLa. Members Posts: 3,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The salary numbers will be inflated cuz of the cap going up this year and next.Noah at 18 a year is equivalent to 13-14 mil a year on the old cap.

    Jimmy,kawhi,paul george,cousins,john wall,harden etc ALL on bargain contracts starting next season.

    Right.. We need to start looking at the deals not in absolute dollars but in terms of % of the cap.. The salary cap floor is around 84M or something like that.. The NBA is flush with cash..

    I say they do away with the salary cap.. And pay superstars true Market value.. So u won't have role players making all this money that won't match their performance.. Steph Curry's deal is highway robbery right now..
  • R.D.
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    That's not a stretch....they just don't play good ball