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KSF-ERIC said:
Wow. I looked up Kyrie's stats. I know he missed a ton of games, but he matched a career high in scoring last year. 27.4 pug, 5.8 apg, 4.4 rpg. 47/42/92 shooting percentages. That is MAJOR value and NOT a player you give up for Westbrick (18.5/7.1/7.4 on 44/30/67). Kyrie should be allowed to play all 82 this year despite not being vaccinated yes? If he played for a team other than GS/NY/BK last year, he would've been eligible for all 82. So that's what I'm saying. He HAS VALUE.
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They wouldn't be giving him up for Russ... of course that's not a trade that any team would make but trading Kyrie for two future firsts that have a great chance of being high and a player you can buyout and not have count against the cap in 2023-24 is better value than anyone else is going to give for a player as problematic as Kyrie is.

I hope the Lakers have to stay with what they have and that the Nets can't get good returns for KD or Kyrie... fuck both of those teams but the truth is that you haven't presented anything close to an idea of a deal that the Nets could get that's better than two future firsts and an expiring contract.
 
blazerkor said:
They wouldn't be giving him up for Russ... of course that's not a trade that any team would make but trading Kyrie for two future firsts that have a great chance of being high and a player you can buyout and not have count against the cap in 2023-24 is better value than anyone else is going to give for a player as problematic as Kyrie is.

I hope the Lakers have to stay with what they have and that the Nets can't get good returns for KD or Kyrie... fuck both of those teams but the truth is that you haven't presented anything close to an idea of a deal that the Nets could get that's better than two future firsts and an expiring contract.
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Lots of teams have future firsts to offer.
 
KSF-ERIC said:
Wow. I looked up Kyrie's stats. I know he missed a ton of games, but he matched a career high in scoring last year. 27.4 pug, 5.8 apg, 4.4 rpg. 47/42/92 shooting percentages. That is MAJOR value and NOT a player you give up for Westbrick (18.5/7.1/7.4 on 44/30/67). Kyrie should be allowed to play all 82 this year despite not being vaccinated yes? If he played for a team other than GS/NY/BK last year, he would've been eligible for all 82. So that's what I'm saying. He HAS VALUE.
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Incorrect, Kyrie can't play in Toronto.
 
Simmons and the 76ers have come to a settlement??
 
Rastapopoulos said:
If ever you needed a stark illustration of the ridiculous odds stacked against small-market franchises:

https://hoopshype.com/lists/best-free-agent-signing-each-nba-franchises-history/
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Rod was a really good player. But it's hard to believe the Blazers couldn't attract a bigger star somewhere in their history. Obviously the greatest players in Blazers history were drafted. Maurice Lucas was drafted in the ABA Dispersal Draft. Hopefully we can look back one day and GP II is on the list. And hopefully we look at Jerami Grant & Josh Hart as the best trade acquisitions, along with Buck Williams. That would , obviously, mean their acquisitions led to big things.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
If ever you needed a stark illustration of the ridiculous odds stacked against small-market franchises:

https://hoopshype.com/lists/best-free-agent-signing-each-nba-franchises-history/
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I actually don't think this says much about big v small markets. It really shows that GMs are (for the most part) really shrewd and rarely let superstars go via free agency. If a superstar is in a lameduck season with his team, a good GM finds out where that superstar wants to be and gets compensation for them. I mean Horford or Kemba are the best Celtics acquisitions ever and the Knicks got Allan Houston.

What I'm saying is that getting a superstar in free agency just isn't a likely way for any GM in any market to try and build the core of a contending team. Getting a superstar free agent is like a lightning strike and I guess the Lakers have a lightning rod but who else has really benefited from this phenomenon multiple times and even when they seemingly did how many times has it resulted in sustained success as a legit contender?
 
Sixers fans once again the most delusional fan base in the league:
 

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Fairly-Hard said:
Lillard didn’t play much last year. So this is kind of a weird tweet from the beginning?
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It was a minimum of1k minutes played, and he just made it at 1056. I'm just wondering, with as little as he played, is it a super impressive stat, because it's most minutes, or is it still impressive, but slightly less so, as a percentage of minutes played. Either way, extra stats are always nice, and sounds like following that thread, they're expanding others as well. Just curious the context of this one.
 
RR7 said:
It was a minimum of1k minutes played, and he just made it at 1056. I'm just wondering, with as little as he played, is it a super impressive stat, because it's most minutes, or is it still impressive, but slightly less so, as a percentage of minutes played. Either way, extra stats are always nice, and sounds like following that thread, they're expanding others as well. Just curious the context of this one.
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One other issue is Lillard clearly was not playing well due to injury. I wonder if that has any affect on the way it’s interpreted?
 
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