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Fez Von Savage said:
Rumors are heating up that George ends up in .....Houston.

The era of superteams.
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I have seen nothing on Houston and PG. Only name I have seen linked to Houston is Melo. PG I have only seen linked with Cavs and Boston
 
boredinsalem said:
I think we should try to facilitate griffin going to the celtics.

Griffin to Cs
Crabbe/Zeller/Crowder to Clippers
Bradley/Crawford to Blazers

We basically turn crabbe into an expiring. (Crawford is only partially guaranteed next year). The clippers get some young players (maybe someone throws in a pick). The celtics preserve cap space to chase Hayward.
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Clips can keep Crawford and I'd throw in a top 5 protected first just to get bradley here, shoot. But Ainge knows better.
 
Cippy91 said:
I have seen nothing on Houston and PG. Only name I have seen linked to Houston is Melo. PG I have only seen linked with Cavs and Boston
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Houston do not realistically have the assets to trade for Paul George. The earliest mildly valuable pick they can now send is 2020 first round pick, they have almost zero players to give away. Eric Gordon and Clint Capela are probably their most valuable players they could use and even then that doesn't exactly move the needle for Pacers, I bet, and they would be left without center if they use Capela.

Players like Ariza and Onuaku will not get you anything serious. Ryan Anderson with this contract has negative value. It's funny how virtually every single big contract given to a non-elite player last season turned out to be garbage. Whiteside for a max was a no brainer and players like Drummond and Durant were obvious and were still getting incredible deals without cap increase anyway, but out of Biyombo, Noah, Anderson, Crabbe, Turner, Bazemore, Fournier, Deng, Mozgov, Mahinmi and Teletovic - all signed at obscene money just because teams had cash available - not a single one has proven anything but a terrible, terrible disappointment.
 
Both teams will improve over their 016 teams. Lakers on the West Coast and Nets on the East. I think the Nets will have more wins.
 
Is it too late to try and get Beverly from the clips? He doesn't fit in the rebuild, but idk who we have that would fit for them.
 
Hayward is meeting with Miami on Saturday, Boston on Sunday, Utah on Monday and apparently again with Boston on Tuesday. What is Miami's pitch to him? Celtics I understand because they have two top 3 picks from recent years (only both happen to play the same position as him), could lure George, already have Thomas, Bradley and Horford and had the best record in Eastern Conference and made it to ECF. Miami though? What do they have going for them aside from a very good run between January and March this year, and sunny weather? Surely he's not going to think that he is going to contend with just Hassan Whiteside and Goran Dragic.
 
Sarni said:
Miami though? What do they have going for them aside from a very good run between January and March this year, and sunny weather? Surely he's not going to think that he is going to contend with just Hassan Whiteside and Goran Dragic.
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They have the glamor of Miami, no state income tax and Pat Riley being the best salesman in the game, I guess.
 
Didn't see this discussed, but I think this is interesting. If the Kings are banking on Buddy Hield as their future at SG, why are they paying Bogdan $12M/year? Do they think the two can play together? I don't see it at all.

 
PtldPlatypus said:
Didn't see this discussed, but I think this is interesting. If the Kings are banking on Buddy Hield as their future at SG, why are they paying Bogdan $12M/year? Do they think the two can play together? I don't see it at all.

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Weird way to spend money. Guys like this are freely available in the trade market in exchange for players like DeMarcus Cousins. I'm sure they'll eventually land another star in the lottery and then they could have traded him for a Bogdanovic.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Didn't see this discussed, but I think this is interesting. If the Kings are banking on Buddy Hield as their future at SG, why are they paying Bogdan $12M/year? Do they think the two can play together? I don't see it at all.

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Well didn't their owner think Buddy was the next steph curry? Maybe he plays PG? Who knows. It's the kings.
 
ripcityboy said:
Harden and Paul on the Rocket now.... Oh boy. The calls are going to be fun next year.
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Let the flopping contest begin. Everyone else is in a race for 3rd as far as that is concerned.
 
Looking a bit further into the Kings, it's interesting to see what they've done over the past 12 months. Per this article in the Sacramento Bee, they've basically turned last year's 8th pick, a crappy season, and Demarcus Cousins into:
  • De'Aaron Fox,
  • Frank Mason,
  • Buddy Hield,
  • Bogdan Bogdanovic,
  • Justin Jackson,
  • Harry Giles,
  • Georgios Papagiannis, and
  • Skal Labissiere.

Plus $40M in cap space. Yeah, they're going to be terrible again this coming year, but that's a pretty decent-looking (and well-balanced) group of rookies and 2nd-year guys to develop. Pretty drastic tear-down and rebuild, but at least they're all in on it.
 
Jelloman said:
Good Luck Indi, the guy who traded Andre Miller, Rudy, Koponen and a future second-round draft pick for Felton and then drafted Nolan Smith. .. I will never forget the shitty job he did as a "GM".
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Pretty sure he drafted Babbitt as well.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
But...



Never trust a highlight tweet. They can make Joel Przybilla look like Shaq.
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I feel like that's giving him too much credit. Yes, he might have gotten us the pick, but he didn't draft Dame. We could have just as easily ended up with Austin Rivers or Jeremy Lamb or Kendall Marshall.

This IS the guy who drafted Nolan Smith, no?
 
Natebishop3 said:
I feel like that's giving him too much credit. Yes, he might have gotten us the pick, but he didn't draft Dame. We could have just as easily ended up with Austin Rivers or Jeremy Lamb or Kendall Marshall.

This IS the guy who drafted Nolan Smith, no?
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And i swear, everyone at the fucking time knew it was the worst pick, especially considering Kenneth FUCKING Faried was next
 
OSUBlazerfan said:
And i swear, everyone at the fucking time knew it was the worst pick, especially considering Kenneth FUCKING Faried was next
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Nolan Smith at #21, Faried at #22, and then Reggie Jackson at #24, and then Jimmy Butler was taken at #30 by the Bulls.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Nolan Smith at #21, Faried at #22, and then Reggie Jackson at #24, and then Jimmy Butler was taken at #30 by the Bulls.
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Yea, thats even worse, but i remember draft day, when i was sure we'd pick Faried when he "slipped" to us, and then nope...CB thought Nolan was the right choice...sigh
 
OSUBlazerfan said:
Yea, thats even worse, but i remember draft day, when i was sure we'd pick Faried when he "slipped" to us, and then nope...CB thought Nolan was the right choice...sigh
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Isn't it a well known fact that Denver made us pass on faried if we wanted to get Andre Miller

Edit: for Felton not Miller lol!
 
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