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re: Official 2014 NBA Offseason Mega Discussion thread
Posted on 6/20/14 at 9:16 pm to RebelNutt18
Posted on 6/20/14 at 9:16 pm to RebelNutt18
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1. Parker
2. Jabari
hmmm...
Posted on 6/20/14 at 9:18 pm to UMRealist
Whoops. Lol. I meant Wiggins at two.
Posted on 6/20/14 at 9:56 pm to UMRealist
I'm just not as in love with Jabari Parker as everyone else is. I've just seen way too many one way wing players struggle to ever lead a team to much playoff success.
Coach K had to take him out against fricking Mercer because of defensive reasons.
I think Wiggins and Exum are going to be better pros. Embiid too if he is able to fight off this injury bug.
Coach K had to take him out against fricking Mercer because of defensive reasons.
I think Wiggins and Exum are going to be better pros. Embiid too if he is able to fight off this injury bug.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:14 am to RTR America
Lakers are in discussions to land Klay Thompson as part of 3 team deal with Warriors and Timberwolves.
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The Lakers have been in discussions to acquire Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson for the seventh pick in next week's draft, The Times has learned. The deal would be part of a larger three-way trade that sends Minnesota All-Star Kevin Love to the Warriors. The Lakers are interested but the deal has been put on hold because of a difference in opinion within the Warriors'?? organization whether or not to keep Thompson while trying to obtain Love.
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The Lakers, though, are also interested to see if Kansas center Joel Embiid falls to them with the seventh pick, assuming they don'??t trade it. Embiid had surgery to repair a stress fracture in his right foot Friday and could miss part or all of next season.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:23 am to NorthGAVol
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The Lakers, though, are also interested to see if Kansas center Joel Embiid falls to them with the seventh pick, assuming they don'??t trade it. Embiid had surgery to repair a stress fracture in his right foot Friday and could miss part or all of next season.
The C's won't let him fall that far. Ainge loves him.
I wouldn't mind drafted Embiid, letting him sit all year and recover. Have another "tank" year. Acquire high picks.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:26 am to RebelNutt18
Yeah I don't see Embiid dropping that far either. If I'm the Lakers there's no way I would hesitate to flip the #7 for Klay Thompson.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:28 am to NorthGAVol
That's a good deal for the Lakers. I don't think the T-Wolves want the #7 pick though. They seem to only want top 3 picks.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:30 am to RebelNutt18
It's the Lakers though. You know we're due a gift sometime soon
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:33 am to NorthGAVol
As long as it is not Rondo or Kyrie, I'm fine with that.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:35 am to RebelNutt18
Posted this on Pelicans Talk, figured it would get some interest here too.
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Great read on the hysteria over Melo to Miami.
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It must constantly be remembered that this whole discussion is being revisited by the idea of Carmelo leaving the New York Knicks. NEW YORK. There is not a bigger market to be in, and yet he might still leave it. He would leave it for less money, less glitz, a less desirable city than the one he essentially hand-picked for himself three years ago. Melo has the opportunity to take much more money to be a star, THE star, in the biggest market available. If he would rather take less to be a sidekick, maybe he just wants that more than any rule change could prohibit.
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Loyalty to the team that drafted you is apparently a thing. We romanticize the idea of the one franchise player, especially as it becomes less and less common in the modern NBA. Even Paul Pierce eventually got traded, so rare is the concept now. However, it is a concept born out of a strange idea of loyalty that emanates from a choice the players do not have. They are chided if not loyal to staying somewhere they never chose to go to in the first place.
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That something, evidently, is winning. That is how you keep players, and the best means teams have against protecting themselves from the risk of these players losing is to do enough to give them reason not to leave. Teams should not be 'rewarded' for the 'development' of these players any more than they already do by having them as players for four price-fixed seasons. If they need any further protection, they already have it by way of the restricted free agency after the expiration of their rookie scale deals, and the ability to negotiate an extension prior to that.
If they do all that and still blow it, what more loyalty can be demanded of the player? At what point can a team said to have burned out their loyalty to a player? At what point can the player say, 'you had your chance, sorry, but I need to win while I still can' without being morally tarnished?
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Posted on 6/21/14 at 9:38 am to NorthGAVol
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The Lakers have been in discussions to acquire Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson for the seventh pick in next week's draft, The Times has learned. The deal would be part of a larger three-way trade that sends Minnesota All-Star Kevin Love to the Warriors. The Lakers are interested but the deal has been put on hold because of a difference in opinion within the Warriors'?? organization whether or not to keep Thompson while trying to obtain Love.
WTF is Minnesota doing? Would they go after Gasol?
Posted on 6/21/14 at 4:22 pm to corndeaux
Cleveland is trying to trade down to the 3-5 range to take Embiid.
Bulls are trying to trade for the Magic's Arron Affalo.
Thibodeau is all for going after Melo.
Nets and Cavs are discussing a Marcus Thornton for Jarrett Jack trade
NBA GM: 'You can't use a Top 5 pick' on injured Joel Embiid
BTW: Found a nickname for Wiggins. Maple Jordan.
Bulls are trying to trade for the Magic's Arron Affalo.
Thibodeau is all for going after Melo.
Nets and Cavs are discussing a Marcus Thornton for Jarrett Jack trade
NBA GM: 'You can't use a Top 5 pick' on injured Joel Embiid
BTW: Found a nickname for Wiggins. Maple Jordan.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 4:53 pm to corndeaux
Would much rather cut the middle man out and deal directly with Minnesota and land love
Posted on 6/21/14 at 5:30 pm to WestCoastAg
Yup. Thompson is a talented young guard but I think we could do better for our 7 pick.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 6:53 pm to UMRealist
If we give up our 7th and all we get is klay I'll be pissed
Posted on 6/21/14 at 7:01 pm to DynastyDawg
I think the Orlando is gonna take Smart at 4.
Posted on 6/21/14 at 7:01 pm to UMRealist
I don't want MCW either. Kid has not impressed me on an awful sixers team.
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