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Well, as you said, you have to take away one of the Kansas City teams. Or just give them different names, with each in another state.

I think they would for sure go with Mexico City if they expanded this much. There is also alot of big Canadian cities with interest. I know it didn't work out in Vancouver, but there is a ton of money there. Places like Montreal and Calgary aren't mentioned much either. But they have big markets. I think they would bump out places like San Diego and Kansas city.

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Wouldnt be surprised to see them punt tomorrow nights game

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We shouldn't. We can't give away any games. The Cavs have been struggling and are primed to get beat. They are also on a back to back. They beat the Hornets, but that's only because they had an incredible shooting night. We shot horribly and still beat the Mavs. I don't want the streak to end..

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Need a 200m salary cap

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240 cap, 180 floor. If you can't hit the floor, you have the distribute the difference to players on the roster..

I just like how when it comes to Durant we are supposed to forget that he failed to win a championship with 2 future MVPs on his team in OKC. Then after he ran away to co-lead the Warriors to a couple more rings, he failed trying to put together superteams with many former all stars in both Brooklyn and Phoenix. We are assuming it goes well in Houston. But those are some really huge blemishes on his record. I just can't overlook those stops and failures.

I remember when I read Simmons book when he talked about HOFs and how they rarely ever play for 3 or more teams. Shaq was the one that kind of blew that model away (6 teams). Durant is on his 5th. Almost all of those other guys are just one team. Do you think that's a coincidence?

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Durant probably wins two in OKC if they are able to retain Harden. One which would have taken the last one away from Duncan. It’s just hard to compare the eras and organizational structure the other two guys had.

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Would have, could have, should have..

But he didn't. Career is about what you accomplished. Not what you could have done..

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yeah not happening they’d have to play better than .600 just to get close.

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Are you saying the playoffs or just to make the playin?

We could easily be top 12 within the next 10 games. Getting into the top 10 will be tough. But if we have decent health, we should stay top 12 to finish the year and threaten for the playin.

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Only goal should be play the rookies, find a trade partner for Zion, and get that pick out of the top 4 just for the sake of pride

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We aren't going to tank, so we'll be trying to win. We can't control the lottery, so it could always hit top 3 no matter what. But I don't think we'll end up bottom 6 at the end of the year. Best way to develop the rookies is playing solid minutes and roles on a high effort team surrounded by motivated veterans. I don't want them putting up fat stats in 30 point blowouts..

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Curry would never be able to get off a shot playing against an 80s defense. Durant is a bitch.

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Curry has range out to 30 feet. Nobody would think to guard him, because no one ever took that kind of volume or shot from that distance. He's the greatest shooter of all-time and it's not close. Also, he's bigger than you think. I love the 80's PG era, but he'd have plus size against all of them. When Kidd and D. Williams came in, they were the first "big" PGs. Most of the elite PGs, like Thomas, Payton, KJ, Price, Stockton, Kenny Anderson, Iverson, Marbury, etc.. were mostly around or under 180lbs. I mean Bogues started over 500 games at 5'3. You don't think Curry couldn't get up a shot over him?

Today is a pretty big deadline day for NBA trades. Any trade done today has a special condition that allows players acquired to be traded again (see the quote below).

"Marc Stein predicts a trade of some sort will happen as soon as Monday or Tuesday (15th or 16th) because:

1) Majority of players signed this offseason will be trade elligible
2) Anyone who's traded by 12/16 is elligible to be repackaged in a subsequent trade on deadline day"

So, we might see some action around the league..

1st game in his career that he did not start. I did not realize that.

Also, another weird fact I learned. Zion has only made 32 3pt shots in 7 seasons in the league. In his 1st game, he went 4 for 4 on 3pt shots. He's only made 28 since that game, in 224 total games.. It's insane. Bey has a horrible shooting stroke, and has made 45 3pts this year in 26 games (34% shooting). Why can't Zion shoot 3's?

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i'm pretty sure at this moment right now, the next two years of his contract are not guaranteed at all, so we could cut him today and not owe him anything for next year or the following year

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I am not sure about that. This year is fully guaranteed. If we cut him, with no cause, he could contend that we sabotaged his value, and intentionally sabotaged his ability to earn his contract for next season. So we acted in bad faith. What would be your reasoning for cutting or waiving him?

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So that means we have until basically the end of the season to cut him and not owe him anything going forward, if we wanted to go that route.

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I think you just misspoke here. Hes going to make all his weigh ins, so the 20% is guaranteed for next season. I'm pretty sure he'll hit at least 41 games this year, unless he seriously injured. So that'll be 60%. That's over 24M. So, maybe we can save 16ish million by cutting him at the end of the year (if he doesnt play over 41 games). I just dont see us doing that. Given the numbers, there just isn't much value. I think we are kind of stuck with him.

The only way I think a team trades for him now is if he has a season ending injury and they only have to pay him the 20% on his deal (cut him and save 32M). Although we could cut him and get the same benefit.

I could see a team like the Cavs being really into that. If we did a 3 team deal us, Cavs and Nets. Garland to the Nets, Zion to the Cavs, and MJP to us. The Cavs could cut/waive Zion and save 32M, plus a ton in repeater taxes. That's the only way he'll have big value right now and get us something decent back.