OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD

MVP · Feb 27, 2019

Just make sure you don't have any hoop sessions scheduled for July 1-July 4 when he leaves. Need you to show ya face.

nick. · Feb 27, 2019

MVP said:
Honestly it depends on what the rest of the East looks like. KD+Kyrie is the best duo in the East from jump. MIL could lose Middleton, Brook, and Mitotic, PHI is likely losing Butler, TOR is likely still going to lose Kawhi. There's a lot of moving parts, Knicks def have a chance to go from worst to first even if they "only" get KD & Kyrie.

We'll have all our exceptions to use, too so I'm sure we could add a couple other good rotation players. Plus Robinson, Knox, Trier, Dotson, etc.

Then the eventual vet minimum guys.

amitt5504 · Feb 27, 2019

MVP said:
Honestly it depends on what the rest of the East looks like. KD+Kyrie is the best duo in the East from jump. MIL could lose Middleton, Brook, and Mitotic, PHI is likely losing Butler, TOR is likely still going to lose Kawhi. There's a lot of moving parts, Knicks def have a chance to go from worst to first even if they "only" get KD & Kyrie.

Philly losing Butler might actually help lol

ThePeoplesChamp_ · Feb 27, 2019

MVP said:
Just make sure you don't have any hoop sessions scheduled for July 1-July 4 when he leaves. Need you to show ya face.

Show my face after Chip 4 in 5 years? :lol:

trynafeelmink · Feb 27, 2019

I might have to stop listening to these basketball podcast more & more ridiculous things by the day... Listening to the Ringer NBA show yesterday & there having the discussion of whether Lebron has been dethroned of the best player in the league (Been Happened). But they went on to say if they need one Game it's still him.

If it's one season they say Giannis or Harden......... The disrespect to Kd & Steph is utterly ridiculous... Let's Erase all Kd's done since getting to the Warriors

KD pre Warriors>>>>>>>>> Anything Giannis has done or proven yet, how does he suddenlt leap frog past Two former MVP's who are still in their prime. This is what i be talking about when i say i hate the hype for the "next" thing.

As far as Harden being above KD or Steph for best in the league Honors.......

ThePeoplesChamp_ · Feb 27, 2019

People praying that the Warriors break up so bad. How sad :rofl:

frshstunna · Feb 27, 2019

amitt5504 said:
You wildin lol gotta go to the conferences. EVERYWHERE lol

You and

BIG LEEMELONE both right...I worked in a couple engineering depts and they def werent the spots on campus that was poppin for the ho's :lol:

...Also know it goes down at the national conferences when they all get together from across the country and get lit after the sessions during the day :evil:

MVP · Feb 27, 2019

drewsone · Feb 27, 2019

MVP said:

We want AD chants? :lol:

equality · Feb 27, 2019

Work paid for me to go to the Sloan conference this weekend. Hoping to get litty and slam some nerd sloots

Clyde Frog · Feb 27, 2019

Bucks can open up a max slot by getting rid of Middleton and Bledsoe which I’m hoping for. But if there’s nothing I expect them to keep everyone we already have.

Clyde Frog · Feb 27, 2019

ThePeoplesChamp_ said:
People praying that the Warriors break up so bad. How sad

No one is praying about anything. It’s a realistic and likely possibility that’s worth discussing. Settle down.

amitt5504 · Feb 27, 2019

frshstunna said:
You and BIG LEEMELONE both right...I worked in a couple engineering depts and they def werent the spots on campus that was poppin for the ho's ...Also know it goes down at the national conferences when they all get together from across the country and get lit after the sessions during the day

Lit then entire conference lol I've heard/seen some things

BIG LEEMELONE · Feb 27, 2019

Yall got me on Google putting in work :lol:

. Conference out here next month..

Peep Game · Feb 27, 2019

MVP said:

this is gonna be comedy to see AD try to tank vs them while actually playing

gaiiige · Feb 27, 2019

Clyde Frog said:
Bucks can open up a max slot by getting rid of Middleton and Bledsoe which I’m hoping for. But if there’s nothing I expect them to keep everyone we already have.

can they get Kemba somehow without giving up Middleton

MVP · Feb 27, 2019

Peep Game said:
this is gonna be comedy to see AD try to tank vs them while actually playing

6 turnovers in 20 minutes

youngwolf · Feb 27, 2019

MVP said:

Keep his *** on the bench. Dude is going to try and sabotage the game.

His teammates don't even like playing with him.

BIG LEEMELONE · Feb 27, 2019

Clyde Frog said:
Bucks can open up a max slot by getting rid of Middleton and Bledsoe which I’m hoping for. But if there’s nothing I expect them to keep everyone we already have.

Run it back for the repeat

getback · Feb 27, 2019

Clyde Frog said:
Bucks can open up a max slot by getting rid of Middleton and Bledsoe which I’m hoping for. But if there’s nothing I expect them to keep everyone we already have.

I wouldn't want to get rid of Middleton. Dude is a swiss army knife and it seems like he doesn't even mind being 2nd fiddle.

youngwolf · Feb 27, 2019

Something to remember with KD this summer is that he can always opt in and request a trade. So his destinations aren't limited to teams with cap space.

KD x Giannis would be so ******* nasty.

dman14 · Feb 27, 2019

ThePeoplesChamp_ said:
People praying that the Warriors break up so bad. How sad

if you can't beat them, just pray they break up :lol:

the warriors and their players/mgmt will let the league know when their reign is up
nobody beating them in a series

BIG LEEMELONE · Feb 27, 2019

dman14 said:
if you can't beat them, just pray they break up

the warriors and their players/mgmt will let the league know when their reign is up
nobody beating them in a series

They're not winning a chip this year

amitt5504 · Feb 27, 2019

leemelone said:
They're not winning a chip this year

Care to wager?

Not srs

JD617 · Feb 27, 2019

20 minutes :lol:

This is such a joke. Gotta have him out there jogging around, not trying, and wasting everyone's time though. Much better than just ending this sham.

Even by NBA standards, Anthony Davis suiting up for a game against the Lakers on national television is quite the farce.

Davis hasn’t played in the fourth quarter of an NBA game in over a month. This is not for lack of need, but lack of want. The Pelicans are obligated to play Davis (“League rules made it clear Anthony has to play,” interim general manager Danny Ferry told reporters last week), but not to finish games with him, leaving both team and player in an awkward middle ground where neither’s interests are served. In some compromises, both parties lose. Davis has so little to gain from playing at half-speed for 20 minutes a game, and yet that is exactly what he has come to do.

When fully engaged, Davis is a game-changing force on nearly every possession. If less inclined, he somehow disappears from view, observing from afar as Julius Randle goes to work. One of the league’s best rebounders will now only shrug at any missed shot that doesn’t fall directly into his zone. It is impossible to see his play as anything other than a series of business decisions. The sole directive of his 20-25 minutes is to avoid injury—and understandably so. Everything else comes secondary.

Who, exactly, does this serve? If Davis actually wants to play, he rarely shows it. The Pelicans, for a variety of reasons, would be better off not playing him. Fans in New Orleans and elsewhere aren’t buying tickets to watch one of the best players in the league stroll through his time on the court. Davis can sleepwalk his way to 15 points and eight rebounds because he’s Anthony freaking Davis, but don’t mistake that kind of per-minute production for actual investment. Davis is logging minutes for a team he requested to leave long after he thought he’d be gone. The NBA is and will always be a business. No player in the league illustrates that more clearly than Davis, whose fascinating, explosive game has been reduced to punching a clock.

https://amp.si.com/nba/2019/02/27/anthony-davis-pelicans-lakers-lebron-james-trade-rumors-aftermath