2019 NBA offseason thread

I realize there is some redundancy after the Gallinari acquisition, but I have to wonder if the teardown is underway in OKC. Even as a backup, Grant would be valuable.

Denver obviously thinks so.

 

The thunder has rid themselves of a shitload of salary this past week.

 

Time to start over. Move Westbrook too, if there are takers.

 

The Pistons are thinking about it

Beard: Russell Westbrook to Pistons sounds intriguing but has too many red flags

 

I tried ignoring Abbot last year. I don't hate the guy, he just posts the dumbest shit, the dumbest memes, and doubles down the dumb on the NBA thread.
But the site runs funky when you ignore someone, because people are responding to something you can't see. At the end, it's not worth the hassle.

 

RJ Barrett has looked like complete garbage in his first two Summer League games. Shooting just over 20% with a ton of turnovers. Small sample, yada yada.

I still can't figure out the attraction in this guy. The best I could ever find was "He was ranked higher than Zion in high school."

 

Wait. Second round pick Jerami Grant (who the fuck is he?) makes $9.3M a year (yep, I looked it up. Yep, I still never heard of him).

I just love how the NBA's players run the league.

 

Seems to me the logical swap is CP3 for Russ.

 

If you've never heard of Jerami Grant, I'd question how much you watch the NBA. Harvey's his dad; Horace is his uncle.

 

And the threads no longer make sense because everyone is responding to posts you can no longer see. That made ignoring YF impossible.

It's the high school thing. He just isn't that good. If I had the number three pick I would have been desperate to trade down.

 

Yep. The No. 4 player on one of the top 10 teams is the 146th-highest paid player in the league. Sheer madness.

 

Good point, people look at a salary in a vacuum, without considering how much the NBA as a whole generates. Yes, someone like Grant should get that money because he's contributing to that huge pie. Also, I will never understand why people fault the recipient (player), not the party that's offering the $$ (billionaire owner(s)).