2025 NBA postseason thread

[Webster]

1) Cooper Flagg is going to be the number one pick, without question.

2) Zaccharie Risacher's rookie contract is 4 years, $57 million dollars. The 30th pick overall gets a deal at more than $2 million a year. No one is bypassing the draft because they'll earn more with NIL. NIL isn't going to come close.

Somebody could make it worth it for a year. The issue is that if you are a top pick, you need to get to the second and hopefully third contract, which are orders of magnitude more lucrative

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Somebody could make it worth it for a year. The issue is that if you are a top pick, you need to get to the second and hopefully third contract, which are orders of magnitude more lucrative

You're still leaving money on the table if you're any good and you stay in college.

Cooper Flagg's NIL valuation is an estimated $4.8 million, and he's almost freakishly marketable. He's the best white American basketball prospect since Larry Bird. His rookie deal alone will pay him $15 million a year.

 

[Webster]

You're still leaving money on the table if you're any good and you stay in college.

Cooper Flagg's NIL valuation is an estimated $4.8 million, and he's almost freakishly marketable. He's the best white American basketball prospect since Larry Bird. His rookie deal alone will pay him $15 million a year.

It only takes one rich booster.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Or his name sounds like a member of GI Joe in 1984.

 

[MileHigh]

You're still leaving money on the table if you're any good and you stay in college.

Cooper Flagg's NIL valuation is an estimated $4.8 million, and he's almost freakishly marketable. He's the best white American basketball prospect since Larry Bird. His rookie deal alone will pay him $15 million a year.

DP had Jon Scheyer on the show before the Final Four. He asked him if he had had a conversation with Flagg about returning for another season.

Scheyer said no.

DP asked if they will have the conversation.

Scheyer said no.

 

[sgreenwell]

You're still leaving money on the table if you're any good and you stay in college.

Cooper Flagg's NIL valuation is an estimated $4.8 million, and he's almost freakishly marketable. He's the best white American basketball prospect since Larry Bird. His rookie deal alone will pay him $15 million a year.

Yeah. NIL, at least right now, is going to have more of a ripple effect when it comes to depth in the NBA, and encourage more guys to stay in school for longer. There's less incentive to come out if you're not a guaranteed first round pick, even more than usual, because even starters at the upper mid-major level are getting low to mid six figures now.

 

[MileHigh]

Pistons melting down in the fourth quarter in the Garden -- again.

 

[MileHigh]

And Detroit pulls it out.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

TNT wanted the Knicks to win. The NBA wanted the Knicks to win. The refs wanted the Knicks to win. Even Grant Hill wanted the Knicks to win. But the Pistons got their first playoff victory since 2008, breaking a 15-game losing streak. This just in: Cade Cunningham is pretty damn good

 

[Della9250]

 

[PCLoadLetter]

This was really, really sloppy work by everyone involved. Chuck asked if he was still alive, which was awkward. The producer has to immediately Google that and get in their ears. I Googled it at home and knew he was alive before Shaq said he was dead.

 

[qtlaw]

Den-LAC is a great series already. Riveting hoops. Kawhi just looks like he does zero wrong, EVER. Jokic with not his best 2 nite.

 

[swingline]

Randall Flagg.

The Walking Man.

 

[swingline]

TNT wanted the Knicks to win. The NBA wanted the Knicks to win. The refs wanted the Knicks to win. Even Grant Hill wanted the Knicks to win. But the Pistons got their first playoff victory since 2008, breaking a 15-game losing streak. This just in: Cade Cunningham is pretty damn good

If they can’t make Cade go to his left, they’re going to have a problem. He got to his right at will last night, especially in the second half.

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Randall Flagg.

The Walking Man.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

If they can't make Cade go to his left, they're going to have a problem. He got to his right at will last night, especially in the second half.

When Jerry Stackhouse was a rookie he went up against Steve Smith, who drove him crazy without ever saying a word to Stackhouse. But all game long he kept saying to Derrick Coleman: “Derrick, when’s he going left? Does he ever go left?”

 

[Bubbler]

It only takes one rich booster.

And it only takes one injury to **** up your ability to earn more money down the line later.

NIL money is not guaranteed. Some players have been hosed on bad NIL deals. There is no collective bargaining to set the rules up and there never will be uniform rules in the college game for collective bargaining, despite what many in our business try to foist on the public.

Point is, you go pro every time.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Or his name sounds like a member of GI Joe in 1984.

And GI Joe got stuck ... and GI Joe got stuck .....

 

[qtlaw]

Dammit, why does NBA let HOU (and others) grab Curry? He’s one of the biggest draws and he’s manhandled every move. This would never happen to LeBron or Luka.

 

[HanSenSE]