Edward McKinnon

23 | UARK ‘24 | full-time journalist and full-time ball knower | he/him | newspaper bylines: @edwardmNWADG

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

The Grizzlies have a top five logo alongside the likes of the Bulls and Bucks. Well done animal heads make the best NBA logos. They’re timeless. The Vancouver design and colors are a cool throwback to occasionally resurrect, but they are cool *because* they are throwbacks

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Said it before and I’ll say it again. The Grizzlies current logo and color scheme is great, regardless of how great the teal also is. The big problem is the jerseys/letter font are boring. I don’t get why they haven’t tweaked them. Just use the ones on the left full time

[Anthony Sain @SainAsylum]

Great uniform but the teal and the design in the collar are all symbolic to Vancouver

Let them have their stuff

2021-22 with the font elements of the GNG junts is the move

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Somehow got it without 60s Wilt

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

About damn time

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Need this for the Becky Hammon said nothing wrong agenda

[will @will_nba_hater]

Not even trolling atp, it would be a disgrace if any Knick besides The Big Purr wins finals MVP

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

You quickly understand that a good amount of people who think ZK is a bad GM are mad that he can’t Jedi mind trick opposing front offices into committing war crimes against their own team. Not every team has Joe Dumars and Troy Weaver at the helm

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Just saw a fake trade so bad I almost threw my phone at the wall. And it benefited my favorite team

[Alex @alexwinton_]

It’s a layup @memgrizz

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

I hate doing the Arkansas isn’t so bad gimmick, but there’s too much here. The largest company in the world and two other Fortune 500s have HQs in NW Arkansas alone. There’s 2 separate mountain ranges. And any state with an SEC school is kinda disqualified from this discussion

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

This is such a New England centered tweet because I promise you the median American couldn’t name a city in Vermont or distinguish it from New Hampshire. Also as a U.S. geography geek even I sometimes forget about Delaware since it kinda hides between Maryland and Pennsylvania

[lina 🇵🇸🇦🇲 @linaposting]

what’s the least relevant us state? It’s gonna be Arkansas right

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

The other flaw is that the old system encouraged middling teams to tank because they wanted to maximize their lowest possible draft placement and odds of jumping. This reform doesn’t fix that. Teams will want to drop from the play in into the 4-10 range to maximize their odds

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Also if the commissioner now has power to severely punish tanking teams by stripping lotto balls, then what is the point of punishing the three worst teams when they are legitimately as bad as their record reflects?

[Karan @ksenguptaa]

The whole point of a draft is give the worst teams a chance at acquiring elite talent. Ask yourself what is the point of a draft right now

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

There will be positives from this I think. The worst teams will try to win games, which will include spending more. But I think this would’ve also been true if this lottery revision didn’t include the stipulation that the 3 worst teams have worse odds

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Someone really gave SGA a 4th place vote. That’s real hate

[Marc Stein @TheSteinLine]

83 first-place MVP votes out of 100 for Shai Gilgeous-Alexander:

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

Even the suggestion of OKC trading J-Dub + half their picks doesn’t make sense. Why would Memphis or Washington need the 17th-23rd best player in the league on a max extension next season more than Cam Boozer or Darryn Peterson to AJ Dybansa? Not even Utah would do that

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

People keep making this point of OKC cashing in their assets to trade into the top of the draft as if any teams drafting high have a reason to surrender their chance at selecting a future All-NBA talent. Why would these franchises value Cason Wallace and mid to late 1sts?

[Anderson Hooper @lesterfreamon]

Boozer is so perfectly Presti's type and such a perfect fit that my very longshot draft prediction is that OKC finally makes an "all in" trade to get him where they give up a crazy amount of stuff (e.g., 12 + 17, Cason, Sorber, multiple firsts)

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

It also misses the point of team building team building under the current cap system and how OKC cracked it. You need good to elite players on rookie scale contracts to build a title team

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

I’m not a draft for fit kind of guy, but this year my philosophy has changed. I am very much in favor of Washington and Utah considering short term roster construction since it means Memphis will get the best player in the draft

[Memphis Grizzlies @memgrizz]

Your legacy will carry on in the hearts of Grizz Nation, always and forever. In loving memory of BC 💙

[Edward McKinnon @EdwardAMcKinnon]

I’m pretty set on Cam Boozer now at 3 so I’m preparing for the eventual heartbreak when the Jazz say to hell with their loaded frontcourt rotation and draft him at 2