After the Thunder traded Lu Dort for three 2nd-round picks, no team will be over the second apron entering next season.
The NBA’s new hard cap era is having profound long-term team building effects.
Laker fans are really underestimating the potential impact of those swaps. We're in the flat lottery era. The league is more volatile than ever. You can't just say "yea we have Luka, we'll be a 50-plus-win team through 2033" anymore. Nobody can say that. MAYBE OKC or San Antonio.
Unpopular misogynistic opinion:
Everything started to go downhill when society started to give af about what women wanted.
Women just like children were never meant to be taken seriously.
Men don’t approach women in public because we told them it was annoying and creepy. In retrospect we probably should have just taught them what we don’t think is creepy but we didn’t so if you’re attracted to men you’re gonna have to approach them now, they won’t do it anymore.
@Biggz_91 I have a theory that rappers are playing the streaming game by doing shorter songs so that they can put out more music in order to get more streams.
There not getting that. Utah was only able to get that type of return for Kessler due to the Lakers being desperate.
I don’t know any teams desperate for Watson.
The Nuggets are seeking a “Walker Kessler-type return” for Peyton Watson in any sign-and-trade which included two unprotected first-round picks and two first-round pick swaps, per @JakeLFischer
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Jaylen Brown says 60% of NBA players lose most of their wealth because the agency model broken
“I hope I ruffle all the motherfucking feathers. The agency model isn't working. It's a bunch of players going broke when they retire. It's like 60% of players within the first 10 years are losing majority of their wealth after making millions of dollars. Living check to check. You can blame the athlete, maybe they living expenses, but they was 18 or 19 when they came into wealth and the people that represented them didn't help them handle that in no capacity or care to. After they get you and they get in your pocket, they just go get the next one and get in his pocket”
“This is what I'mma stand on. And this could be controversial, but I don't care. If you can't help me at 18 or 19 to maintain my wealth, build a legacy, and keep what I'm earning and be able to influence me on my decision making, you shouldn't be representing me in the first place. Shouldn't even be allowed to walk into my house. But we allow this agency model. They keep coming in and they keep stripping everything and we giving it right back to the same people that was giving it to us in the first place. Giving it right back”
“Something got to change. There's been people taking advantage of these 18, 19 young kids, and nobody says nothing. I think that's a part of the problem where we don't say that and we just allow that to be normalized. No, that shit ain't normal. You get millions of dollars and now you broke. And the people that's representing you can't even pick up the phone now. These people have continued to do that and they're gonna continue to do it because they see it as business and economic opportunity”
There was nothing the Lakers could do that would make them one of the favs to win it all next year this.
Also you don’t just microwave up a championship. Takes years of good, solid basketball.
You see, this right here is the problem. The aim of this offseason was not to build a good playoff team. The goal of the offseason was to build a genuine championship contender around Luka Doncic. Period. You have to win tomorrow. Not in 2 years, not in 3 years, not in 4 years. There are so many people that have seemed to miss this point when analyzing the moves they’ve made this offseason.
“I thought the [Lakers] would’ve functioned better had Luka dribbled a little less, LeBron been playing point more…I felt like [LeBron] needed to assert himself a little more.” @maxkellerman
“You're not wrong…Obviously, I'm not the 3rd option, we know that, no day” @RichPaul4