An anonymous NBA GM currently value Jaylen Brown at “40 cents on the dollar” per @ShamsCharania
"I can't find a team right now that is willing at this moment to give up that amount of draft capital. So then it just becomes are Brad Stevens and that front office fine trading away Jaylen Brown for, you know, potentially less than that? Potentially, you know, I had one GM say 40 cents on the dollar. That's because that's what it's come down to in Boston. They just have not been able to find teams as of yet to get to that threshold, but there's still a lot of time left in this offseason."
Jaylen Brown’s trade value isn’t that high around the league, per @BobbyMarks42
“I had an analytics guy tell me, ‘We view [Jaylen Brown] as the seventh-best player on a TEAM.’”😳
(Via @SiriusXMNBA )
Giannis Antetokounmpo has been focused on playing for the Miami Heat, per @WindhorstESPN
“Talks have intensified over the last 7-10 days. He has focused on wanting to be a member of the Miami Heat.”
(Via @GetUpESPN / h/t @HeatCulture13 )
jb/giannis would be like kawhi/demar swap. the moment fans see a true impactful player next to tatum looks like, they'll start questioning how many years were lost trying to make jaylem fit a role he was never good enough for
Jeremy Lin reveals he tried to reject the Rockets' $29,000,000 offer and would have taken significantly less to stay with the Knicks
“I was crushed and my agent is telling me, ‘Be prepared that they won't match.’ And I'm like, ‘There's no way. There's no way. I got to go back to New York’”
“They could have offered me three years, $9 million, but there wasn't even that offer on the table. And when the Rockets offer came in, the first question I asked my agent is, ‘Are the Knicks going to match this?’”
“I was like, ‘Can you go back to the Rockets and tell them we won't accept this offer? We only want a lower offer.’ I tried to take less. I was trying to sabotage the Rockets offer.”
“I remember it vividly. I call my agent back and I'm like, ‘Okay, the offer came through. No, we have to get a less lucrative offer because I got to go back to New York’”
“Finally I'm like, ‘Can we just not accept their offer?’ And he's like, ‘No, we can't not accept their offer because the Knicks refuse to give us any offer. You have zero offers on the table. You have one offer and you have to accept it and leave it to the Knicks to match or not’”
“It was kind of difficult to see that people thought I willingly left the Knicks or did it for the money or whatever. I would have played for significantly less if that meant staying with the Knicks because my heart was always here”
the issue with dating apps is the boys on there are desperate and the girls on there have an inflated sense of market value so it leads to the worst conversations and dynamics on this planet
Yes that’s why i never wanna hear that shit about “my grandma and grandad were together forever/marriages used to last” YEAH GRANNY WASNT ALLOWED TO HAVE A SAVINGS ACCOUNT OR GET AN APARTMENT ON HER OWN. SHE WAS A PRISNA!
Colin Cowherd says Kevin Durant is like a boat, the best day is first day you have it and the first day you sell it:
“The two best days of a boat are buying it and selling it. And by the way, somebody else will buy the boat because you have amazing moments. It is awesome. You kind of feel like cool guy in the neighborhood when you get the boat or KD then after about a year you’re like sh*t ma it’s a lot of work, it’s expensive, it’s a lot of work.”
(Via @club520podcast)
Caleb Hammer says people stay poor because they’re taking on $800 a month car loans
“Everyone is fine with 6-7 year car loans at high interest like it’s normal. The average new car payment is now around $800 a month. Meanwhile, 50% of working Americans make $30,000 or less per year. $800 car payments? That’s insane”
“Unless you live in New York, San Francisco, or Chicago with decent public transportation, you need a car just to get to work. So you work to afford the car that gets you to work. It’s a broken system. That infuriates me”