Jul 25, 2017

@Ordinary Joel

 

Jul 25, 2017

Which is fine, they don't need to be competitive they won't be good. Still, getting rid of a guy that doesn't deserve a roster spot making 6mil a year is a good thing. That's a negative asset they got a solid player for. And if you ignore the trade flexibility aspect of it, dumping Nicholson and getting Crabbe is essentially 12-13mil a year. The biggest part of the deal is dumping Nicholson's contract because he couldn't stay on the court.

I also wonder if this means they're (Portland) clearing cap space to get Ryan Anderson in a Melo trade... could easily see that being the reason. Still bad management to match the offer a year ago and then trade him away a year later as a salary dump.

 

Jul 25, 2017

Adam Silver on future expansion teams

 

Jul 25, 2017

Don't know where I saw the On/Off splits regarding Crabbe, but POR was positive +/- with him OFF the court and negative with him ON.

Now if they can manage to move that bum Evan Turner they can go back to building the team properly.

 

Jul 25, 2017

Facts

 

Jul 25, 2017

Wouldn't call Turner a bum. Stevens for sure got the most out of him when he was here and hes way overpaid, but as a ball handler off the bench who could guard 3 positions he was solid. Didn't watch him much this year so maybe he took the money and then stopped playing, but on the prove-me 2 year/$5 Mill deal Danny got him on he was a steal.

 

Jul 25, 2017

Why does it feel like he tests his acl every season

 

Jul 25, 2017

 

Jul 25, 2017

Someone tell me what Orlando has been doing the past 5 years.

 

Jul 25, 2017

arguably worst franchise in basketball since Dwight was traded

 

Jul 25, 2017

orlando needs to let payton and gordon walk next year and just start over, or trade them

 

Jul 25, 2017

They traded Serge so they can start AG at PF so i don't see that happening



I like Gordon, Issac, & Evan. The rest can go. Esp. those SGs. I have no idea why they have 7 SGs signed when they have Evan & Henzonja

 

Jul 25, 2017

Fournier needs to go

 

Jul 25, 2017

 

Jul 25, 2017

DJ Augustin and Bismack Biyombo's contracts

 

Jul 25, 2017

We're going through a cultural cleanse at the moment. This next season will be a trying one but it's the start of a new chapter.

Agreed.

I'm a fan of Hezzy. He needs more minutes.

I know. s--- contracts.

 

Jul 26, 2017

s--- getting real between Kyrie and LeBron.

I wish the best for D Rose, cmon boy I'll be rooting for you!

 

Jul 26, 2017

Both Nash's MVPs were worse.

f--- the both of you tbh

 

Jul 26, 2017

Yeah he was decent on the Celtics but he's been pretty bad in Portland. They're usually pretty smart about their money so I'm shocked they splashed on him like that.

 

Jul 26, 2017

Did the Bulls possibly give up a year too soon on becoming the top power in the Eastern Conference?

The Sun-Times first reported a connection between former Bull Jimmy Butler and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving on June  20, but now there’s more possible evidence that Butler — traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves on draft night — saw a path to conference supremacy for the Bulls that may have been ignored by general manager Gar Forman and vice president of basketball operations John Paxson.

The Sun-Times learned Monday that after his meeting June 5 with Forman and Paxson, Butler planned to return from Europe the night before the start of free agency to help with an expected meeting between the Bulls and then-free agent guard Kyle Lowry.

According to a source, if the Bulls had been unable to talk Lowry into taking far less money to join them — a likely scenario — then Butler’s hope was that Irving, a close teammate with Team USA, would be able to push a trade from Cleveland to join Butler in Chicago.

The Sun-Times reported last month that Irving had contacted other Team USA teammates to let him know he might be willing to ask for a trade and that he’d be interested in coming to Chicago. It was speculated then that a trade might have to involve a third team because of Irving’s asking price.

Last week, Irving told the Cavs he wanted to be traded and, according to ESPN. listed four places he’d prefer to go to: Miami, San Antonio, New York and Minnesota.

Chicago was on the list, too, before Butler was traded — suggesting Butler is the reason the Timberwolves are on the list now.

Butler and multiple sources have indicated he left the June  5 meeting with Forman and Paxson feeling he was going to stay with the Bulls and that they were on the same page in trying to add Irving or Lowry (who has since re-signed with the Toronto Raptors). A source said Butler especially had his sights on Irving to lessen the need for Butler to have the ball so much and to be the outside threat for Butler’s drive-and-kick game. Plus, acquiring Irving would severely weaken the Cavs in the Eastern Conference.

Butler also is said to have believed the Bulls could add a third star to the mix in 2018, when Dwyane Wade’s player-option $23.8  million would be off the books.

“[During the meeting], I said a lot of things about the future that if I could control it, I would do this,” Butler said last week on “The Bill Simmons Podcast.” “Maybe I was told some things that I took as, ‘You might be here.’ ”
http://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/...on-of-conference-supremacy-ignored-by-garpax/