2016 NBA Offseason Thread

[redsox4evur]

Re: 2016 NBA Offseason Thread

Phil could've gotten Jae Crowder from Boston in the TysonChandler trade he made in his first year, but chose instead a pick that ended up being Cleanthony Early because he didn't think Crowder would play behind Melo.

You mean Dallas right?


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[DieHardYankee26]

Re: 2016 NBA Offseason Thread

I'm not even sure anymore. Crowder was on the Mavs, apparently the pick we got was owed to Boston. How we ended up being told by Boston to take a specific player off of Dallas's roster I'm not sure, but Phil is old and could just be describing it wrong.

[wwharton]

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Stay in your city and go get you a hot dug.

I think I will

#stuggysforlife

[King_B_Mack]

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Damn shame man. Feel for her kids and for DWade. I know personally how this is. This stuff needs to end man.

http://nba.nbcsports.com/2016/08/26/report-dwyane-wades-cousin-killed-as-innocent-bystander-in-gang-shooting-in-chicago/

This news is just sickening. In a world with just too much sickening news.

According to NBC 5 in Chicago (which spoke to police), Dwyane Wade‘s first cousin Nykea Aldridge was pushing a stroller down the street when she was shot and killed as an innocent in the crossfire of a gang shooting.

The 32-year-old woman, whom family identified as Nykea Aldridge, was apparently the unintended victim of a gang shooting, police said. She was walking around 3:30 p.m. in the 6300 block of South Calumet when two males approached another male and opened fire, police said.

Wade tweeted this.

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My cousin was killed today in Chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. 4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON. Unreal. #EnoughIsEnough
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Aldridge was on her way to a local school to register her kids (they had just moved) when the shooting took place. There has been a rash of gang and gun violence in Chicago in the past year, and Dwyane’s mother Jolinda Wade had just been on a panel on ESPN’s Undefeated talking about it.

Wade is coming to play for his hometown Chicago Bulls this season.

Our thoughts are with Nykea Aldridge’s family and friends.

[wco81]

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I lived for a time near where the shooting happened, just on the southern edge of the University of Chicago campus, around 60th.

It looks like virtually no area of Chicago is immune from shootings:

http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings/

Even a few in the downtown loop area.

[elprez98]

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I love the lessons learned growing up in The Chi.

But I'll take my current California suburb 7 days a week and twice on Sunday for my kids.

[Mr.Ace]

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So the Kings just signed Ty Lawson to a 1 yr deal.. Pretty sure Vlade has no idea what he is doing..

[Alx]

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So the Kings just signed Ty Lawson to a 1 yr deal.. Pretty sure Vlade has no idea what he is doing..

I think all the tobacco got to Vlade's head.

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/history-cigarettes-smoking-nba-vlade-divac-bob-cousy/

[Mr.Ace]

Re: 2016 NBA Offseason Thread

I think all the tobacco got to Vlade's head.


http://grantland.com/the-triangle/hi...vac-bob-cousy/

That might explain taking 3 project bigs in two years while signing a forever project big to go with DMC

[wco81]

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Or maybe he hasn't been smoking just tobacco.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Per Chris Dempsey

According to league sources: #Nuggets will trade F Joffrey Lauvergne to Oklahoma City for 2 second round picks

— Chris Dempsey (@chrisadempsey) August 30, 2016

[JazzMan]

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That's a good pickup for OKC.

More minutes for Nurkic and Jokic in Denver

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[l3ulvl]

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That might explain taking 3 project bigs in two years while signing a forever project big to go with DMC

was he at the helm of letting Whiteside go?

[Vni]

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Yi's contract is actually pretty interesting, it's not 8mil straight up.

In the case of Yi, his base salary pays just the minimum for a player with five years of experience ($1.1 million). In fact, his full $8 million salary is only guaranteed for $250,000.


The bulk of Yi’s contract is incentive-based. The most a team can pay a player in an unlikely incentive is 15 percent of the base salary. In Yi’s case, his entire salary, including the $6 million in bonuses, is considered likely by the NBA, opening the door for his uniquely-structured deal.


Additionally, teams cannot sign a player with date-based incentives, but the Lakers worked around that limitation by giving Yi bonuses based on number of games played.


If he plays in 20 games, he’ll receive a $2.3 million bonus. Then at 40 games, he’ll get another $2.3 million, and then again at 59.

You can read more here if you're really bored : http://www.basketballinsiders.com/nb...lian-contract/

[Mr.Ace]

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was he at the helm of letting Whiteside go?

I think that was Geoff Petrie