2018-19 Transaction Thread

[cima]

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Actually, the Suns are the perfect team to take on Wall.

- Desperately need a point guard
- Have cap space but no one is gonna sign with us anyway
- Can afford to take on Wall's contract because he's the closest thing we could get to a big FA signing
- Desperately need a point guard

The only downside is Wall might take us out of the Zion/Barrett sweepstakes so holding off till the deadline would be nice he might be gone by then.

[The 24th Letter]

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Man, these arent sauces just speculating....

This stuff, just like the Warriors stuff last week is playing out right in front of the press, with quotes coming from the players mouths...

Of course they'll do their job and dial the drama to 100, but what half decent journalist wouldn't cover these things? Lol.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I guess the Wizards are the "arguing and not getting along" team of the week.

Is that going to be the sports journalism direction this year?

Oh this has been going on for years.

It’s just getting national attention now because of how MUCH they stink. Any other year, they wouldn’t give more than 2 mins worth of time to this dumpster fire, lol.

Maybe THIS is what’ll light a fire under Ted’s *** to actually do something about this team.

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Man, these arent sauces just speculating....

This stuff, just like the Warriors stuff last week is playing out right in front of the press, with quotes coming from the players mouths...

Of course they'll do their job and dial the drama to 100, but what half decent journalist wouldn't cover these things? Lol.

Oh this has been going on for years.

It’s just getting national attention now because of how MUCH they stink. Any other year, they wouldn’t give more than 2 mins worth of time to this dumpster fire, lol.

Maybe THIS is what’ll light a fire under Ted’s *** to actually do something about this team.

Problem is I see that they will clickbait the mess out of this stuff as much as they can 24.... RIGHT NOW


While you don't even realize they don't even talk about basketball anymore, just drama around it.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Drama sells and Actual Basketball is secondary. Only sport out of the 4 Major Sports Leagues where that’s actually possible.

I’ve just come to accept it long ago. Same reason why Hot Takes/Overreactions get more attention than logical Basketball Discussion.

Anyway, there’s going to be more that comes out regarding them. From Wall and Oubre telling Brooks “**** you” to Beal/Rivers going at it to Jeff Green and Wall going at it.

Apparently, this all happened FOLLOWING their 3 game win streak, per Candace Buckner of the Washington Post.

[cima]

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Drama sells and Actual Basketball is secondary. Only sport out of the 4 Major Sports Leagues where that’s actually possible.

I’ve just come to accept it long ago. Same reason why Hot Takes/Overreactions get more attention than logical Basketball Discussion.

With good reason too. The NBA is also the only league of the major 4 that, especially the last 8 years or so, you pretty much know who you're gonna see in the championship round, so for a lot of people it renders the regular season pointless to pay attention to. Then with the Warriors signing KD and then Boogie, that's amplified 10x. All the extra stuff is more compelling because you don't know the outcome. The only thing that can change the outcome of the 2019 NBA Champion GS Warriors is a major injury to Curry and/or KD. And we know GS will pay the hefty $$ to keep the team together. So this plot twist of KD/Draymond beef that may potentially end the dynasty is compelling.

That's why the NFL is always more interesting from an actual game perspective because unless you're New England, the SB champs can return pretty much the same team the following year and **** the bed (see Philly Eagles this year), whereas in the NBA we've seen the same guy in the Finals 8 years in a row (not that I think that's a bad thing, obviously) and just saw the same two teams 4 years in a row.

[georgiafan]

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Actually, the Suns are the perfect team to take on Wall.

- Desperately need a point guard
- Have cap space but no one is gonna sign with us anyway
- Can afford to take on Wall's contract because he's the closest thing we could get to a big FA signing
- Desperately need a point guard

The only downside is Wall might take us out of the Zion/Barrett sweepstakes so holding off till the deadline would be nice he might be gone by then.

FWIW BR trade article and hypothetical said bender, josh Jackson, Warren and a 2nd round pick

[cima]

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FWIW BR trade article and hypothetical said bender, josh Jackson, Warren and a 2nd round pick

Swap Jackson for Ariza and I'm fine with that.

I saw that article though, they also had the Lakers giving up Kuzma, Ingram, Beasley, and KCP for Bradley Beal. Lmao, he ain't worth all that.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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With good reason too. The NBA is also the only league of the major 4 that, especially the last 8 years or so, you pretty much know who you're gonna see in the championship round, so for a lot of people it renders the regular season pointless to pay attention to. Then with the Warriors signing KD and then Boogie, that's amplified 10x. All the extra stuff is more compelling because you don't know the outcome. The only thing that can change the outcome of the 2019 NBA Champion GS Warriors is a major injury to Curry and/or KD. And we know GS will pay the hefty $$ to keep the team together. So this plot twist of KD/Draymond beef that may potentially end the dynasty is compelling.



That's why the NFL is always more interesting from an actual game perspective because unless you're New England, the SB champs can return pretty much the same team the following year and **** the bed (see Philly Eagles this year), whereas in the NBA we've seen the same guy in the Finals 8 years in a row (not that I think that's a bad thing, obviously) and just saw the same two teams 4 years in a row.

I don’t care about drama especially when half of it is either fake or contrived from some Social Media slight. It’s nothing but a male version of Love and Hip Hop and that **** does nothing for me. I get enough of that from my girl talking to me about how A-1 jumped the table and went after Safaree. [emoji1741]*[emoji3603][emoji23]

Ya’ll can have that though, I’m good. I like talking about the actual game more than manufactured(in most cases)drama and talking about the same storyline every day for 5-6 months.

And yes, I’m aware that I’m the last of a dying breed.




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[cima]

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I don’t care about drama especially when half of it is either fake or contrived from some Social Media slight. It’s nothing but a male version of Love and Hip Hop and that **** does nothing for me. I get enough of that from my girl talking to me about how A-1 jumped the table and went after Safaree. [emoji1741]*[emoji3603][emoji23]

Ya’ll can have that though, I’m good. I like talking about the actual game more than manufactured(in most cases)drama and talking about the same storyline every day for 5-6 months.

And yes, I’m aware that I’m the last of a dying breed.




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Hey man, can you come down from that high horse? You participate in the drama discussion just like the rest of us do on here. You ain't above it, lol.

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Drama sells and Actual Basketball is secondary. Only sport out of the 4 Major Sports Leagues where that’s actually possible.

I’ve just come to accept it long ago. Same reason why Hot Takes/Overreactions get more attention than logical Basketball Discussion.

Anyway, there’s going to be more that comes out regarding them. From Wall and Oubre telling Brooks “**** you” to Beal/Rivers going at it to Jeff Green and Wall going at it.

Apparently, this all happened FOLLOWING their 3 game win streak, per Candace Buckner of the Washington Post.

The NBA always had storylines... its just that now they dont have any NBA lines

NBC always had opening stories and narratives surrounding their playoff games, but they always made basketball feel important, and it was nothing like ESPN and FS1 crews doing their worst fake TMZ impressions.

[ojandpizza]

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I saw that article though, they also had the Lakers giving up Kuzma, Ingram, Beasley, and KCP for Bradley Beal. Lmao, he ain't worth all that.

That’s a ****ing horrible trade and whoever proposed that needs their writing privileges revoked.


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[CMH]

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That’s a ****ing horrible trade and whoever proposed that needs their writing privileges revoked.


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That Suns proposal is also beyond stupid.

There's no reason for them to trade Josh Jackson in a deal for Wall to win maybe 10 more games. So they go from potential high 3 pick to low lottery? That'll work wonders.

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[Fresh Tendrils]

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Funnily enough the Wizards posted "happy and positive" pictures from practice to their social media accounts yesterday afternoon.

Fake news.

[illwill10]

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Not too many teams desperate for a PG. He is "aging" pass first PG, whose game is based on his athleticism and who is a streaky scorer that will be making 42 million. Not sure how much he makes his team better and doesn't have the same impact with his style like a CP3 or Conley. Not sure how good he will be when he is 31-33 when he loses a step.

With his contract and most teams not needing a PG, he has limited options. I don't think he fits with Orlando. Main fit would be the Suns. But do they really want to chance missing up on a high pick just for a low lottery pick.