2019 Offseason Thread

[The 24th Letter]

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Spurs have quietly and sneakily put a good, versatile and (shocker) athletic group around DeRozan and Aldridge.

I'd still love for them to unload Belinelli or Mills to free up another roster spot, but damn Pop/R.C. are good at their jobs.

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I'm excited about these young guys man.

I hate that Murray and Lonnie missed the majority if the year....you gotta stop slandering my man Patty though, Belly can go, lol

What do you think the starting lineup will look like?

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Four years ago today was the single funniest day in free agency history. The day that DeAndre Jordan was going to join the Dallas Mavericks until he wasn’t

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I remember

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[lilteapot]

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https://twitter.com/tribjazz/status/...019927040?s=19

New Jazz guard Mike Conley, in talking to Dante Exum about No. 11: “I approached him immediately to let him know I was gonna change my number, so he didn’t have to stress on anything.”

Conley is a good dude.

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Smh this is why he has no rings, no killer instinct

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[bigeastbumrush]

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Four years ago today was the single funniest day in free agency history. The day that DeAndre Jordan was going to join the Dallas Mavericks until he wasn’t

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Epic day.

All the NBA guys tweeting emojis. IIRC..Mike Woodson busted out the [emoji2121]

All the while Blake and DJ was just chillin eating Raising Canes.

[jfsolo]

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I feel like Magic has to be this world class troll and we're all just missing it. He can't be playing all the stuff he says straight.

[cima]

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9 years ago today, TNT's "The Decision"

https://streamable.com/0qctj

[cima]

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I know his comeback attempt will likely amount to nothing, but STAT (my favorite Sun of all time) has more bounce than I expected him to still have

https://youtu.be/ijNxqD1Gw-4

[Smallville102001]

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Yup can't even risk Bron on load management for a decent amount of games. West is too loaded.

I hate this whole load management word. So tired of hearing about it. I know KL sat out a lot of games this year but that was only because he was comming of a injury and few games played the year before. I dont expect him to sit out games like that again next year. Even though players may sit out some games guys are not sitting out like 20 games ever year when not injured. James last year having the injury he had i would say was a fluck nothing more. I expect james this next year to play 75+ games and him getting like 2 more months of summer and not having to play a extra 20 games or so for the frist time in years by not making the playoffs is only going to help him. If a player is not injured they should play ever game has sitting out a game could be the difference between home court or not or a harder playoff match up has ever game matters.

[cima]

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Kawhi was not coming off an injury, he doesn't have an injury. He has a condition that won't get better, so his load management regime isn't going away. Did you see how rough he was by the end of the year? He powered through like a champ but he was noticeably limping.

Kawhi will never play 82 games again. Expect him to sit regularly. This is also a reason that if you gamble, don't bet on the Clippers being the #1 seed. They still may end up being the best team, but I'd expect someone like Utah, Houston, or Denver to be the #1 seed.

[Smallville102001]

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Ouch. That's a Lebron or AD injury away from being a lottery team... especially, in the West.

Lakers team looks a lot deeper than last year and i hate to look at it like this because you take a top 2 player off any team they are not going to be the same team. They might not be a lottery team just like that but still going to be a big drop off and health is big more all teams in all sports and even more so in nba. I beat you are not going to find many teams in nba history that have won a championship with a key player like that out.

[Smallville102001]

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Kawhi was not coming off an injury, he doesn't have an injury. He has a condition that won't get better, so his load management regime isn't going away. Did you see how rough he was by the end of the year? He powered through like a champ but he was noticeably limping.

Kawhi will never play 82 games again. Expect him to sit regularly. This is also a reason that if you gamble, don't bet on the Clippers being the #1 seed. They still may end up being the best team, but I'd expect someone like Utah, Houston, or Denver to be the #1 seed.

He was comming off the year with the Spurs were he didn't play that much and what is his condition? I figured they were just being safe because of the year before. I dont expect him to sit out like 20 games again when being healthy. Yeah he may sit out some but 20 no dont see it never has a player really sat out that much with out being hurt. Yes I did see him by the end of the finals. Not saying he will play 82 but I also dont see him only playing like 60 un less he gets some injures, and with James before last year James hadn't missed like more than like 13 games and I known he did last year but I dont expect it to happend again because of history and how healthy he has been almost never year. Sitting KL like 20 games when healthy was a mistake I dont care that they won the championship and if they sit him again and it makes it so they end at say the 3 seed instead of 1 or something its a big mistake again.

[ojandpizza]

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Kawhi will probably miss a good chunk of games every year from here on out. He doesn’t have an injury that just heals or goes away. It’s always going to bother him under high usage.


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[Majingir]

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I know his comeback attempt will likely amount to nothing, but STAT (my favorite Sun of all time) has more bounce than I expected him to still have


https://youtu.be/ijNxqD1Gw-4

I said it before, Big3 just ends up in a winner earns LAL contracts lol.

Kawhi will never play 82 games again. Expect him to sit regularly. This is also a reason that if you gamble, don't bet on the Clippers being the #1 seed. They still may end up being the best team, but I'd expect someone like Utah, Houston, or Denver to be the #1 seed.

What people do forget is that Raptors went 17-5 when Kawhi sat.

Can Clippers play at similar pace with him out or will they be worse? That could be difference in if they are closer to 60 or 50 wins.

With all the back to backs, I say Kawhi playing over 70 games is out of the equation.

Kawhi playing like 60-65 games I see Clippers getting around mid-low 50 wins.

[CaVsFaN2273]

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Question for you guys: Just in terms of the players they added, is this Lakers team the most talented team that LeBron has played on?

[Smallville102001]

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Kawhi will probably miss a good chunk of games every year from here on out. He doesn’t have an injury that just heals or goes away. It’s always going to bother him under high usage.


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If that is true he shouldn't be getting paid what he gets paid then. Yeah he is great but you cant miss like 1/4 of the season with out having a injury and be getting paid top amount. If you are going to sit him like 20 games a year what happend when he gets a real injury and misses 10 games? Now all of a sudden you have missed 30 out of 82 games.