2024 Offseason Thread

[illwill10]

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[Majingir]

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Derrick Rose officially announces his retirement.

Those first 3 years of his career...what could've been beyond that if not for his injury.

For a short time it seemed like Derrick Rose and Brandon Roy were gonna be the next 2 big stars of the NBA.

[J_Posse]

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Derrick Rose officially announces his retirement.

Those first 3 years of his career...what could've been beyond that if not for his injury.

For a short time it seemed like Derrick Rose and Brandon Roy were gonna be the next 2 big stars of the NBA.

I hope there is an alternate universe out there where Derrick Rose, Brandon Roy and Greg Oden don't all have their careers partially or fully ruined by knee injuries.

Rose was probably the most athletic PG ever when he was fully healthy. I remember watching a video 'theory' on YouTube about how him being primarily a two-foot leaper but constantly landing on one-foot is what did him in.

https://youtu.be/B94E6Kn-oFI?si=-feAjbmV7VfHjLvW

https://youtu.be/mu4rstZ9mCs?si=iHPa2BhSB3Xji00J

Hopefully the Bulls 'unofficially' retire his number and another player never wears #1, again.

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[Majingir]

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I hope there is an alternate universe out there where Derrick Rose, Brandon Roy and Greg Oden don't all have their careers partially or fully ruined by knee injuries.

Rose was probably the most athletic PG ever when he was fully healthy. I remember watching a video 'theory' on YouTube about how him being primarily a two-foot leaper but constantly landing on one-foot is what did him in.

https://youtu.be/B94E6Kn-oFI?si=-feAjbmV7VfHjLvW

https://youtu.be/mu4rstZ9mCs?si=iHPa2BhSB3Xji00J

Hopefully the Bulls 'unofficially' retire his number and another player never wears #1, again.

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Blazers team with Aldridge plus a healthy Oden and Roy would be title contenders for sure.

They won 50 games in 09/10 with Aldridge, Roy but no Oden and 54 the year before with all 3 but Oden was coming off an injury and was rookie.

That could've been the next big 3 in the NBA with the Celtics era slowly winding down.

[King_B_Mack]

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Had a small little piece of hope that the Bulls would sign him and let him get one last run here before this day came before he went to every stop after NY and definitely when I saw him get waived by Memphis.

Either way, dude was the closest one to lead this franchise to the high of the MJ Bulls and now his retirement is the first one to make as sad as the day MJ called it quits here the last time.

I hope there is an alternate universe out there where Derrick Rose, Brandon Roy and Greg Oden don't all have their careers partially or fully ruined by knee injuries.

Rose was probably the most athletic PG ever when he was fully healthy. I remember watching a video 'theory' on YouTube about how him being primarily a two-foot leaper but constantly landing on one-foot is what did him in.

https://youtu.be/B94E6Kn-oFI?si=-feAjbmV7VfHjLvW

https://youtu.be/mu4rstZ9mCs?si=iHPa2BhSB3Xji00J

Hopefully the Bulls 'unofficially' retire his number and another player never wears #1, again.

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They've kind of already done that. The fans have anyway. Nobody has worn it since he left and everybody that's tried swiftly heard it from the fanbase and that went out the room.

[ojandpizza]

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Knicks and Wolves in talks to send KAT to NY for Donte and Randle.

Sucks to break up the Nova crew but not a bad pickup for the Knicks.

[illwill10]

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Knicks and Wolves in talks to send KAT to NY for Donte and Randle.

Sucks to break up the Nova crew but not a bad pickup for the Knicks.

KAT does help, since he can play as the center until Mitch comes back and can play alongside him.

But, outside of that, it isn't a home run for either team. That KAT contract isn't pretty and it leaves a short window before they have to break up that team. Randle doesn't fit the Wolves any better than he did with the Knicks.

[ojandpizza]

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Wondering if they even keep Randle, I feel like he and Naz overlap quite a bit.

[bigeastbumrush]

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[ojandpizza]

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Apparently Knicks have to send out another 9m just to make this trade work. It’s going to require a 3rd team.

[l3ulvl]

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first round pick from Detroit? wait what?

edit: it looks heavily protected and will become a 2nd eventually, but what does Detroit get? I don't understand their involvement


super late bonus edit: is Detroit in this for cash considerations to offset how poorly they've handled the coaching situation? woof!

[ojandpizza]

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first round pick from Detroit? wait what?


edit: it looks heavily protected and will become a 2nd eventually, but what does Detroit get? I don't understand their involvement

I believe the Knicks already owned the Detroit pick, not a situation where Detroit jumped in to this particular trade.

[NYJets2.0]

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Mixed feelings on this one.

Besides breaking up the good story of the nova Knicks divo is gonna be a big loss. Randle had been playing great ball before the injury and seemed fully bought in. Towns gives us help we needed at center but him and Thibs clashed before and he doesn’t provide the type of defense that seems to fit.

That said, Randle is coming off a big injury, and you don’t know how he fits with a more diminished role after adding bridges. They didn’t seem comfortable signing him long term so at some point it made sense to trade him. Towns will help our spacing and with how good our wings are defensively hopefully we don’t have to rely on having a strong rim protector for all 48 minutes


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[Jeffx]

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Mixed feelings on this one.

Besides breaking up the good story of the nova Knicks divo is gonna be a big loss. Randle had been playing great ball before the injury and seemed fully bought in. Towns gives us help we needed at center but him and Thibs clashed before and he doesn’t provide the type of defense that seems to fit.

That said, Randle is coming off a big injury, and you don’t know how he fits with a more diminished role after adding bridges. They didn’t seem comfortable signing him long term so at some point it made sense to trade him. Towns will help our spacing and with how good our wings are defensively hopefully we don’t have to rely on having a strong rim protector for all 48 minutes


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Yeah, I'm on the fence about this too. I wanted to see what that group would have done. Plus, KAT has a reputation as being soft. That won't fly with This.

[jeebs9]

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Look I don't like the trade only because DevInco. I don't understand why he keeps bouncing around. An NBA champion and very solid player. Last year he had one of his best seasons.

Towns while a talented player. He soft at times. Sorry, I sound like Jimmy Butler [emoji23]. He's got a lot to prove to me.

For Minnesota I don't see how well Randle fits with this team (especially next to Rudy Gobert). Edwards obviously has the keys now.