2018 NBA offseason thread

MillarTime

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He likely won’t have a chance to play for the Lakers now. Talk about fucking over the Pacers last year, nobody wanted him because they assumed LA was a foregone conclusion.
And yet the Pacers ended up with a better player in that trade.
 

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Paul George has committed to sign a deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder, league sources tell ESPN.
Wow, can't believe he stayed.

This puts some heavy pressure on the Lakers to trade for Kawhi after passing on George last summer assuming they could sign him this summer.
 

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Cousins is a stone cold lock to miss a crucial playoff game suspended for too many Ts, should he join the Lakers.
 

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The Lakers might well have told George they didn’t want him. With Kawhi coming this year or next, that leaves room for just one other max, and GM LeBron probably picked Boogie.
 

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The Lakers might well have told George they didn’t want him. With Kawhi coming this year or next, that leaves room for just one other max, and GM LeBron probably picked Boogie.
I’m still wondering how the Lakers sign LeBron and Cousins this year and Kawhi next year. I don’t see the room but I’m no expert. Even a trade for Leonard looks kind of tough if they sign the other two and the Spurs don’t want Lonzo. But I am probably missing something or maybe someone else takes Ball and Deng.
 

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That contract is not going to age well but they obviously had to do it
If they get one year of CP3 playing at 40 million dollar level, I'll be shocked. I'm putting the odds of them getting more than that at zero. He'll be playing like half a season at a time due to injury in the 2nd year of that contract, and it's going to get worse from there. Houston will be a lottery team in 2022-23. If I could figure out a way to get some of their first round picks from 2023-25, I'd be all over it.
 

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This should impact any #Pacers pursuit of Marcus Smart. #Celtics
 

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DeAndre to Mavs for same $24.1 million for 1 year he had with Clips.
Happy with anything that boosts the non-SAC/MEM bottomfeeders in the West. Doc doesn’t do rebuilds so I’m sure the Clips will do something to scratch together a team mediocre enough to stay ahead of both.
 

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Capella is probably gone now.
Why? I would put our chances of signing him at 80%. No one will pay him crazy money and we’d match almost all reasonable offers.

We’ll be paying a huge tax regardless. The owner has committed to it.
 

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Doug McDermott to Indiana and Joe Harris back to the Nets per Woj.
I don't know what the hell Indiana is doing.

It's going to be a buyers' market by tomorrow since there is so little cap space available, and they decided to use a huge chunk of theirs on McDermott and guaranteeing Bogdanovic?

Seems crazy.
 

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Why? I would put our chances of signing him at 80%. No one will pay him crazy money and we’d match almost all reasonable offers.

We’ll be paying a huge tax regardless. The owner has committed to it.
I forgot about Jordan to the Mavs. I don’t know why they wouldn’t have just paid Capella instead? Maybe fear of losing them both if Houston matched.
 

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The four year term is bonkers to me. I wonder if LeBron didn't want him in LA or something. Given the choice between playing with LeBron in your hometown vs ball dominant Russ... Hats off to the Thunder and PG13 though
 

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Woj: Free agent forward Ed Davis has agreed to a one-year, $4.4M deal with the Brooklyn Nets, league sources tell ESPN.

That hurts Portland a bit...
 

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Gotta think they'll try to buy out Melo now, even if it means eating $6-7M a year over the next few seasons.
I suggested earlier I think he ends up on the Lakers. Either for Deng+an asset or two or into LAs space with an asset or two.
 

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Shams: Free agent Gerald Green has agreed to a one-year, $2.4M deal to return to Houston, league source tells Yahoo.