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Cellar-Door

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Portland Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons has agreed on a four-year, $100 million contract extension, his agent Bill Duffy of @BDA_Sports + WME Sports tells ESPN.
THis makes me like the Brunson deal a lot more.

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Free agent center Mo Bamba has reached an agreement with the Orlando Magic on a two-year, $21 million deal, his agents Mark Bartelstein and Greer Love of @PrioritySports tell
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so not tendering him was just a cap move because they already had a deal agreed
 

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That Beal contract is going to be so bad for Wasington. I can't believe they did that after the Wall deal.
 

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Nets trading for O’Neal and then resigning Mills is a little interesting—has a “weather the storm” feel to it .

may just be about timing/commitments though
 

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the tanking team doesn’t care about saving 4 million.

they care about acquiring draft capital.

i don’t think they can get draft capital trading away McDermott, unless they take on a different overpaid guy such as Daniel Theis.

So they actually get off of some money as a bonus and acquire some draft capital to do so.

and I don’t think it’s insane to say his defense doesn’t matter. I need shooting. I don’t have a lot of assets available to acquire it. I certainly don’t have enough assets to acquire a shooter as good as McDermott, who’s also good defensively, because those guys make a lot more than McDermott makes and they’re not available.

Boston can absolutely play him in the playoffs in bench units, especially when Smart is on the floor, by having McDermott guard the corner and when the opponent tries to get him in the pick and roll action, and they certainly will, just preswitch and McDermott takes the guy going to the corner. Same way they did with IT, except this defensive weakness is a foot taller.

sometimes, with role players, you have to accept the weaknesses that come with their strengths. It’s just how it goes.
Why would any sanely run team pay an extra ten million and give up draft capital for the privilege of paying a guy to sit at the end of the bench? I mean for taking McDermott off the Spurs books Boston should be collecting draft picks, not sending them out. Even if Theis is attached as he’s more useful and less expensive than McDermott.
 

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Kyle Anderson has agreed to a two-year, $18M deal to join the Timberwolves, his agents Thad Foucher and Joe Smith of @wassbasketball tell ESPN.
Kyle and Delon Wright off the board

one small tear rolls down my cheek

After watching the madness of FA today getting Huerter on the TPE would be a beautiful thing.

Expect Brad to be patient with the MLE see if somebody gets left out.

persons of interest: Bruce Brown (he's getting real $$$), TJ Warren, Martin, Jalen Smith, Muscala

Maybe Alec Burks at $10M is something Brad reconsiders
 
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