2022 NBA Offseason Thread: Preseason kicks off; Things are fine in Los Angeles, Draymond beats the charges

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Nothing to do with any other factor eh…
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Phoenix didn't think Ayton would get a max offer so they let him test the market? What happened there?

Latest report was Phoenix didn't even make an offer.

I knew they were going to do that.

what they did was basically said we dont wanna give you 5 years 190 million, so we know a team is going to offer 4 years and less money, so we'll match that because thats what we wanna give you anyway.
 


I thought Zion was capping on Luka because of the JB connection but Luka has averaged 39/13/11 in his two matchups against Zion :lol (Mavs won both). Jokic is at 31/9/9 and is 3-1.
 
That's fair and (the receipts will support) that I defended his assest management with the Celtics at various times on here in the past. But I think he also has been overly gun-shy to part with picks in some instances too.
Ainge is the one in the position of power in these Goober/Mitchell talks. He has the asset that these teams crave, so he can pretty much ask for whatever he wants.

With Boston, I think he did do the right thing by holding onto Tatum and Brown and not trading them in packages (along with other picks) that would probably end up as a rental. He definitely should’ve packaged up some of the other picks for pieces if there were deals to be made (a good team doesn’t need multiple non lotto picks in a first round). Tough part there was that for several years they didn’t have any middle of the road type salaries to throw into trades. Pretty much just had guys on max contracts, rookie deals, and then Marcus.

He’s the perfect GM for a rebuilding team.
 
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