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High hopes for Ja's first signature shoe. Being such a fan of the Kobe line, I hope that shines through in his line.
The Official NBA Season Thread: All 30 Teams Playing Tonight
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$50 nowadays is like $5 but it’s the thought that counts. Good guy Goober
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It makes sense fit wise
I'm sure if they blow it up Masai is gonna come out with something crazy but on that note idk if someone is really gonna offer a Murray/Gobert/Mitchell package for OG
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Hopefully it doesn't sour Luka too much but that's exactly what needs to happen. They're too far gone to make any impactful improvements
Just gotta wait til cap room opens up again and actually hit on any draft picks you have the rights to
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I agree, this is just the 1st season in the Luka era where the team didn’t get better year over year and it was foreseeable and preventable with the resources they had
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Its at least a tank of gas on most cars based on current OKC pricing which is like $2.50 or 1 to 2 more Christmas presents. I could use it right now, electric bill was almost $200 this month and i dotnt even be over here like that
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Anyone who gives up a package anywhere near Donovan for a non all star in OG has lost their mind.
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$50 cash or $50 gc for target >
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He might be the best perimeter defender in the league and he’s 25.
I don’t know man
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Hart, Keon, and picks is the best POR can do for OG. Third team can take Hart and send extra pick to TOR.
Another option could be Vanderbilt.
Another option could be Vanderbilt.
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Foreseeable, maybe.
I don't know that the Brunson thing was wholly preventable. Just not entirely convinced it mattered how much money they put on the table - and still don't fault them for not getting married sooner.
The Donnie rookie contract blunder is the part that screwed them.
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I really think Brunson would have signed the 50 million extension he was eligible for but was never offered
Once he started breaking out it was a wrap
A 50 million dollar extension on a 24 year old is not some kind of franchise altering blunder if it didn't pan out
Brunson played well during the regular season and in his first Playoff against a great LAC team, didn't play amazing. He still played decently enough. All in all- there's zero reason to not offer the guy an extension
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I’ve heard the Mavs had a hard walkaway number of 23 million a year and he would have stayed if they paid,
The person that told me this told me this before it went public he was gone.
I believe it because Skin started doing PR on twitter an hour later
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Moheezy
formerly mizzoe33
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I mean…to be fair, no one forced them to give Beal the super Max with a no trade clause.
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This makes it look so f'n bad. I don't even get upset anymore but I don't give Dallas front office any passes for ****
They fumbled Jalen multiple times and could have had him on a great deal
Dallas could have signed Brunson to a four-year extension for as much as $55.5 million before the season, but the Mavs didn't offer it then nor did they engage in negotiations with Brunson's representatives. He was coming off a disappointing first playoff series of his career, as former Mavs coach Rick Carlisle drastically cut Brunson's minutes in the final few games of the seven-game exit against the LA Clippers.
"It sat with me all summer," Brunson said at the start of training camp.
Nor were the Mavs willing to make that commitment midseason, when Brunson had transitioned from sixth man to starter and was thriving. An extension would have handcuffed the Mavs from including Brunson if a trade for a star materialized. Dallas offered the extension immediately after the Feb. 10 trade deadline, when Mavs forward Dorian Finney-Smith signed an identical deal.
"I told him once the season is started, that's it," Rick Brunson says. "I told the Mavericks, 'Once the season is started, there's no contract talk,' and I went back against my word. In January, I thought he did enough where he deserved [the extension]. I said, 'Hey, take the money, man.' He wants security. He wants to live here. And they declined.
"He didn't turn s--- down. Y'all declined first. When y'all came back to him, we said, 'Hey, we just want to finish out the season and go from there.'"
They fumbled Jalen multiple times and could have had him on a great deal
Dallas could have signed Brunson to a four-year extension for as much as $55.5 million before the season, but the Mavs didn't offer it then nor did they engage in negotiations with Brunson's representatives. He was coming off a disappointing first playoff series of his career, as former Mavs coach Rick Carlisle drastically cut Brunson's minutes in the final few games of the seven-game exit against the LA Clippers.
"It sat with me all summer," Brunson said at the start of training camp.
Nor were the Mavs willing to make that commitment midseason, when Brunson had transitioned from sixth man to starter and was thriving. An extension would have handcuffed the Mavs from including Brunson if a trade for a star materialized. Dallas offered the extension immediately after the Feb. 10 trade deadline, when Mavs forward Dorian Finney-Smith signed an identical deal.
"I told him once the season is started, that's it," Rick Brunson says. "I told the Mavericks, 'Once the season is started, there's no contract talk,' and I went back against my word. In January, I thought he did enough where he deserved [the extension]. I said, 'Hey, take the money, man.' He wants security. He wants to live here. And they declined.
"He didn't turn s--- down. Y'all declined first. When y'all came back to him, we said, 'Hey, we just want to finish out the season and go from there.'"
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Crazy,he’s better than Pat Bev,yet he’s in China.SMH
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You see how attached Bev gets to teams and cities and how dialed in he is
Meanwhile Bledsoe Tweeting out he don't want to be here lol
Guess it makes a difference. Shoutout to DJ getting jobs and Cousins being relegated to podcasts
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I need to see these rosters because there’s no excuse for giving up 18 boards to Eric Bledsoe
aepps20
Supporter
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Probably laced with Covid
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$5 could never buy you a 3.5 of Za
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I don't believe any of the PR nonsense his dad started spouting mid-year.
I don't blame you for not giving the Mavs a pass, but I also don't really buy that he'd have signed that deal.
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I feel like people weren’t upset enough at the mavs for this brunson situation in real time. There was a lot of justification going on in the offseason. Mavs fans were happy that the knicks paid him instead of the mavs.
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After how much was made about him playing terribly against LAC, he wouldn't take a 55 million deal?
I'm not buying that logic. They failed to offer him a deal, twice. They got greedy and wanted to try and see if they could trade him for someone before the deadline
Terrible process through and through man
