The Official NBA Season Thread: USA Setting Up for a SFA

[Mister Meaner]

Distant second option would be

Russ for Brunson Mitchell and Obi. No picks

Obi is off the table unless it’s for someone stepping in to be the now/future starting PF.

JB might be around for at least another szn. Unless someone like ZW or Yannis, of that caliber player, gets unhappy then his contract is gonna prolly be needed.

Jeez this trade is awful. Mitch for Russ & no picks? That’s the fleece of league history u trying to pull.

 

[DLF]

Obi is off the table unless it’s for someone stepping in to be the now/future starting PF.

JB might be around for at least another szn. Unless someone like ZW or Yannis, of that caliber player, gets unhappy then his contract is gonna prolly be needed.

Jeez this trade is awful. Mitch for Russ & no picks? That’s the fleece of league history u trying to pull.

Lol dude I’m joking.

 

[DLF]

Amazing? Maybe on offense. But on defense, a lot to be desired.

Zubac had 17 rebounds and 5 blocks.

AD had 8 rebs and ZERO blocks.

Both were playing center.

AD needs a Big Man

Lol

 

[DLF]

Lolakers can keep Disabled but they’ll still need a pf who plays like one. They also need shooting.

Spoiler

By the time the deadline rolls around & LA is still fighting for a play-in spot. No trade partners emerging to help them hopefully.

Randle homecoming. The French baguette adds some much needed shooting. IQ can do the same thing Russ is for pennies on the dollar relatively.

It’s gonna be pricey for the desperate Lakeshow with whomever they end up dealing with.

Took Cam off the table cuz it looks like he may get some time in the rotation after all.

Lol lol lol lol lol

 

[dacomeup]

Lolakers can keep Disabled but they’ll still need a pf who plays like one. They also need shooting.

Spoiler

By the time the deadline rolls around & LA is still fighting for a play-in spot. No trade partners emerging to help them hopefully.

Randle homecoming. The French baguette adds some much needed shooting. IQ can do the same thing Russ is for pennies on the dollar relatively.

It’s gonna be pricey for the desperate Lakeshow with whomever they end up dealing with.

Took Cam off the table cuz it looks like he may get some time in the rotation after all.

Randle can’t play with Bron and AD. He adds nothing for rim protection and doesn’t help AD with guarding 5s. This trade stinks

 

[amitt5504]

Something in the water over in France lol

 

[Blue Mamba]

 

[B Sox]

Randle can’t play with Bron and AD. He adds nothing for rim protection and doesn’t help AD with guarding 5s. This trade stinks

Randle would be the bigger version of what Russ is already doing

 

[Maximus Meridius]

How Embiid ducking the media after games already? That MVP L got him trippin.

 

[HOU$TON]

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

Something in the water over in France lol

Some crazy fighters coming outta there too (immigrants and not native, but still)

 

[rolaholic]

Something in the water over in France lol

Yea gonna be an international takeover the more those kids who would've played soccer in the past start picking up Basketball more and more.

Hoop is becoming HUGE in France

 

[amitt5504]

Yea gonna be an international takeover the more those kids who would've played soccer in the past start picking up Basketball more and more.

Ball is becoming HUGE in France

It’s like Frank NT and Hayes missed the cut off for the talent

 

[Coupé It]

Randle can’t play with Bron and AD. He adds nothing for rim protection and doesn’t help AD with guarding 5s. This trade stinks

Great trade IMO.

You guys are just hating.

 

[Coupé It]

Something in the water over in France lol

You guys are so finished in the next 4 Olympics

 

[rolaholic]

It’s like Frank NT and Hayes missed the cut off for the talent

It's like your Joel Anthonys, Magloires, Dalemberts making up the earlier generations of Canadian pros before the explosion in talent over the last decade.

The talent pool always gets better over time and the more the game develops in other countries

 

[dacomeup]

More of this and less of the gossipy stuff would be great

 

[P C H]

More of this and less of the gossipy stuff would be great

Somewhat similar

Mike Brown took the Sacramento Kings local media and beat through shootaround and broke down their O and D coverages to them this week. I thought that was great

 

[lawdog1]

The talent pool always gets better over time and the more the game develops in other countries

Generally yes, but not always it seems. After the wave of guys from Brazil and Argentina that played in the NBA in the 2000s and 2010s, I expected there to continue to be guys from those countries in the league and it hasn’t really happened. But Eastern European countries have picked up where those places left off.

 

[datznasty]

Lakers should have picked up Isiah Roby when the Thunder inexplicably waived him. He is smaller than AD but AD wants to ***** out and guard the 4, Roby will happily defend bigger players. Same with Mamadi Diakite

 

[rolaholic]

Generally, after the wave of guys from Brazil and Argentina that played in the NBA in the 2000s and 2010s, I expected there to continue to be guys from those countries in the league and it hasn’t really happened.

There's not the same cross generational cultural appeal and affinity for the game that European and other North American countries have for the sport imo where guys get inspired by compatriots making it and truly start to believe they've got a chance at making it pro if they take it seriously.

Euro League ball has been big for a while now, there isn't really an equivalent in South America

 

[Coupé It]

Generally yes, but not always it seems. After the wave of guys from Brazil and Argentina that played in the NBA in the 2000s and 2010s, I expected there to continue to be guys from those countries in the league and it hasn’t really happened. But Eastern European countries have picked up where those places left off.

Much like Football, Europe took over Basketball too.

Brazil and Argentina haven’t been able to compete.

They haven’t been able to keep up.

People play basketball in Brazil but the infrastructure isn’t quite there.

 

[D StaXX]

France & all these other countries gotta show me first.

 

[datznasty]

Dont disrespect the great Rafael Arruajo like that, who iirc was banned from the nba for peds lol

 

[had pants]