NBA 2022-23 Season Catch-All

Now is the time for the Hornets to capitalize and trade them Miles Bridges since they don’t GaF about women, clearly.

Rat Boy wrote:

And now they're hiring Ime Udoka.

I thought this was a joke. Seriously? Like I said, I hope they lose every single game. I hope all of their jewish and women fans and anyone that cares about other people rips up their tickets.

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I have finally found an organization that is as deplorable as my former favorite NFL team. Congrats Nets, you officially suck at least as hard as the Browns!

Rat Boy wrote:

I'm seeing that Steve Nash just got fired by the Nets.

Kyrie still there?

I wonder if this is an Adam Silver moment where he channels his inner David Stern. Assuming he has any of that level of commish in him and is like wtf are you guys doing.

I'd be good with that.

Between Sarver, the Spurs dude showing his dick, Kyrie, I mean, dude has to draw the line somewhere. The NBA has a real chance to grow and be an entertainment product people feel good about. The NFL fanbase is aging and that sport's got all the problems. I'd urge the NBA to take a very different approach.

We'll see.

@JonKrawczynski wrote:

Building on this: A team, whose coach LED THEM TO THE NBA FINALS, dubbed the coach's actions so egregious that he was suspended for a year days before the season, then allowed to go to a division rival with no compensation in return. None of that was a red flag for the Nets.

Does no one at the Nets talk to the NBA insiders who were cryptically saying that the Ime Udoka situation was way worse than has been publicly disclosed?

Either the Nets genuinely do not give a f*ck, or the Udoka situation was completely overblown.

Given that the Celtics suspended him for a year and now have let a coach who led them to the NBA Finals walk without compensation.... the latter seems... unlikely?

The Celtics are probably glad the problem of next year was solved a few weeks into this year.

I like how you accidentally linked to a article about Brandin Cooks being out tonight, because that's probably a lot more fun to discuss than the ongoing Kyrie trash.

If you'd like a quick primer on what he (and Kanye) are doing, go look up the Black Hebrew Israelites.

EDIT: Alternatively, just listen to Jane Coaston.

Also, the Josh Primo stuff gets worse and a lawsuit is incoming.

Prederick wrote:

I like how you accidentally linked to a article about Brandin Cooks being out tonight, because that's probably a lot more fun to discuss than the ongoing Kyrie trash.

It happened to be the article whose link was right above the Kyrie one on ESPN's front page.

Well if the comish was going to do something the Nets beat him to it.

Suspended minimum 5 games no pay.

Steve Nash, somewhere:

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No love for Nash in this, either. He had some weak-ass "opportunity for everyone to learn from each other, here" statement. f*ck that.

I think Durant is going to end up a Laker by the trade deadline...

Roke wrote:

I think Durant is going to end up a Laker by the trade deadline...

Not sure how the Lakers make that happen with so little assets without another team offering up more.

I guess KD could try and force his way but I'm sure there's other agreeable options with more to ante up.

jowner wrote:
Roke wrote:

I think Durant is going to end up a Laker by the trade deadline...

Not sure how the Lakers make that happen with so little assets without another team offering up more.

I guess KD could try and force his way but I'm sure there's other agreeable options with more to ante up.

My thought process:

-All the big star trades we've seen in the past few years didn't set the trade market, they depleted it. There are fewer teams with big asset packages in win-now mode.

-KD is 34 and oft-injured lately, you have to be ready to win right effing now to trade a huge package for him.

-If a Suns move with a bunch of/all picks was on the cards it would have happened this summer. Ayton can veto any trade and I think including Bridges hurts the Suns' title chance too much since they need his wing defence.

-Memphis and New Orleans are the other two options I see, but I think Durant's window is too short for them to go all-in. I'd they do end up with Durant it won't be a motherlode package.

-I don't see a Boston Toronto deal. Barnes, Siakam, or Brown straight up is a non-starter for those team, their salary filler is all actually good players more valuable where they are than in Brooklyn.

Short of New Orleans including the Lakers picks they have in their trade offer, I think '27 Lakers, '28 Lakers swap, '29 Lakers is the best package of assets out there. I'd rather have those than, say, 3 Suns or Grizzlies picks.

jowner wrote:

Well if the comish was going to do something the Nets beat him to it.

Suspended minimum 5 games no pay.

"But... I got a whole year and pressured into quitting." - Robert Sarver, maybe.

I dunno how they do it, but if I'm Brooklyn, yes, just blow it up and start from scratch. Your best player didn't want to be here, your second-best player isn't super-far away from "just asking questions" about the Holocaust, just blow it up and tank for that French ent everyone's excited about.

Remember when the Knicks lost the KD Kyrie sweepstakes and it was the end of the world for the Knicks. The Nets were going to eclipse them as the team in New York.

James Dolan is an asshat but he must be pretty happy if he's even paying attention.

Prederick wrote:

I dunno how they do it, but if I'm Brooklyn, yes, just blow it up and start from scratch. Your best player didn't want to be here, your second-best player isn't super-far away from "just asking questions" about the Holocaust, just blow it up and tank for that French ent everyone's excited about.

Yeah. They won't get the #1 pick this year (Houston holds swap rights), but with Houston also being bad, tanking this season would still improve the pick they get.

jowner wrote:

Remember when the Knicks lost the KD Kyrie sweepstakes and it was the end of the world for the Knicks. The Nets were going to eclipse them as the team in New York.

James Dolan is an asshat but he must be pretty happy if he's even paying attention.

I mean, he's just happy no-one's paying attention to him at the moment. The Knicks are 3-4, but have juuuuuuuuuuuuust enough promise that people are expecting a play-in team but not much more, which will keep the heat off.

But if they miss the playoffs again, they'll be back on his neck.

Prederick wrote:

I dunno how they do it, but if I'm Brooklyn, yes, just blow it up and start from scratch.

I’m not saying this will happen, but it would if I were Basketball God for a day.

To offload Kyrie at this point they really need to take advantage of a team that’s delusional and desperate to win.

Kyrie to Minnesota straight up for D’Angelo Russell.

Then Kevin.. you aren’t getting back fair value, but if you can’t get fair value, maybe do it for sentimental reasons?

KD to Cleveland for Jarrett Allen, Caris Levert, isaac Okoro, and whatever picks are leftover from picking up Donovan. Cavs solve their SF problem.

So what do the Nets end up with?

4 of their 5 starters from their last decent, same season. Ben Simmons running point (defending 4s), D-Lo and Levert as off ball/backup creators, Joe Harris bombing from 3, and Allen in the paint. Like it’s 2018 all over again.

Oh, I think Bomani Jones might have the right of it, they might just waive his ass.

Prederick wrote:

Oh, I think Bomani Jones might have the right of it, they might just waive his ass.

They should.

And given who Kyrie has shown himself to be, he might be done in the NBA. What other team is going to sign him? He's already shown he's going to stick to his self-righteous guns. He didn't cave on helping himself or his fellow man or even his team so that he could be sMaRt GuY and not take the vaxx. Do we think he's going to (his mindset) "back down" over a 5 game suspension? He already thinks he's a victim for having to sit last year!

Bomani's theory that Kyrie has had people telling him he's sooooo smart his entire life and that (plus his wealth and basketball ability) has built a mindset of, "I'm the smartest muthaf*cka in here, you all should be listening to my smart ass."

He is a conspiracy theorist, free-thinker, do-his-own-research kinda guy. How many of those guys do you know in your personal life that have EVER changed who they are? Or do they keep alienating people around them and continue to spread drama for the rest of their lives?

Here's his word salad when asked a softball about if he acknowledges his words hurt others:

Kyrie wrote:

"I can ask a better question: Where were you when I was a kid figuring out that 300 million of my ancestors are buried in America? Where were you guys asking those same questions when I was a kid dealing with learning about the traumatic events of my familial history and where I'm proud to come from and why I'm proud to stand here and why, when I repeat myself that I'm not going to stand down, it has nothing to do with dismissing any other race or group of people?

"I am just proud of my heritage and what we've been through, and the fact that this has pinned me against the Jewish community and I'm here answering questions about whether or not I'm sorry on something I didn't create, and it was something I shared, and I'm telling everybody I'm taking responsibility, then that's where I sit. These same questions that you guys ask, me dealing with it as being a melanated, pigmented person, all around the world, and dealing with racial biases against my skin color, demeaning me because of my religious beliefs, and I'm still sitting in this seat standing, so I take my full responsibility — again, I'll repeat it — for posting something on my Instagram or Twitter that may have had some unfortunate falsehoods in it.

"But I'm also a human being that's 30 years old, and I've been growing up in a country that's told me I wasn't worth anything and I came from a slave class and that I come from a people who are meant to be treated the way that we get treated every day. So, I'm not here to compare anyone's atrocities or tragic events that their families have dealt for with generations of time. I'm just here to continue to expose things that our world continues to put in darkness.

"I'm a light. I'm a beacon of light. It's what I'm here to do. You guys ask me questions about basketball, I give you my expert opinion. You guys ask me about other things, I give you my opinion, and it's met with whatever you believe the perception or the deception is. You guys investigate my life every day, and you justify it by serving your own purpose, which I honor.

"I would like the same respect in return. I'm figuring it out just like anyone else, so please keep that same energy when we're talking about anti- other things. Just because I post a documentary doesn't mean I'm antisemitic and doesn't mean that I'm automatically standing with everyone that is believing in that, so it's unfortunate timing that we're in, but I'm glad that I could stand on the truth, because I'm not afraid of these mics, these cameras.

"I used to be — looking everyone in the eye and telling them the truth, that I'm proud of who I am. Any label you put on me, I'm able to dismiss, because I study. I know the Oxford dictionary. You can look it up, right? One of the biggest mistakes I had in being a kid was not knowing European or Western language, until I started looking it up and understanding the definitions and why they say, 'If you want to trick a Black person, put it in a book.' I was wondering my whole life why they said that. Now, I'm 30 years old, and I know that reading is a superstar, because it helps me understand where I'm going and where I come from, like a tree with roots."

That dude needs help.