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2018-19 NBA Thread: Magic Johnson leaves Lakers in order to pursue other jobs to be completely terrible at (3 Viewers)

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GOB said:
Gob here, I'm listening now.
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I was suspired with how the Lebron stuff broke down, that would be interesting. I still no see way

Houston
can pull it off without gutting what they have, but they presented a case for it

 
ShamrockPride said:
So it's official...OKC had 3 MVPs on a single team. And didn't win squat.

Send that team a## back to Seattle.
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In their final season together, Harden was 22- the same age as most college seniors. Westbrook/Durant were both younger than Embiid was in the most recent season.

They made one terrible decision. If making one terrible decision condemns a team to the death penalty your Celtics would have left Boston decades ago.

 
TobiasFunke said:
In their final season together, Harden was 22- the same age as most college seniors. Westbrook/Durant were both younger than Embiid was in the most recent season.

They made one terrible decision. If making one terrible decision condemns a team to the death penalty your Celtics would have left Boston decades ago.
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Plus the curse. 

 
labrohan did not win it but basically any year anyone else wins it might as well be congrats you won the mvp because we get sick of giving it to the real mvp labrohan every year smae as it was for mike back in the day take that to the bank bromigos 

 
so for anybody who needs to be caught up with Lebron and where he may go, just found 2 articles that summarize the last month or so:

Lebron to LA - http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/why-it-makes-so-much-sense-for-lebron-to-choose-the-lakers/ar-AAza3c1?ocid=ientp

Lebron to Philly - https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/6/26/17505326/sixers-lebron-james-kawhi-leonard

there are other options and possibilities, but just covering for these 2 teams right now. I am not a body language expert, but watching Lebron over the course of last NBA season, I just can not imagine him playing on that Cavs team again. You could see him burning out as the season progressed.

:popcorn:

and man I just need Lebron to go anywhere at this point. they have sucked me in with these "updates"

ETA: Rockets rumors are not going away either: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2018/06/26/lebron-james-free-agent-future-nba-awards-show/733732002/

as for the Lakers, the apparent sell to George leaked and is kind of funny/dreamy:  https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2782852-lakers-rumors-las-free-agency-pitch-to-paul-george-leaked-by-si

 
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Woj bomb!

Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn

The Los Angeles Clippers are trading guard Austin Rivers to the Washington Wizards for center Marcin Gortat, league sources tell ESPN.

6:24 PM · Jun 26, 2018

 
TobiasFunke said:
In their final season together, Harden was 22- the same age as most college seniors. Westbrook/Durant were both younger than Embiid was in the most recent season.

They made one terrible decision. If making one terrible decision condemns a team to the death penalty your Celtics would have left Boston decades ago.
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I think you earn a couple more terrible decisions with multiple dynasties and numerous championships throughout the decades. 

Now, my KNICKS...

 
I’m only part of the way through the mock offseason and in another 38 hours I will be done, but in that they had the wiz try to trade porter to the pels for a cousins sign and trade.  Is that something that was actually rumored and if so does this move actually relate to that possibility?

Edit: google tells me that is at least a rumor.

 
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Really liked that Duncan et al had the Nets re-signing Joe Harris, and for a pretty good price of 3/16.5 I believe. Wasn't a huge fan of the Jerami Grant signing, though - seems like this new regime is aiming for a 1 in / 4 out offense and a 30% 3P shooting wing doesn't fit that vision well. They already have Rondae Hollis-Jefferson out there shooting a cool 24% from deep. 

 
Can a Wizards fan explain this deal to me from their perspective? Is Rivers just a pass through to some other team in some other deal, a backup to Wall, Wall going somewhere else?

 
Gr00vus said:
Can a Wizards fan explain this deal to me from their perspective? Is Rivers just a pass through to some other team in some other deal, a backup to Wall, Wall going somewhere else?
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They need second unit offense, and Wall and Gortat wanted to kill each other. I actually kind of like the deal from their end. 

 
There's talk of a Kemba for Sexton/Clarkson trade, which kind of makes perfect sense both teams, if that's enough to keep LeBron. And I think it could be. There's no perfect spot for LeBron to move, so adding Kemba to the Cavs could be a situation LeBron prefers over the alternatives. 

For CHA, Kupchak needs to trying like crazy to make this deal happen. I love Kemba, but it's hard to imagine they keep him past this year. 

 
Is there a summary online of the Dunc'd mock offseason?  I can't find one.  I'm curious about the results but don't want to invest all the time in listening.  

 
modogg said:
Well, interested to see how this turns out. Magic says he will quit if Lakers don't sign a top free agent in next 2 years:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2783042-magic-johnson-says-he-will-step-down-if-lakers-dont-sign-top-fa-in-next-2-years

interesting how he didn't say sign a top FA this summer, but rather over 2 years. And that is a ballsy statement, interested to see how it turns out
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If they don't land a top tier free agent in the next two years he would deserve to be fired anyway.

 
pollardsvision said:
There's talk of a Kemba for Sexton/Clarkson trade, which kind of makes perfect sense both teams, if that's enough to keep LeBron. And I think it could be. There's no perfect spot for LeBron to move, so adding Kemba to the Cavs could be a situation LeBron prefers over the alternatives. 

For CHA, Kupchak needs to trying like crazy to make this deal happen. I love Kemba, but it's hard to imagine they keep him past this year. 
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Current team minus Kemba + Sexton/Clarkson would contend for the #1 pick at least.

 
Kev4029 said:
If they don't land a top tier free agent in the next two years he would deserve to be fired anyway.
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you would think with George and Kawhi both saying that is their destination of choice and having the option to go there as a FA. But who knows these days, Aldridge was all about LA too and went to SA.

 
so I noticed Simmons got a 3rd place vote for ROY and thought it was strange. here is the story:

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/76ers/heres-misguided-soul-who-gave-ben-simmons-3rd-place-roy-vote

If you looked at the NBA Rookie of the Year voting last night, you may have noticed one astronomically erroneous third-place vote for Ben Simmons.

Thanks to internet sleuths and the ill-informed writer crawling out of his hole in the wall, we now know who is responsible for this basketball atrocity. 

That would be the New York Post's Marc Berman.

Not surprised but Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum deserved Rookie of the Year because they were rookies.

— Marc Berman (@NYPost_Berman) June 26, 2018

And another tweet from October, just four games into the regular season.

Here is the one media member who gave Ben Simmons a 3rd place Rookie of the Year vote, behind Tatum and Mitchell.

He had decided 4 games into the regular season... ??‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/po4KlBq22h

— Did the Sixers win? (@DidTheSixersWin) June 26, 2018

Uhh, what?

It's a pretty simple and clear rule. Simmons, while sitting out with a fractured foot, never played a regular season game last year, making him a rookie this year.

Maybe Dictionary.com can help Berman understand.

Let us know if you need the definition of "played" next, @BenSimmons25 and @spidadmitchell. #RookieOfTheYear https://t.co/XWOiPL5vow

— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) April 11, 2018

For what it's worth, Berman abstained from voting in 2011, when Blake Griffin won the award after sitting out the previous year. So why did he choose to vote this time? 

there is kind of nothing but rumors to report these days, so figured we could throw this out there :shrug:

 
modogg said:
so I noticed Simmons got a 3rd place vote for ROY and thought it was strange. here is the story:

https://www.nbcsports.com/philadelphia/76ers/heres-misguided-soul-who-gave-ben-simmons-3rd-place-roy-vote

If you looked at the NBA Rookie of the Year voting last night, you may have noticed one astronomically erroneous third-place vote for Ben Simmons.

Thanks to internet sleuths and the ill-informed writer crawling out of his hole in the wall, we now know who is responsible for this basketball atrocity. 

That would be the New York Post's Marc Berman.

Not surprised but Donovan Mitchell and Jayson Tatum deserved Rookie of the Year because they were rookies.

— Marc Berman (@NYPost_Berman) June 26, 2018

And another tweet from October, just four games into the regular season.

Here is the one media member who gave Ben Simmons a 3rd place Rookie of the Year vote, behind Tatum and Mitchell.

He had decided 4 games into the regular season... ??‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/po4KlBq22h

— Did the Sixers win? (@DidTheSixersWin) June 26, 2018

Uhh, what?

It's a pretty simple and clear rule. Simmons, while sitting out with a fractured foot, never played a regular season game last year, making him a rookie this year.

Maybe Dictionary.com can help Berman understand.

Let us know if you need the definition of "played" next, @BenSimmons25 and @spidadmitchell. #RookieOfTheYear https://t.co/XWOiPL5vow

— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) April 11, 2018

For what it's worth, Berman abstained from voting in 2011, when Blake Griffin won the award after sitting out the previous year. So why did he choose to vote this time? 

there is kind of nothing but rumors to report these days, so figured we could throw this out there :shrug:
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Favorite meme I've seen recently is "who will win 2018-19 ROY?" Then pictures of Ayton, Doncic, Trae Young, and Simmons.

 
Bucky86 said:
Not entirely confirmed, but a few more sources are now saying it's happening.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2783157-report-lebron-james-son-likely-to-enroll-in-la-hs-sierra-canyon
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it has to be a hoot to be a sports media editor these days, and wonder what to report and what not to report. I don't see any of the other main sites carrying this, but maybe they do by mid-afternoon. Just funny that everybody has "sources" for everything, but it is all kind of just guessing. Even that Windhorst story that seemed to shake up the odds for Lebron with him basically doing Cavs or Lakers was prefaced with him making it very clear he wasn't reporting anything, it was just his "informed opinion".

has to be a headache.

Speaking of which, looks like Paul George is going to be running a 3-part series on Sportscenter to highlight this free agency period titled: Paul George: My Journey. Doesn't sound like something you would do if you were just staying in OKC: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2783167-paul-george-hopes-to-make-majority-of-people-happy-with-free-agency-decision. His main message is that he is trying to make the "majority of people happy".

I think everybody should start doing things like this when they change jobs

 
MAC_32 said:
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it is so insane, and I feel like I need a shower after all of it. So glad the Sixers are active in free agency like every 5 years or so, can't imagine participating in this circus every year.

 
modogg said:
it is so insane, and I feel like I need a shower after all of it. So glad the Sixers are active in free agency like every 5 years or so, can't imagine participating in this circus every year.
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Read everything (for a while anyway) and believe nothing.  When they start repeating themselves with no new information then stop reading.  I reached that point early last week.  If something meaningful happened draft night I'd re-engage, but I didn't expect it to and nothing did.  Someone can help me out here, but I believe the opt in's begin soon.  Assuming that's this weekend I'll get back to clicking again whenever I'm not in a pool during the heat wave.

 
Short Corner said:
Mater Dei is traditionally the top team in SoCal if not the state.

https://www.materdeiathletics.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=452860&type=d&pREC_ID=1046308
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I have to think the high school programs in Philly, NY, and any other location with a large amount of people are just as competitive. I don't follow high school basketball so I don't know, but I would really wonder if choosing to send his kid to a school in LA would trump the next 2-3 years of his career.

Maybe this year just really burned him out of basketball...

 
modogg said:
I have to think the high school programs in Philly, NY, and any other location with a large amount of people are just as competitive. I don't follow high school basketball so I don't know, but I would really wonder if choosing to send his kid to a school in LA would trump the next 2-3 years of his career.

Maybe this year just really burned him out of basketball...
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I don't think his destination will be determined by the hs basketball experience for his son.  I do think wherever he goes he will do his due diligence and pick the best school/program combination in that area and IMO that school would be MD if he went to LA.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
I’m only part of the way through the mock offseason and in another 38 hours I will be done, but in that they had the wiz try to trade porter to the pels for a cousins sign and trade.  Is that something that was actually rumored and if so does this move actually relate to that possibility?

Edit: google tells me that is at least a rumor.
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steadily rumored since end of reg season. another function of maxing a player who cant take you to the Promised Land: keeping him happy & engaged. reuniting Blue2010 teammates is thought to create at least a mutual-selfishness club as a core

 
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thecatch said:
They need second unit offense, and Wall and Gortat wanted to kill each other. I actually kind of like the deal from their end. 
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Yeah I think it's a good basketball deal.  In addition to what you said it also gives them a little luxury tax relief, which is mostly irrelevant from a fan standpoint but can't hurt.

But I still hate it.  This team isn't winning a championship next season, the least they could do for their loyal fans is not make us root for Austin ####### Rivers.

 
modogg said:
I was suspired with how the Lebron stuff broke down, that would be interesting. I still no see way

Houston
can pull it off without gutting what they have, but they presented a case for it
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Did I hear it right?  Tucker and Gordon?  That's not enough.

 
Short Corner said:
Did I hear it right?  Tucker and Gordon?  That's not enough.
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Duncan opened up part 2 with a recap of deals they had made so far, and there was a really long list of players that went back to Cleveland in the Lebron deal (in addition to the three unprotected 1sts). I don’t remember the list exactly, but it seemed like pretty much everyone except Paul/Harden/Capela/Ariza/Anderson.

 
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And stop spoiling the mock offseason for me! Just started part 2 today. Some of these free agents this year are going to be... disappointed.

 
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