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I think they were partially calling the rest of the league's and Ayton's bluff, hoping they could get the price down even more once he didn't have anywhere else to land. If their idea was either get Ayton closer to 4/110 or something and keep him or match an offer sheet to trade him next offseason, what they did makes sense from a financial standpoint. Doesn't make as much sense from a holistic standpoint being that Ayton is a real person and not a widget and is likely to be pretty pissed.
Doing it this way keeps them out of that rookie contract exception thing too. So they can take Ben Simmons on if they want to.
No poison pills, no player options, no trade kickers, just a straight up deal. Pacers made it easy on the Suns to match.
Hopefully they simplify some things in the next cba.
They avoided the designated extension the moment they let his contract expire. Even if they five-year-maxed him he would not have the extension designation.
Pretty easy. Make a rule that a player making at least 90% of his max cannot be traded for X number of year. (Probably with the exception of an initial sign-and-trade.)
Gotta remember that losing that many games also means losing Millions and Millions of revenue dollars for owners. Just never gonna happen.
This kind of applies to almost any topic now that every "joe six-pack" has a forum with social media. There's no topic safe from trolls or angry losers.
Get off social media. It’s a time suck, the people are either evil, dumb or toxic or all 3 combined. You learn almost nothing accept how not to appreciate anything.
this is the crux of it
Yup. A while back I realized I was addicted to Twitter. I don’t have tiktok or snapass and don’t use Facebook much but I didn’t like how much I was on Twitter. So I started buying a lot more books - not on kindle, because that’s too easy to just toggle over to Twitter, but real books. It’s helped keep me off all that garbage as much.
Looks like the house already knew about this. Sucks for the kid.
it depends a little bit on whether it was a full tear or not. I think it's fairly safe to say that it takes 12 months to really be back, but some guys can be technically cleared in as little as like 8, I think. Spencer Dinwiddie is probably the quickest recovery that I know of, although he wasn't totally right, it seemed.
Dude just wasn't that good during the regular season and then turned it on and got hot a few times in the playoffs. He's a great player, but is simply inconsistent during the season. I thought the calls that he should have been 1st team All-NBA because of how great he was during the playoffs totally missed that he was extremely inefficient throughout the season offensively. His defense and effort are usually there, but he can go cold as often as he gets hot.
can remember watching him play at Marquette and thinking the guy was terrific energy-wise and could sink his teeth in on D but his offense was.... offensive.
That’s why they are saying to prepare for a lockout. I think this gets addressed one way or another. No clue how restrictive, but they are going to cut down on players creating super teams on their own or signing these contracts that exist solely to give the “home” team an advantage over free agency to only see guys sign the deals and then want traded.
Love this take. Denver will only go as far as the health of Murray and MPJ--without them this will another one and done year.
nuggets and avs aren't shown on most local cable systems in Denver due to some standoff between the kroenkes and the cable companies over payment.
Appears that BRK had no interest in Ayton. And if that is/was the case, there is still a deal possibility in Bridges, Johnson, Crowder and all the picks
It's like every season since Jerry Buss died is an attempt to plumb new depths of disfunction.
To help combat that on the Nuggets' side, I upgraded to a half season ticket plan. Pretty excited for that. I don't understand why they won't just release a streaming option for altitude. I would pay 30 bucks a month from October to May.
