2024-25 NBA Thread: Kevin Love fulfillls destiny by being traded to Utah (43 Viewers)

[msudaisy26]

Also sounds like the Clips are the leaders for Paul.

So Harden-Beal-Zubac-Collins-Kawhi with Paul, Lopez, Bogdanovic, Derrick Jones off the bench? That’s the real unc team. Looks good on paper but doubt they can get through 4 rounds of the playoffs healthy.

At best they are a second round team in the West. Probably the favorite in the East.

 

[Capella]

West is fun as hell though.

OKC and Denver in the very first tier.

Houston right after them with Minnesota and I think if the Paul-Beal things happen LAC a half-step behind them maybe. Clippers maybe most upside in the whole league if everybody can stay healthy (spoiler: they cannot).

Lakers have issues but LeBron and Luka together is no easy task either.

 

[Yo Mama]

Miami is in a tough spot. They are going to have to make a decision on Herro soon. The dude is a great offensive player and can be fun to watch—but we’re probably talking about a guy that’s going to want $35-40mil a year on an extension.

Yea no way in hell. He’s a guy they go after on every defensive possession in the playoffs. He can score but if you give him 35M you are in hell.

They’ll also have to figure out how much they want to pay Norm Powell now too since he’s a UFA after this season. Clippers didn’t want to pay him next year.

 

[Desert_Power]

Always kinda liked Collins. Thought he was an underrated part of the Hawks deep run.

I liked Collins a lot a while ago, but when next season starts that conference finals run was five years ago and he has been mostly bad since then. He had decent numbers last year, but it was for a team that was tanking.

The only good part is he is on the last year of his deal.

Time is a son of a *****

 

[jvdesigns2002]

Also sounds like the Clips are the leaders for Paul.

So Harden-Beal-Zubac-Collins-Kawhi with Paul, Lopez, Bogdanovic, Derrick Jones off the bench? That’s the real unc team. Looks good on paper but doubt they can get through 4 rounds of the playoffs healthy.

That team is built to win 55 regular season games and lose by 55 points in game 7 of the second round of the playoffs.

A lot of potential egos on that roster as well. If Lue can manage those personalities and extract maximum output out of them—the talent is there. The ability to stay healthy will certainly be a key factor. One thing that I like about the Collins and Lopez pairing is that those are bigs that can spread the floor. Collins has added 3-point range to his game and he shot nearly 40% from there last season.

 

[Capella]

Miami is in a tough spot. They are going to have to make a decision on Herro soon. The dude is a great offensive player and can be fun to watch—but we’re probably talking about a guy that’s going to want $35-40mil a year on an extension.

Yea no way in hell. He’s a guy they go after on every defensive possession in the playoffs. He can score but if you give him 35M you are in hell.

They’ll also have to figure out how much they want to pay Norm Powell now too since he’s a UFA after this season. Clippers didn’t want to pay him next year.

They’re in no man’s land. Lots of decent players, no stars, really no chance of winning a title but maybe you have to pay Herro and Powell? Riley will never tank and I don’t know if they even have all their draft picks if they wanted to. They should probably clear cap space for the next potential mega-free agent. Too bad for them Luka is in what is probably the only more desirable city.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

The Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz and Miami Heat have reportedly pulled off a three-team trade that is sending Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to L.A. and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson and a 2027 second-round Clippers draft pick to the Jazz

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What are the Jazz doing?


ETA (from twitter) -

Jazz turned Collin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson and John Collins into:

- Jusuf Nurkic
- Kyle Anderson
- Kevin Love

Jazz: (After falling to #5 with league worst record) "We're not tanking again!"

 

[GOB]

The Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz and Miami Heat have reportedly pulled off a three-team trade that is sending Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to L.A. and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson and a 2027 second-round Clippers draft pick to the Jazz

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What are the Jazz doing?


ETA (from twitter) -

Jazz turned Collin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson and John Collins into:

- Jusuf Nurkic
- Kyle Anderson
- Kevin Love

Jazz: (After falling to #5 after league worst record) "We're not tanking again!"

That's the azz to you, buddy

 

[Yo Mama]

Blazers are no longer sending any 2nd rounders to the Celtics in the Jrue Holiday deal.

“According to the source, a recent review of Holiday’s medicals revealed nothing substantial enough to warrant the trade being negated. However, there was enough there to lead the Blazers to slightly alter the terms of the deal.”

Straight player swap now.

https://x.com/aaronjfentress/status/1942274803274240101?s=46&t=y6cC9YGHSWmPAqN66itfRA

 

[General Malaise]

Blazers are no longer sending any 2nd rounders to the Celtics in the Jrue Holiday deal.

“According to the source, a recent review of Holiday’s medicals revealed nothing substantial enough to warrant the trade being negated. However, there was enough there to lead the Blazers to slightly alter the terms of the deal.”

Straight player swap now.

https://x.com/aaronjfentress/status/1942274803274240101?s=46&t=y6cC9YGHSWmPAqN66itfRA

NOTHING STOPPING US NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111

 

[General Malaise]

Played disc golf and had lunch with a fella who runs a web service devoted to high school basketball players and has been covering the sport for decades. Super nice guy but the last thing that resembles a basketball player - he's like 5'5" and a balding Asian man. But his brain is an encyclopedia of basketball knowledge. My twins joined us for the outing and I told them to ask Jed anything and everything about basketball and they did. One question they asked was 'who was the best HS player you covered from the state of Oregon". Without missing a beat he said "Kevin Love". He listed off a few but Love was his 1.01.

 

[Jayrod]

The Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz and Miami Heat have reportedly pulled off a three-team trade that is sending Norman Powell to Miami, John Collins to L.A. and Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson and a 2027 second-round Clippers draft pick to the Jazz

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What are the Jazz doing?


ETA (from twitter) -

Jazz turned Collin Sexton, Jordan Clarkson and John Collins into:

- Jusuf Nurkic
- Kyle Anderson
- Kevin Love

Jazz: (After falling to #5 after league worst record) "We're not tanking again!"

That's the azz to you, buddy

You win the truncated team name contest hands down. Kinda jealous I didn't think of it first.

 

[Capella]

@GOB let’s go

 

[GOB]

@GOB let’s go

LFG!!!

You know who else is getting the max* extension??? Mrs. GOB.

*Vet minimum numbers if we are honest

 

[Capella]

@GOB let’s go

LFG!!!

You know who else is getting the max* extension??? Mrs. GOB.

*Vet minimum numbers if we are honest

Gave my wife the mid level as always