2019-20 NBA Thread
 

The first salvo has been shot with the Lakers agreeing to mortgage their long term future to maximize LeBron's twilight years.
Now it is time for Kyrie and everyone else to make their own moves. This includes Durant and Klay doing so while on the mend.
The Knicks will continue to be a cursed organization.
Who y'all with?

Go Bucks.

They can only get better.

The same expectations with the Knicks. Look forward to our players development. Mitch Robinson is the future. I want coach fiz to bring back the hard playing culture and a fucking system.

Can't wait for summer league

I'm just glad the Knicks drafted RJ Barrett

KD + Kyrie to the Brooklyn NETS

FML

Damn as much as I hate the Knicks, it sucks that no one want's to play for the franchise. Best they can do is second tier players. That fan base deserves an actual owner instead of whatever James Dolan is.

Tons of Knicks fans actually wanted randle over kd after his injury. More upside with development and still young at 24. I was in the middle. But, now I'm glad of the choice.

I would still go for kawhi. I doubt Knicks can get him.

I wish Knicks picked up rondo.

okay now that we know where durant is going and klay is staying, i want to know what kawhi is going to do.

i still cant believe durant signed with the nets, would have never guessed. although 4 years at 164 mil is pretty good, considering you might not ever play at the proficiency he once did due to his injury.

This is amazing how everything is unfolding! Magic Johnson has the Lakers by the balls! The Lakers may lose K. Leonard to the Clippers or Raptors because of their slime ball GM!

KD's shot will always be there. A KD at 80% is still better than 95% of the NBA. On top of that GS was also offering him the Max. If there was any chance that he would never be the player he was, they would have offered him less than Max like that idiot owner in Manhattan was planning to.

If you listen to all the Laker fans working at Espn, Kawahi to the Lakers is a lock much like KD and Kyrie to the Knicks was. Personally I could see him stay in Toronto.

im happy knicks just got payton. we needed a a pf and pg bad. i dunno why the media keeps playing the knicks were the losers in this trade. these are great pick ups.

Knicks
 

The reason is simple, the Owner and the Management are garbage! Stephen A explains it the best, and he is a KNICKS die hard fan.

I don't think it's media rhetoric as much as it's the Knicks for the past 12 months had a plan. They traded away their future because they planned on getting those 2 guy's. When the time came to pitch them on joining the team, the owner shit the bed like he always does.

I understand looking at things as the glass half full like most fans would as to not feel like crap. However to have such a loaded FA class and come out of it with players like Randle, Taj Gibson etc is a complete failure. There is no other way around it. Yes Randle has upside and could develop into a good player. However when have you ever known the Knicks developing players and keeping them? At his best Randle will be a mid tier player but he will never be at KD's level nor will he be at Kyrie's. Payton is a good player off the bench but again there were far better options on the board at the start of FA.

I have been living in Nyc for the past 4 years and from what I've seen the Knicks biggest problem is the fans. They stick with the team no matter what. MSG is always packed no matter how bad the product is. Because of this Dolan feels vindicated in his horrible management of the franchise. Therefore he goes into the room with with KD and tries to pull a Pat Riley take it or leave it type of deal.

Sas sources told him Kyrie was joining the lakers. The Guy, is a idiot.
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The signings were only 2 yr contracts minus randle. This give Knicks flexibility for future moves. The Knicks is actually sticking with the youth to develop. Drafting Knox and Mitch, including undrafted trier was the best thing I seen. Although, we missed on Zion. RJ looks like a solid player and we moved up for a pick for underrated.pf.iggy. this summer league will show case if RJ/Iggy is a bust or legit. Frank was a Phil Jackson project pick. I still have high hopes he will develop to a legit pg or better.

Letting kp go was a better move. Dude kept getting injured and clearly didn't want to be in NYC. He wanted to be treated like a superstar when clearly he hasn't done anything. also we got Dennis Smith Jr out of that trade.

I hear ya on this guy saying the Media is bashing the Knicks but I don't consider Max Media. He's more akin to Skip Bayless. He literally took Skip's spot as the villan on that show once Skip booked it to Fox. Max is trolling Knicks fans, for this dude to actually react to it... I mean... I dunno man... That's like Lebron reacting to trolls all the time. Max is going to keep bashing the Knicks no matter what, well... unless Dolan sells the team. That's what Max Kellerman said anyway.

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funny thing is this has nothing to do with dolan. This is all mills & perry and probably coach fiz.

these moves are not like the old knicks management.

old management would have gotten kemba walker/cousins/butler/horford etc. blow the cap space for any additional role players and kill off any flexability for any future moves.

waiting.....

Kawhi with a huge middle finger to Lebron is headed to the Clippers. Wow that is a pretty big F U. Oh well at least I don't have to see frontrunner Drake talking shit courtside at Heat games. Now he's going back to repping his KD and Steph tattoos lmfao!

He also pulled a Lebron and set things up in the background when he was "thinking really hard" to get OKC to trade PG13 to the Clippers. Damn dude played everyone of those "experts" that said his best choice was the Lakers. Kawhi is just as coldblooded as Lebron is when he leaves a franchise. GG Kawhi

Pg13 and kahwi ....how's that gonna work?

Lock down D is how it works, you also have Pat Beverly. That team is going to be a nightmare in the playoffs


I can hear Pat Riley now working the phones with OKC trying to get Russ.


Lakers just paid Danny Green $15M per... hmm feels alittle overpaid plus they need to fill out that roster and only have $11M left. Interesting turn of events

knicks stay away from russ!!

anyways this my sleeper pick

damn we can't win. lol.

RJ is playing like a bust. i'll give a pass for now.

It's still summer league Fiz is a great coach. He should be able to develop him. He did it with Josh Richardson.


Very happy with Tyler Herro, the kid is ballin out.

Max K. was 100% right with what he said. The Knicks screwed up when they didn't build around Carmelo. The Knick's biggest problem are the draft picks who under-performed.

what are you talking about....its not just the knicks. its the whole nba. greg oden, anthony bennett, darko..etc. were all bust.

we picked up a 2nd rounder iggy. the kid got a motor and just scored 30pts. last year picks were also great talents. franky and RJ has been under performing. but they're still young and maybe needs a bit more time to develope.

You're joking right?
Carmelo was an offensive black hole with a contract that made him hard to build around, all while having a hilarious disinterest in defense.

QFT some people use revisionist history when they look back at the failed Carmelo project. Had the Knicks waited a few months, they would have Melo and that strong core they sent to Denver to get him in the first place. Dolan also did the dumbest thing ever and payed A'mare all that money when his knees were shot. There are 100 reasons why the Melo thing didn't work out. To say that the Knicks didn't try to build around him is wrong in every way. They tried... but no one wants to play for a Dolan run franchise.

Thank You Riq, these guys are lost. The Knicks are done, jump on the Nets bandwagon!

I don't have a favorite basket ball team, I like great defensive games! I like team ball, not hero ball!

Except they got considerably worse this off-season.

Middleton is meh. Brogdon was the second best/second most important player on the roster. Re-signing Bledsoe & Middleton killed this team's bright future.

And then the Lopez deal. :picardfp::picardfp::picardfp:

Here's hoping 2019-20 comes to be known as the season Anfernee Simons arrived.

Do you guys think Melo will fit in with the Lakers if ever LBJ invited him to come?

I want my Lakers to get Nik Stauskas and Kenneth Faried just to solidify the bench.

No, they don't need guys who can't shoot or defend.

I'd prefer they sign a guy like Joakhim Noah to give them energy minutes at the 5 off the bench. 15 minutes a game with him playing something resembling elite defense (which he did in Memphis last year) and being a solid lob threat would be great for the veteran minimum.

sign noah. lol what?

Did you see him with the Grizzlies last year? It seems like the fall out with the Knicks humbled him.

Can anyone tell me why James harden is wearing Ai’s lol I just think that’s so random lol

Hmmmmm, you were saying?

It’s not even debatable that they are the best team in the league and Giannis is on his way to his second straight MVP. The Bucks D is ridiculous. They’ve barely even been contested.

Actually didn’t know adidas owned Reebok.

Not only did the Bucks get better, they got significantly better. Giannis was our last night because his first son was born and they were barely contested. They’re 5-0 when Giannis has been out.

Yup. They also own Taylormade and Runtastic. They also used to own Rockport because it came along with the Reebok acquisition but sold it to new balance.

Nike owns Hurley, converse, Cole Haan, and UMBRO

Random facts:

Adidas wasnt the first company to develop BOOST technology for use in shoes. Theyre just the first to release it. PUMA was the first company to start fucking around with ETPU (what boost really is) with the intention of using it in shoes.

Lebron almost signed with adidas and they already had a signature shoe ready for him but they retracted their initial offer in favor of a lower paying one. He ended up signing with Nike and the rest was history.

I'm losing my shit without basketball

So basically, the Bucks win and Giannis the the MVP.

I was wrong on this one.

I'd 10000000x rather have had Brogdon than Bledsoe, but Middleton is better than I think anyone really realized.

I wish the season hadn't ended, if for nothing else than Lebron taking the MVP from Giannis & winning a championship with a third team.

Season resume postponed till at least July.

I just wanna see a Lakers Bucks Finals already.

Since it'll basically be 4 months until potentially playing again, you think they'll do something like a 1 week "preseason" prior to resuming? Everybody's rusty at this point.

This is among the strangest basketball I have seen in my life

Currently watching the match between Nets and Clippers.

The fans on the screens in the stands crack me up.

Even though this will be a year with an asterisk next to it I still want Giannis to get MVP and a championship.

Seeing some fun basketball in this first round of Playoffs.

Utah/Denver balling it out

TOR scored 150 in regulation?? I didn't watch that game, but wtf!


Portland giving Lakers a nice little run for their money. Don't see the Lakers losing 4 times to them though. Green and KCP are so cold in this series so far. NEED MOAR THREES!

Nice to see Clippers struggling again, because fuck the Clippers. Luka is something special.

I want to see a Bucks/Celtics ECF because those two match-up best against the Lakers.

anyone but the lakers to win it all would be nice

Portland gave the Lakers a run for a game, then reality apparently returned to the building. Especially last night

Giannis wins DPOTY. MVP and the Championship next.

Interesting to see what the developments of today will do for the rest of the playoffs.

So nice to see lebron james, one of the richest black americans, stand up to racism in america! Lmfao..now thats halirous

Being a diehard laker fan, I’m to the point with this shit let
The clippers and lakers sit their ass out and let’s finish the season without them. It’s ridiculous at this point. Cracks me up when people talk about educated athletes and how they’re so smart to take a stand. Uh..most of these dudes didn’t even go to college, and probably had others doing their homework (with a rare exception of some I will say).

Lebron and other popular faces of the nba, dont care.....it more effects other players on the team, ones that are are 1 yr contrracts. Make it or break it years.... this is where it hurts.

After all this protest in sports, jersey names, owners spending millions..what has it done? Nothing! No reform, no new laws nothing. Leave the politics out of sports!!! Nba is all time low for viewers(when people were begging for sports to come back) wonder why?!

Atleast the nhl is still going!

Edit...nvm nhl canceled 2 games today too..smh

Loud Noises exists for this kind of shit

Thanks for the neg rep boss! Lmao

Last time i checked lebron is an nba superstar. And this is the nba thread..... and didnt the nba pause play due to social issuses....philp tell lebron to just play basketball...no politics in the NBA

The first deleted post apparently wasn't enough of a warning.

No warnings anywhere eles given in the thread either.... great u follow suit with everyone.....

Bucks and Lakers finish business...

Giannis is his own brand of a monster out there.

It seems that small ball is the hill that Houston insists they will die upon.

Bucks started off ballin the first quarter and slowly fell apart the rest of the game. That last quarter was pretty rough. They’ll regroup.

Heat bringing that trophy home!

Milwaukee is not playing like the best team in their conference.
Or Miami is doing a bangup job of punching above their weight class.

Yeah from the looks of it, that could be a 7-game series. Miami's role players are all effectively doing their roles.

The two game 7's in the past couple of days were more defense-driven aka more fun to watch. LAL vs HOU would be a more fun to watch match-up anyways.

LAC vs DEN also might be a fun series to watch.

If Houston is willing to live and die with small ball, LeBron and AD will both average 30+ point double doubles in this series

Yeah I'm calling lakers in 5 on that one.

Clips in 7 (could be way off on this one, i actually don't know how these two match up)

Celtics in 6

Bucks in 7

Look, if the Bucks didn't wanna win, all they had to do was say that

Honestly they look like a different team. Their heads don’t seem in it.

Damn
If the Lakers didn't want to win a championship, all they had to do was say that

Time for Giannis to leave Milwaukee? I'm thinking he'll go to Toronto.

So the Lakers figured out that they are the Lakers and the Bucks needed a miracle to live another day.

Fucking better not. All this damn money these owners and city put into this trash franchise because of him.

Times have changed... Y'all better get ready for the jersey burning parties.
Blame the franchise though. Jason Kidd shouldn't have been let go and "Giannis or bust" should not have been the game plan.

Well that sucked.

Go Pack Go.

I went to sleep at halftime. LeBron had 29 and "only" finished with 36?

AD took over offensively and Rondo somehow became a 3-pt shooter. Lebron played D because no one else was. Big win. Last night's game was Houston's "give it everything we've got" game.

It seems Boston has positioned themselves directly on the precipice of embarrassing themselves.

Man, I'm still rooting for the Celtics to win this year, Denver at close second.

One thing is for certain, Boston will not be able to play down to Miami. The Hear are either playing like they have nothing to lose or Milwaukee was never what they were crowned as.

Ahahaha fuck the Clippers. Let’s go lake show! As much as I’m glad the Clippers lost, they would have been an easier opponent for the lakers in the WCF. However, the nuggets will
Be fun to see jokic and Davis.

Man, Jokic vs Davis. That's what I call battle of the titans!

Damn
The Clippers spent all that money just to wind up still being the Clippers in the end.

Damn big respect to Murray after witnessing this playoff run by Denver. That Clippers is real though I love it hahahaha.

Lakers in 5 though.

The 07-08 Nuggets were the team that really got me into the NBA
Hoping they can get some redemption for the 2009 matchup

Jokic is a superstar, love to see a center dominating like that

If the Celtics mess around and blow this game you can stick a fork in them.

Heat up 2-0.....

Davis is going to have the better performance I think. We play better d on the perimeter than clippers did. He won?t have as many uncontested 3?s as he did the last two series.

Probably true, I went on Basketball Reference and saw AD averages 29ppg against Jokic in his career

Pretty sure he dropped 50 on them not too long ago too. Nuggets deserve to be there though, I'm hoping for a good series. I'd also love to see JR get some run in this series, he played in the 09 one!

The Nuggets were clearly outplayed last night. I don't see this lasting long at this rate

So lover lining, 2 time Giannis MVP.