2017 NBA draft game thread
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everyone says jacksons a 'freak' athlete. i am unconvinced. he looks good jumping over college guards and blowing by college pf's. but is he exceptional in the nba?
Crowder and a Memphis pick or they can screw imo. I wouldn't give any top tier assets for a potential one year rental.
Brown, Smart and Celts 2018 I would bet. If the goal is to take on the Warriors, someone on NBA radio said AB was the best defender of Curry in the league. Not my opinion because I know nothing.
Woj pumping the breaks a bit:
Sources: Boston, Indiana talks for Paul George had gained significant momentum, but sides are still apart on a possible deal.
Sources: Boston, Indiana talks for Paul George had gained significant momentum, but sides are still apart on a possible deal.
Probably, but it seemed the leaked George rumor coincided with the Tatum announcement. and wondered if they were linked.
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Sources: Boston, Indiana talks for Paul George had gained significant momentum, but sides are still apart on a possible deal.
Sources: Boston, Indiana talks for Paul George had gained significant momentum, but sides are still apart on a possible deal.
Why would you rent PG13 for a year? And if you wanted to do this, why not do this at the trade deadline and make more of a playoff run? Keep your assets, Danny.
Why would the Celts give up anything of value for Paul George, given his contract status and supposed desire to play in LA? I'm sure I'm missing something.
I really hope Danny doesn't give up too much (i.e. Brown, Tatum, or the Nets 18 pick) for PG. It would really hurt to watch him leave after a year to join the Lakers. It won't hurt as bad if the price is right (Crowder or Smart, the Lakers Pick, or some other Celts pick).
I think that would be an overpay for a 1-year rental.
And one of the points of renting Paul George for a year is to make sure that the Lakers don't get him next year, so I'm thinking that Ainge would keep the LAL/SAC pick to keep a chance at 2 of Ayton/Porter/Doncic/Bamba.
Tatum makes Brown potentially surplus, so Brown might be moved -- but Brown's cost-controlled 21-23 years seem like they should be worth more than one year of George.
The Memphis pick may be as great an asset as any of them. Ainge didn't acquire these future lottery tickets to trade without them having a chance to land at #1. The Grizzlies are on the verge of a free fall if things play out right for us.
What the hell does it mean to gain siginificant momentum, if they are far apart? I am gaining significant momentum on convincing giselle to leave tom and marry me, but we are far apart on whether that will happen or not.
There doesn't seem to be any need to trade for PG now vs. after free agency starts so my guess is these rumors will go on for a while.
Yup. The trade deadline rumors had more value. Unless those rumors were wrong, they settled for less.
Aldridge reporting clippers offered DeAndre Jordan for #3 pick and Ainge passed. Clips were going to take JAckson
I don't see the two players as conflicting. Jaylen is a large 2/3 IMO while Tatum is a 3/4. If they could swing it, I think Brad and Danny would stock their entire team with guys roughly their size for the switching and small ball potential.
Tatum and Brown are kind of redundant. That is the reason I think Brown may be on the table.
Fox, huh? Magic will grab Smith now.
Fox, huh? Magic will grab Smith now.
Agree in principle, but I don't see them dropping to bottom 9 this season, in which case is it all that valuable?
I don't think Brown and Tatum are all that redundant. If anything, Tatum gives Brown more space to isolate and drive, which plays to his strengths.
Even if you think JB is redundant, send him in a package to NY for KP...not for 1 damn year of George.
Ainge has confidence that he can keep him rather than George sacrificing a ton of money to go to LA as a FA. If he wasn't a FA we'd never be in the ballpark with this offer.
Is it just me or is that a horrible trade for the bulls?? I don't think Much of lavine at all and Dunn we will see but he's blah. Celtics easily coulda trumped that.
