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  1. LA_33

    The 2025 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    The end of that piece clarifies that the Cavs can't trade a 1st until 2031, which I think means they can only include 1. Given the level of interest there appears to be in Johnson, I think the Nets are pretty likely to be able to get more than one 1st, so I'm not sure that the Cavs will be...
  2. LA_33

    The 2025 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    Most of the other teams who have rumored interest in Butler actually might be playoff threats, at least under ideal circumstances. I tend to think that a Houston deal really doesn't make sense for either side until next summer, when Jalen Green on his extension can be the primary outgoing value...
  3. LA_33

    The 2025 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    I feel like the only alpha-asshole Durant has ever openly tired of was Draymond, and he seems like a special kind of asshole. And even then, KD’s FA move may have been more about wanting to win without Steph to secure his legacy, or whatever. He seemed loyal to Kyrie to the end, he actively...
  4. LA_33

    The 2025 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    I think he might, actually, by taking on the primary ballhandler role, and making Durant and Book finishers more often instead of creators. No numbers to support it, but my sense is that Butler does a good job of creating threes for other players (in the way “let Westbrook create everything for...
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    Does Cleveland Rock? The 2024-2025 Cavs Thread!

    Where the lines are set isn't really the point, though, is it? Regardless of where the bets are being placed, NYK over Cavs feels to me like "Not a lot of sharp money on either team at those odds, and MUCH more casual action on the Knicks than the Cavs, even if the Cavs are clearly better."...
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    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    I think the biggest issue for Phoenix wanting Butler is actually Beal’s no-trade clause. I can’t see Beal wanting to go to Miami when it’s entirely his choice to stay in Phoenix instead. And when you start to talk about shipping him to a 3rd team, I think Beal accepting a trade is even less...
  7. LA_33

    The 2025 NBA Trade Deadline Thread

    Cam Johnson would be legitimately worrisome in OKC, he’d actually make them better, and they’re already a top-3 team.
  8. LA_33

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    I think Cade is a star, and will keep getting better, but I’m with HRB on that not even being a question, it’s Ant without a second thought. He can be very immature. But he actually seems pretty coachable, and he still largely makes the right plays when he’s doubled, even as he’s whining about...
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    Celtics sign Lonnie Walker IV

    In terms of that specific example, I doubt Detroit will break up the $14m in cap space they were able to create to take on a $4m salary, unless it’s very last minute and the best they can do with the bulk of that space is taking on someone under $10m who leaves space for Springer. Boston...
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    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    I’ve also seen somewhere (can’t find it quickly now, but it felt reputable; Stein?) that not only did Memphis want to protect their 2025 1st, but they wanted Brooklyn’s 2nd back in the deal, too. So it might not even have been an outright 1st, it was more like Brooklyn moving up from the...
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    Wembanyamarama

    NYC is great, and it’s fun to be there and root for better sports teams from elsewhere who most of the locals hate.
  12. LA_33

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    Who is even healthy for them right now? Jonathan Issac, somehow, right? But beyond that I have no idea…
  13. LA_33

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    The Stein report above claims Grizz offered a protected late 1st (with “F. You, Kennard!” and Konchar (overpaid now, but useful) and Brooklyn preferred 3 Laker 2nds. Which I can see, especially given two of the Laker picks are going to be post-LeBron, when Lakers might be very bad.
  14. LA_33

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    I think there’s some PR value to adding D-Lo for Nets, he was popular there previously (when he was better) and can put up some points to keep fans entertained while they tank. Their D will be BAD, so they still aren’t going to win games (Schroder is better at this point, IMO, and they lost a...
  15. LA_33

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    Of the places who might actually value Bulter for the next year or two and where he potentially fits, GS seems like the best combo of motivated to make a real offer, and having pieces to move. The value+salary matching isn’t ideal, because I’m sure they’d prefer to keep Wiggins if Kuminga is...
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    Payton Pritchard says PRabbit, PRabbit on the First of Every Month

    I’d suspect two things about those D-DPM results: 1. I think it’s probably over-attributing team/lineup-wide defensive drop off (in a relative sense) to Pritchard playing more over the same stretch, when I don’t believe those two things are necessarily all that causal. The C’s haven’t been...
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    Baylor Scheierman - 30th pick, RD1

    Stevens and especially Brissett are probably both in the top tier of prime-ages guys who aren't on a roster right now. But there just aren't any roster spots available. Neither are as good as Lonnie Walker, IMO, and he couldn't get an NBA job, either. It seems like as older vets tend to play...
  18. LA_33

    General NBA season thread: 24-25 edition

    I strongly suspect that this new TV contract is the last time the NBA’s games broadcast rights contracts will be correctly described as “TV contracts”. it seems like the NBA made a very careful flip in how they thought about game delivery with this negotiation, prioritizing and likely insisting...
  19. LA_33

    Wyc ownership group planning to make Celtics available for sale

    I think for these purposes, Knicks don’t technically own MSG, either, although it’s all controlled by Dolan, so that’s a technicality, not the reality. Either way, the Nets owning that brand new building, in a prime location on Brooklyn, is a huge driver of them being top-5. That arena s...
  20. LA_33

    NBA Cup 2024 discussion & gamethread: It's On. We'll Watch.

    I still can’t shake the idea that the Bucks are the biggest threats to the C’s in the East, if EVERYTHING breaks right for them. “Giannis isn’t human” + “Just enough shooting to randomly win the 3 point battle four times in a series” seems like a path to scare the C’s. That’s especially true...
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