How good do you think those guys will be? Fringe All-Stars? All-NBA players? The Bulls are locking themselves into too many other mediocrities, so it'll take a lot of luck to jump from where they are now to contender status.

29-year-old Brad Wanamaker, in the NBA! I can't believe it. And he's a Philly guy too. The first Pitt player to root for in the NBA since... Sam Young? (it's hard to count our one one-and-done player, Steven Adams)

The Bulls are locking themselves into too many other mediocrities, so it'll take a lot of luck to jump from where they are now to contender status.

DeJuan Blair, right?

Lamar Odom has signed! With a team in China, evidently, according to Lamar Odom. Hopefully it's true.

I swear I thought he was dead.

Before that, I'd probably go back to the mid-80s.

How about a lineup of Lebron, Durant, Giannis, Draymond, and Davis?

Yes, the all-NBA team of the last couple of years would be our best bet, I think. We have a remarkable combination of athletic, multi-faceted players many of which have games that translate to any era.

How about a lineup of Lebron, Durant, Giannis, Draymond, and Davis?

I feel like he would be the monster of monsters on the offensive end but he wouldn't be as effective on the defensive end and he might not be able to play as many minutes.

How about a lineup of Lebron, Durant, Giannis, Draymond, and Davis?

I caught some of the Shaq vs Kobe game on NBA TV the other day. It's striking how much the game has changed and I would love if we could transport Shaq in his prime to see how he would fare. I feel like he would be the monster of monsters on the offensive end but he wouldn't be as effective on the defensive end and he might not be able to play as many minutes. Shaq was not, um, a long distance runner, let's say.

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Source confirms five-year, $90 million deal for @CapelaClint with Rockets (@KellyIkoNBA first with agreement; @wojespn first with numbers).

That's not a bad deal for Capela. Seems that the Rockets went longer in order to slightly reduce the AAV. If you're going to sign a long-term deal, might as well do it with someone who is still as young as Capela. From his end, that's a great overall guarantee.

That's 104 million. Seems like he's selling low to me.

(Also side note, please someone hit me with a stun gun the next time I venture outside the NBA/soccer threads. My god.

“James doesn’t have to make every play,” Johnson said, per Lakers.com. “That’s what wears him out, what wears him down. He doesn’t have to make every play now. We got guys that can make plays on their own, so he can relax on offense some."

25% of the cap next year will be like $27 million dollars and he'd get 5% raises on that. Back of the envelope math makes it $116 million~ish.

(Also side note, please someone hit me with a stun gun the next time I venture outside the NBA/soccer threads. My god.)

(Also side note, please someone hit me with a stun gun the next time I venture outside the NBA/soccer threads. My god.)

So, spinning it positively, there is already talk of James + the Young Guys "Baby Death Lineup" and we see that they have some young guys who look like they are decent from the arc, and I think there is some data to support James having "gravity."

Checking the numbers, I see that Hart actually had better RB numbers than KCP and was not that far off of Ball. Ingram and Kuzma were pretty bad, and as you would expect, the team's best rebounders last year were Nance Jr. and Randle, so the overall point is correct.

Also, rebounding is obviously one reason for the switch from Lopez, a notoriously poor rebounder for a guy his size, to McGee.

Don't have the ability to look it up right now but I recall that his team's rebounding rate is significantly higher with him on the floor.

I am having trouble coming up with an insanity-themed nickname for John Collins.

Collinsanity

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"Know no matter if I'm playing in Los Angeles or not, Akron, Ohio is always home for me. Always."

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This works. The "John his meds" thing not so much. Must match "Vinsanity" and "Linsanity," for obvious reasons. Work on Trae Young next, please.

that’s an awfully bleak list of accomplishments for a figure associated with as much upheaval as Jerry Colangelo is in Philadelphia. Jerry will be remembered for pushing out Hinkie. He’ll be remembered for disrupting and short-circuiting Hinkie’s cosmic-brain project, and worse, he’ll be remembered for discarding Hinkie’s cynical, game-theory-esque approach to basketball in favor of [gulp] nepotism. The Colangelos will be remembered for trading up in the draft to select a guy who promptly forgot how to play basketball, and they’ll be remembered for one of the most embarrassing front office scandals in recent NBA history, a disaster that left the team without a general manager during the most important offseason it’s had in nearly a decade.

Supposedly Tristan Thompson and Draymond got in a fight in, like, real life!

This seems very on brand for both guys, especially Thompson, who did absolutely nothing of note on the court all year.

For someone who seems to want a lot of credit, the things he does well are things that don't get a lot of credit.

and a very subtle playing style (good team defender, sets screens, boxes out well, offensive rebounds). For someone who seems to want a lot of credit, the things he does well are things that don't get a lot of credit.

I agree this was true at times in the past, but he was just fully bad this year.

In the regular season, yes. I thought the Cavs played better when they reintegrated him in the playoffs.

I think we have a better team now, and the East is more wide-open now that [LeBron James is] out of the picture

stiggles?