NBA 2024-25 Season Thread
Lettuce NBA!
and lettuce lol @ James Harden
24M is peanuts to a franchise worth 5billion plus there are other ways of shaving 5M of luxury tax than trading your megasuper star
honestly sounds Mavs GM got drunk on a night out in LA
Extremely wealthy ppl are, as a group, famously cheap compared to the average joe (and is often a part of why the arrived in the group)
Did you know part of the reason why billionaires buy sports teams in the first place is to avoid millions in taxes?
Would never underestimate the power of saving a few bucks when it comes to the guys
maybe some teams rip the bandaid off
embiid next?
Maybe Jeanie is hot for Luka.
I'll make the O/U on games played for the Mavs by AD 200.
The Lakers have their next Hollywood superstar post LeBron, obviously.
Meantime Lakers gonna need two balls for two guys to lead the league in dribbling.
yeah guys it's straight genius to strip your $5b asset and sell off the valuable parts, turning them into the ****ing pittsburgh pirates
#trillionairemindset #freemoney #winning
yeah guys it's straight genius to strip your $5b asset and sell off the valuable parts, turning them into the ****ing pittsburgh pirates
#trillionairemindset #freemoney #winning
I mean this **** works when the public pays for your stadium and there’s someone down the line to buy it from you.
None of these Wayne Huzienga / John Fisher types ever actually lose money AFAIK
i mean sure, but i think it's way more profitable (and fun) to have a good team with superstars like luka than a bare minimum pile of **** just collecting your share of the tv money
Whatever else, ****ing Luka out of a super max on the way out the door is high stakes pettiness I can get behind
Pretty epic bedshitting by the Sixers.
It doesn't matter if Luka fell off a cliff and is in multiple pieces. You still don't make this trade because of the chances you can rebuild him.
Mavs much too high.
If it comes out something is wrong with Luka, fine, trade him to OKC for every pick + CHET. This deal makes nonsense.
I'm hearing that Luca has a big time drinking problem.
De'Aron Fox to the Spurs. LaVine to the Kings.
Famous cokehead KAI probably got him hooked
If Dallas can get a Butler or a LaVine I think they can convince themselves that they have a chance.
Davis is an unreal player.
Good luck to JKidd playing him at his preferred position of power forward
Here is the whole deal:
Spurs get:
De'Aaron Fox
Jordan McLaughlin
Kings get:
Zach LaVine
Sidy Cissoko
2025 first-round pick (via Hornets)
2027 first-round pick (via Spurs)
2031 first-round pick (via Timberwolves)
2025 second-round pick (via Bulls)
2028 second-round pick (via Nuggets)
2028 second-round pick (via Kings, sent to Bulls in DeMar DeRozan trade)
Bulls get:
Zach Collins
Tre Jones
Kevin Huerter
did all those firsts come from the spurs or did bulls have to throw any in to get off lavine deal? id assume all from spurs
still pretty nice for them
also pretty smart by fox forcing his way on the wemby wagon before others tried to
Wild.
Some more pick context.
Bulls also got their 25 first back.
So there’s a nonzero chance the kings just got Flagg, among other things, for fox. Edit: nvm didn’t see it protected
And the mavs out there just being the worst
Spurs going to be unstoppable with Wemby.
Lavine and Derozan reunited!
Spurs have nonzero equity at Flagg due to owning ATL's 2025 unprotected pick.
I got Spurs at 600-1 to title when I heard the Fox news earlier this week.
Now they're 150-1.
west is a free for all
besides OKC and maybe Denver, pretty much everyone else you give a good chance to either lose rd 1 or not make the playoffs at all
