NBA Season 2016/17
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Not particularly excited about the Sun's picks in the draft, and to make matters worse the talk of a trade to liberate Porzingis from NY didn't pan out. If we had his presence in the post along with the exciting young back court we have, we'd be instant playoff contenders again. Sigh.
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@canefan said in NBA Season 2016/17:
@barbarian Curry Thompson and Green. All in the second round. That is legendary
@canefan Rubbish. Curry and Thompson were both first round lottery picks!
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Yeah I watched that 09 draft and Curry went no.7 much to the surprise of many commentators at the time.
It wasn't a very strong draft with Blake Griffin and Harden the only real notables. There was lots of noise around Brandon Jennings given his year in Europe after High School. Jennings was a HS phenom. I think most expected DeRozan to go ahead of Steph.
Two second rounders from that draft that have really pushed on are Danny Green and Patrick Beverley.
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Wow
.... Chris Paul off to Houston.Paul George traded to OKC for Oladipo and Sabonis.
NBA off season is the best.
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Ridiculous money for Blake Griffin, 5 year $173m to stay at the Clips. I'm surprised they could get the insurance for that contract given his injury record.
Loving this offseason so far. Still amazing that Jimmy Buckets is going to the T-Wolves.
What will Heywood do? Boston and Miami knocking on the door big time.
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@Bovidae said in NBA Season 2016/17:
OKC has acquired Paul George from the Pacers in a trade for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. A good move to take some of the scoring pressure off Westbrook but George is a free agent after next season.
OKC are also talking to Rudy Gay.
Westbrook is off contract at the end of next season too
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in NBA Season 2016/17:
Wow
.... Chris Paul off to Houston.Paul George traded to OKC for Oladipo and Sabonis.
NBA off season is the best.
If Paul wanted a better chance to win I reckon he should have gone to San Antonio. James Harden can't guard anyone and he is a ball dominant player
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 2016/17:
Ridiculous money for Blake Griffin, 5 year $173m to stay at the Clips. I'm surprised they could get the insurance for that contract given his injury record.
Loving this offseason so far. Still amazing that Jimmy Buckets is going to the T-Wolves.
What will Heywood do? Boston and Miami knocking on the door big time.
I read somewhere that Boston are the frontrunners for Heywood.
Quite pleased Griffin isn't coming to the Suns but by jingo, that young back court does need some help up front.
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@canefan said in NBA Season 2016/17:
@Bovidae said in NBA Season 2016/17:
OKC has acquired Paul George from the Pacers in a trade for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis. A good move to take some of the scoring pressure off Westbrook but George is a free agent after next season.
OKC are also talking to Rudy Gay.
Westbrook is off contract at the end of next season too
Last throw of the dice before hitting the reset button in OKC.
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@Bovidae said in NBA Season 2016/17:
Or a show of intent they are serious about contending.
The Western Conference is getting even stronger with these trades. GSW will be paying heaps of luxury tax with their max contracts.
I think they need to show serious intent in order to get Westbrook to sign his supermax extension confident that OKC want to make moves to contend
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@shark said in NBA Season 2016/17:
Talk of Carmelo going to the Cavs or Rockets. That'd make either of those teams super teams
How much will the guy move the needle these days? He can still give you 20 points a night, but he is ball dominant and he can't play defence anymore (unless he's been foxing a-la James Harden two years ago)
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The Bulls have waived Rondo. Not surprising but it's funny looking back at all the preseason talk going into the 2016-17 season, Bulls were seen as a playoff side with a starting 5 of D Wade, Butler, Rondo, Lopez and Gibson - it has been a diabolical 'experiment'.
Gibson jumped ship and played a role at OKC, Butler's gone and D Wade may not see the season out but they still owe him $24m.
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@shark said in NBA Season 2016/17:
Talk of Carmelo going to the Cavs or Rockets. That'd make either of those teams super teams
I don't mind Melo. He's an excellent spot up shooter and has become less and less of a ball hog. He played pretty well with Porzingas, but what a debacle of a season for the Knicks.
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@ACT-Crusader said in NBA Season 2016/17:
@shark said in NBA Season 2016/17:
Talk of Carmelo going to the Cavs or Rockets. That'd make either of those teams super teams
I don't mind Melo. He's an excellent spot up shooter and has become less and less of a ball hog. He played pretty well with Porzingas, but what a debacle of a season for the Knicks.
You wouldn't want to lose too many assets to get him though
