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[MrSparkle]

mavs want to add a star without sacrificing their own stars, well, fancy that. who knew teams wanted to add star payers for feck all?

Ha. It's a real breaking story.

[Pax for Prez]

Sixers In Advanced Talks To Hire Daryl Morey

Former Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is close to joining the Sixers to oversee basketball operations, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The sides are in advanced talks and an agreement is expected to be finalized soon, Woj adds. Elton Brand will likely remain as general manager after Morey joins the organization (Twitter link).

[MGB8]

Sixers In Advanced Talks To Hire Daryl Morey

Former Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is close to joining the Sixers to oversee basketball operations, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The sides are in advanced talks and an agreement is expected to be finalized soon, Woj adds. Elton Brand will likely remain as general manager after Morey joins the organization (Twitter link).

Good for the Sixers. Between Doc (and who he has been adding) and Morey, pretty solid moves for that team. Still have to fix a mess of a roster, though.

[MrFortune3]

Well, Morey is one way to fix a roster. They will definitely get shooters.

[jc23]

Doc and Morey could be a great combo.

[Grodoboldo]

(starts playing around with Harden to Philly scenarios in the trade machine)

[Andi Obst]

So the Sixers hire THE analytics GM to be the boss of their GM, who recently put the blame for his incredible incompetence on analytics (after building the most anti-analytical roster imaginable) and wanted to hire more "basketball people" instead. That's...interesting.

[StunnerKO]

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[Michael Jackson]

Well, Morey is one way to fix a roster. They will definitely get shooters.

He will also shake all types of things up perhaps across the whole NBA landscape. He is not afraid to make a move.

[TheStig]

Sixers In Advanced Talks To Hire Daryl Morey

Former Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is close to joining the Sixers to oversee basketball operations, tweets ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The sides are in advanced talks and an agreement is expected to be finalized soon, Woj adds. Elton Brand will likely remain as general manager after Morey joins the organization (Twitter link).

Good for the Sixers. Between Doc (and who he has been adding) and Morey, pretty solid moves for that team. Still have to fix a mess of a roster, though.

Eh, I just think they have to dump Hortford on someone and find a way to get shooters. Like if they figure out a way to do Hortford for Hield, they'd be off to a great start.

[Southpaw]

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Man Rose really would've been special.

As for Morey and the Sixers, that's a really interesting move. Him and Doc could be a nice combo and adds legitimacy to them. AK worked under Morey once right? Could we make a deal with them, maybe involving Simmons?

[Grodoboldo]

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@ShamsCharania: Ahead of next deadline on NBA CBA, NBPA’s Michele Roberts tells @TheAthleticNBA: “The union and the players...will not be rushed. Given all that has to be resolved between now and a Dec. 22 date…it defies common sense that it can all be done in time.”

https://t.co/9uuBAznV15

https://theathletic.com/2167582/2020/10/28/nba-season-restart-proposal-analysis-will-not-be-rushed-nbpa-boss-says?source=user-shared-article

So the NBPA is playing hard ball with the early dates. I think if they want to start later, the owners should then abandon the plan to smooth cap reduction and let it drop to that 90ish million range that was projected. That should compensate for some of the lost revenue.

[PhilLeotardo]

LMAO @ commemorating the random year anniversary of Derrick Rose’s totally meh rookie outing hahaha. Good grief. I distinctly recall after his rookie season (and even after his sophomoric year) everyone basically accepting the fact that the top 2 in that draft were essentially going to be role players

Rose “would have been special” haha. Didn’t he win the “MVP” award? The dude tore his ACL. It’s not like he got abducted by aliens or something lol! Lots of players tear their acls & return to form. Those low iq combo guards who can’t shoot, can’t play defense, and just do A.I. fancy layups never make it that far. Rose was who he was & is who he is

Can’t wait for the next commemorated Rose moment: “on this very day/hour, 13 years 4 months & 6 days ago, at 6:06 AM, Derrick Rose shart*d at a Waffle House on the north side of Albuquerque. Here are some highlights from that afternoon”

[MrSparkle]

LMAO @ commemorating the random year anniversary of Derrick Rose’s totally meh rookie outing hahaha. Good grief. I distinctly recall after his rookie season (and even after his sophomoric year) everyone basically accepting the fact that the top 2 in that draft were essentially going to be role players

Rose “would have been special” haha. Didn’t he win the “MVP” award? The dude tore his ACL. It’s not like he got abducted by aliens or something lol! Lots of players tear their acls & return to form. Those low iq combo guards who can’t shoot, can’t play defense, and just do A.I. fancy layups never make it that far. Rose was who he was & is who he is

Can’t wait for the next commemorated Rose moment: “on this very day/hour, 13 years 4 months & 6 days ago, at 6:06 AM, Derrick Rose shart*d at a Waffle House on the north side of Albuquerque. Here are some highlights from that afternoon”

What?

[TheStig]

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@ShamsCharania: Ahead of next deadline on NBA CBA, NBPA’s Michele Roberts tells @TheAthleticNBA: “The union and the players...will not be rushed. Given all that has to be resolved between now and a Dec. 22 date…it defies common sense that it can all be done in time.”

https://t.co/9uuBAznV15

https://theathletic.com/2167582/2020/10/28/nba-season-restart-proposal-analysis-will-not-be-rushed-nbpa-boss-says?source=user-shared-article

So the NBPA is playing hard ball with the early dates. I think if they want to start later, the owners should then abandon the plan to smooth cap reduction and let it drop to that 90ish million range that was projected. That should compensate for some of the lost revenue.

She's gonna play them right into a lockout...... If the owners are not going to have fans, or the concessions that go with it or a full tv deal share, they will give her the hard ball. The only way this works out well for players is if they jump on this time table.

[MrFortune3]

Well, Morey is one way to fix a roster. They will definitely get shooters.

He will also shake all types of things up perhaps across the whole NBA landscape. He is not afraid to make a move.

They definitely got the right guy to shake things up.

At some point though, they have to decide...Simmons or Embiid. One of them has to go.

[ZOMG]

So Dallas is looking for a "3rd star" to complement Luka and Porzingis. Even if they can somehow pull it off (and I don't really see a way), IMO it's a big mistake.

I don't believe in superteams with three more or less equal stars. These guys have massive egos, and there's only one basketball. The only way to make it work is if one star is the clear Alpha Dog, one is his sidekick and one basically functions as an ordinary role player, having agreed to take a back seat.

Now, Luka is such a ball hog - I'M SORRY, I MEANT BALL-DOMINANT!! - that Dallas is going to have a lot of trouble convincing an established star to join that group just to stand on the perimeter and watch Doncic launch step back threes from mid court.

In fact, I think the Mavs are well aware of all this. Signing Porzingis has turned out to be such a disaster that this search for a "3rd" star mostly looks like damage control. IMO what they're really doing is trying to find a dude to replace KP as Luka's sidekick. Porzingis can't stay healthy and his NBA career could be over very quickly. His future in Dallas looks like a floor spacer and rim protector, nothing more. That's a role he can still fulfill with his broken down body.

Of course, Cuban still has to protect KP's fragile ego by making it seem like the NEW guy would be the complementary piece, the one playing more like a role player.

Overall, though - the era of the 3+ star superteams is over, and it was really more of an experiment to begin with. Two stars/superstars seems to be a number where you can still retain flexibility to get good role players around them and not run into ego problems. The current Lakers are a good example. You absolutely couldn't fit a 3rd main guy there.

[PrimzyBulls81]

I agree. Dallas now doing damage control, KP was a mistake. Luka need different big helper.

Also Silas takes over Houston, interesting choice! Might be good for them, new guy, not recycled old dude.

[DASMACKDOWN]

I think with Morey in Philly, I feel that Simmons and Embiid are on the clock. I can certainly see one of them being traded in a year.