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bigfoot wrote:Clippers could be a rehash of 2024 Suns

bigfoot wrote:Clippers could be a rehash of 2024 Suns

bigfoot wrote:NBA coaches and players making money off of sports betting and FBI goes after them. But its okay for elected official to trade stocks using inside information. What a country!!

Calvin Klein wrote:That Clippers box score is something else...CP3 should have returned to phx. It would have been nice to have him as a leader and maybe play him 15-20 minutes a game

King4Day wrote:Tell me we didn't dodge a bullet by not hiring Billups. Portland extended him this summer or else we likely would have made a real push for him. Def don't need that noise. Hopefully there are no Suns players/personnel that turn up on that list

sunskerr wrote:

bigfoot wrote:NBA coaches and players making money off of sports betting and FBI goes after them. But its okay for elected official to trade stocks using inside information. What a country!!

the bourgeoisie class make the rules and the government is simply the institution by which to keep the economic system going that allows them to live off the labour of the workers so they do not have to engage in any real production.

bwgood77 wrote:

sunskerr wrote:

bigfoot wrote:NBA coaches and players making money off of sports betting and FBI goes after them. But its okay for elected official to trade stocks using inside information. What a country!!

the bourgeoisie class make the rules and the government is simply the institution by which to keep the economic system going that allows them to live off the labour of the workers so they do not have to engage in any real production.

Lots of people trade stocks on inside information. I don't think most politicians have much inside info other than maybe a Trump tariff announcement which seems to move the stock market. Not like the smart money....connected people in the financial world.

bigfoot wrote:NBA coaches and players making money off of sports betting and FBI goes after them. But its okay for elected official to trade stocks using inside information. What a country!!

Mr Puddles wrote:Because we had an obvious path to rebuilding the roster this offseason, I.e. trading Booker to the Magic for the same or a better package they paid for Bane and instead opted that it would be a better idea to move forward with no picks and no capspace for the next 7 years.

Suns have about as little trade options and flexibility as just about any team in the league, so we'll just have to play what we have and hope for the best.

It's what our front office has referred to as "building the team the right way"

handsome salary wrote:

bigfoot wrote:NBA coaches and players making money off of sports betting and FBI goes after them. But its okay for elected official to trade stocks using inside information. What a country!!

Weekly there's new pardons of people who cheat/defraud/steal. Those people have the right connections and behind kissing.

bwgood77 wrote:

handsome salary wrote:

bigfoot wrote:NBA coaches and players making money off of sports betting and FBI goes after them. But its okay for elected official to trade stocks using inside information. What a country!!

Weekly there's new pardons of people who cheat/defraud/steal. Those people have the right connections and behind kissing.

I was thinking how weird it is that the FBI focuses so much time and effort on this when you have such bigger deals, but I guess they can't really go after politicans if they are connected by the President, or pardoned criminals who can pay him.

bwgood77 wrote:

Mr Puddles wrote:Because we had an obvious path to rebuilding the roster this offseason, I.e. trading Booker to the Magic for the same or a better package they paid for Bane and instead opted that it would be a better idea to move forward with no picks and no capspace for the next 7 years.

Suns have about as little trade options and flexibility as just about any team in the league, so we'll just have to play what we have and hope for the best.

It's what our front office has referred to as "building the team the right way"

We could still maybe trade Book to Houston for FVV, Jabari Smith, Reed Shephard, our unprotected 2027 and 2029 picks. I'm not sure about FVV with his player option and I'd probably prefer Tari Eason than Smith but he is on his rookie contract last year, so if it was next offseason not sure how it would work.

They might be pretty good if they could start Book, DFS, KD, Amen Thompson and Sengun and we'd have some younger guys, an expiring FVV (player option next year) and our own picks those two years.

Not sure what Book will want if/when we are like 14-37 or something like that. I mean we will be competitive but we just don't have the talent to compete with a team with the talent of the Clips, and they are probably no better than like the 6 seed. We will have to see how we look against teams like Portland, Utah, the Kings with Sabonis, a healthy Pelicans team, etc. I know there is no reason to tank since we don't have our pick but we likely will be bad anyway for a few years. Might as well reload with more young guys.