Around The NBA : 2024-25 Season

[WesPeace]

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Yuck. I’d much rather pay Coby and Josh than to give 75 million to Devin Booker alone. Reading that almost made me sick lol.

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

[Ice Man]

It's obvious they should be dealing Booker, not extending him. That team will be irrelevant until infants who were born yesterday have received their drivers licenses.

[sco]

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Yuck. I’d much rather pay Coby and Josh than to give 75 million to Devin Booker alone. Reading that almost made me sick lol.

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

If they are committing that much for that long to Booker, plus we've heard rumors that KD will be traded, I would try to seize on their desperation to trade Beal. If they can get below the 2nd apron on the KD deal, we might be able to cobble together our treasure trove of expirings and see if we can get some 1sts to take him. In essence, we'd be getting paid to extend our expirings forward just 1 season.

[PaKii94]

I feel blessed to be able to see Jimmy buckets play next to Steph. I had hoped it would have been on the bulls but alas. Jimmy should have been a bulls lifer. A decade later and he's still an extremely impactful winning player. 38 points on 20 shots.... What a classic Jimmy line

[drosestruts]

NBA Conspiracy Theory

The NBA asked Dallas to trade Luka to LA for the TV Ratings bump, and in exchange, Dallas will win the lottery and draft Flagg.

[jnrjr79]

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Yuck. I’d much rather pay Coby and Josh than to give 75 million to Devin Booker alone. Reading that almost made me sick lol.

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

There's a fixed pot of revenue to split and the players get half of it. If the players get less, owners get more. I can't say I've got a real rooting interest for that, even if the salaries are pretty eye-watering.

[DASMACKDOWN]

It's obvious they should be dealing Booker, not extending him. That team will be irrelevant until infants who were born yesterday have received their drivers licenses.

They are like trying to compound the problem.

Its still hard to believe a franchise that made it to the finals 4 years ago. To the best record in the league 3 years ago. To tear it all down the last 2 season for KD and Beal. That was disaster after disaster.

They should have just held it down. Surprisingly maybe follow AK's advice and just have "continuity"

They were better off keeping Ayton, CP3, Bridges and Cam. They would have still had money to tinker with "the others"

Its's not like they were up against the clock other than CP3.

[WesPeace]

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Yuck. I’d much rather pay Coby and Josh than to give 75 million to Devin Booker alone. Reading that almost made me sick lol.

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

If they are committing that much for that long to Booker, plus we've heard rumors that KD will be traded, I would try to seize on their desperation to trade Beal. If they can get below the 2nd apron on the KD deal, we might be able to cobble together our treasure trove of expirings and see if we can get some 1sts to take him. In essence, we'd be getting paid to extend our expirings forward just 1 season.

Even with some additional draft pick , I dont think I want to see Beal here with Bulls. Not fan of the idea.

He would take away minutes from our younger guys, maybe even ruin chemistry in the team.. lets just focus on younger guys.

[NecessaryEvil]

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[kodo]

Sixers should just be the team photo.
Even with Embiid hurt that team shouldn't be Charlotte/Washington level of bad.

[kodo]

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Yuck. I’d much rather pay Coby and Josh than to give 75 million to Devin Booker alone. Reading that almost made me sick lol.

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

They're in a terrible situation but I'd make the same move.
Phoenix doesn't control its own picks until 2032, so there' no point in blowing it up and trying to rebuild they can't.
Beal won't allow himself to be traded. Between KD & Booker, if you need to win as many games as possible out to 2032, Booker is better due to KD's age & being injury prone.

PHO put itself in a horrific situation but this is the best decision at this point, win every game you can til 2032 and Booker is key to that. Versus what, trade him for a bunch of roleplayers and have Beal run the show? That's just Beal Washington v2.0, which was one of the worst teams in the league. The best way for Phoenix to keep its picks is to reduce their value so they don't get swapped.

But I would worry that the owner is going to continue to push out the rebuild horizon past 2032. Just months ago they could have rebuilt in 2031, but the owner traded the 2031 pick fully unprotected pushing out their horizon 1 more year. If he keeps continuing to do this they're truly screwed since the owner isn't going to fire himself.

[Ice Man]

A very interesting comment from Steve Kerr after yesterday's game. He said that the addition of Butler has enabled Golden State to have a different offensive look than at any other time since he's been there. Specifically, he said that the Warriors have always been a motion team that depends on running and "flying off screens" but that now they don't do those things, when Butler has the ball. They run instead more of an "iso" scheme that depends on Butler's ability to make individual plays & reads.

You don't often hear coaches offer that much insight in a postgame interview about how one player's attributes can affect the team's overall scheme.

[Dan Z]

A very interesting comment from Steve Kerr after yesterday's game. He said that the addition of Butler has enabled Golden State to have a different offensive look than at any other time since he's been there. Specifically, he said that the Warriors have always been a motion team that depends on running and "flying off screens" but that now they don't do those things, when Butler has the ball. They run instead more of an "iso" scheme that depends on Butler's ability to make individual plays & reads.

You don't often hear coaches offer that much insight in a postgame interview about how one player's attributes can affect the team's overall scheme.

I remember during his time on the Bulls Butler said that he wanted to play point guard and help run the offense. Many people laughed at the idea. I. know he's not really a point guard in the traditional sense, but he has helped run offenses.

[NecessaryEvil]

Hard pass. Devin Booker is Lavine with better luck.

75 million is crazy and will make it harder to trade him (if they ever decide to do that).

Are they still talking about trading Durant this off season?

The contracts in professional sports is out of control.

$75m is ridiculous.

Just wait until Wemby extensions and maxes hits.

[sco]

A very interesting comment from Steve Kerr after yesterday's game. He said that the addition of Butler has enabled Golden State to have a different offensive look than at any other time since he's been there. Specifically, he said that the Warriors have always been a motion team that depends on running and "flying off screens" but that now they don't do those things, when Butler has the ball. They run instead more of an "iso" scheme that depends on Butler's ability to make individual plays & reads.

You don't often hear coaches offer that much insight in a postgame interview about how one player's attributes can affect the team's overall scheme.

I remember during his time on the Bulls Butler said that he wanted to play point guard and help run the offense. Many people laughed at the idea. I. know he's not really a point guard in the traditional sense, but he has helped run offenses.

I was ok letting Jimmy go because I was convinced he didn't have many years left being able to play at a high level, but he still gets the job done (when motivated). His BBIQ is off the charts.

[Hangtime84]

A very interesting comment from Steve Kerr after yesterday's game. He said that the addition of Butler has enabled Golden State to have a different offensive look than at any other time since he's been there. Specifically, he said that the Warriors have always been a motion team that depends on running and "flying off screens" but that now they don't do those things, when Butler has the ball. They run instead more of an "iso" scheme that depends on Butler's ability to make individual plays & reads.

You don't often hear coaches offer that much insight in a postgame interview about how one player's attributes can affect the team's overall scheme.

I remember during his time on the Bulls Butler said that he wanted to play point guard and help run the offense. Many people laughed at the idea. I. know he's not really a point guard in the traditional sense, but he has helped run offenses.

I was ok letting Jimmy go because I was convinced he didn't have many years left being able to play at a high level, but he still gets the job done (when motivated). His BBIQ is off the charts.

I felt like during their championship run against the Lakers he out "Lebron" in Lebron James style of basketball. I often think about that comment as well damn he was right. I just wish he wasn't so hollywood. Thank you Marky Mark!!

[Dan Z]

75 million is crazy and will make it harder to trade him (if they ever decide to do that).

Are they still talking about trading Durant this off season?

The contracts in professional sports is out of control.

$75m is ridiculous.

Just wait until Wemby extensions and maxes hits.

I'm sure it'll be crazy but one big difference is that it's possible that Wemby is the best player in the league (if not best then top 5?).

Where does Booker rank today?

[Dan Z]

A very interesting comment from Steve Kerr after yesterday's game. He said that the addition of Butler has enabled Golden State to have a different offensive look than at any other time since he's been there. Specifically, he said that the Warriors have always been a motion team that depends on running and "flying off screens" but that now they don't do those things, when Butler has the ball. They run instead more of an "iso" scheme that depends on Butler's ability to make individual plays & reads.

You don't often hear coaches offer that much insight in a postgame interview about how one player's attributes can affect the team's overall scheme.

I remember during his time on the Bulls Butler said that he wanted to play point guard and help run the offense. Many people laughed at the idea. I. know he's not really a point guard in the traditional sense, but he has helped run offenses.

I was ok letting Jimmy go because I was convinced he didn't have many years left being able to play at a high level, but he still gets the job done (when motivated). His BBIQ is off the charts.

In hindsight trading him wasn't the right decision, but I understood why they did it at that time (but wish they had insisted on keeping the #16 pick too...even if it meant no Kris Dunn).

[Indomitable]

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

If they are committing that much for that long to Booker, plus we've heard rumors that KD will be traded, I would try to seize on their desperation to trade Beal. If they can get below the 2nd apron on the KD deal, we might be able to cobble together our treasure trove of expirings and see if we can get some 1sts to take him. In essence, we'd be getting paid to extend our expirings forward just 1 season.

Even with some additional draft pick , I dont think I want to see Beal here with Bulls. Not fan of the idea.

He would take away minutes from our younger guys, maybe even ruin chemistry in the team.. lets just focus on younger guys.

Why do you want Beal?

[Indomitable]

Yeah, insane, 75M for Booker lol.. like he is MJ on steroids?! this is getting out of hand.
50M should be max contract if you ask me. Players are getting overpaid,by a lot.. a lot of mediocre NBA players are getting overpaid with this overblown spending.

If they are committing that much for that long to Booker, plus we've heard rumors that KD will be traded, I would try to seize on their desperation to trade Beal. If they can get below the 2nd apron on the KD deal, we might be able to cobble together our treasure trove of expirings and see if we can get some 1sts to take him. In essence, we'd be getting paid to extend our expirings forward just 1 season.

Even with some additional draft pick , I dont think I want to see Beal here with Bulls. Not fan of the idea.

He would take away minutes from our younger guys, maybe even ruin chemistry in the team.. lets just focus on younger guys.

Why do you want Beal?