All things Offseason of Champions Thread

[Devilanche]

Where is Dieng in your planning.

He's gone. You don't even give him a QO next off-season.


As long as I'm getting rid of players, Erik Reynolds II is cut from Summer League and banned from any future contract with anything related to OKC. Did anyone else see him make a bucket in the wrong end of the court and score for the Nets off the jump ball?

The only extension left to negotiate is dieng’s extension I believe . The cherry on top of a very well run offseason .

[Clav]

Where is Dieng in your planning.

He's gone. You don't even give him a QO next off-season.


As long as I'm getting rid of players, Erik Reynolds II is cut from Summer League and banned from any future contract with anything related to OKC. Did anyone else see him make a bucket in the wrong end of the court and score for the Nets off the jump ball?

The only extension left to negotiate is dieng’s extension I believe . The cherry on top of a very well run offseason .

Dieng is out for me, too.

Re- Kizz - yes I saw that guy score on OUR bucket after the jump ball.

Guy on our team yelled "No! No! No!" and it was picked up on the area mics

Reynolds seems like a great player for the Jazz though. [in jest]

[Xatticus]

i'm dadouving the **** out of myself on this Fluminense x chelsea, except that i actually have reasons to be panicking lmao

it was a good game. Funny our clubs met in the semis of this silly tournament lol

I was actually excited by this tournament, but I've barely watched any of it. It has always rankled me that champions of American leagues are declared world champions without having to prove it. I love the idea of this tournament. I wanted to see the Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican, etc... clubs matching up against the big European clubs in a prestigious tournament. There has been so much resistance to it for selfish reasons and then having the initial tournament held in the United States was an odd choice. You can count on UEFA screwing up anything they touch.

[bbms]

i'm dadouving the **** out of myself on this Fluminense x chelsea, except that i actually have reasons to be panicking lmao

it was a good game. Funny our clubs met in the semis of this silly tournament lol

I was actually excited by this tournament, but I've barely watched any of it. It has always rankled me that champions of American leagues are declared world champions without having to prove it. I love the idea of this tournament. I wanted to see the Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican, etc... clubs matching up against the big European clubs in a prestigious tournament. There has been so much resistance to it for selfish reasons and then having the initial tournament held in the United States was an odd choice. You can count on UEFA screwing up anything they touch.

i think it was fantastic for the memes and for me, personally, it was great - the anticipation, the pride, the unknown of when Flu might get involved in a tournament like this again, the bragging rights of being top 4 with the bottom budget of all final 16 - but i feel that it's more of a third worldist sentiment.

this final game Flu was completely outplayed but it's still crushing that the deciding factor of it was a Flu academy product bought in mid tournament for 50 mi pounds on two GOLAZOS that he didn't even celebrate... **** uefa and their overpriced product they can't replicate this story.

just hope the brazilian sides improve at selling tv rights because there's no reason the premier league should be higher selling in the us than the brasileirao - there's time zone synergy and memes.

[Dadouv47]

it was a good game. Funny our clubs met in the semis of this silly tournament lol

I was actually excited by this tournament, but I've barely watched any of it. It has always rankled me that champions of American leagues are declared world champions without having to prove it. I love the idea of this tournament. I wanted to see the Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican, etc... clubs matching up against the big European clubs in a prestigious tournament. There has been so much resistance to it for selfish reasons and then having the initial tournament held in the United States was an odd choice. You can count on UEFA screwing up anything they touch.

i think it was fantastic for the memes and for me, personally, it was great - the anticipation, the pride, the unknown of when Flu might get involved in a tournament like this again, the bragging rights of being top 4 with the bottom budget of all final 16 - but i feel that it's more of a third worldist sentiment.

this final game Flu was completely outplayed but it's still crushing that the deciding factor of it was a Flu academy product bought in mid tournament for 50 mi pounds on two GOLAZOS that he didn't even celebrate... **** uefa and their overpriced product they can't replicate this story.

just hope the brazilian sides improve at selling tv rights because there's no reason the premier league should be higher selling in the us than the brasileirao - there's time zone synergy and memes.

this is like saying OKC had a better watching product in 2021 because they had amazing memes from Poku and Bazley.

[bbms]

I was actually excited by this tournament, but I've barely watched any of it. It has always rankled me that champions of American leagues are declared world champions without having to prove it. I love the idea of this tournament. I wanted to see the Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican, etc... clubs matching up against the big European clubs in a prestigious tournament. There has been so much resistance to it for selfish reasons and then having the initial tournament held in the United States was an odd choice. You can count on UEFA screwing up anything they touch.

i think it was fantastic for the memes and for me, personally, it was great - the anticipation, the pride, the unknown of when Flu might get involved in a tournament like this again, the bragging rights of being top 4 with the bottom budget of all final 16 - but i feel that it's more of a third worldist sentiment.

this final game Flu was completely outplayed but it's still crushing that the deciding factor of it was a Flu academy product bought in mid tournament for 50 mi pounds on two GOLAZOS that he didn't even celebrate... **** uefa and their overpriced product they can't replicate this story.

just hope the brazilian sides improve at selling tv rights because there's no reason the premier league should be higher selling in the us than the brasileirao - there's time zone synergy and memes.

this is like saying OKC had a better watching product in 2021 because they had amazing memes from Poku and Bazley.

tell me 5 better stories in global sports in the past few years then flamengo libertadores 2019, Fuminense libertadores in 2023 and meltdown in 2024, botafogo's meltdown and glory in 2023 and 2024, you can't make that **** up.

[Dadouv47]

i think it was fantastic for the memes and for me, personally, it was great - the anticipation, the pride, the unknown of when Flu might get involved in a tournament like this again, the bragging rights of being top 4 with the bottom budget of all final 16 - but i feel that it's more of a third worldist sentiment.

this final game Flu was completely outplayed but it's still crushing that the deciding factor of it was a Flu academy product bought in mid tournament for 50 mi pounds on two GOLAZOS that he didn't even celebrate... **** uefa and their overpriced product they can't replicate this story.

just hope the brazilian sides improve at selling tv rights because there's no reason the premier league should be higher selling in the us than the brasileirao - there's time zone synergy and memes.

this is like saying OKC had a better watching product in 2021 because they had amazing memes from Poku and Bazley.

tell me 5 better stories in global sports in the past few years then flamengo libertadores 2019, Fuminense libertadores in 2023 and meltdown in 2024, botafogo's meltdown and glory in 2023 and 2024, you can't make that **** up.

Libertadores and local championship are different animals but the money issue and lack of salary cap is slowly killing soccer. Brazilian football level is so bad that it's just not worth watching it and I gave up a while ago (average level is lower than it ever was). Your team can have a rookie Shai/JDub/Chet and lose him after year one or two at best to middle east or Europe.

You have 2-3 great stories every now and then but it's just not a good product anymore because of a dozen of bilionnaires over the world that can buy teams when they want and have no financial constraints like they do in American Sports. I don't like many things in the US but I became an NBA fan (and now an NFL fan as well) also because you have at least some level of parity. OKC is the perfect example of that. You can't live in a medium-sized city and think your local soccer team might win something big (it was pretty rare but still used to happen a bit before).

[Dadouv47]

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we just drafted the next Caruso with a better offense. This isn't a summer league overreaction of course.

[Dadouv47]

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that's lame. not a good teammate.

[Kizz Fastfists]

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that's lame. not a good teammate.

Let' me pretend I'm a journalist for a moment...

I heard a rumor from sources, a.k.a. a random fictional thought in my head, that Luka wants to play with SGA. If we assume that Presti is less mentally (Please Use More Appropriate Word) than Nico Harrison that rules out OKC gifting SGA to LAL. So perhaps OKC can send JDub to LAL for Luka. Get rid of that bum that refuses to share his money with his teammates and is a clearly a locker room cancer dragging down the team. If JDub doesn't get moved soon team chemistry will become a major concern as his selfishness will poison the locker room.

[Devilanche]

Anything for me to get excited in summer league ? Other than potentially having someone who can make baskets on both ends ?

[Clav]

Anything for me to get excited in summer league ? Other than potentially having someone who can make baskets on both ends ?

It's not that exciting, but if we win today vs ORL we will be 3-0. Only the struggling NOLA team after this one.

In that situation, if we end up 4-0, we could be in-line for the semifinals and finals, but I don't think we will win it all lol In fact I think the NOLA game will be deep bench players so could go either way.


For other teams, I mean, pick a guy you wanna see and they may play but most teams are filtering a deep lineup or even resting players if they just get a little dinged up.

Personally, I've enjoyed the Wizards SL team with Sarr and Tre Johnson, Bub Carrington. I also liked the ATL team which has some good talent as well. Kings are playing well also and they won the GL Title so their squad has some of those guys on it. Otherwise, it's just basketball. I'm only able to watch the evening games so I'm gonna miss ours today

[Dadouv47]

Presti is crazy enough to trade our core and rebuild around Yang Hansen. It would be fun I won't deny.

[Devilanche]

Typing even that is summer league madness.

[Thabo Sefolosha]

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[mr570]

Where is Dieng in your planning.

He's gone. You don't even give him a QO next off-season.


As long as I'm getting rid of players, Erik Reynolds II is cut from Summer League and banned from any future contract with anything related to OKC. Did anyone else see him make a bucket in the wrong end of the court and score for the Nets off the jump ball?

The only extension left to negotiate is dieng’s extension I believe . The cherry on top of a very well run offseason .

I wish they had cut ties with Dieng entirely and kept Clifford.

[Dadouv47]

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great news. he will probably get like 27% of the cap and not 30%.

[ThunderBolt]

New area looks good. I tend to think pro sports facilities are a bit of a waste since recruiting isn’t a factor like it is in college. However paycom was never a very attractive arena, although windhorst gushed about it (the arena and not just the fans) during the finals.

[Devilanche]

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great news. he will probably get like 27% of the cap and not 30%.

7-8% is a rotational player and a rookie prayer.

[Dadouv47]

New area looks good. I tend to think pro sports facilities are a bit of a waste since recruiting isn’t a factor like it is in college. However paycom was never a very attractive arena, although windhorst gushed about it (the arena and not just the fans) during the finals.

Well yeah u are right but I think it's kind of important to OKC IMO. A french journalist covering the finals couldn't believe he found a more boring city than Indy after spending some time in OKC during the finals but he also said paycom center was a good place like Windhorst. A decent amount of fans coming from South America and Europe went to OKC during the POs to watch one or a couple of playoff Thunder games and the arena being great is always a positive. Having a loud crowd and a nice arena can attract people from other places to watch live games which is good for the organisation.
That being said I'm not sure the cost/reward is worth it and it's probably the least important stuff but OKC being above average at pretty much everything is nice.