Offseason Thread - So Begins The Lesser Offseason - Well... After Kawhi Decides

[knickstape4ever]

I would really love to get Beal, I dont get why Washington is insistent on keeping him; with the Wall situation, they should rebuild

[bigfnjoe96]

We got our own Russell, his name is Dennis Eastbrook

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[Fat Kat]

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Most boring Woj bomb

[newyorker4ever]

Stay the course stay the course stay the course stay the course stay the course stay the course

Oladipo or Beal awaits us

What do you think we should do?

[newyorker4ever]

He might be the only one that gets through Westbrook.

Could be a success or a disaster.

Older players tend to be stuck in their ways. Pops already working on Demars game... I know y’all hate hearing this. Look at what Jason Kidd did with Kenyon Martin and Richard Jefferson back in the day. We should help facilitate a trade sending russel Westbrook to New Orleans to pick up Lonzo. His passing, size and defense alone makes him worth it. This team is going to need a facilitator the way RJ tunnels on offense... passing is contagious Lonzo can set the tone for us. Make our young team an exciting one

Keep Lavar away from this organization before Dolan befriends him for life.

LaMelo is gonna be better than Lonzo.

[newyorker4ever]

Oladipo will stay with pacers and beal will probably go to the heat.

They'll never learn man. Nobody wants to play for us.

Stop with this fa bs.

The knicks got to start winning and actually go to the playoffs and i think knicks have a good chance to go to the playoffs this coming year. The east top 3 seeds this year will be sixers, bucks, pacers but 4-8 is up for grabs. We already know the raptors will not make the playoffs they got 3 vets won't be motviated to go to the playoffs and they all make over 20 million dollars gasol, ibaka, and lowry.

The Raptors will make the playoffs next year for sure. they still have a lot of good talent on that team.

[newyorker4ever]

LAKERS FANS FINALLY GET TO WATCH KAWHI PG13 IN LA

So if they meet in the WCF then they'll get to play all 7 games in the same arena. Or however many games that series goes.

[makeitstop]

Older players tend to be stuck in their ways. Pops already working on Demars game... I know y’all hate hearing this. Look at what Jason Kidd did with Kenyon Martin and Richard Jefferson back in the day. We should help facilitate a trade sending russel Westbrook to New Orleans to pick up Lonzo. His passing, size and defense alone makes him worth it. This team is going to need a facilitator the way RJ tunnels on offense... passing is contagious Lonzo can set the tone for us. Make our young team an exciting one

Keep Lavar away from this organization before Dolan befriends him for life.

LaMelo is gonna be better than Lonzo.

We'd still end up with Lavar, though.

Can we swing a trade to get LaMelo a different dad?

[knickstape4ever]

it would be a huge mistake IMO to give Elfrid Payton the starting PG job over DSJ. They need to develop DSJ to see what he can be

kinda like what happened with Mudiay and Frank last season (tho I think Frank is best suited as a SG going forward)

[Fat Kat]

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[Knox]

Older players tend to be stuck in their ways. Pops already working on Demars game... I know y’all hate hearing this. Look at what Jason Kidd did with Kenyon Martin and Richard Jefferson back in the day. We should help facilitate a trade sending russel Westbrook to New Orleans to pick up Lonzo. His passing, size and defense alone makes him worth it. This team is going to need a facilitator the way RJ tunnels on offense... passing is contagious Lonzo can set the tone for us. Make our young team an exciting one

Keep Lavar away from this organization before Dolan befriends him for life.

LaMelo is gonna be better than Lonzo.

Get both of them!

[god shammgod]

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what in the world are the spurs doing ?

[3toheadmelo]

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[iLLmatic860]

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I dont wanna hear it DSJ. We better see it

[newyorker4ever]

Dam it all, i just realized that we just lost one of my top free agent targets in the 2021 offseason cause no way does P.George leave LA but i do think we could of got him to leave OKC. Knicks just got Knicked again.

[HarthorneWingo]

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I dont wanna hear it DSJ. We better see it

If the clips people here have posted is any indication of that “improvement” referred to in the above tweet, then I’m not impressed.

[god shammgod]

Like Durant, George was flattered by Leonard's recruiting. The two had a fair amount in common. They'd grown up in the Los Angeles area at about the same time. George, 29, is from Palmdale, a dusty desert town about an hour and a half north of L.A. Leonard, 28, is from Riverside, a sprawling Inland Empire town about an hour and a half east of L.A. Both had been lightly recruited out of high school, found their footing as players at mid-major colleges (George at Fresno State, Leonard at San Diego State) and then quietly entered the NBA as mid-first-round picks.

Still, Leonard's recruiting efforts caught George by surprise.

Said one source close to George, "For a quiet guy, he's a hell of a recruiter."

For George to join Leonard with the Clippers, however, he'd have to ask for a trade from Oklahoma City -- and that wasn't going to be pleasant, considering the way the franchise had treated him in the two seasons he'd played there and the bonds that he'd formed.

But George felt like it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to play at home in L.A. alongside a generational talent like Leonard. So in the middle of the week, he went to Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti and asked for a trade -- to the Clippers.

Presti was crestfallen. Just a year ago he'd been rewarded for taking a risk and trading for George when he eschewed all other free-agent meetings and agreed to a four-year contract to remain in Oklahoma City. It was a validation of everything Presti had built and believed in. And while this felt like a repudiation of that, Presti understood.

Superstar players in the modern NBA have tremendous power. Contracts don't really matter. Leonard forced his way out of San Antonio with a year remaining on his deal. Anthony Davis forced his way out of New Orleans with a year and a half left. George forced his way out of Indiana with a year left. Jimmy Butler forced his way out of Minnesota with a year left. Kyrie Irving forced his way out of Cleveland with two years left.

You don't have to trade a player once he asks to be moved. But usually you end up wishing you did, as the unhappy superstar and corresponding chaos these situations create thwart any chance at team building. So the Thunder obliged George's request and sought to extract maximum value from the Clippers, knowing that landing George was key to the Clippers' hopes of also landing Leonard.

the bolded is for people who think we should have kept kp. once a player wants out, you pretty much have to trade them.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27130335/how-kawhi-pulled-paul-george-away-okc

[ADeP7]

Stay the course stay the course stay the course stay the course stay the course stay the course

Oladipo or Beal awaits us

What do you think we should do?

I easily pass on Westbrook.
Knicks are keeping that flexibility open. I think there Avenue to get there first star is gonna be through trade

A package of mavs picks. Smith Knox portis maybe.
I think
Beal, booker , Tatum, maybe oladipo ask out within a year or 2.
Wait to seize that opportunity.
At that point you get one of them. And you have
1 of those guys with Barrett/Mitch / randle entering 21 free agency. That could be very enticing to Giannis or others. Heck who knows. You acquire one of them this year and it all goes sideways in LA maybe Davis wants to leave and come to New York

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If DSJ gets his shot to around %35 from 3, he's has the athleticism to be Westbrook-lite out there.