ATL - LMA retires with heart issue - pg 78

blazza18 · Post #1121 » by **blazza18** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:07 am

midranger wrote:Boston announcers are insufferable. They honestly believe Marcus Smart is out there just innocently playing hard

Wondered what Nowak was up to.

giannis and 1 · Post #1122 » by **giannis and 1** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:06 am

WeekapaugGroove wrote:I get the arguments for a franchise tag but with restricted FA after rookie deals everyone signs that first extension so you basically get guys for a minimum of 8-9 years. That's a pretty damn long time and I have a hard time being mad if someone wants to leave after that.

Now the best fix for a lot of this would be a hard cap and no max contracts. That would do the best job of spreading talent out. But unfortunately I can't see either the players or owners agreeing to it.

I hate to be a blame the media guy but I do think the NBA media does a **** job promoting smaller markets and it contributes to the problem. Hell I think they should focus more on teams than individual players too.

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They could have a rule where a player under a certain age can sign a contract that exceeds the 5 year limit if they have been with the same team for a certain number of years.

Something like: If player x is 28 or under, and has been with the same team for 3 years, he can sign a contract up to 6-7 years.

It would incentivize players to stay with their current team.

Like, as a Bucks fan, would you not have liked to sign Giannis for longer than 5 years? The term only becomes a problem when it goes to a player who would be in their mid 30s when it expires. Adding the maximum age would solve that.

Also maybe adding a minor compensation for signing another teams RFA to an offersheet.

GoldenAntlers · Post #1123 » by **GoldenAntlers** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:11 am

How did Zion get bigger?

WeekapaugGroove · Post #1124 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 5:12 am

giannis and 1 wrote:
WeekapaugGroove wrote:I get the arguments for a franchise tag but with restricted FA after rookie deals everyone signs that first extension so you basically get guys for a minimum of 8-9 years. That's a pretty damn long time and I have a hard time being mad if someone wants to leave after that.

Now the best fix for a lot of this would be a hard cap and no max contracts. That would do the best job of spreading talent out. But unfortunately I can't see either the players or owners agreeing to it.

I hate to be a blame the media guy but I do think the NBA media does a **** job promoting smaller markets and it contributes to the problem. Hell I think they should focus more on teams than individual players too.

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They could have a rule where a player under a certain age can sign a contract that exceeds the 5 year limit if they have been with the same team for a certain number of years.

Something like: If player x is 28 or under, and has been with the same team for 3 years, he can sign a contract up to 6-7 years.

It would incentivize players to stay with their current team.

Like, as a Bucks fan, would you not have liked to sign Giannis for longer than 5 years? The term only becomes a problem when it goes to a player who would be in their mid 30s when it expires. Adding the maximum age would solve that.

Also maybe adding a minor compensation for signing another teams RFA to an offersheet.

That's not a bad idea. You'd have to also do something about guys in the second year of an 8 year deal forcing a trade.

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BUCKnation · Post #1125 » by **BUCKnation** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 8:58 am

Matches Malone wrote:Are Boston announcers always this arrogant when calling a game? It's comical how they view the game through such a biased perspective.

They are definitely the worst, I haven't listened since Heinsohn passed and rip, but he was unreal biased.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #1126 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:10 pm

Read on Twitter

Can't decide if I should find this annoying or funny considering how obnoxious some GS fans were about Giannis.

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HKPackFan · Post #1127 » by **HKPackFan** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:12 pm

WeekapaugGroove wrote:

Read on Twitter

Can't decide if I should find this annoying or funny considering how obnoxious some GS fans were about Giannis.

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Giannis does this it's tampering. LeBron does it, it's celebrated.

Wonka · Post #1128 » by **Wonka** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:19 pm

GoldenAntlers wrote:How did Zion get bigger?

And for how long will that weight be a good thing? He’s been dominant lately but man, he’s really big. Hope he stays healthy.

Matches Malone · Post #1129 » by **Matches Malone** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:47 pm

These KD DMs with Rappaport... :lol:

Read on Twitter

giannis and 1 · Post #1130 » by **giannis and 1** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:11 pm

Matches Malone wrote:These KD DMs with Rappaport...

Read on Twitter

LMAO

StickeeFingaz · Post #1131 » by **StickeeFingaz** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:24 pm

God damn, KD is so angry and sensitive and weird. Funny seeing KD fans try and defend their guy after these cringey episodes that are so common.

Ron Swanson · Post #1132 » by **Ron Swanson** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:34 pm

Really starting to think that Durant might be schizophrenic or bipolar. Because if not, that's a whole new level of sad/pathetic even for him. You wouldn't know that these guys make hundreds of millions of dollars to play a game for a living with how miserable so many of them seem to be.

Lakers vs. Nets is gonna be the most dislikable group of athletes ever assembled for a championship game in the history of sports.....isn't it?

Isocleas2 · Post #1133 » by **Isocleas2** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:35 pm

Honestly KD looks so weak on Twitter, mentally fragile for sure.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #1134 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:54 pm

Rapport is a turd so can't fault KD for coming at him. I actually find KDs wild online side kind of endearing. Hell I wonder if he's been on here arguing with a burner. As much as we say these guys should ignore the online trolls I bet lots of them are very online and use burners.

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Ron Swanson · Post #1135 » by **Ron Swanson** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:59 pm

Rapaport's a turd but I don't really know what's endearing about hurling homophobic insults over the internet. Would actually be surprised if the league didn't take a look at this.

mattg · Post #1136 » by **mattg** » Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:27 pm

Ron Swanson wrote:Rapaport's a turd but I don't really know what's endearing about hurling homophobic insults over the internet. Would actually be surprised if the league didn't take a look at this.

I mean I think it's pretty clearly objectively worse than what Meyers Leonard just got in trouble for to be honest. Like to me that's pretty inarguable but I doubt we'll see any sort of significant punishment for KD.

WeekapaugGroove · Post #1137 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:31 am

KD called him a b tch and p ssy. Not exactly PC but not exactly a slur or did I miss something in that exchange?

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mattg · Post #1138 » by **mattg** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:44 am

WeekapaugGroove wrote:KD called him a b tch and p ssy. Not exactly PC but not exactly a slur or did I miss something in that exchange?

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C*m guzzling/cicksucking talk? Also if we want to be technical KD definitely threatened to assault him talking about spitting in his face and was heated enough to explicitly mention doing all of this in person multiple times.

IMO that's all substantially worse than someone saying a slur while gaming online (not that that is ok either)

4xBuck · Post #1139 » by **4xBuck** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:45 am

WeekapaugGroove wrote:KD called him a b tch and p ssy. Not exactly PC but not exactly a slur or did I miss something in that exchange?
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Just the homophobic racist stuff.

Wonka · Post #1140 » by **Wonka** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:45 am

In the words of the Based God: F*ck Kevin Durant