Around the League: Week 26 4/11 - 4/17

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Around the League: Week 26 4/11 - 4/17

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Post any non-Suns NBA news from the last week of the season here!

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https://twitter.com/daldridgetnt/status/985212051973799937

I can't tell if Pop was joking or not.
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What's everyone's picks for the NBA awards?

Here's my ballot:

MVP:
James Harden
LeBron James
Anthony Davis
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Damian Lillard

DPOY:
Rudy Gobert
Joel Embiid
Anthony Davis

ROY:
Ben Simmons
Donovan Mitchell
Jayson Tatum

MIP:
Victor Oladipo
No one else is even close

6th Man:
Lou Williams
Eric Gordon

COY:
Brad Stevens
Duane Casey
Quin Snyder

All NBA 1st
G. Harden
G. Lillard
F. James
F. Antetokounmpo
C. Davis

2nd team
G. Oladipo
G. Westbrook
F. Durant
F. Butler
C. Embiid

3rd Team
G. Curry
G. Paul
F. Aldridge
F. Simmons
C. Towns

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More commercials than playing time in this game sheesh.

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Spurs with no real options on offense, just trying to buldoze inside.

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Great shooting night for Klay. He's a gamer.
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Toronto finally won the 1st game of the series after going 0-7 dating back to 2013-14.
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Kawhi couldn't even be bothered to show up and sit on the bench for a playoff game. Looks bad for the Spurs.

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I think Kawhi is gone from SA. I doubt we appeal to him, but I'd expect Boston, LA, Denver and really just about everyone to make a play for him. I'm sure we will too, but SA would want our top pick and I'm not moving that without a clean bill of health and a resigned Kawhi

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I think San Antonio will look to move him East. I think Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee will be the frontrunners.
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INFORMER wrote:I think San Antonio will look to move him East. I think Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee will be the frontrunners.
Those teams would be scary. Could Cleveland make the trade without Love? Maybe if the Brooklyn pick goes top 3 but otherwise I think they have to include Love. Still, LeBron plus Kawhi is scary.

Not sure how New York puts together an offer, I guess just a bunch of picks and Ntilikina. Kawhi + Kristaps is another scary duo.

Philly has draft picks and could move Fultz and let SA rebuild him. They've also got Covington who is a nice Kawhi replacement for SA. Saric would also do well in SA, so Philly has a lot of options in putting together an offer. Kawhi/Simmons/Embiid is a multiple title winning good.

Milwaukee could build an offer around Middleton. Put Kawhi with Giannis and they could probably defend the entire floor.

Boston could build an offer pretty easily too. They've got draft picks plus guys like rozier, brown, and Tatum.

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Philly is really putting it on Miami here in the 2nd half. Simmons is really good and they have so much shooting with Reddick, Saric, Covington, bellinelli, ilysova.

Miami kinda feels stuck as a mediocre team for the next little while. Too much money committed to just ok guys like olynyk and Tyler Johnson. They might be better off moving guys like Whiteside and Dragic. They've got a couple really nice pieces, I like adebayo, justise Winslow, and Josh Richardson.

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I heard somewhere that Kawhi wants be closer to home and that this is a strategy to force himself out of SA to where he wants to go by trade or through FA the following year. He isn't buying the cult philosophy in SA and isn't about to take the Duncan like hometown discount. I also heard that he actually likes Phoenix and really wanted to play for the Suns coming out of college, but Blanks screwed that up.
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I would love Jrue Holiday as our PG

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In2ition wrote:isn't about to take the Duncan like hometown discount
Why would he have to?
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Split T wrote: Boston could build an offer pretty easily too. They've got draft picks plus guys like rozier, brown, and Tatum.
Yeah, I actually thought about Boston, but then I felt like Ainge may say "thanks but no thanks." They were the best in the East with Irving, Tatum and Brown are on rookie deals, and Hayward is coming back. That's a tremendous situation to be in, and it may be good enough to pass on Kawhi Drama.
Free Agency
DeMar Derozan for the minimum!

PG: Jordan McLaughlin, Killian Hayes, Kris Dunn, Spencer Dinwiddie, Monte Morris
C: Mo Bamba, Andre Drummond, James Wiseman, Goga Bitadze, Jay Huff

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INFORMER wrote:
Split T wrote: Boston could build an offer pretty easily too. They've got draft picks plus guys like rozier, brown, and Tatum.
Yeah, I actually thought about Boston, but then I felt like Ainge may say "thanks but no thanks." They were the best in the East with Irving, Tatum and Brown are on rookie deals, and Hayward is coming back. That's a tremendous situation to be in, and it may be good enough to pass on Kawhi Drama.
I think they're the team. They'd build an offer around Brown, Rozier, salary filler and the Kings unprotected pick next year.

That would give them a starting lineup of Irving, Hayward, Kawhi, Tatum and Horford. Insane.

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Split T wrote:I would love Jrue Holiday as our PG
Even with the contract?
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INFORMER wrote:
In2ition wrote:isn't about to take the Duncan like hometown discount
Why would he have to?
He shouldn't, but they ask everyone to sacrifice financially to keep the Spurs winning.
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In2ition wrote:I heard somewhere that Kawhi wants be closer to home and that this is a strategy to force himself out of SA to where he wants to go by trade or through FA the following year. He isn't buying the cult philosophy in SA and isn't about to take the Duncan like hometown discount. I also heard that he actually likes Phoenix and really wanted to play for the Suns coming out of college, but B____s screwed that up.
Where’d you hear that last piece? Kawhi refused to work out for Phoenix, which is why we didn’t consider drafting him.

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