2025 NBA Offseason News

[Mori Chu]

(Pablo Torre Finds Out tweet)

It's been pretty interesting to me to see some of the league's richest owners and most powerful folks rush out to defend Ballmer. The defense seems to be, "He wouldn't be that stupid!" Why wouldn't he? These billionaire tech guys do stupid stuff like this all the time. Maybe Ballmer got some bad advice, or maybe he thought it was technically allowed under the CBA, or maybe he just didn't think he would get caught. But I don't buy the talk of, "nobody would be so dumb as to bribe their player with a shady endorsement deal." That is no defense. Anyway, I still believe in due process and being innocent until proven guilty, so I look forward to the league's investigation. It can be hard to "prove" what Ballmer knew or did, but if it is his money directly going to this company that does essentially nothing with it but bribe Kawhi Leonard, that is pretty damning.

[Gladiator]

Or they’re all doing the same thing (or similar) so can’t be critical.

[O_Gardino]

Thomas Sorber (Thunder 15th overall pick) has a torn ACL and will be out for the season.

Bummer. I love his game, but he fell to OKC for this exact reason. As Marty said, luckily for him he's with an org that can afford to be patient with him.

[ShelC]

Yea Sorber was my guy in the draft, dodged a bullet there.

[pickle]

Josh Giddey signs 4/100 deal with the Bulls.

[specialsauce]

Noooooooooo

[Mori Chu]

Josh Giddey signs 4/100 deal with the Bulls.

Seemed like he was always destined to go back there and that it was just a question of money. I agree with Saucey that he would have been good here, but I don't think we were ever realistically in play for him. We weren't reaching out to him or the Bulls, and he wasn't reaching out to us. So I guess it was never going to happen.

[Superbone]

Giddey was a pipe dream. The Bulls were always going to resign him.

[Superbone]

I like this.

[Superbone]

[Superbone]

[ShelC]

Some highlights from Silver's Presser

[Charlie Smithy!]

WWDSD?

(what would David Stern do?)

[wpmiller42]

WWDSD?

(what would David Stern do?)

Suspend Amare and Boris of course

[Mori Chu]

WWDSD?

(what would David Stern do?)

(Barkley voice) Man, David Stern rollin' in his grave ...

[Superbone]

WWDSD?

(what would David Stern do?)

(Barkley voice) Man, David Stern rollin' in his grave ...

Stern is disintegrating in his grave along with the Suns' championship aspirations.

[Charlie Smithy!]

WWDSD?

(what would David Stern do?)

(Barkley voice) Man, David Stern rollin' in his grave ...

Stern is disintegrating in his grave along with the Suns' championship aspirations.