Around the League: Week 10 (12/19 - 12/25)

[ShelC]

Nationally televised games this week
Tuesday, Dec 20th
Golden State Warriors @ New York Knicks 7:30pm EST on TNT
Memphis Grizzlies @ Denver Nuggets 10:00pm EST on TNT

Friday, Dec 23rd
Memphis Grizzlies @ Phoenix Suns 10:00pm EST on ESPN

Sunday, Dec 25th
Philadelphia 76ers @ New York Knicks 12:00pm EST on ABC & ESPN
Los Angeles Lakers @ Dallas Mavericks 2:30pm EST on ABC & ESPN
Milwaukee Bucks @ Boston Celtics 5:00pm EST on ABC & ESPN
Memphis Grizzlies @ Golden State Warriors 8:00pm on ABC & ESPN
Phoenix Suns @ Denver Nuggets 10:30pm EST ABC & ESPN

NBA News
Grizzlies' Ja Morant tossed for profanity, 'questioning integrity' of ref
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/352 ... egrity-ref

Nikola Jokic in rare company after 40-point, 27-rebound triple-double
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/352 ... ple-double

[Wally_West]

Id cream myself

[Superbone]

[TOO]

Id cream myself

Sounds painful.

[Mori Chu]

I love it.

[ShelC]

He's shooting 45% from the line, might as well try something new.

[Wally_West]

Luka a bitch

[ShelC]

Sounds like a negotiating tactic...

[Mori Chu]

^ Yeah, that sounds like the Raptors leaked that to him hoping he'd parrot it out.

[TOO]

OG isn't worth half of what the Cavs gave up for Mitchell, get outta here. Straight outta the Shams book of nonsense.

[Split T]

Toronto probably told him they aren’t trading him unless they get something close to the Mitchell offer. No one will offer that, so he won’t get traded. So Lowe is probably right, the big key is the IF he gets moved.

[Flagrant Fowl]

OG Anunoby has been awesome this season. Lowe is right, a lot of people would be surprised at the return the Raptors could get for him.

[Superbone]

A surprise could also be not getting much for him.

[Split T]

Ya but 3 1sts and an all star, plus Collin Sexton?

Now no one was expecting Lauri to turn into an all star, but a comparable offer from us would be like Mikal/CamJ and 3 1sts…there’s zero chance Toronto would get something like that.

Could they get CamJ and 2 1sts? Now that’s more reasonable, but that’s pretty different if you ask me.

[Flagrant Fowl]

He did say “almost”.

[Wally_West]

Siakam is more likely to be traded than OG. OG fits the Scottie Barnes timeline better but if they blowing it up truly than the amount of picks they get between both of them would be crazy. Couple 1st plus kuminga and wiseman from GS?

And Expiring contracts plus CamJ and all of our picks possible for Siakam from us? Pretty good haul for Toronto.

They should definitely do that second deal

[Flagrant Fowl]

I can’t imagine they’d trade their best player, a proven All-NBA player, for role players and draft picks. They definitely have to get at least a potential future all-star in return.

[In2ition]

He's shooting 45% from the line, might as well try something new.

To me, this is him reworking his shot, and step one is to take your opposite hand out of the shot to get your shooting hand under it properly. He'll eventually add the off hand, so it will look odd until he's ready for that step.

[Wally_West]

[Flagrant Fowl]

I'm worried about LaVine's knees, otherwise a backcourt of him and Booker would be incredible. A lot of his elite scoring is based on explosion and we've seen several guys take a significant step back when they lose that ability.