Around the League: Week 17 (2/6 - 2/12)

[ShelC]

Nationally televised games this week
Tuesday, February 7th
Phoenix Suns @ Brooklyn Nets 7:30pm EST on TNT
Oklahoma City @ LA Lakers 10:00pm EST on TNT

Wednesday, February 8th
Philadelphia @ Boston 7:30pm EST on ESPN
Dallas @ LA Clippers 10:00pm EST on ESPN

Thursday, February 9th
Chicago Bulls @ Brooklyn Nets 7:30pm EST on TNT
Milwaukee Bucks @ LA Clippers 10:00pm EST on TNT

Friday, February 10th
Charlotte Hornets @ Boston Celtics 7:30pm EST on ESPN
Cleveland Cavs @ New Orleans 10:00pm EST on ESPN

Saturday, February 11th
LA Lakers @ Golden State 8:30pm EST on ABC

NBA News
NBA players react to Kyrie Irving's reported trade to Dallas
https://www.nba.com/news/nba-players-re ... -to-dallas

Sources: Stephen Curry (leg) expected out through All-Star break
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/355 ... star-break

NBA issues FedExForum bans after investigating postgame incident
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/355 ... orum-probe

With no signature shot, LeBron James simply scores from everywhere
https://www.nba.com/news/lebron-james-s ... -in-career

[Split T]

[Wally_West]

Seeing how Joe Tsai does businesse, he’ll trade anywhere besides where he wants to go. So I guess that means not us lol

[TOO]

All KD has to do is refuse to report. Would he do that? Unlikely.

[Wally_West]

KD moving just feels like an offseason thing. Interesting tidbit though I learned from the Timeline podcast is that because it’s the new year we access to our 2030 pick in trade discussions so that 5 1st and 3 swaps we can trade.

[TOO]

You do not trade that much draft capital for an old KD, you just don't.

[Split T]

They were mistaken on the 5, Bobby Marks says we can trade 2030, but you still can’t trade 2 years in a row so it’s either 23,25,27,29 or 24,26,28,30. Both still just 4 picks

[Wally_West]

Twitter as expected, is running wild with this.

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[Wally_West]

Looks like it’s been deleted, what did it say?

[Split T]

“Kyrie Irving is expected to arrive in Dallas for his Mavs physical today.

Some believe he may skip in order to force his way to the Lakers”

But it was just from some aggregator account so I don’t know the actual source

[Flagrant Fowl]

Apparently Windhorst was on the Zach Lowe podcast talking about the deal being held up for some reason. Even made some outlandish claim that it might not be finalized by the deadline. I don't know about all that and he's prone to making wild statements, but it seems likely Dinwiddie and DFS won't be available for the Suns game tomorrow.

[Split T]

With Kyrie involved, nothing would surprise me

[ShelC]

Feels like the deal is being held up and hasn't been finalized so far. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

[JeremyG]

They were mistaken on the 5, Bobby Marks says we can trade 2030, but you still can’t trade 2 years in a row so it’s either 23,25,27,29 or 24,26,28,30. Both still just 4 picks

Once we make the pick we can trade it plus the 4, though. I wonder if it’s legal to ask them who they want us to draft ahead of time?

[djy2j]

Glad we didn't trade for that bum. Dude is a mental midget and a me first player. I wish him nothing but the worst. Look forward to him ruining the Mavs like he ruins every other team.

[Split T]

They were mistaken on the 5, Bobby Marks says we can trade 2030, but you still can’t trade 2 years in a row so it’s either 23,25,27,29 or 24,26,28,30. Both still just 4 picks

Once we make the pick we can trade it plus the 4, though. I wonder if it’s legal to ask them who they want us to draft ahead of time?

True, that’s what Minny and Utah did with Gobert

[Wally_West]

Not gonna believe that Kyrie is holding up a deal until there’s more concrete reporting but I really hope it’s true it’ll be fuckin hilarious if true.

[JeremyG]

Hopefully he forces his way to Phoenix instead of LA.

[JeremyG]

KD moving just feels like an offseason thing. Interesting tidbit though I learned from the Timeline podcast is that because it’s the new year we access to our 2030 pick in trade discussions so that 5 1st and 3 swaps we can trade.

You mean starting January 1 we can trade 2030? Last year we couldn’t even do the 4 picks/3 swaps everyone was talking about, because the Nets didn’t have enough picks in the right years for us to swap with them.