Around the NBA: Week 17 (2/9 - 2/15)

[Mori Chu]

Sochan signing with the Knicks.

[Shabazz]

&$*#%*&@!!!!!

[Mori Chu]

^ We've made some nice moves this past offseason, but some FOs operate on a totally different level than we do. That was a steal. It's really telling when other FOs can get something like that for a player we thought was trash.

[ShelC]

[Kryptonic]

[Mori Chu]

Come home, Chris!

[Kryptonic]

Come home, Chris!

.... to the clippers.

[Superbone]

Spoiler: show/hide

What jumps out? The Suns fall from grace into the middle of the pack. I hope they can regroup post all-star break.

[Mori Chu]

Goldsberry's charts are last-10 games only, right? So we might still be higher if you ran the stats over the whole season. But yeah definitely agree that we've slipped a lot and need to get our mojo back.

[INFORMER]

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[INFORMER]

[Superbone]

Class act! That is a well-written resignation letter.

[wpmiller42]

I wish he could have had one last real going away game. If I was a team, I'd sign him to a 10-day when playing the Lakers or clippers and just get him a few minutes on the court. It would be a bit of a stunt, but Chris Paul deserves better.

[Superbone]

I don't know that that's a good idea but maybe it would favor us.

[Mori Chu]

I really, really don't like that idea. I don't want players doing free agency until they have proven themselves somewhat in the league. Otherwise you have a bad situation where teams are forking over way too much money for guys who haven't played a game yet, based on hype and stupidity of GMs. You get back to the situation like where guys straight into the league were signing $100m contracts. I'm assuming they'd put a limit on the salary and it wouldn't be $100m again, but still, it'd be a bidding war over guys we really know nothing about. It puts too much power in the players' hands and plays too much into GMs' foibles.

I also don't like that this would enable top talent to just refuse to go to places like Utah or New Orleans or whatever other small market. You can mitigate this somewhat by letting those teams pay more to entice players. But that's upside-down thinking imo. Why does the owner of Utah or NOP have to pay more than some fat cat in LA or New York who probably has more money and a bigger positive revenue stream for his team? And besides, I think the players would still just choose not to go to these small market bad teams. It's already hard enough for those teams to build a nucleus of talent and this would just make it harder.

IMO the real problem right now that exacerbates tanking is protections on draft picks in trades. You get a team that trades their 1st, but they top-5 or top-N protect it, which means that in order to not lose a pick, the team basically HAS to tank. It took the already sizable incentive for tanking and shot it up even further. In fact, it takes a situation where a team would normally be disincentivized to tank ("we already traded our 1st this year, no benefit for tanking, let's try our best") and perversely turns it into a situation where they are incentivized to tank ("we lose our pick unless we are bottom-5; let's rest our guys"). I think the league should disallow protections on picks in trades; you either trade the pick or you don't. That would solve a lot of the current tanking epidemic.

[Wally_West]

New KD burner account discovered, with plenty of evidence it’s probably him, trashing his current teammates and coach and complaining during his time with the suns and warriors as well.


Lmaoooo. People pulling receipts over multiple years. Yeesh

[Wally_West]

Quite busy today so Not sure I got time to grab all the evidence supporting it but not sure if I even should because some of supporting evidence deals with the Israel and Palestine conflict, and really don’t want to turn shit political.

BUT here is one suns related and I’ll keep it at that.

[Wally_West]

[TOO]

He destroyed this team and it's vibes, you'll never convince me otherwise.