Topic: 2019 NBA Pre-Season - page 1176. (Read 920810 times)

Obviously, even the other teams passed on the trade package that includes Westbrook in it. The Pacers declined to a trade offer that includes Brogdon. I guess Westbrook is a really hard player to go along with even with his explosiveness.
On the other hands, NBA fans would always thought the best place for Kyrie is to be with LeBron. That would allow them to run another round that might give them another championship, only if AD remains healthy all season long including playoffs.

It looks like Clippers will be pretty aggressive this 2022 free agency. Apart from Wall, they are targeting to add a few more:

Sources: John Wall, Rockets agree to contract buyout; Clippers likely to sign 5-time All-Star in free agency

^ Probably not a bad move if they could get them for cheap. Question now is who are they going to let go to free up the roster for the new guys? I hope the management don't break the core of this team. I think they only need one or two additions before they could challenge for the championship again.

Wall, George and Kawhi. A big 3 who is kinda prone to injuries.
Wall injured, George injured as well, Kawhi also got injured against the Jazz and didn't play for one season.

The Clippers are underperforming this last season because of Kawhi being injured and George as well but with this 3 players in one team and alongside good supporting players like Jackson, Kennard, Zubac, maybe they might be a playoff contender team as long as they are healthy. A good PG in Wall and 2 wingers who are good defenders especially Kawhi. Not expecting too much from them because they are injury-prone but this is a playoff-contender team when they're healthy.

He is young, that's another fact and this might also be the prime of his career so there's no doubt someone will snatch him if the Lakers let him go.
Injuries now are fixed faster, give a player a year, and later on, he is on the bench cheering and jumping for his team as if nothing happened.
Let's not also forget how he took everything on his shoulder on their bubble championship.
The memory is still fresh when he said "It's all on me." And he did prove it's on him from the unforgettable buzzer-beater 3-point to contributing a lot although he didn't get the Finals MVP.

Unfortunately, All Rumors about Kyrie Irving were just Rumors and I was wrong to ride this kind of hearsay without further research or investigation, but yeah Kyrie Irving will be the one who will likely confirm these rumors, and here is Sham Charania's tweet confirming that Kyrie Irving will be staying with the Nets to finish the contract I think this is what he is saying into his interview that he learned from his past mistakes and what he did to Lebron James so he is not going to do it to Kevin Durant, but there are different rumors in Durant's part but let's just wait first just to confirm,


The Los Angeles Lakers is pretty much interested at first but since Shams Charania has revealed recently that Kyrie Irving is staying on the Brooklyn Nets because he would likely to finish his contract with the Nets, this has sour all faces of the Lakers fans, and have put all rumors into cold chilling ice, and they would likely to withstand Russell Westbrook another season, surely many Lakers fans doesn't want Westbrook in the team anymore,


I think Wall will be needing to wait for further details because the sign can be official, maybe after acquiring John Wall, and John Wall really wants to go to the Los Angeles Clippers, This could be a great addition  for the Clippers, in having Paul George, Reggie Jackson, Kawhi Leonard,    Luke Kennard, Terance Mann, Ivica Zubac,  and Marcus Morris it will be a great team for the Clippers,

TNT is reporting that John Wall is going to sign a new deal with the Clippers. I hope this means we’ll actually get to see him play. I must admit, the idea of him alongside Paul George and Kawhi Leonard is pretty intriguing. The Clippers have underperformed expectations  pretty wildly since picking up Kawhi. Maybe this will end up being the piece they need to take it to the next level.

He played well in the Bubble where he got his first championship alongside Lebron.
Next season after that, he got injured until the playoffs and when they needed them the most, he can't contribute thus they lost in the first round.
Just last season, we saw how fragile he is. He didn't play for most of the season and they didn't enter the play-in tournament.

In short, AD is unreliable and very fragile and that's enough for other teams not to acquire him. They don't want to pay $37M next season to a player who is injury prone and a player they can't rely with.

He doesn't have any choice TBH. The Laker rumors are just unacceptable for me. I don't also think that Irving will join the Lakers for only $6M at that time. Well, it's good that he opt in because it's his best option IMO. Let's wait for another drama that he will be making on July 1st onwards.

I guess his last name might have teams offering him a 2-way contract. But if the kid got skills then why not? GPII went through a lot and then make his name with the Warriors.

If Jr, would have that kind of mentally and maybe his father can push and inspire him then expect that he will be a good player. Just give him some time to developed.

You can't expect something on a player that was in a 2-way contract. I doubt their playing time will be average at 5 minutes.

It's not a big achievement although still, these players can play in NBA. Drafted players are even getting difficulty and struggling to get good playing minutes and they need to be a hyped player before they can taste it. That's why don't expect another generation of Pippen because of that news.

Be listed on the draft list, teams should sign them, that's a great achievement.

Good for him. It's the most practical decision to make given all the circumstances. He could still try with KD for another season and split up if they fail. I'm pretty sure Kyrie will still have a good value by then unless he gets seriously injured.

CP3 and KD in one team is an intriguing proposition to be honest. I would love too see that but it's a tough trade to pull off. Suns will have to give up a lot for this to happen.

Kyrie has opted into his contract with the Nets. He’s secured his bag, now he needs to find a team to trade for him. By opting in, he ends the Lakers speculation that LeBron will get him to sign for the minimum and then get him his Nike deal back.

DeAndre Ayton is now being speculated as a trading piece for the Nets. This is sparking talk that Kevin Durant might join the Suns… That would be interesting. I don’t think it’ll happen, but there’s talks happening…

Simply because he's the most consistent player, I think in the whole league, that even after an injury or long-hiatus, you can expect him to produce big numbers once he returned which most players can't do. There's no such thing as recovering the rhythm or adjusting to the situation for this guy. If you will do some recap of last season, Anthony Davis always goes rampage once he returns to the court. He's by far the consistent Laker player on the roster.

Even injury-prone, teams are likely to gamble as it is worth it instead of getting good names but showing inconsistencies in the game. Anyways, yes I agree it's a waste that the Lakers can't utilize him much because he is soft. I hope next season, he will remain healthy all year to make the competition tough.

well... didn't know that, thanks for this information!
We can only wait to have any concrete news from a reliable source about these negotiations.
But I imagine the Lakers will be able to make enormous changes for the next NBA season!

Let's wait...

I would say this got way out of hand simply because she's an American, and the relationship between Russia and USA are definitely at all time low, the timing of the Russia Ukraine invasion, the reaction and the sanctions that followed suit from USA also played a huge part in this. Spending as long as two month to await trial for her charges is definitely politically influenced, but then again, what are the chances she wouldn't be found guilty or get the maximum sentence possible, I'd say zero. I feel bad for her, because this all couldn't have happened at a worse timing for her. I'm not sure how more diplomatic the USA can be in this case, and what Russia terms would be, but you'd expect an extravagant cost, that'd definitely bring some mixed from even the citizens of the country.

The thing is, Brittney Grier is not charged with "drug use", if that was the case then it would still be bad in Russia, but not upto 10 years in prison. I do not know the amount, because in Russia laws are a bit strict on this, so even if it was good enough for just one person, if it was like 5 joints then it would be possesion in order to sell type of stuff. But the reality is that she is getting charged for drug trafficking with an intention of distributing. I am not saying she did that, like I said, she could be carrying like just 5 joints and Russian law would consider that as drug seller amount of drugs, and thats her problem right now. I hope that they would do a prisoner swap again, because she is a big enough name to give Russia power, and USA should not be letting a great american basketball hero to rot in Russian prison, that wouldn't be good at all, they need to use diplomacy to handle this.

I mean it is "sort of" like splurging money around. Meaning, yes there are caps in place to prevent these things from happening, so there will be a repeater horrible huge luxury tax that they will have to pay, it is going to cost them insane amount of money to keep all of these players there is no doubt about that at all.

However, if they decide to give max possible for ALL their players, they would still be able to do it, like not in the sense of money but in regards to rules, they have that right. It will result with them becoming the team that pays the most, and they would pay not only hundreds of millions of dollars to the players, but also record breaking number on luxury tax as well, but if they can afford it, then they can do it.

According to National Television Authority International (NTA'L) TV news this evening by 7:pm local time says. Brittaney Griner, American Basketball Star to stand (face) trial in Russia court on Friday on the first of July, 2022. That is 01/07/2022 on the charges of illegal cannabis (drugs) possession. And if she is found guilty of the crime, she will be jail to serve the prison for about 10 years. Now how old is she now that she would still serve prison with the whole 10 years in jail to add it to the years she is.

She was arrested when returning to play for Russia team at the airport. But her fans are trying to swap her with a terrorist that has 24 years prison jail terms. But for now she is on preliminary trial.
I also pray that she should be released.

For more information, please check this link.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6502709

From what I'm reading, the only team that's shown any interest at all is the Lakers.  I think they like the narrative of LeBron and Kyrie teaming up again and they see this as a possible opportunity to dump Westbrook.  No way is a Westbrook for Kyrie trade happening though.  Maybe if Anthony Davis and Ben Simmons trade places also...  You never know with the Lakers.  They seem to like making crazy roster moves the last several years.  Picking up both Kyrie and Ben Simmons at one though...  That will a locker room filled with more drama than anyone has ever seen.  Which I guess makes Los Angeles the perfect spot for it.

I think Houston and Detroit won the draft here.  Detroit had star pg in Jaden ivey fall on their laps and then traded to get jalen Duran, which effectively will solve theor pg and center position for the future.  Duran could have went top 10 as well so great haul for them.

" Kyrie Irving has requested and received permission from the Nets to find sign-and-trade offers from other teams. Kevin Durant still hasn't spoken to Nets front office. Russell Westbrook to Brooklyn remains unlikely."

Looks like Kyrie Irving is leaving the Nets for sure, provided some team requires his service. Which I'm sure a lot of teams would be interested in.