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Why would LBJ go over to the west? He controls the east, that's a very good advantage for him. But it's true, the conference divide is now farther than ever.

It’s an arms race in the West right now. Either you create a super team or just watch from the sidelines, as evidenced by the migration of superstars and concentration of high-caliber talents on several teams. Meanwhile the East continues to have a star-drain and it might only be a matter of time before Lebron decides to take his talents somewhere in the West.

They actually have a rule for this. NBA executives have a right to not approve trades. They have disapproved Chris Paul trade to Los Angeles Lakers back in the day and their reasoning was LAL being so strong.

But It seems like Adam Silver stopped this tradition especially after Wade-LeBron-Bosh trio. They are basically bussiness man and if they feel thats the right marketing move, they should take it and I totally respect that. But with such unbalanced teams, the league is not what it was before.

By the way, Lonzo was a blast last night. Long way to go for this kiddo.

Every team has their own jurisdiction to make some boost on their line up. It's like everyone seems to have good choice and set of their players and still there's no guaranteed even they have super roster still, no one is sure of that they can lead in the brackets. As only 2 teams will remain in the finals to beat for this season's championship.

There's no need to build another Curry. There's more uprising players and rookie's they only need to discover some new.

Teams are building their rosters and they want to make sure each of their players has names and experience.

Timberwolves are a young team and it's a good move for them to acquire Jimmy Butler who has a good experience in playoffs and a complete player.
I will already expect that the hype in the past season will happen this upcoming season, Minny will go to the playoffs at last, I am certain with that as long as butler will remain healthy and they can build a good chemistry.

Nba already have that, its called salary cap. Unfortunately, players accomodate low salary in order for teams to join superstar players together. Building around just one superstar is not enough anymore. You need to have atleast 2 superstars and good support players to atleast compete with gsw.

Lakes still not a playoff contender this upcoming season, and I think they are preparing for the future so they are not acquiring stars yet.
I came across this article by Daniel Starkand and it says, here that

"Bill Simmons Believes LeBron James, Paul George, John Wall And DeMarcus Cousins Will All Sign With Lakers in 2018".

If that will happen, another super team and lakers will be back in their glory days. Source here : http://www.lakersnation.com/bill-simmons-believes-lebron-james-paul-george-john-wall-and-demarcus-cousins-will-all-sign-with-lakers-in-2018/2017/07/12/

with the way lakers now i don't think they are really aiming to rebuild the glory day's i guess it will take more time for them build a new decade champ
magic and kobe's day is gone for long time now and even adding small pieces of stars won't change the fact that this team needs to allocate a lots of
dollars to matched up with the champ gsw and cavs.

Yeah, Timberwolves are making good team. They surely can attack playoffs, but i don't think can do better than that, we'll see...
For me, Celtics are making a dynasty. I watched Jayson Tatum and Ante Žižić, and they look pretty good. With Hayward, they made really good team. I think Celtics can become regular Conference Finalist in following years.

I think Kentavious Cadwell-Pope is the Best Player Available in the Free Agency. Althought he is not a mainstay for Lakers he would be a great addition to the young core's development. Also KCP can act as a cap filler in which the Lakers need in order to maintain the cap limit of the League. Althought stats does not show everything he is a solid defender and a great 3 pt shooter. I really think that Lakers will pursue big free agents in the 2018 free agency with this 1 year deal.

The league modifies (again) some of the rules. You may read some here:

https://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball/nba-announce-rule-changes-for-time-outs-and-free-throws-trade-deadline-date-moved-forward/news-story/438f4c67f7e0edaeac1ddf18cae25fed

Aside from that, trade deadlines has moved after All-Star Week from the original before the event. What's next?

Kentavious is not a big deal to me. But well Lakers today isn't the old one anymore, old players are legends and they can't replace those players that had resigned before and having some rest now.

If this is true then Timberwolves will be loaded by a lot of good players. But the question is, can they blend with its other? Yes, Karl Anthony Towns is enough and they should build their teams around it. If they keep adding the likes of players mentioned above, then it will be another adjustment on the core and I think that it will bring more harm than good to the team.

Here are some new rules for next season 2017/18:


The NBA Board of Governors unanimously approved rules changes pertaining to timeout format and procedures for administrating free throws and halftime. Effective with the 2017-18 season, the maximum number of timeouts per game will decrease from 18 to 14(7 for each team). 
All team timeouts will be 75 seconds.
In addition, during the last three minutes of a game, teams will be limited to two team timeouts each instead of the previous rule that allowed three per team in the last two minutes. 
Each team will have two team timeouts per overtime period; previously teams had three.


The NBA also made the following changes regarding game flow:
Referees will assess a delay-of-game violation if a free throw shooter ventures beyond the three-point line between attempts. 
Halftime will last 15 minutes for all games, beginning immediately upon expiration of the second period.  A delay-of-game penalty will be issued if a team is not ready to start play at the expiration of the halftime clock.


In addition, the Board of Governors approved moving the trade deadline from the Thursday after the NBA All-Star Game to the Thursday 10 days before the All-Star Game.  With the new placement of the trade deadline, teams will be able to settle their rosters before the All-Star break

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has agreed to sign for $18 million on a one year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers. It's the one position they shorte and they will be needed to fill. As a 2-way player, Kentavious adds just what they needed at SG to complement Ball in the backcourt. The Lakers desperately needed defense and 3-point shooting, and Kentavious brings that. In addition, his contract is the perfect fit with the Lakers current rebuilding plan. He expected to have a much longuer deal but Lakers have no time fir long commitment as a 4 year deal will codte them somewhere around $75 or 80 million.

Is this official? Is the bulls will really release butler and remain wade instead? This is a great loss to chicago bulls. Timberwolves has lot of good players even without them. Karl Anthony Towns is enough. He just need time to get more experience. NBA must set a limitation to avoid superpower teams.

Holy Mother of Christ!!!
This is not an All-Star line up but will definitely give a hard time to the Cavaliers and the Warriors.
Oh. Jamal. My favorite player of all time. With the shake and bake it will definitely give a lot of offense for the Wolves. Then Butler, this is going to be a crazy season.

Hey guys you got to admit it Minnesota Timberwolves had the best offseason so far in the NBA.

Notable Acquisitions:
Jimmy Butler
Jeff Teague
Taj Gibson
Jamal Crawford
Justin Patton

Notable Player Losses:
Zach Lavine
Kris Dunn

The team has added players that give them a tremendous upgrade on both the defensive and offensive end. Not to mention adding a multiple sixth-man of the year awardee with Jamal Crawford our bench will help the scoring and defending process while the starting five is resting. Aside from that the Wolves are not yet finish adding pieces they still need to add another back up point guard and 2 wing players.

I don't know when it will be finished. Possible that there is 3-5 years contract that he signed already. And he needs to wait for it up until the end of the contract and maybe that's the right time that the GSW management will increase his salary. Well if that happens we'll know it through internet, it will be on the news immediately.