NBA 2017-18 | Feb | "1, 2, 3, to put us all out of our misery"

By blackace Go To PostI am a fan of all defunct teams

By reilo Go To PostBakuya?

By s y Go To PostSpeaking of, fuck bill simmons for making up Yi's chair.

By livefromkyoto Go To PostNo, the other Idris Elba avatar dude. Oh…FaceItTiger?

As the Los Angeles Lakers become more realistic about the franchise's chances of snaring superstars in the free-agent class of 2018, the front office is increasingly looking through a longer lens in its team building process, league sources told ESPN.

The Lakers aren't abandoning a summer pursuit of stars, but rather they are recalibrating their focus on a 2019 class that could include San Antonio's Kawhi Leonard, Golden State's Klay Thompson and Minnesota's Jimmy Butler, league sources told ESPN.

By rodeoclown Go To Posthttp://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22343526/los-angeles-lakers-recalibrating-focus-2019-free-agent-class
Lakers realize nobody wants to play for them.

By rodeoclown Go To PostI really feel like everything works against a Marcus Smart trade. He's bad, they want a first, and the team that trades for him has to sign him to an extension. But Danny Ainge will find this team and they will give him two picks, somehow.

By Omzz Go To PostNobility, cmon. Know your brethren

By reilo Go To PostIt really depends how much your team needs a Tony Allen type.

By rodeoclown Go To PostI really feel like everything works against a Marcus Smart trade. He's bad, they want a first, and the team that trades for him has to sign him to an extension. But Danny Ainge will find this team and they will give him two picks, somehow.

By livefromkyoto Go To PostWhat players have left Boston recently and become better?

By rodeoclown Go To PostDenver needs a point guard more than anything and want to trade for Tyreke. Ugh.

The Washington Wizards have been engaged in trade talks involving center Marcin Gortat, multiple sources told ESPN.

Several teams have shown interest, but the Wizards are looking to improve their team now while not taking on additional long-term money, sources said.

Washington has expressed interest in LA Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, ESPN's Zach Lowe reported. Gortat has one year and $13.5 million left on his contract. Jordan can opt to be a free agent this summer.

By rodeoclown Go To Posthttp://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22346638/washington-wizards-engaged-trade-talks-involving-marcin-gortat

By Randolph Freelander Go To PostAlso remember as the trade deadline approaches, would some benevolent GM please rescue Tyus Jones.

By diehard Go To Posteverytime i get the flu i think "no person could play basketball right now". It was all a conspiracy.

I'm going to go die now. (not funny i know, lots of people have died from the flu this season)

I can think of no harsher or more depressing condemnation of the, god, coming up on 15 years Ernie Grunfeld, a cartilage-brained nincompoop who never saw a ruinous short-sighted midseason trade he didn’t like, has spent as the head personnel honcho of the Washington Wizards than that the following sort of vaguely rumor-ish object, cast onto the internet yesterday by ESPN basketball columnist Zach Lowe, seems like exactly the sort of thing Grunfeld will do if nobody stops him:

The Wizards have investigated the market for [DeAndre] Jordan without gaining any traction, sources say. A package of Marcin Gortat, Jason Smith (perhaps heading to a third team), Kelly Oubre and a first-round pick has long been my favorite realistic Jordan package.

Hm, yes, the Wizards definitely should ship out a 22-year-old two-way wing with brain-melting athleticism who can guard multiple positions and hit 40 percent of his three-pointers, plus a first-round pick that would give them their best near-term shot at ever replacing that skill-set, to get an aging 29-year-old center who can’t score from outside the restricted area or play in fourth quarters and who will never ever get better than he already is and who isn’t all that good even now and who only has one extremely expensive season left on his hilariously oversized contract. This is the line of thinking that will land DeAndre Jordan in Washington, and my hastily detached head at the bottom of a pond. We’ve seen this line of thinking before, in the stupid Wizards diaspora.

Everybody has doofus-ass no-range centers; a healthy majority of the league’s teams have more than they want, thanks to commitments they made just before trends in the game rendered one-dimensional rim-protectors all but worthless. There are more doofus-ass no-range centers than the sport can fit.

By Moris Go To PostMagic got LA fined 50K for tampering lol. Supposedly said something about Giannis in an interview that the league didn't like.

By diehard Go To Postathletic, rim running rim-protectors absolutely have a place in the current NBA. If Jordan was actually a smart defender, he would be godlike. Well ok, if he could kind of shoot free throws too.

Charlotte
The Hornets continue to field calls on Kemba Walker, but no Walker deal gets done unless a team absorbs one of the handful of bad contracts on Charlotte’s roster, sources said. Another variable at play: The future of GM Rich Cho. Cho is in the final year of his contract and there have been rumblings that former Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak is a favorite among high-ranking team officials to take over next summer. If Hornets owner Michael Jordan is resolved to replace Cho, he may not sign off on dealing Charlotte’s most appealing asset.

By Kuma Go To PostMagic didn't learn from the first time? lmao

By DY_nasty Go To Posthttps://sports.yahoo.com/nba-trade-deadline-primer-plenty-teams-appear-ready-make-moves-180159428.html

DO IT MITCH

By Moris Go To PostMagic has gotta shut up

By Dark PhaZe Go To Postmy god:

https://deadspin.com/someone-please-stop-ernie-grunfeld-from-considering-thi-1822761485



all of the yes's

all of them

By DY_nasty Go To Posthttps://sports.yahoo.com/nba-trade-deadline-primer-plenty-teams-appear-ready-make-moves-180159428.html

DO IT MITCH