NBA rumors and hearsay

[elcheato]

 
i still own this shirt. It's way too big for me now, but I still got it 

 

[Paulius]

 

[Hurricane Season]

Whatever happened to boobie gibson?

 

[Paulius]

Or jamario moon

 

[Paulius]

https://youtu.be/GxOVeJ8UoWI

 

[elcheato]

Whatever happened to boobie gibson?

last i heard he was focusing on his apparent rap career aspirations 
 
what I think he meant was no team was gonna ever sign him again 

 

[HitmanCapone]

I just find it kinda funny that you call a trade offer shit that includes an All-Defensive 1st teamer, two future Top 5 picks (or at least one of them, but most likely both), a young defensive wing that shut down a red hot Paul Millsap, and the third overall pick in this past draft. Please tell me a better offer than that for a team that Westbrook will voluntarily go to.

Also we were never going to take Dunn because it would leave us too positionally cramped as I said. Sure Dunn will be very good, but he isn't better than Isaiah, and doesn't provide an immediate impact to start over Bradley either. So then he's on the bench -- and while yeah he is better than Smart and Rozier it does not mean it's worth taking him -- because we have Smart and Rozier. Smart's an elite defender at age 22, and Rozier according to SynergySports was the best and most efficient scorer in all of Summer League. Obviously you don't then imply Rozier is a future star, because he clearly isn't, but if you add Dunn then Rozier basically has zero playing time, and that's also lunacy. Sometimes you take the slightly less hyped up player for one who fits your system better. If you gave me the choice today to add either Mike Conley or Gordon Hayward to my team, I'm taking Hayward, even if Conley is considered the better player. And for Jaylen being ranked 7-9 look as his (potential) fit with Boston and it's clear he's ranked much higher on the Celtics board than Hield/Murray

Every asset in the Celtics trade has more value than everyone offered in your fake Davis trade, except maybe Dieng is equal to Smart. And Davis has literally 1000x more value than Westbrook currently has -- he's under contract for five more years where as Westbrook is an impending UFA.

Also there is no way the Thunder let him walk to the Spurs at the end of the year. Westbrook has seen how publicly humiliated the franchise has been when KD left them, and so when they ask Westbrook this offseason (if they already haven't), he knows that he will be traded if he doesn't want to stay. Obviously there is a chance he will re-sign, but if so the Thunder already know of it. But if he tells them won't re-sign they HAVE to trade him, and it will be hard to get fair compensation for a guy teams know will be a UFA. Like hypothetically, why would the Lakers trade Ingram and D'Lo for Russ when they can outright sign him in FA that next summer, if he wants to go to LA? Things like that lower his value immensely

You're missing the big picture, Dunn was the player who you could have traded to get that star. Hell if you took Dunn you probably have Jimmy Butler right now.
 
Again with the missing the point, I never, not once said there was a better trade package out there because I don't know every offer that's out there but even if it is the best offer that alone doesn't even come close to making it a good trade for OKC so we can continue to go back and forth on this all day but at the end of that day it won't change the fact that your "assets" are still not good enough to land a player of Westbrook's level or most likely any other Superstar out there and that is what I've been saying all along so are you really arguing with that?
 
As for Smart's defense, Dunn's will be better. As for making players redundant what do you think just happened to the Summer League MVP Tyus Jones?  Ricky Rubio, Tyus Jones & Kris Dunn.
 
Im also not even close to entertaining your thought process on trying to say that all the Celtics assets are better in my fake trade than the ones you put in your fake trade.  I can't wait to watch the Wolves players explode onto the scene this year now that we finally have some legitimate coaching here.  As for hard to get fair compensation I heard too many people at so many forums say that same bogus ass line and just sat back and watched the Wolves get Wiggins for Love and everyone and their mothers mother knew he was gone.  You don't give away Superstars for journeymen sorry but that's not how it works.

 

[HitmanCapone]

According to Synergy Sports he was the best player in all of Summer League. Not just Boston, but every team. He seemed so composed on both offense and defense, and played phenomenally well for the SL. I'm not saying he's a star in the slightest, but he's a very quality backup PG and not someone worth getting rid of at all.

Umm Tyus Jones and his Summer League MVP say hello

 

[HitmanCapone]

Isaiah is better than Dunn too bruh -- hope you just forgot to say his name

And it's not substandard depth at all. Rozier is a solid backup point guard, and is not a negative player. Smart's defense is amazing and his shot should be better this year -- playable for sure. Yes Dunn would be better, but he still wouldn't start. Nobody after the Top 2 picks would be starters right now for Boston. So rather than being forced to never play Rozier who looked amazing this Summer League and have scraps play backup wing, you take Jaylen Brown who can provide immediate defensive impact at the 3 and play 20 minutes a game. You can't run a team gunning for an ECF berth with no backup SF. What happens when Jae Crowder goes down with an injury? Are you comfortable starting the 57th overall pick? Or starting three guards under 6'4" and play them all 35+ minutes a game? You gotta be ready for anything


Look, clearly I'm not going to convince any of you guys on Jaylen Brown. Y'all will continue to say that it was a bad pick, that I am wrong on Brown's fit in Boston... just like y'all were ripping on me for saying Boston would draft Brown before the NBA Draft. Heaven forbid the guy who watches Celtics games all the time understands the team and the team's identity better than just overall NBA fans. Same reason why I wouldn't try to convince Nola about the Pelicans depth chart, or CC about Duke -- y'all shouldn't be telling me how Boston runs its team. I've seen Brad Stevens coach for the past four years and I've seen who Ainge drafts for the past like 12 years or so. It might not be who y'all think the picks should be but you also don't watch and study how the Celtics run their organization

Than you should know by now that he is a joke.  If it wasn't for his good buddy Kevin McFail gift wrapping him Kevin Garnett in a trade you guys wouldn't have won any championships and you most likely would have lost Paul Pierce as he was demanding his way out before KG came.  I've watched basketball for a long time and spent a lot of time watching Celtics games once KG went there and even after he left I still kind of followed them, Now I'm not trying to say I know the team better than you because I clearly don't but trying to act like you know more about stuff simply because you follow the team is nothing but laughable at best.
 
As to play into your little game of being comfortable starting the 57th overall pick, why couldn't you have drafted someone at 16 or 24 or whatever other draft pick you had before 57, what about Free Agency.  We're going to need you to stop cherry picking things to try to make your point.

 

[Mexi]

Hope russell gets his ass to the wolves

If he were to re-sign in minnesota, am i crazy in thinking trading wiggins for him wouldnt be so bad...

 

[Paulius]

Damn well capone just folded bosox and put him in his back pocket

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Umm Tyus Jones and his Summer League MVP say hello

Tyus is balling the fuck out

 

[Mexi]

You guys are talking summer league again?
When will we learn
Remember when josh selby was mvp

Remember when Adam morrison averaged 20 a game

 

[Paulius]

Thats what ive been tryin to say.... shit is wack af

 

[buzzy]

SL doesn't matter except when it's a Dukie

 

[Mexi]

SL doesn't matter except when it's a Dukie

or rozier lol

 

[Paulius]

Bleacher report had utah at 4th for power rankings next year....what the fuck

 

[buzzy]

Jazz are the team that gets overrated and underperforms year after year.

 

[Mexi]

Hollinger had them above the 2008 or 2009 lakers remember

 

[buzzy]

Those were the good old D-Will to Booz days tho