nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

Year 5 of every sentence about the Pistons being worse than the last one pic.twitter.com/SxxKkrsp1U

— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) May 13, 2024

this is a truly cursed excerpt

the league needs to intervene and rescue that franchise

lebron getting his podcast partner hired as coach would be so funny, it would be the crowning off-court achievement of his career

Brian Windhorst said NBA executives were sending him the famous "now why is that?" meme of himself after LeBron showed up at the Cavs-Celtics game in Cleveland last night. pic.twitter.com/JFSatt6XTU

— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) May 14, 2024

"The Jazz have expressed interest in bringing Bronny in for an individual workout and could be interested in him with the 32nd pick, sources told Yahoo Sports," Peek wrote. "The franchise has been patiently rebuilding behind the leadership of Danny Ainge, and bringing in Bronny with the hopes of luring a superstar like LeBron could be the jump owner Ryan Smith is looking for to add a spark to the Jazz."

Ryan Smith on crack

wade feeding that man a sack of lies lol

"The biggest message I want you to hear is that I would coach this team if it was on the moon," Budenholzer said, grinning. "I would coach this team if it was in Alaska. If these players were in Denmark. ... I would go anywhere to coach this team."

26 other franchises would go to the moon to coach this franchise

"i would coach this team if it was in the fourth circle of hell" c'mon bud let's put some real stakes on this thing

denmark is really nice, I would coach any NBA team there

The Thunder should draft Zach Edey.

Addresses their need for size. Adds a totally different interior ingredient to their offense. And if there’s anyone who can turn his touch into reliable 3-point shooting it’s Chip Engelland. Edey in OKC is a perfect fit.

— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) May 19, 2024

every time kevin tweets stuff like this i want to ask him what it is like to say stupid things in public for a living

lol amazing

welcome to the offseason, OKC thunder

we'll be seeing a lot more of them the next few years unless something goes horribly wrong

gm lebron is back baby

Bronny James was the biggest story at the combine, at least outside the building, and that storyline got another boost Wednesday when Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James sat with his GM Rob Pelinka to watch his son perform. Technically, the rules say LeBron shouldn’t have been at the event, since it’s supposed to be for front-office personnel and agents only.

heh

Bronny, meanwhile showed some of the same traits we saw at USC: An inability to gain separation off the dribble or get into the paint, and a limited ability to leverage his straight-line speed and one-leg leaping ability in the run of play. James hit two 3-pointers in the second game and made two floaters in the first, but over the course of his two days, he shot 6 of 18 with four rebounds, two assists and four turnovers. He was 2 of 9 on 3-pointers and 3 of 5 from the free-throw line.

James also measured just 6-foot-1 1/2 inches in socks; between that and his inability to get anywhere off the dribble, finding a pro position for him will be tough. His strong frame, 6-7 wingspan and 32-inch no-step vertical give him a chance to play bigger than his height, although we haven’t seen much evidence of it in his game tape yet.

sure sounds like he's not an nba player

hollinger says later in the piece that bronnys the type of guy who could maybe get a two way contract so yeah borderline at best

the whole wild health scare last year makes the bronny thing so much weirder

he rly should not stay in this draft

I don't think another year in college is going to make him any taller

yeah seems like he just doesnt have the stuff question is if he wants to play on the lakers with his dad, his dad wants him to maybe he will do it to be nice to his dad

Realistically, Bronny could be the 50th best player of his age in the entire world and even though that would make him an amazingly gifted athlete he still wouldn't be any better than a two-way contract player in the NBA.

He should go play in Europe or China imo

Then again, does he really love basketball or is he just appeasing his annoying dad

being on the lakers is a rare experience its showtime baby the best of the best if youre into that sort of thing, its prob less appealing to bronny than yr average nba prospect tho considering hes already rich and famous, his dad would be on the team (maybe he would like that idk feel like for most guys it would be a con), thered be a ton of media scrutiny about whether hes good enough or just riding his dads coattails, hes not good enough, could turn into a disaster

returning to college on the other hand hes big man on campus, still rich and famous but not intense espn scrutiny levels, gets to have fun at college with his pals, is good enough at basketball

seems like hes gonna do it tho

maybe he just wants to get it over with

i think on the recent hollinger-duncan pod, nate was comping bronny to jevon carter or a player like that. a back up 2 guard whose value comes from athleticism, hustle, smarts, defense and who, if it’s working, can shoot and do just enough on offense to keep himself afloat. makes sense to me. he does seem to have some genuine athletic tools despite being short, he just isn’t very skilled

i’m thinking of a player like miles mcbride… 6 foot 1 guard who was the 38th pick. was up and down between the NBA and g league for 2 years before breaking out once he could consistently hit threes. prob not ever gonna be a long term starter but can clearly be an important role player on a good team. ofc most guys like this wash out or are even more fringe roster guys than mcbride but you can at least envision a role for a player w/ bronny’s skillset

mcbride was much better in college tho. bronny needs to go to a not overly great college team where he can get a lot of reps w the ball in his hands but it seems like he will go the opposite direction (go pro and never be good enough to deserve ball handling reps)

if he could learn to shoot as good as mcbride hed prob be on to something, most guys cant do it tho

for sure & there is a certain level of anonymity that let’s you develop for 2 years without fans or the press really caring at all that bronny will never be afforded. he’d be playing in some of the most publicly scrutinized g league games ever

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GN4von5bwAAex3G?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

lol philly just running embiid out there 1v5

https://Twitter.com/JoeBrunoWSOC9/status/1793028535319232988

Lamelo ran over a kids foot

I’ve seen footage of him speeding out of the arena running red lights

Lucky it was only that kids foot

good start to the off-season for the hornets

eesh

jb bickerstaff got axed

the FO asked him to make the 2nd round at all costs and then fired him when he did just that? rough stuff

joke franchise

listened to a pod two guys who were college players speculating about why foreign players are dominating the nba at the mvp candidate level and they both agreed that theres too much emphasis on skill development kinda for its own sake isolated from the larger game your drew hanlen type situations, idk about that i think it might just be a flukey thing where you happen to have four really good foreign born players, shai from canada doesnt count, and in the european system they do tons of skill development tho its with their teams so maybe thats different, but embiid came up through the us prep-college system, giannis played on a small time euro team, luka played at the heart of the euro system in madrid, jokic stayed in serbia but still high level

kind burying the lead here the thing the mentioned thats pretty obvious but interesting is all those guy are huge and strong, american guys are too skinny lol, too much body fat measuring maybe its hard to be huge and lean

euro convo starts at 18:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePIaUPqztiw

maybe theres a distinction between skill development like working with a trainer on you side step three and working with your team doing drills to help you make in game reads, that makes sense

can see a difference in how euro bigs develop all around games with on ball skills, shooting, etc while american guards still dominate as superior shooters

think also if you come up in high level european system which really only two out of the four guys theyre talking about did, youre just in a high level system, its like instead of playing for a prep school you were part of an nba org theyre better at doing basketball things eg they employ scientists, nba kinda tried to do that with the ignite but i dont think they did a very good job, if teams are developing their own guys seems like theres better motivation to get it right, rather than just something thrown together by the league

guess we can throw wemby into the convo too but also if you want to talk about a guy whos just a freak

the only thing thats really definitively standing out here is those four guys are big and beefy, time for america to start eating stew again