2018-19 NBA Season

[Italian Seafood]

NBA is the worst professional sports league right now

It's not good. And I'm a huge fan for about 40 years.

[mj2sexay]

I don't think the Cousins signing is going to be as big as people are making it out to be. He basically just ensured a ring while he rehabs from a devastating injury. But he's still coming off said injury and this is not a guy that could have been characterized as a gym rat even before he tore his knee.

Their ring was predestined before the signing anyway. Which does speak to how much the league sucks.

[IATA]

cousins is deff a luxury sign. he wont be ready till december at the earliest and even then, it's an achilles, he'll be 80% tops this year.

i like the big f u to lebron and rest of the league get

[Johnny English]

Raptors trading DeRozan to San Antonio for one year of Kawhi Leonard. It's a bold strategy, Cotton.

[SixFeetDeep]

Sources tell SN's @SeanDeveney Kawhi Leonard has "no interest" in the Raptors and could sit out.

[Italian Seafood]

Sources tell SN's @SeanDeveney Kawhi Leonard has "no interest" in the Raptors and could sit out.

Sounds like a fun guy, Knicks ought to offer him a max deal if they can get out of the Noah mess.

[Johnny English]

Sources tell SN's @SeanDeveney Kawhi Leonard has "no interest" in the Raptors and could sit out.

Apparently if he does then his year will roll over and he misses out on FA next year.

[IATA]

Apparently if he does then his year will roll over and he misses out on FA next year.

someone must have explained to him how contracts worked

https://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/report-leonard-will-raptors-training-camp-play-next-season/

“His camp made it very clear over the past week, to the Raptors and other teams, that Leonard wanted no part of Toronto, sources say,” wrote ESPN’s Zach Lowe after news of the trade broke.

“The Raptors didn’t care. They know any threat of failing to report is probably empty, since they can fine Leonard for each practice and game he misses — up to his full $20.1 million salary.”

There was even one report that went so far to report that Leonard would entertain the notion of sitting out next season entirely.

Enter: ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, to pour a hefty dose of water on those flames.
....

“[Leonard’s] going to play, he’ll be at training camp. He’s healthy,” he continued. “What I was told is that he’s starting to warm to the idea. He’s going to a contender. He’s got a team that can be as good as anybody in the Eastern conference. Now it’s up to Toronto to try to recruit him and keep him.”

[Italian Seafood]

someone must have explained to him how contracts worked

I'd like to have been there for that.

[Johnny English]

Shams Charania @ShamsCharania

Cavs‘ roster has been informed of firing of Ty Lue, per league sources. Lue has been let go as Cavs head coach after 0-6 start to Cleveland’s season.

[mj2sexay]

Shams Charania @ShamsCharania

Cavs‘ roster has been informed of firing of Ty Lue, per league sources. Lue has been let go as Cavs head coach after 0-6 start to Cleveland’s season.

Talk about the NBA's version of a mercy killing. Red Auerbach couldn't guide that roster to 35 wins.

[Johnny English]

And in the hotly anticipated clash tonight between the league's two remaining unbeaten teams, Giannis is out with a concussion and the Raps are resting Kawhi.

[SixFeetDeep]

Sucks we won’t get to watch Lebron lose in the finals this year

[Italian Seafood]

I'm trying to get into this season now that the Dodgers are done and the Knicks are mathematically still alive.

[IATA]

[Charania] Minnesota has traded Jimmy Butler and Justin Patton to Philadelphia for Robert, Covington, Dario Saric and a 2022 second-round draft pick, league sources tell me and @JonKrawczynski.

https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1061315746444312577


philly has no desire to hit the long ball, i guess. timbervolves were probly screwed by butler being such a vocal bitch.

looking forward to butler toiling away in obscurity



Rose or Teague, Wiggins, Roco, Saric, and KAT
not gonna win anything, but might be fun to watch in minny