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Emeraldegg posted...

Now the suns are reportedly open to taking calls on durant

Yeah these rumors are heating up quite bit.

I like KD, but it's quite clear that this duo isn't working, and Booker is still the Suns engine. Makes more sense to get rid of KD and build around Booker. Especially now that Booker is cementing himself as a pretty solid playmaker in addition to being and elite scorer.

another trade

Kuzma to the Bucks for Middleton and a pick swap

this one I dunno, although Middleton seems for the most part done

Philly trades KJ Martin and two 2nd's to Detroit for us to take on his salary

assets acquired

now to wait and see if we keep him or if this is just part of another trade

poor khris, this game is a cruel fucking business

ohhhhh surprise no Donovan Mitchell for the Cavs tonight

he sustained a shoulder injury on a hard pick last night

https://bsky.app/profile/shamsbot.bsky.social/post/3lhhvx34uuk2s

FROM SHAMS:

BREAKING: The Miami Heat are finalizing a deal to send Jimmy Butler to the Golden State Warriors for Andrew Wiggins, Dennis Schroder, Kyle Anderson and a protected first-round pick, sources tell ESPN.

gonna be honest think i prefer Wiggins side

Yeah, Heat won that deal

Guess that means Durant isn't going back to Golden State

https://x.com/shamscharania/status/1887311663021301940?s=46&t=TCMAHNf05POcmU0K_lJ-JA

warriors what is you doing

Yeah Heat got the better of that deal.

As for the Suns, they just need to get rid of Nurkic somehow, for literally anything.

This season isn't a lost cause they can still do something maybe, but I think they just play it out, see where things fall. I did like the Jones signing initially, but it clearly isn't working, and the Suns are just way worse defensively than they were last year.

lmao this is so awful for gsw

I cannot wait for Butler and Draymond to get sick of each other

You know it's inevitable and the potential for disaster is enormous

crazy ending to Cavs/Pistons. Almost forced overtime after Cade made 6 consecutive FTs in the final 7 seconds, but Cavs hit a half court 3 at the buzzer to win it

I'm officially declaring 3rd quarter Suns the worst team in the league.

To be fair 3rd quarter OKC is maybe the best team in the league

UltimaterializerX posted...

Draymond goes after lazy people.

LOL if you believe Draymond went after Durant because he was lazy

This feels like a very busy trade deadline

Now a Pels/Raptors trade apparently

Raptors trade for Brandon Ingram

but why

Shai with his 3rd 50 point game in the last 2 weeks

And now the lakers have traded knecht and stuff to charlotte for mark williams

Poor Knecht, he doesn't deserve that

The Harlotte Hornets

No Cs

haven't watched any hornets but have heard williams is super promising

Williams has a lot of tools, but he's not exactly versatile and his injury history is extremely concerning.

I see people calling that trade a fleecing on one side or the other, but I dunno. I don't think it's a true needle mover in either direction for either team.

MZero posted...

Raptors trade for Brandon Ingram

but why

They gave up hardly anything. They can't tank forever, and BI would never go there as a UFA. It's worth a shot.

I think the trade for williams was fine on both. Lakers gave up somethighn of value for something they needed. Hornets can just draft another center like maluach

Emeraldegg posted...

https://x.com/shamscharania/status/1887311663021301940?s=46&t=TCMAHNf05POcmU0K_lJ-JA

warriors what is you doing

this is probably the timeline for Steph actually. If they can win one more title with him then Jimmy is probably one of the best options available, especially if he ever goes back to 2023 playoff Jimmy

will it work though? I dunno probably not but eh

It's more about the amount for me. Butler is not worth 60M on his best day

Warriors would be fortunate to win one more playoff series with Curry, they arent sniffing a title.

If Curry wants a ring its going to be on another team

https://x.com/shamscharania/status/1887567753298559006?s=46&t=TCMAHNf05POcmU0K_lJ-JA

one of those crappy 1sts to offload nurk

Small victory.

Even if Nurk still has some ball in him he was clearly done with the team.

Dennis Schroder to Pistons as part of that Butler trade yeah okay now I'm fine with this

in the end we did the bare minimum of what we needed to do in getting cade a 2nd ball handler and got a bunch of extra 2nd round picks and didn't give up anything in return so I'll call this a success

Supposedly we tried to get Durant at the last minute but were unsuccessful, I wonder what the offer we put forth was.

Just saw the All-Star Draft. I know it doesn't matter but team Chuck is absolutely loaded lmao what were Shaq and Kenny doing

They want people to care about the all star game, and then decide it would be a good idea to pretend to have a draft but really rig the teams to be roughly old Americans vs young Americans vs International

Franz Wagner averaging 25/5/5 on very high end defense and not making the all star game is dirty work

In other news, the Magic fan base are very angry we did nothing when we have such glaring holes. Front office said they did nothing because teams wanted long term assets for short term solutions. Without knowing the details that's a bit of a shitty excuse because the only long term assets who we should be against trading are Franz, Paolo, Suggs. Everything else should have been on the table

Shattered posted...

Franz Wagner averaging 25/5/5 on very high end defense and not making the all star game is dirty work

well he did miss 20 games, and I think he was injured during the peak selection process

He did but they have put people in like that in the past.

Like give me 32 games of Franz 25/5/5 over 49 games of Pascal 20/7/3.

yeah that seems pretty reasonable to omit given how much time he missed. luka and joel embiid aren't all stars either.

The selection just needs to be expanded.

It hasn't changed since there were 12 teams in the league.

Y'all know I'll always go to bat for Booker even though he had a slow start to the season, but he's 9th in scoring, and 11th in assists and didn't make it, but then you guys like Sabonis who 100% should be in and isn't. Just not enough room.

v_charon posted...

Supposedly we tried to get Durant at the last minute but were unsuccessful, I wonder what the offer we put forth was.

Gobert is the only contract that would I think would match. Would've been a complicated trade because you can't aggregate contracts. So I'm assuming a third team would have been involved to get the money figured out, and a bunch of picks would have gone to the Suns.

I don't think either team could take more salary back than they got OR aggregate, which makes it basically impossible to do conventionally, much less last minute.

Oh ya pistons first and only nationally televised game this year

.....except Cade is out because he rolled his ankle last game and Sixers are now 100% healthy

Pistons up 15 after first

Maybe it won't matter if cade isn't playing if sixers are this bad

Yeah we're just murdering them now

https://x.com/DetroitPistons/status/1888039430889312406?t=4Q0oyNu5rhubjJK1n-jl1A&s=19

33 points for the ROTY tonight.

AD having a crazy first half with his debut with the Mavs.

I actually think they Mavs improved in the short term on that trade, it's just they could have gotten so much more in return.

Sorozone posted...

AD having a crazy first half with his debut with the Mavs.

I actually think they Mavs improved in the short term on that trade, it's just they could have gotten so much more in return.

well, this sadly didn't age well (seemingly)

good trade

Knecht/Williams trade has been rescinded

Apparently Charlotte botched their end of the deal somehow

Lakers will be abused by any self respecting big.