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NBA 2019 Offseason |OT| Nobody beats the Wiz (ards of Washington DC)
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Over under on the amount of games before him or Kuzma bitches about touches.
You're just not privy to the incoming rule change regarding the number of balls that can be used concurrently. Plus the playoffs will now be 2v2 street rules.
He probably felt he needed to shake things up, has been desperately trying to trade/sign another super star for the last year, and probably isn't going to be around for when those draft picks and pick swaps can really damage the franchise.
Cavs only team with cap room. K.Love should be gone soon too so that gets their payroll down to about 15 m
remember when Harden said he knew what should be done for next season? this is it.
Bron will want CP3 on his team no matter the costs. I don't know what fuckery the Lakers will have to do, but I can see it happening
I think there was one more dude on that team that he's forgetting about. Can't quite remember, though.
Do they have he cap space? Because if they do they'll get him for peanuts? That's all that OKC wants out of this, to get rid of the bill attached to Paul's head. They already got two first round picks and two pick swaps, they don't even need to ask for anything else. And Pelinka is too stupid to squeeze them for one of their dozens of first round picks because the dude (as evidenced by AD trade) has zero patience when he wants or "needs" something
It's not possible or logical. Lakers cap space is wrapped up in multiple players. They'd have to trade 4 or 5 guys just to make the space work. On top of that, the Lakers are very clearly gearing to reboot in 2 years. That year Chris Paul will be due $47 million.
To top everything off, the Lakers have no assets to trade. What would be in for OKC?
For some reason I thought he's getting 30 million next season. Nevermind then lol
Part of the advantage of trading for a guy with Russ' unearned and overrated reputation among the media and casual fans. Plenty of idiots who just see the MVP award and the triple doubles and think the Rockets just formed a super team.
Oh, ok, Harden is legit crazy then. I should have known by the way he torched CP3's house and then pretended it wasn't him.
Remind me again why he had such a beef (allegedly) with CP3 in the first place? Something something about usage/ball dominance? I guess as long as one of them agrees to come off the bench they shouldn't have that problem.
Re: why did the Rockets do this? The same reason the Clippers traded the farm for Paul George and the Lakers traded the farm for Anthony Davis. Their superstar wanted it and it might have been an untenable situation going forward if they didn't. This is a player's league.
Not that large, but I definitely think Westbrook is a better player than a 32-34 year old Chris Paul.
It's a superstar league, like what are you guys watching?
Draft picks? Who the fuck builds on draft picks in the NBA? The Golden State Warriors are lightning in a bottle exception, not the rule.
You do whatever it takes to get your superstar player a no.2 option that is a star and maybe a no.3 if you can manage it.
That's basically what management in the NBA is.
If you have no superstar, you have zero chance of winning anything, ever, period.
And if you have a superstar but you don't give him a no.2 star to play with ... that superstar is as good as gone in a couple of years.
I mean, given how Toy Story 4 ended, next Off Season or so should be interesting.
I mean, I'll slap my superstar if he asking trading for John Wall.
They did this a couple of years ago, that's why they paid CP3 a ton of money, because Harden wanted it. That honeymoon didn't last long. Considering this wife is even more problematic in terms of fit, I doubt this honeymoon will last long either. I'm fairly sure they had input into acquiring Melo as well.
When you let a player dictate everything a franchise does, when that player leaves you're going to be in a hole like Cleveland (either time) was. Maybe that's the modern NBA now, but man there was a time when the GM and coach was supposed to protect a player from themselves.
Potential is definitely there with Timelord. Just needs to work on his defense.
Probably don't want to risk injury.
Well that isn't how the NBA works any longer.
In all honesty the Rockets probably came the closest of anyone to actually beating the Warriors with Durant. LeBron and Kryie just got totally waxed by that same team.
Westbrook is younger and probably gives them another 2-3 year window because CP3 was done.
This situation really actually kinda bailed them out of a very ugly mess with a aging 34-year-old CP3 sniping at the franchise player, they get to conveniently wash their hands of signing that contract and swap in a younger MVP caliber player who has some warts sure, but is friends with Harden to boot.
You're not gonna get much better than that given the situation I think.
They found a way to get rid of Chris Paul *and* bring in another superstar level player who's younger and better. I mean, yeah ok, you'd ideally prefer Kawhi Leonard or someone coming in, but like of actual possible available options, this is about as good as Houston could hope for, a month ago Westbrook wasn't available at all because the Paul George thing hadn't happened.
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