2018-19 NBA Off-Season

not that Gilbert would but maybe he calls Maverick Carter and LeBron and says you guys are moguls and rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Just write me a $4 billion check and you can have the quicken arena and the Cavs. And the Monsters and the Charge and the Gladiators.
Gilbert is 56 and is the largest employer in a Detroit and probably the largest single owner of property there.

 

It would not surprise me one bit if LeBron ends up as part owner of the Cavs one day.

 

So the hottake on ESPN radio in LA is that either (a) Magic knows LBJ and PG are in the bag or (b) he knows they aren't coming so he's shifting the focus to next season.

 

That's got it covered, all right. Why do people listen to shit like that?

 

I cannot imagine that there is a worse major market sports radio station than ESPN LA 710. It is Laker ball washing 10 months a year.

 

So a team with Deandre Jordan is trading a guard to a team with John Wall and Bradley Beal, and is getting a center in return.

Hmm.

I'm going to say Deandre is probably hitting the road. I'm guessing he opts in and works a trade to Dallas.

 

It... is an odd trade to me. Rivers is much younger and probably more valuable now, but both are bench options on average or better teams. The contracts and years remaining are about equal (around $12M and one year each). The center market is flooded with decent options - NBA Free Agency 2018: Centers - so I think I'd rather have Rivers and go dumpster diving, but maybe the Clippers want to just move on entirely from all of the weird questions that having him on their roster brings up.

 

It sounds like John Wall really hated Gortat, which probably explains a lot of it.

Doc is no longer in charge of personnel for the Clips, but they had to at least loop him in on this, right? Otherwise that's a hell of an "establishing dominance" move from the new GM.

 

Yeah - From the Wiz's side, it makes much more sense. Nowadays, much tougher to find a decent wing than a decent center, especially since even good to great centers get played off the floor in the playoffs.

 

Really lets the air out of the offseason with Austin Rivers getting traded this early.
Nothing much left to talk about.

 

1) Having your dad as coach is not the lead-pipe cinch it used to be;
2) When the GM is The Logo, dominance was established when he signed the contract.