2018-19 NBA Off-Season

Our long national nightmare is over?

 

LaBron Ball, officially a BigBaller now.

Bye bye Luke Walton.

 

I don't follow such things normally, so I'm asking those who do: How common is it for the player's agent rather than the player himself or the player's new team to be the entity making the announcement?

 

Why?

 

The Warriors said they'll be his huckleberry.

 

Welcome Wagon is on the way.

 

Magic's my all-time favorite athlete so I'm biased, but this is a bit satisfying based on all the people who thought the hiring of Magic last year was a joke, mostly because he....had some dumb tweets about players. The guy who's been successful at pretty much everything he's done post-hoops, with the obvious exception of a certain talk show we won't talk about. Not that there was a guarantee he'd do a good job and who the hell knows where this ends up with the Lakers now. But there was a large group of folks who mocked the hiring simply because Magic was simplistic or wrong with some tweets, as if the worst website in the history of the world is the way to judge someone on anything. All he's done in 16 months is draft some really good young talent, sign some nice vets and convince the best player in the game to come to a team that won 35 games last year. (and yes, Pelinka is deserving of credit as well).

 

Would be curious to know how many of these folks re-upped for the three mandatory years:

 

I don't know how much credit Magic/Pelinka deserve for this signing - Like, I think it's hard to assign a percentage to it. But it's clear that they've been running the franchise in at least a professional manner, and that's more than you can say for the last few years of Jimmy Buss and Mitch Kupchak. Or the Cavs.

 

That sounds unlawful. They should have the option to decline.

 

If you were a season ticket holder you'd be insane to re-up for three years. It was widely expected that LeBron was bailing. The value of those tickets just cratered.