2018-19 NBA Off-Season

When cop talk hits NBA Twitter: Basketball participation.

 

One might say the team with the best record in the conference shouldn’t fire its coach.

They upgraded next year in a big way at the price of paying a pretty good player $27.7 million the next four years and a solid center.

It’s a league of big swings nowadays.

 

I also think "team with best record" overrates them a bit when the Celtics lost one all-star in the first game, and the other missed around 20, and they only finished four games back. And then, James curbstomped them in the playoffs. Even if he's gone, probably isn't much faith that you're going to do anything in the finals if you get there.

 

Melo traded and then to be cut. Please go to LA

Every eligible player in NBA history who averaged at least 21 points a game is in the HOF except Geoff Petrie (played only 6 seasons). 20.69 is the actual figure. So at 24+ppg Melo is a shoe in. Has any great scorer done less for his teams?

And can someone explain why it is in Atlanta’s best interests to pay Melo $27 million to never, ever show up.

 

He’s going to Houston.

 

Because they were unloading Dennis Schroder, who they no longer need. Schroder still has three years at $15.5 million a year. OKC wanted him, Atlanta didn't. Melo was cheaper for Atlanta and they'd rather not have him around.

 

Makes

Makes more sense now. Thanks

 

There are so many HOFers who never won anything. Tracy McGrady never won a playoff series and got in on the first ballot. The truly intense “rings or you ain’t shit” discussion is a fairly recent phenomenon.

Melo is a 10-time all-star and 6-time all-NBA player who won a scoring title and will end his career as a top 10 scorer in league history. And that’s not even touching on his non-NBA resume, which is one of the strongest of all time. He’s a no-brainer.

 

Absolutely. Starting with Pete Maravich.

 

Or Adrian Dantley.

 

The Pistons had two Hall of Famers in Dave Bing and Bob Lanier in the early 70s and never got past the first round
Dantley was fun to watch
He was the last of the old-school, Chet Walker pump fakers where he'd go up 50 times, get his man to foul on the 51st and go to the line for two
The offense moved a lot better when Isiah ran Dantley out of town for Mark Aguirre