2018-19 NBA Thread

I'm beginning to think, based on 30 years of watching and reading NBA draft previews, that NBA scouts have about the same winning percentage as those vegas scamdicappers.

 

Someone suggested Williamson was so disappointed with New Orleans that he was thinking of going back to school. Then He remembered he withdrew from classes the day after the NCAA tourney. Retaking all those exams to be eligible to play for Duke for free or make $9 million next year?

 

That story was pure bullshit from the jump.

 

Lol. Anyone believing it is pretty damn dumb.

 

Source: Lakers will not hire replacement for Magic

The conclusion is the substantive essence of Magic's duties were quite minimal.

 

The drug was not listed, although it is a "drug of abuse."

Tyreke Evans dismissed from NBA for violating league's anti-drug program

 

He’s an ornament, a well paid shiny flashy ornament.

 

Haaaa. The thing is, I always think the draft is kind of like the yearly PECOTA projections. You don't always know how a player is going to pan out, but I think there can be a general consensus on players going too high or too low that's more correct than not. (I'm thinking the Thabeet, Diop, Anthony Bennett kind of picks.) Some guys will end up way better for reasons that are hard to project (Curry 'learning' to put less stress on his ankles, Giannis being the one-in-100 athletic freak that actually develops to his full potential), while other guys will fail with a similar profile (Bruno Calabro, eternally 3 years away from being 3 years away).

 

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Damian Lillard has been absolutely atrocious.

Hard to find a team with less heart than the Blazers in this series.

 

For all the praise Green will be getting today, if he doesn’t kick people a few years ago, Golden State might be on their way to their fifth-straight title. No one outside of Russell’s Celtics have won five in a row.

This could have been arguably the second-greatest NBA dynasty.

 

Then again, that collapse lead to the call to Durant.