NBA 2020 Offseason Thread

Yeah, all of that is fair. I'm not sure how Memphis was that good last season but there's no good reason to think they'll be worse this year. Golden State should definitely be a playoff team.

Not sure what to make of the Pelicans. They should be better than last season, but I don't understand why they keep shopping Jrue Holiday. I think letting him go would be a huge mistake. I'm also skeptical that we're ever going to see a 60+ game season out of Zion unless he drops weight.

 

Well, save for the Booker pick at least. That was an obvious outlier.

 

It was. Great pick, but it required a lot of teams to butcher that draft ahead of them to let Booker fall that far. Booker was the fourth Kentucky player taken in that draft. Sacramento used the sixth pick on Willie Cauley-Stein. WTF?

 

Guess the Pelicans aren't shopping Holiday any longer.



I really like Holiday but that's a hell of a haul to get in return.

 

Damn 3 1sts? Guess got to give to have someone digest Bledsoe at $25M or whatever. Bledsoe over Brogdon; digest that one again. Who makes these decisions?

 

Woj is pulling an all-nighter.

 

Bledsoe's making $15M, which is a lot but not crazy for a guy who played pretty well this past season. I think the three firsts had more to do with the Bucks being over a barrel than it had to do with the Bledsoe salary -- they desperately need to improve the roster to try to make Giannis happy enough to stay, so they'll happily toss in the three picks to get Holiday.

Between that and Bogdan, the Bucks ought to be pretty damn good this year.

 

It was more about the fact that his salary has three years and 54 million on it this year and his numbers are trending in the wrong direction

 

I'm far from following this closely, but this feels like the offseason that Cleveland desperately tried to get LeBron partners and overpaid for guys who seemed good at the time (Love, Jamison, Mo Williams etc.), but when he left left the team in bad shape. Holliday is 30, right?

 

Booker was the Pistons’ second choice
They went with Stanley Johnson
Oops

 

Love wasn't acquired until LeBron's second stint, and he was a major guy at the time. LeBron's first stint, the Cavs got burned by Carlos Boozer leaving, and then compounded the error by acquiring the guys you mentioned, and signing middle of the road or middling players for too much cash. Cleveland could never seem to grab a second star for LeBron in his first stint because they had too much money tied up in immovable average or below average players, which they often traded middle to late first round picks to acquire. (The "hit" rate is low on draft picks late in the draft, but at least you get a shot.)

 

I think people are underestimating how much just making the playoffs would help re-energize the Suns' fan base. It's been a decade since they last made the postseason, and Devin Booker needs to play playoff games. And the franchise needs to show they're serious about getting him there. The Paul trade checks a lot of boxes in that regard.