2018-19 NBA Thread

He’ll be as good as possible for 1 1/2 of the 4 seasons the Knicks or any other team can sign him for. He can get 164,000,000 for 4 years. The first season he can’t play. The second season, 20-21, will be hard and with restricted minutes, done correctly he can return to near 90% of his 18-19 season. 21-22 may get him the same or close to it. Would he perform as well at 33 as he did at 30 even without an injury?
2022-23, a 34 year old Durant will be collecting 41,000,000. Can he average 35 minutes 20/9/5?

 

Sure. I think he'll outperform that.

The other side of this, though: if you're the Knicks, what the hell else are you going to do? If you sign Durant and he's OK, you're probably a contender in a year. You can sign Tobias Harris to a max and try to convince your fans that you are on a path to someday no longer being a lottery team.

 

The difference is that teams only started tracking things as seemingly basic as the number of passes thrown until the analytics era.

 

The knicks should be the greatest shit show on earth. Jimmy Butler and Kyrie Irving.

 

Steph gonna be pissed off

 

Don’t believe the imitators — that is a Woj bomb.

 

Wow. I never thought they’d trade him to LA after everything that went down, but holy shit, that’s a big haul. Great job by the Pelicans’ front office.

 

David Griffin, the new GM, knows what he's doing.

Three first rounders. That's pretty good.

 

Not if they're 27th or higher every year.

 

Seems like a fair trade for both teams.

 

As long as Pelinka's there I'd take my chances.

Davis was going to be a free agent in a year and his value wasn't going to get higher. To get this haul from the team he wanted to go to is a good deal for New Orleans.

(And good for L.A. too. They've got a still-young superstar, didn't have to give up Kuzma and they still have money to spend.)