2023 running NBA playoffs thread

[TheSportsPredictor]

NRA denounce the NBA for suppressing Morant's 2A rights?

 

[sgreenwell]

What's the story with him as owner? That team never did a thing.

He was somewhat notorious for (allegedly) crashing into the draft process or free agency at the last minute, and to prioritize short-term moves vs. anything long-term. See - not trading the pick that was Frank Kaminsky for four 1sts from the Celtics; holding on to Kemba Walker for too long; signing Gordon Hayward; perennially going for the 8th seed instead of building long-term.

 

[dixiehack]

Turns out he couldn't do Jerry Krause's job any better than Krause could do his.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[justgladtobehere]

He was somewhat notorious for (allegedly) crashing into the draft process or free agency at the last minute, and to prioritize short-term moves vs. anything long-term. See - not trading the pick that was Frank Kaminsky for four 1sts from the Celtics; holding on to Kemba Walker for too long; signing Gordon Hayward; perennially going for the 8th seed instead of building long-term.

Because I'm a Celtics fan I knew about Walker and Heyward situations. They were screwups on both ends. How do you spend years as just middle of the road?

 

[Della9250]

The Suns deal has to have Ayton in it -- and the Trade Machine says Ayton and Shamet for Beal works. They don't have much else to make the salaries work

 

[Neutral Corner]

Sources: Suns finalizing trade for Wizards' Beal

 

[Regan MacNeil]

 

[Della9250]

What a terrible terrible trade for Washington.

 

[Webster]

What a terrible terrible trade for Washington.

Hard disagree. Beal's contract is beyond brutal and would have dragged down the franchise for the next half-decade. They can cut CP3 and only pay like $13mm for him.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Hard disagree. Beal's contract is beyond brutal and would have dragged down the franchise for the next half-decade. They can cut CP3 and only pay like $13mm for him.

Which is cool if your only goal as a franchise is to save as much money as possible on payroll. They gave up an all-star for a sack of beans.

No one goes to DC as a free agent, so creating cap room is nice but they'll end up using it to overpay for a mediocre player. They need to build through the draft and this trade does nothing there... except to drop them into the lottery.

I mean, I get why they did it. Competing for an 8th seed every single year is a rough spot and they had no leverage with Beal at all. Still, that's a shocking small return for a player like Beal.

 

[Webster]

Which is cool if your only goal as a franchise is to save as much money as possible on payroll. They gave up an all-star for a sack of beans.

No one goes to DC as a free agent, so creating cap room is nice but they'll end up using it to overpay for a mediocre player. They need to build through the draft and this trade does nothing there... except to drop them into the lottery.

I mean, I get why they did it. Competing for an 8th seed every single year is a rough spot and they had no leverage with Beal at all. Still, that's a shocking small return for a player like Beal.

Beal has made exactly one 3rd team all NBA. Is there an argument that he's currently one of the top 25 players in the league? He is going to be 30 in a week and is a decent no. 2 option on an average team. Even if he's healthy, the Wizards can't build around him because they aren't going to have enough talent through the draft to be good during the end of Beal's prime. They signed a stupid contract and we're smart enough to get off of it.