mtcal wrote:spike eskin ranks lebron destinations:
#1 lal
#2 cle
#3 everybody else

#wetblanket

Think Spike is leader of the homegrown championship group for whatever reason.

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Twitter: LeBron’s team next season?
[via BetOnline.ag]

Cavs +110
76ers +150
Lakers +500
Rockets +600
Warriors 14/1
Heat 16/1
Clippers 20/1

Updated

Sixers +150
Cavs + 175
Rockets +250

Wouldn’t the Rockets basically have to dump everyone including somehow tricking a team into trading for Ryan Anderson at over 20M per year in order to re-sign CP3 and get LeBron?

Ace Rothstein wrote:

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Twitter: LeBron’s team next season?
[via BetOnline.ag]

Cavs +110
76ers +150
Lakers +500
Rockets +600
Warriors 14/1
Heat 16/1
Clippers 20/1

Updated

Sixers +150
Cavs + 175
Rockets +250

Is that thing fairly reliable? I thought I saw us at like 7-1 last week on Bovada or another big site but could be mistaken

gpicaro wrote:Wouldn’t the Rockets basically have to dump everyone including somehow tricking a team into trading for Ryan Anderson at over 20M per year in order to re-sign CP3 and get LeBron?

There is always a chance LeBron doesn't take a max deal I guess.

Grotewold wrote:

Ace Rothstein wrote:

PTOITWCFTPP wrote:Twitter: LeBron’s team next season?
[via BetOnline.ag]

Cavs +110
76ers +150
Lakers +500
Rockets +600
Warriors 14/1
Heat 16/1
Clippers 20/1

Updated

Sixers +150
Cavs + 175
Rockets +250

Is that thing fairly reliable? I thought I saw us at like 7-1 last week on Bovada or another big site but could be mistaken

Not really, I’m sure they have a low max bet allowed and by looking at the rockets jump I’m guessing they are getting hit the most

heyeaglefn wrote:

mtcal wrote:spike eskin ranks lebron destinations:
#1 lal
#2 cle
#3 everybody else

#wetblanket

Think Spike is leader of the homegrown championship group for whatever reason.

Spike's position isn't homegrown championship, it's not wanting to deal with the Lebron circus.

I get that, but I do think one problem people (not Spike, but generally) are having trouble with is that there isn't a single high-level player in the NBA that doesn't come with baggage or questions. Lebron is obviously a high level of baggage, but any guy the Sixers can possibly acquire is going to come with some warts, whether it's an on-court flaw, fit questions, personality quirks, whatever. There's no perfect player in the NBA, and if there was, that guy isn't available for a reason.

heyeaglefn wrote:

gpicaro wrote:Wouldn’t the Rockets basically have to dump everyone including somehow tricking a team into trading for Ryan Anderson at over 20M per year in order to re-sign CP3 and get LeBron?

There is always a chance LeBron doesn't take a max deal I guess.

There's a small part of me that wants Lebron to take way under the max from Houston and force people to have a real conversation about the max and whether it's good for the game. If teams could offer whatever percentage of the cap they wanted, it'd be a major blow for super teams.

It would be even better for him to go to Golden State.

he has said he'll never take below the max again. obviously he can renege on that, but he seemed to feel pretty strongly about it

Houshphandzadeh wrote:he has said he'll never take below the max again. obviously he can renege on that, but he seemed to feel pretty strongly about it

Yeah, I don't think he will. I could see a scenario where he'd take a few hundred thousand under the max if a team was right around the max and the alternative would be giving up assets that would really hurt the team, but I would be stunned if he took a mid-level or something crazy like that to play in Houston.

mcare89 wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

gpicaro wrote:Wouldn’t the Rockets basically have to dump everyone including somehow tricking a team into trading for Ryan Anderson at over 20M per year in order to re-sign CP3 and get LeBron?

There is always a chance LeBron doesn't take a max deal I guess.

There's a small part of me that wants Lebron to take way under the max from Houston and force people to have a real conversation about the max and whether it's good for the game. If teams could offer whatever percentage of the cap they wanted, it'd be a major blow for super teams.

Doesn't him not taking the max prove that it doesn't matter?

If guys want to play together they will. The max stops the Wizards from paying John wall $70 million a year.

MoBettle wrote:

mcare89 wrote:

heyeaglefn wrote:

gpicaro wrote:Wouldn’t the Rockets basically have to dump everyone including somehow tricking a team into trading for Ryan Anderson at over 20M per year in order to re-sign CP3 and get LeBron?

There is always a chance LeBron doesn't take a max deal I guess.

There's a small part of me that wants Lebron to take way under the max from Houston and force people to have a real conversation about the max and whether it's good for the game. If teams could offer whatever percentage of the cap they wanted, it'd be a major blow for super teams.

Doesn't him not taking the max prove that it doesn't matter?

If guys want to play together they will. The max stops the Wizards from paying John wall $70 million a year.

Sure, there's nothing you can do to totally legislate it out. But I think it becomes far more unlikely that four guys pass up that amount to play together. The Warriors are an outlier case because they were a situation that involved a once in a lifetime confluence of stars on below-market deals and an unprecedented cap spike, but if Steph and Durant are both allowed to make $60 million instead of $30 million, does that change the calculus going forward? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.

Ultimately, my problems with the max aren't really based on super teams, I think it's a better answer to the tanking debate. A team like the Pacers is never going to be a player for a major superstar with finances being equal, but if they can offer $60 million when nobody else has that kinda space, it might put them in play. It might not change the league for this generation, as guys are used to forming super teams now, but it might set the tone for the next generation.

@wojespn: Sixers coach Brett Brown has reached agreement on a three-year contract extension, league source tells ESPN.

I like it. Happy for him.

Oh happy day

Um https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29 ... elle-fultz

A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker?

That afternoon, within hours of the call, all three of the accounts I hadn’t discussed with the team switched from public to private, effectively taking them offline—including one (HonestAbe) that hadn’t been active since December. The Still Balling account, which had been tweeting daily, has not posted since the morning of the 22nd (I had already been following Still Balling with an anonymous account of my own, which allowed me to see activity after it went private). Since I contacted the Sixers, Still Balling has unfollowed 37 accounts with ties to Colangelo, including several of his son’s college basketball teammates, a former coach from his son’s high school, and an account that shares the same name as the agent Warren LeGarie, who has represented Colangelo in the past.

PSUsarge wrote:Um https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/5/29 ... elle-fultz

A collection of Twitter accounts that has criticized Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, disclosed sensitive information, and outlined team strategy shares eye-opening similarities. What does that have to do with the Philadelphia 76ers’ decision-maker?

That afternoon, within hours of the call, all three of the accounts I hadn’t discussed with the team switched from public to private, effectively taking them offline—including one (HonestAbe) that hadn’t been active since December. The Still Balling account, which had been tweeting daily, has not posted since the morning of the 22nd (I had already been following Still Balling with an anonymous account of my own, which allowed me to see activity after it went private). Since I contacted the Sixers, Still Balling has unfollowed 37 accounts with ties to Colangelo, including several of his son’s college basketball teammates, a former coach from his son’s high school, and an account that shares the same name as the agent Warren LeGarie, who has represented Colangelo in the past.

This is crazy. And completely believable

I’m trying to wrap my head around this and can’t. This is insane. Bring back Hinkie

I mean what in the actual fuck. HE IS DEFENDING HIS COLLAR SIZE