Araxen
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The tweet. He knew what he was getting into when he re-signed. I hope at least. It's not like they have draft picks to trade away to make a trade happen. lol
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NBA 2022-23 Season Thread - Wembanyama Tank-A-Thon Is On!
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Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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The Warriors have finally started looking solid. Even the losses haven't upset me lately. They really need to turn it around though. They're lucky to be around .500 with the way they've played.
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Rui is purely an offensive player, and doesn't really shoot. This might be a two or three win improvement.
Oblio
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Three more wins in the West that could be a four seed difference. I think LeBron will get him involved and shooting way more. Honestly he could make the difference half a dozen wins, we will have to see.
Oblio
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As a life long Laker fan (except the Kobe years) I have to agree. At first I liked having LeBron there, now I wish he was gone.
Kaines
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Alex
Still a Music Elitist
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Wait...EXCEPT for the Kobe years? And at first you LIKED LeBron? WTF.
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Oblio
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I grew up with the Showtime Lakers. Loved when Shaq was a Laker, when the beef went down between Shaq and Kobe I was on Team Shaq. So I did not root for nor enjoy Kobe's Championships without Shaq. Oddly enough years later I started watching some documentaries on Kobe and realized my dislike for him was foolish, then he died 6months later. I think it would dishonest of me to say I have always been a Laker Fan hence the clarification.
Regarding LeBron, I have always been a fan of his up until the past few years. I always thought of him as an amazing player a decent human being given that there were no scandals i was ever aware of. I wrote off his conceit as par for the course for someone that was anointed as the next coming since age 14. I think it is funny how good he is that he basically beat the Warriors by himself with some help from the Warriors (obviously). Switch out him and KD the Warriors sweep that series, KD is a bitch. So now as much as I can appreciate the high level he is still able to play at I have just grown tired of his hypocritical world/political views. His BLM stuff etc is just virtue signaling bullshit. While I do not wish anything bad on him I hope he goes elsewhere before the circus of him and his son as teammates becomes a reality.
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Quaid
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Kaines
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Mark wasted many years of Dirk and is on a good pace to waste Luka's. No one Luka just waits around like Dirk did.
Apparently, Nico Harrison knows this team isn't good enough and will do everything in his power to completely revamp this team once the last first rounder conveys at the end of this year for the Porzingis trade.
I think the play is to offer a huge package for Siakam and then go from there.
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Quaid
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Siakam is the correct move and I hope they make it. Luka, Spencer, Siakam, Finney-Smith and Wood would be very formidable. If they can retain Josh Green & Kleber as sixth men even better, but Masai will almost certainly want them both + THJ in a deal for Pascal.
Problem is that still leaves the Mavs back court pretty shallow so they’ll need to make a small move there - Derrick Rose? Also pick up a centre that can actually clean glass when necessary. Hartenstein? Maybe Bullock + Bertans + some 2RPs and a first round swap to the Knicks for Rose, Hartenstein & Reddish? Could you cut a deal with Orlando for Cole Anthony and Mo Bamba instead? Or is Jaden Hardy ready for the ball handler role next season?
Aside: To be fair to Cuban they tried gettingLuka help early with Tingus Pingus and that just went sideways. If they don’t make waves this summer I’ll be very shocked.
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Why would you be shocked if they don't make waves this summer? They'll still be over the cap, with a bunch of overpaid role players, and no real assets to deal. The only way they could trade for Siakam is if they do one of those 3 firsts + 4 swaps trades.
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