NBA/ Basketball thread

[chazzle_dazzle]

Been loading "my next chapter" for the last 20 mins... these people need to learn the needs of server loads FFS.

Someone give them the transfer deadline day manual of upping server traffic.

 

[USABlue]

Congrats on the Warriors for next year's title

 

[AdamEFC]

Koff Durant.

Lost all respect for him, took the easy way out.

 

[bobbydigital]

OKC lost Durant and next year Westbrook will walk. Welcome to irrelevance.

Trade Westbrook now and start the rebuild? Teams would give up a lot for him.

Not really looking forward to how insanely good the Warriors are going to be but a full season of Westbrook not having to defer to anyone could be pretty interesting to watch.

 

[AdamEFC]

Westbrook is going to have insane stats next season if he's still at OKC.

 

[Philw]

Trade Westbrook now and start the rebuild? Teams would give up a lot for him.

Not really looking forward to how insanely good the Warriors are going to be but a full season of Westbrook not having to defer to anyone could be pretty interesting to watch.

Chicago should sack off Rondo and get Westbrook instead!

 

[bobbydigital]

Chicago should sack off Rondo and get Westbrook instead!

Not sure where he will end up. A lot of teams would give up a lot to get him though, especially if they had assurance he would resign after next season.

If he really wants to win and show Durant up he should go to San Antonio. Westbrook / Kawhi / Aldridge trio would probably be the only thing that may be able to stop GSW.

Don't really think he's a Pop player though and can't see OKC being too interested in anything the Spurs have apart from Leonard and Aldridge.

 

[Connor]

 

[AdamEFC]

Am I right in saying that GSW currently don't have to cap space for Durant and need to shed salary? What would happen if no team was willing to trade with them?

 

[Connor]

Am I right in saying that GSW currently don't have to cap space for Durant and need to shed salary? What would happen if no team was willing to trade with them?

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-golden-state-can-afford-kd-183109798.html

The Golden State Warriors, currently with no cap space, need to create room to sign Kevin Durant, who agreed to join the franchise Monday.


Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green are likely untouchable, but the Warriors do have decisions to make on the value of cap space vs. their own free agents. Key rotational player Andre Iguodala appears to be a part of the plan going forward, but the Warriors areworkng on a deal to move center Andrew Bogut.

Here are the moves the Warriors need to make to fit Durant:

1. Trade Bogut’s contract to the Dallas Mavericks.

2. Renounce the unrestricted free-agent holds of Marreese Speights, Leandro Barbosa, Ian Clark, James McAdoo, Brandon Rush and Anderson Varejao.

3. Withdraw the qualifying offers and renounce the cap holds of Harrison Barnes and Festus Ezeli.

The moves would leave Golden State with $26.6 million in cap space to sign Durant to a max contract.

However, doing so would only leave the Warriors with the minimum and room mid-level ($2.9 million) to fill out their roster.

 

[AdamEFC]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-golden-state-can-afford-kd-183109798.html

So in theory they have to gut their entire bench to get Durant. Pretty risky move to me, considering they were a few minutes away from repeating their championship win.

 

[Philw]

So in theory they have to gut their entire bench to get Durant. Pretty risky move to me, considering they were a few minutes away from repeating their championship win.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/how-golden-state-can-afford-kd-183109798.html

Bogut's gone. They've still got Iguadala and Livingston. Not sure how many of those FAs they will miss, but I'm sure plenty people will jump at $2.9m to join them, ala Cle, Mia, LA before.

 

[wm02]

Westbrook is going to have insane stats next season if he's still at OKC.

Decent shot at the scoring title

 

[wm02]

Conflicted by KD's choice. Think it's lame that he left for the Warriors after all the insinuations that he was loyal to OKC but genuinely intrigued to see how GSW will play next year. They may consistently score 130+

 

[SerenityNigh]

Ibaka is way better than his stats suggest as OKC put him on the wing. An Oladipo/Ibaka swap would have been decent for both parties. I have no idea why Orlando sent draft picks too.

The NBA has just gone mad. My team the Wizards: Bradley Beal (a 21 year old who is more fragile than Gibson) just parlayed a 3-4 very good playoff game performances 2 years ago into 5 years/128M.

Le Bullets gonna be crap for a few years