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Imagine being reduced from major sport GM to internet troll. It’s like a random person like us posters here turning into deadbeat felons.

Question: were ya’ll mad when Kawhi engineered the LAC super team last summer?
What’s fun is opening the tweets and looking at the comments. Suns fans represent.
 

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Question: were ya’ll mad when Kawhi engineered the LAC super team last summer?
Are you suggesting that Kawhi and George teaming up was forming a super team? That is not a super team whatsoever. A super team is generally when 3 all NBA players team up to ideally make winning a title a near certainty.

Examples of super teams would be GS adding KD when they already had Curry and Klay or the Miami big 3 all taking pay cuts so they could afford to play together.
 

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Are you suggesting that Kawhi and George teaming up was forming a super team? That is not a super team whatsoever. A super team is generally when 3 all NBA players team up to ideally make winning a title a near certainty.

Examples of super teams would be GS adding KD when they already had Curry and Klay or the Miami big 3 all taking pay cuts so they could afford to play together.

LAC was shortest odds to title last year with two new players.
 

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Imagine being reduced from major sport GM to internet troll. It’s like a random person like us posters here turning into deadbeat felons.

Question: were ya’ll mad when Kawhi engineered the LAC super team last summer?

What's odd is that McD could've made his way back into a front office as an assistant GM or even a scout, but he seems to have thrown it away with his recent behavior.
 

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What's odd is that McD could've made his way back into a front office as an assistant GM or even a scout, but he seems to have thrown it away with his recent behavior.

seems like NPD with attention seeking traits
 

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LAC was shortest odds to title last year with two new players.
You can talk about odds all you want, but that isn't a super team. Neither was the Lakers last year. Now the Clippers or Lakers adding another all NBA player to their team would make them super teams.
 

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I cannot wait for LeBron James to be out of the NBA. He is not a villian in the traditional sense, he is just so unlikable.

I don't blame the Warriors for the KD thing. They drafted Klay and Steph. I did lose some respect for KD. Steph and Klay are the enemy, but I still like and respect them. its different with LeBron.
 

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I cannot wait for LeBron James to be out of the NBA. He is not a villian in the traditional sense, he is just so unlikable.

I'm torn between disliking him and respecting the hell out of him. I dislike aspects of him, particularly his self-aggrandizement when he was younger and the way he plays and whines on the court in his later days, but from what I've seen he's been a strong role model and a very positive presence in every community he's been connected with.
 

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Imagine being reduced from major sport GM to internet troll. It’s like a random person like us posters here turning into deadbeat felons.

Question: were ya’ll mad when Kawhi engineered the LAC super team last summer?
Mad? No. Disappointed? Yes. And immediately not a fan of that team and reveled in their coming up short. The problem was it seemed one of the LA concocted teams was destined for the championship which was a lose-lose in my eyes.
 

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I cannot wait for LeBron James to be out of the NBA. He is not a villian in the traditional sense, he is just so unlikable.

I don't blame the Warriors for the KD thing. They drafted Klay and Steph. I did lose some respect for KD. Steph and Klay are the enemy, but I still like and respect them. its different with LeBron.
I agree with all this. I respect Lebron for his ability but don’t particularly like him on the court. He whines too much for someone as good as he is for my taste. I like him off the court.

I appreciate KD’s skills but don’t really carry much respect for him.

I have a great deal of respect for Klay and curry
 

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The money being thrown around:

Jayson Tatum - $195M extension with the Celtics
Donovan Mitchell - $195M extension with the Jazz
Bam Adebayo - $163M extension with the Heat
De'Aaron Fox - $163M extension with the Kings

Players are getting PAID.
 
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Jazz will allow 1500 fans in lower bowl area of arena to open season.

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The money being thrown around:

Jayson Tatum - $195M extension with the Celtics
Donovan Mitchell - $195M extension with the Jazz
Bam Adebayo - $163M extension with the Heat
De'Aaron Fox - $163M extension with the Kings

Players are getting PAID.


Fox and Ingram are the biggest over pays.
 

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Jazz will allow 1500 fans in lower bowl area of arena to open season.

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indoors, closed space in a state being ravaged by Covid.

Sounds like the right move
 
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Warriors granted $9.3 million Disabled Player Exception for Klay Thompson injury.

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A small win of sorts. Luol Deng is owed $5 million the next two seasons.

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Did the Celtics turned down this trade for Gordon Hayward?

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Did the Celtics turned down this trade for Gordon Hayward?

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They did. Then Charlotte was supposed to sign Hayward outright.
Then it later turned into a sign and trade.
 

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