NBA Season 2017/18

[mariner4life]

arms race!

[Nogusta]

@barbarian said in NBA Season 2017/18:

Apparently Boogie has signed with... the Warriors!?!?!?!

Man.....thats just not cricket!
Now the GSW have all the infinity stones.....RIP NBA...lol

[Magpie_in_aus]

NBA can get fucked with that trade. 5 All stars in one team 3 who are starters!

All Lebron needs to piece together is Giannis, Porzingis, Simmons, Embidd, Kawhai and Harding (mid season trade) and hes good

[mariner4life]

@magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 2017/18:

NBA can get fucked with that trade. 5 All stars in one team 3 who are starters!

All Lebron needs to piece together is Giannis, Porzingis, Simmons, Embidd, Kawhai and Harding (mid season trade) and hes good

[Bovidae]

@barbarian said in NBA Season 2017/18:

Apparently Boogie has signed with... the Warriors!?!?!?!

Boogie = David West?

I wish for the old days when GSW were shit and Mullin was their only decent player.

[Magpie_in_aus]

@bovidae said in NBA Season 2017/18:

@barbarian said in NBA Season 2017/18:

Apparently Boogie has signed with... the Warriors!?!?!?!

Boogie = David West?

I wish for the old days when GSW were shit and Mullin was their only decent player.

Nope this is who they signed. When he leaves they will say 'remember boogie he was once a warrior'

[shark]

@bovidae said in NBA Season 2017/18:

@barbarian said in NBA Season 2017/18:

Apparently Boogie has signed with... the Warriors!?!?!?!

Boogie = David West?

I wish for the old days when GSW were shit and Mullin was their only decent player.

And what a flat top Chris Mullin had. But you forget about Tim Hardaway and his famous crossover dribble.

[Bovidae]

@shark said in NBA Season 2017/18:

I wish for the old days when GSW were shit and Mullin was their only decent player.

And what a flat top Chris Mullin had. But you forget about Tim Hardaway and his famous crossover dribble.

Yes, that was a great hairstyle, rivaled only by Detlef Schrempf.

Mullin was the first of that generation though. When Mitch Richmond joined we had Run TMC.

[shark]

I'm pretty disgusted by the Boogie signing. How on earth can the GSW have the cash to throw at yet another All Star even for just one season? And what does this mean for next season? A fucking inevitable result I'd say.

May as well just start the 2018/19 finals now but give the Celtics a three game start so there's some interest in it, and get 2019/20 underway.

[shark]

@magpie_in_aus said in NBA Season 2017/18:

NBA can get fucked with that trade. 5 All stars in one team 3 who are starters!

All Lebron needs to piece together is Giannis, Porzingis, Simmons, Embidd, Kawhai and Harding (mid season trade) and hes good

Yep thats about the size of it. He needed Kawhai with him as it was in order to compete with GSW, but now he needs at least one more All Star and it's highly unlikely to happen.

[ACT Crusader]

@shark he's on a 1 year $5 million contract with a player option at the end of it. Makes sense given he will miss the first two months of the season and come 2019-20 there will be more teams with big cap space to offer him close to a max deal (which he is probably worth).

[shark]

@act-crusader said in NBA Season 2017/18:

@shark he's on a 1 year $5 million contract with a player option at the end of it. Makes sense given he will miss the first two months of the season and come 2019-20 there will be more teams with big cap space to offer him close to a max deal (which he is probably worth).

I'm just fucked off. I could care less about the financials. It's the principle of it and the lack of spectacle I expect in 2018/19 that really shit me.

[ACT Crusader]

@shark it's not like we haven't seen this sort of thing before when a successful team finds a way to find another star.

There will be plenty hoping for 2004 Lakes style fail. Don't think it will happen but the target just got a bit bigger.

[Sneakdefreak]

So the East is basically a second division which gets to play the NBA champion Golden State Warriors at the end of the season?

At least the Toronto Raptors have a chance now at getting past Lebron....

[Magpie_in_aus]

@sneakdefreak its basically the ITM/Mitre10 cup. Premiership/championship that have a few cross over games that are more of less pointless

[barbarian]

I think it's fascinating, but you have to change your perspective. The end result is meaningless, it's the process that counts.

The goalposts for me shift away from the overarching narrative (who will hold the trophy in June) and onto the countless other stories in the League.

How will Lebron's Lakers get their shit together?
Who will make the West playoffs, and who will miss?
Will the Sixers keep improving, and will they take it to the Celtics?
What will the Spurs to with Kawhi, and what will the Thunder do with Carmelo?

Etc. etc. etc.

You just stare at the trees and forget about the forest.

[mariner4life]

That LBJ image is the gift that keeps on giving.

[mariner4life]

I just read no other team made any offers to Cousins. He called the Warriors himself, and they said "yep"

That's astounding.

[canefan]

@mariner4life said in NBA Season 2017/18:

I just read no other team made any offers to Cousins. He called the Warriors himself, and they said "yep"

That's astounding.

I wonder if other teams thought he'd only want a big long term deal? He will only stay one year regardless

[KiwiMurph]

The Pelicans reportedly offered Demarcus Cousins a 2-Year/$40 Million deal before the season ended. Cousins turned it down and then the Pelicans took the deal off the table, per @TheSteinLine.— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) July 3, 2018