Neither of your point guards understand how to run an offense and one can't shoot and the other can't play defense. Sheppard has been awful in general the past few games. Sengun can't be more than 75% healthy. I'm shocked he's playing tonight frankly. VanVleet would fix a substantial amount. Udoka has been a little questionable lately. A lot of questions without answers right now but you have a lot of assets to work with.
I heard you hung out with them for a bit and smoked some weed out of a coke can then tweaked your ankle right after saying "let me show you pussies how this jump is done".
Adams has two years left on his deal though at a reasonable number. Not sure you'd have to give much pick compensation. Granted I never know what the fuck Chicago is ever trying to do. If the goal is go .500 every season then an aging Steven Adams is a perfect fit. Coby is the best asset in either trade but Chicago has to trade him now because he's an expiring and they probably don't want to pay him. So they don't actually have all that much leverage. Portis would be a great add but still has some trade value. That's a dude worth burning a FRP on.
I guess you think you can get him for cheap? He's turning the shit over out of the ball this season. Not really a PG. Good scorer/shooter. Expiring deal making $12M - could dump DFS but it would cost a pick (I would assume).
Yes, I would think that's the plan. I just don't know how much he has left in his body and eventually that will make the decision for you. Of everyone playing 30+ mpg this season (90 guys) LeBron averages the 7th least distance covered. The guys behind him are: All bigs except for Rui and they all play less minutes than LeBron. Two of those bigs are pretty much physically shot at this point in their careers and Vuc is old as fuck too. In terms of being a 30 mpg+ starter and playing both ways I think he is approaching his breaking point. He isn't shooting well from 3. He isn't playing defense. He isn't rebounding. His scoring is down. They are better when he isn't on the floor. So I think the question is... would he be cool with playing less or coming off the bench and bringing down some of his career per game stuff? And being the 3rd or 4th best player on a really good team? I understand the ego to want the retirement tour but there is ego in the other direction. A lot of guys want to go out fairly "on top" and that window is closing for him. And his team isn't good despite playing next to a top 10 player in the league. They got their fucking asses whipped last night by D Mitch and a bunch of rotation guys. Also - in this day and age - maybe he says fuck it... I'm going to go start my own basketball league a la Tiger or Ronaldo (basically). Get 4-8 teams and a TV or streaming deal, grab some vets out of retirement and just go dick around. Make himself the center of attention. We'll see. I'm stating to get a little curious. For seasons past this one I'd put the o/u at 1.5 at this point.
So Real would have finished 9th regardless but the goal did send Benfica through. Apparently the next leg does get reseeded but there are only a couple of possible matchups for all the teams. Would be awesome if we got RM/Benfica again. And Ascencio and Rordrygo do miss the first leg for RM.
They asked him why he got more emotional than usual last night during the Cavs video tribute and he goes "Uhhh no reason. I was just more present in the moment." He knows this Lakers team can't win a title. He has nothing else left to chase, so unless he wants to ring-chase next season for a lot less money he may hang it up. I really think his body is starting to quit on him.
Seeing Swain start to get mocked as a fringe 1st rounder - and that was before last night's game. If he keeps climbing he's almost assuredly gone. Rookie scale for 1st rounders starts at $5.6M total guaranteed for the first two years and $8.5M team option total over the next two seasons (which players generally pick up unless they suck). League minimum is $1.27M for rostered 2nd rounders or UDFAs and two-way players make about half that. Those are the current numbers so they will all be a little higher for this upcoming draft class. If Swain remains a borderline guy and considers staying I'm assuming it would be $2M+ to keep him.
Y'all may just have too much dead money this season which sucks. You may as well add DFS' $12.7M on top of that. He was one of the Spurs' best players tonight. Reed will improve but will always be a minus on D but that's workable especially as a 6th man. Amen HAS to extend his range to ~18 feet and optimally be like a 30% guy from 3 and Sengun just needs to grow up a bit. Love both of those guys but you hope they aren't close to finished products - and they shouldn't be. Who knows what Durant has left in the tank but he's been awesome this season. Sucks that he's having another season on a good team sidetracked by injuries. Pick up a big at the deadline and see what happens I guess. We're all probably playing for 3rd behind Denver and OKC anyway.
Big picture: we don't need Fox on this team. Harper will be better than him by next season and we have to pay Wemby in '27-'28 and then Castle the next season. Optimally we move him in the offseason or during the year next year and try and take on some expiring money and get a decent PF or backup C. The return barely matters - just can't have his money on the books. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it though. Time to fend off Denver for the 2 seed and see what these cats have in the playoffs. Would love to wipe either LA team or the Ws off the floor in the 1st round.