NBA Info - June 2024

[Deleterious]

JJ was never a lock. The Lakers never even interviewed JJ.

The feeling is that Shams was pumping JJ based totally on info provided to him by JJ's agent.  

Woj has been much better on this. He said JJ is in the mix but LA is starting to bring in other candidates for interviews.

[Hongbit]

6 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

JJ was never a lock. The Lakers never even interviewed JJ.

The feeling is that Shams was pumping JJ based totally on info provided to him by JJ's agent.  

Woj has been much better on this. He said JJ is in the mix but LA is starting to bring in other candidates for interviews.

Interview for the job?    He does a podcast with the main decision maker.   

[Deleterious]

50 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Interview for the job?    He does a podcast with the main decision maker.   

That isn't true. 

He had nothing to do with Vogel.  Zero to do with Ham. And if he was making decisions, Hurley never gets an offer. 

It is also rumored that the Lakers are Luke warm on JJ because AD doesn't care for him.

LeBron does get coaches fired. But other than Lue, he rarely gets involved with the hiring process they way he could.

[casimir]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

JJ was never a lock. The Lakers never even interviewed JJ.

The feeling is that Shams was pumping JJ based totally on info provided to him by JJ's agent.  

Woj has been much better on this. He said JJ is in the mix but LA is starting to bring in other candidates for interviews.

I didn't realize he hadn't officially interviewed yet.  I guess I thought that had happened already.

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

People sleep on how good West was at everything.

 

[Deleterious]

 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

People sleep on how good West was at everything.

 

He overcame a tough childhood and depression along the way as well.

[buddha]

RIP to the logo.

[Deleterious]

 

[Hongbit]

He likes to gambles too much to retire this young.  He doesn’t have MJ money.  He’ll be back when he needs to refill his bankroll.  

[buddha]

someone is going to pay charles barkley a TON of money to change his mind.

[Deleterious]

 

[Betrayer]

On 6/15/2024 at 9:04 PM, Deleterious said:

 

Good, maybe we can unload some of these players to the Wiz in exchange for draft picks.

[Deleterious]

Our first free agent news of the summer. 

 

[Deleterious]

 

[buddha]

the bulls are morons.  now they have to pay giddey to be a homeless man's demar derozan while they pay max money to the real demar derozan.

[Betrayer]

Great trade for OKC. If Caruso can stay healthy, he helps a playoff team. Giddy never impressed me. Always just felt like a rich man's Killian Hayes.

[Deleterious]

32 minutes ago, buddha said:

the bulls are morons.  now they have to pay giddey to be a homeless man's demar derozan while they pay max money to the real demar derozan.

It's that or pay the extremely over rated Caruso. I would pay Giddey 10 times out of 10. Especially if that shot continues to improve.

Caruso is like Bruce Brown. Nice on a cheap deal. A disaster at $20m plus.

[buddha]

7 hours ago, Deleterious said:

It's that or pay the extremely over rated Caruso. I would pay Giddey 10 times out of 10. Especially if that shot continues to improve.

Caruso is like Bruce Brown. Nice on a cheap deal. A disaster at $20m plus.

the options arent "pay caruso" or "pay giddey".  

they chose to trade caruso for giddey.  they could have dealt caruso for something else.  caruso is a very sought after commodity.

giddey is overrated.  had to sit him in the playoffs because he cant shoot threes.

[CMRivdogs]

A interesting profile on Redick from one of his hometown papers

https://cardinalnews.org/2024/06/20/the-basketball-iq-thats-taking-jj-redick-to-la-is-nothing-new-just-ask-his-roanoke-county-coach/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The++basketball+IQ++that+s+taking+JJ+Redick+to+LA+is+nothing+new++Just+ask+his+Roanoke+County+coach&utm_campaign=Friday%2C+June+21%2C+2024

[Deleterious]

1 hour ago, buddha said:

the options arent "pay caruso" or "pay giddey".  

they chose to trade caruso for giddey.  they could have dealt caruso for something else.  caruso is a very sought after commodity.

giddey is overrated.  had to sit him in the playoffs because he cant shoot threes.

They were offered a top 10 pick this year for him.  Giddey is better than that.  They got a 21 year old starter for a 30 year old career backup.  Big win for Chicago.  Especially for a team that doesn't have a true distributor.  

And he was sat for his defense.  He shot 35% from three in the playoffs, which is more than fine.  

[Deleterious]

Yep.  People are basing their reactions off of last years offers.  Like Sam said, you pay more for two playoff runs than you do for one.  Giddey is a top 3 pick in this draft easy.  Bulls got good value and filled a need with a young player with potential.  They did fine.

 

[buddha]

32 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Yep.  People are basing their reactions off of last years offers.  Like Sam said, you pay more for two playoff runs than you do for one.  Giddey is a top 3 pick in this draft easy.  Bulls got good value and filled a need with a young player with potential.  They did fine.

 

"obviously CHI had better offers at the deadline."

bad use of an asset.

3 months ago you were posting all sorts of **** about giddey and now you think he's a prize?  

they could have received multiple picks in different drafts at the deadline for caruso and instead chose a guy who is good but about to be very expensive for what he offers.

its a bad use of assets.  just like troy weaver failed to trade his assets at their peak value to accumulate future assets, the bulls have dithered on trading a good role player for maximum value and instead received nothing more than an expensive ticket to the play-in round.

[Deleterious]

3 minutes ago, buddha said:

"obviously CHI had better offers at the deadline."

bad use of an asset.

3 months ago you were posting all sorts of **** about giddey and now you think he's a prize?  

they could have received multiple picks in different drafts at the deadline for caruso and instead chose a guy who is good but about to be very expensive for what he offers.

its a bad use of assets.  just like troy weaver failed to trade his assets at their peak value to accumulate future assets, the bulls have dithered on trading a good role player for maximum value and instead received nothing more than an expensive ticket to the play-in round.

I posted he ****ed a 15 year old.  That has nothing to do with his basketball skills.  And I'm not saying he is a star, just a better or at least equal to an overrated Caruso.  

Maybe they should have traded him at the deadline.  But that has no bearing on this trade.  Chicago did good for what Caruso is worth now.