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Metta world peace gets suspended 20 games for that

 

have you watched acuff? i'm pretty sure he may not be as tall as his listed height, and his defense was a problem at the college level.

mentioned in another thread that he reminds me of kemba walker.

 

I'm just glad they're getting the ball rolling now. If they can get this all settled by draft night, that helps in simplifying our summer that has to go nearly perfect. We have no time to wait for a dragged out circus from this clown.



Come on Riley. Let go of the death grip of whatever random 14th man you're obsessed about this trade cycle.

 

Feel like it's going to be either Miami or Boston. I think the Boston noise with this is real.

 

Giannis sweepstakes could be wider than any other star player: Knicks, Atlanta, Miami, Wizards, Boston, Pistons, Orlando, Denver, Wolves, OKC, Portland, Golden State, Both LA Teams, Phoenix, Houston and Spurs could all be options.

I hope we're involved in some capacity.

 

From a team building point of view, I'm leaning towards the following:

Bench: 38m

Smart - 6.4m (120% raise with a promise of a higher wage the following season)
Kennard - 9m (non bird rights)
Adou - 2.1m
Rui - 16 (bird rights)
Hayes - 4.5 (bird rights)

Deep Bench: 10m

Bronny - 2.3m
Kleber - 2.5m (vet min)
Vet min x 2

That's locked our 6-14 players in for 48m and leaves us with roughly 161m in space to the first apron. We know Luka is at 49.5m and the MLE is going to be at 15.1m, I'm capping Lebron at 25m so that means we have around 72m left to get two starters.

I'm looking into utilising a combination of Jake (6m), Knecht (4.2m), Vando (12.4), Ayton (8.1) & Reaves (30-40?) plus our 3 firsts across two trades to get those two starters.

Luka / Smart / Bronny
x / Kennard
x / Adou
Lebron / Rui
x / Hayes / Kleber

I think that's got the hallmarks of a real team. For example, see if we can pick up Quentin Grimes as our MLE target, then trade a combo of Jake, Knecht, Vando & Ayton for Mitchell Robinson/Claxton/Turner/Stewart/Hart/Bridges/Herb & Missi etc and see if Reaves can bring you back a big fish in a Giannis trade.