jaynay1

Actually not Blake though. Blake never tested positive for a banned substance.

Smart for Bruce Brown is just a clear downgrade. Even if you're concerned about Smart's step back last year, Brown's step back was even larger.

Hunter has also consistently been a negative defender in Atlanta.

I don't even think Kennard should be in the default rotation.

Ja, JJJ, Bane, Smart, Back-up PG, Clarke, Edey, Vince, LaRavia, Jackson is 10, and I'm not sure that there's a clean way for Kennard to replace the weakest points there.

FWIW that report is pretty clearly nonsense. The Hawks were the other team named in it and in order to offer more money than the Suns they would've had to go into the tax, something they very obviously aren't going to do for this team as currently constructed.

I can't conceive of a world where you could possibly think mass posting like that is acceptable.

If you want to post your stuff, you have to participate in the subreddit outside of when you post your own links, and you have to follow the rules around not posting multiple threads in the same day.

The post has been removed, but that doesn't justify homophobia.

One of these per year is enough.

I wonder if we’ll use the Room Exception on the final roster spot, or will try to save it for a salary dump trade at the deadline.

I was never actually clear on if the math lined up to where we didn't need to use the room exception to absorb Reggie Jackson's contract, and because it didn't matter for work purposes I never bothered to work it out for myself.

Always take the Mastery Crystals. They're far rarer, far more impactful, and far more important to stock up on early.

Mara is just tall until proven otherwise

Which, honestly, also applies to Maluach and Ivisic.

The thing is though, there just aren't that many serious MLE offers out there anymore. Like I genuinely can't name a team that I think would and could offer him 1 year 8 million, much less a full MLE. Maybe OKC? But that's really the only one with any chance at all.

Mind you this is a free agency where Naji Marshall got 27 million to be a literal replacement level wing. Goga Bitadze got 25 million to be a DNP-CD in the majority of games. Saddiq Bey got 19 million and he's far below replacement level. And that's not to mention the upper-middle class guys like KCP and Miles Bridges.

The notion of the middle class being dead is not particularly accurate and almost entirely unrelated to the 2023 CBA -- the vast majority of the damage to the middle class was done in the 2017 CBA. Tyus getting screwed is because he has a terrible agent, not because of the CBA.

The reason the new CBA is leading to less middle class salaries, is because teams are being punished for "bad contracts".

It's also worth noting that, while this reason has been given, it also hasn't actually happened.

Virtually every medium sized contract you'd expect to be given out this offseason was given out.

The real problem is the general lack of cap space available, which is the case because of the 2017 CBA's change to how extensions work (which was worsened by the 2023 CBA)

The second apron is a more obvious target, but it's not the actual culprit.

No, I mean the minimum. Which was what he got

At this point it's really not an issue of money -- Tyus is almost certainly getting a minimum because there's just no market out there.

1. No polls/pseudo-polls.

2. No using images to circumvent the automoderator filter.

Yes, that is literally the point. Not good bigs can dominate summer league because the format is to their advantage.

A 6'7 non shooter terrifies me in the playoffs

Problem is this is both of those players. And that's only slightly tongue-in-cheek