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Khanben:
PS: IMHO there can be such a thing, as too much young talent on a team and OKC is heading there.

A40:
I have a sneaky suspicion Westbrook is going to get traded. Likely to Indy or some other team but I can't seem to shake it.

Khanben:
The thing is, his injury just put them back into the Victor Wayembama sweep stakes, because I think they now have a good excuse to tank again this upcoming season.

Killrhymz01:
Some folks still won’t playoffs

KNIGHTBlaed:

Birdman, when be draft na?

Killrhymz01:
My old account has been banned for like a year now

A40:
KD has finally come to his senses. Brooklyn have a squad. Don't know what he was looking for upandan

Happy posthumous birthday to the Mamba. Salud

benji93:
Na how you go no say some of us don mean these people tey tey. Any small thing we just explode. Next time no mention them.

benji93:
What the female gender wants is to be at the same level as the men. .

Roland17:
The WNBA have a lot of work to do in making this league more marketable. I know I have talked about this in the past and nothing as far as the level of play has changed. Maybe I am expecting too much but for what they are demanding, they absolutely have to raise their game.

joephemzyz:
HahHaha sure guy! Thanks heaps.
I dey okay o.
How this year fantasy go na, who win?

A40:
You're not getting my own point. Nobody said he had to be a great defensive coach. In the NBA the truth is the game is 80% talent and 20% coaching. Don Nelson never had enough to be a title winning coach.

Even D'Antoni if we want to be honest has never had enough to win a title.

The difference is they had a style and D'Antoni came the closest of all to beating a fully loaded 2017 Warriors team. With a team that honestly had no business doing so.

Those guys had a philosophy which the likes of Kerr copied and fine tuned. Having generational shooters like Steph and Klay also helped. My issue with Nash is they're not playing with any philosophy on offense or defense. They lack identity

A40:
A guy like Steve Nash who's a HOF PG should not be deficient in X's and O's and caught lacking this badly. He played for years under Don Nelson and Mike D'Antoni ffs. Can you imagine a guy like Nick Nurse with this Nets squad? Even with the guys they've added once they get a serviceable big this is a championship caliber roster.

joephemzyz:
Hello hoop fam!

Khanben:
If their problem was shooting 3s that would even be better. Their offense is so static, it's just KD and Kyrie taking turns, which makes it very easy for good defenses to key in on them because they are simply predictable.

A40:
Come on man. Nash and KD were together in Golden State nau

felix00:
News out there is that Durant is interested in playing with Harden again

Android22:
I have experienced KD in his time with GSW and he coaxes the journalists who want to have tier 1 gist on him to be revisionist. Is it not funny that KD seems to have a better relationship with Draymond who was instrumental to his leaving GSW than Curry who pretty much babied him and gave him the key to the team? Did this same cupcake not try to undermine Steve Kerr after he left? Did he not try to claim he was never really accepted at the Bay even when they were always calling his name last on the roster - after Curry's.

Android22:
Harden was not there at the time. Besides, DeAndre Jordan, Harden were all products of KDs approvals and outright demands in Brooklyn so it will be hard to convince anyone that he was indifferent about Nash even when Atkinson (that KD did not play for and still made the playoffs without him or Kyrie in 2019-20) was fired whilst KD was rehabbing. Very hard sell this one.

Android22:
Steve Nash was hired because of KD. I wonder why people are still pampering a player that has no advantage in this negotiation.

felix00:
KD gives the Net an ultimatum. It's either him or the GM sean marks and Steve Nash

Khanben:
The Cavs are offering 3yr/40mil to Sexton, that's what injury can do to a players value. Always secure the bag as soon as possible.

A40:
They will still fall short. Kevin Durant at 34 joining a great team is not the doomsday scenario it was 6 years ago

donlittle25:
See wetin baba tweet

https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/1551585228585582598?s=20&t=fmGj4ja1Wp7o2e6KHQUixw[/quote]hehehe, I saw this one coming

benji93:
It's an American media narrative that has infected many. It's usually brought to the fore when debating who makes it to the top lists. At this point, even the pettiest arguments are admitted as evidence. I mean A choked more than B so B must be better. . Very interesting angle that many of us find useful. And unfortunately for the players today the history of their chokejobs are easily accessible, even so some are still fresh in our minds .

Khanben:
The nfl is not a players league, the nba is

Khanben:
Nobody says they will take all, but they can definitely sustain taking the very best.
Also, a $150bil investment with a a yearly return of like 5% for say the 1st 3-5yrs and rising to say 10% after that is something that the nba players as a product can generate if they start their own league, and that is easily sellable in today's financial market. Any fund manager worth their name will scramble to get some of that action.

PS: The next NBA CBA discussion will be starting by latest next year, we will all see that the players will not lose any ground when it's all said and done, because they have a very strong hand and they know how to play it.

Khanben:
In the year of the lockout. Dirk was under contract for 4yr/80mil. The Chinese league offered him 1.5mil per month, with the knowledge that he would leave whenever the lockout ended. With the fact that basketball players from the states don't pay taxes in China, I say that is pretty equivalent, we've not even started to talk about the endorsement opportunities and how brands like Nike, Adidas pand puma would love it for the big name guys to play there even if it is for just a season.

PS: you say the owners don't need the money. I say all the players association needs to do is go to either Blackrock or one of the emirates fund and guarantee that if they get the funding for a league, every single player in the nba retires from the nba and joins said new league, if they guarantee coaches a union, coaches will absolutely follow them. In case you think it is far fetched, the PGA just saw how easy it is for players to get funding for a competing tour. Aston Martin one of the worst teams in f1, just secured over $600mil in funding for a paltry 17% stake from the same people. So please keep telling yourself the players don't have an option, if they decide to go nuclear the owners will lose, because their investment will become worthless.
That is why it is in everybody's interest to work together and fix the issues that exists without one group acting as if it's an aristocracy.

Khanben:
When the skillset you have makes you 1 of 5 or so in the whole world, then you have as much leverage as you are willing to push for and that is a fact. The scarcer the skillset the more power the owner of said skillset becomes.

PS: As for the owners shutting the league down, ask them what happened the last time they tried it, during the last, lock out. In case you didn’t follow the situation, most of the big Euroleague and Chinese teams offered the big name players very good contracts to come over and play for them. that situation in essence was the beginning of the power shift in the NBA, because the big named players who drive the ratings realized that money wise they could get comparable earnings at least for a few months in Europe.