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My thought too. There's risk and downsides with him but I can see it.

 

This sums it up for me:

15th in the 25 under 25 ranking and 35/100 overall. Contract aside for a moment, I'm just not willing to give up anything of value for that. Asset wise I'd give them Gabe, JHS, Wood and a top 20 protected 1st. Obviously you get hung up on with that but that's my best offer.

If we had Russ still, i'd be willing to dump that albatross of a contract for him.

 

https://x.com/esidery/status/1793268912622055792?t=Y8FYCqyns6rTqkZ-keCpjg&s=19

I know Earnie has said he's not going anywhere and some of them have said they don't want to do it without him or break up the band. I could see Amazon backing up several Brinks trucks in front of them to test that resolve.

 

While I have enjoyed this show at various points over the years and I know its extremely popular, I think NBA media as a whole is a dumpster fire and am hoping we see some real changes to how the league is presented and promoted.

 

I would like to see them hire some of the brain trust behind some of the NFL coverage to spearhead the new wave. As a whole, it's an embarrassingly large gap between coverage of the two sports.

 

Agreed. I could honestly go the rest of my life without another GOAT debate.

 

The worst one I've seen in awhile was the segment on First Take on whether Stephen A could score on Bron or not

https://x.com/awfulannouncing/status/1791202758864863649?t=5BtcYlUlbKfYP5vvD07rzQ&s=19

This isn't the dead of summer where there's no news and they're desperate for content. No, this was a segment during the middle of some heavily contested eastern and western conference semi finals and this is the material the star and face of the network is putting out there.

 

Yeah. That was awful and they followed it up by focusing way too much on him during the Knicks run. I get that certain personalities attract eyeballs, etc but they have to figure out how to focus on the actual product. Promote the players and product correctly and it can sell itself. I think what is happening with Caitlyn Clark is a good example of that.

 

I had it figured out. But as of this morning it's wonky. They're no longer embedding on the mobile device. Haven't pulled out a computer yet today to see if the two step process still works.

 

i don't know how official all these ranking are, but if trae actually is the 35th best player in the league, and we can get him with our assets, then we need to. there are basically zero attainable (for us) players on the list above him.

btw, for his first five years in the league, booker was basically as bad a defender as young. then he figured how to be just sorta bad. and young's offense has been better than booker's for almost the entire time he's played, such that even with his continued bad defense, advanced stats have them as very similar in terms of impact.

again, i'm not a young superfan, but the pendulum swung too far back on this guy after a bad year. i think he'll recover and make more allstar games, tbh. and he's never played with anyone nearly as good as lebron or AD.

as for albatross contracts, russ's expiring had value. rui's and gabe's non-expirings don't. we'll be lucky to upgrade at all, much less get an allstar caliber player back, tbh.

 

If/when Mitchell and Murray dont work out the only other viable option I see would be Sexton.He’s 96 on the top 100 and his coach has nothing but good things to say about him