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:lmao Old man apologist upset at someone criticizing his precious PATFO.

:lmao At this organization, always leaving their fans twisting in the wind. Wright could have easily made some cliche, perfunctory comment during his multiple media availabilities since the rumors began. Now we get to sit on pins and needles again waiting and hoping that they don't make a...

Apparently Walton Jr. will play with the Spurs. Journeyman/fringe NBA type PG with some experience in the league.

I'm not trying to shoot the messenger, just saying it seems far fetched. The difference was/is, Parker was a PG and got to play with then then best player in the world, who the offense mostly ran through and another future first ballot Hall of Fame player.

It wasn't. Only Duncan and maybe Iverson could have reasonably been called superstars. Marbury and Marion were the only other stars (and the latter was more so a complimentary sort). Odom and Jefferson were top starters. James, Wade, Anthony, Stoudemire and Boozer hadn't yet broken out and Okafor...

Nah, the latter was more like the dumbest trade in NBA history.

If there's not a specific asset (pick) with a decent or better chance of yielding a star, then yeah they'd look like a feeder franchise at that point. That'd be stupid. There's already ample opportunity for him. A 19 year old, who was a projected late 1st, that has yet to establish himself...

Mostly a product of roster construction. Mobley is clearly a C (even if he is too scrawny at the moment to bang with the Jokic's and Embiid's of the league). Sochan is clearly a PF. He's not a rim protector or good enough defensive rebounder to credibly play small ball C and his ball skills...

Agreed. I just have a hard time believing they'd draft a plug and play PF at 4 and still give up their '23 lightly protected 1st for another one, especially when they've already got an overpriced backup C in Holmes and should want Barnes to still be able to play some PF. Also, the Spurs are...

This would jive with Wojnarowski, who rarely attaches timelines to rumors, claiming Collins was almost certain to be traded before the draft and now the Kings have presumably moved on, so there doesn't appear to be a trade for him. Spurs doing "intel" on Collins while trading Murray (creating a...

I know he's a rookie, but Murray is only 3 years younger than Collins.

I'd imagine drafting Murray 4th overall changed it entirely.

He is. The guy just anchored a small, unathletic Suns team to the 3rd best defense in the league. Collins is a neutral-worse defender and getting both isn't realistic. I understand. I'm just saying, given that they're not, I don't see a better alternative.

Exactly . . . but if Poeltl and a 1st of some sort aren't offered, the Suns will just match. They're not going to let an asset of this caliber go for free just because they don't want him at that max and it'd be awkward next season while they were stuck with him. In the meantime, there's other...

Just depends on how the youth would develop, but it's not like they'd be unable to pivot. There's one and they refuse to take it so it's either this or hoping to draft a player as good or preferably better, which is not easy to do picking in the late lottery perennilly.

I don't think the Spurs will be interested, but I'd like their chances if they are . . . Hawks: Young will always be the face of the franchise, is close with Capela and they're supposedly not interested in offering the max. Pistons: Givony said on the Lowe Post that he's always conceived of...

Yeah, nobody is saying that Ayton is Jokic, Embiid, Davis, Towns, etc., but despite what various catch all metrics indicate, he's not Poeltl either. He's much more versatile (vertical spacer, who can post switches, with a passable and improving jumper and switch ability), is only going on 24...

Sochan is not Simmons. He's more connector than creator offensively.