Bleacher report saying that the Nets and Lakers are in talks about a Kyrie and Westbrook trade package

It's rare that you see a trade where both teams lose.

Oh, stop it. Joe Harris or Seth Curry (both 45% 3 point shooters last season) will have to come along in order to match Westbrook's salary. This is going to be a total fleece by the Lakers.

Oh, stop it. Joe Harris or Seth Curry (both 45% 3 point shooters last season) will have to come along in order to match Westbrook's salary. This is going to be a total fleece by the Lakers.

You know the Lakers are going to give up multiple draft picks and give Kyrie a new contract too. Westbrook will play hard and put up a bunch of empty and ultimately meaningless stats. The Nets will probably miss the playoffs. Kyrie will play relatively well in the 20 or so games he plays in. He'll miss around 60 games due to injury, load management, his neighbor's dog died, to go to Derrick Rose son's middle school graduation, because he got into an argument with LeBron, to investigate new flat earth evidence, to attend a butterfly protest, and because he felt like it.

You know the Lakers are going to give up multiple draft picks and give Kyrie a new contract too. Westbrook will play hard and put up a bunch of empty and ultimately meaningless stats. The Nets will probably miss the playoffs. Kyrie will play relatively well in the 20 or so games he plays in. He'll miss around 60 games due to injury, load management, his neighbor's dog died, to go to Derrick Rose son's middle school graduation, because he got into an argument with LeBron, to investigate new flat earth evidence, to attend a butterfly protest, and because he felt like it.

Wolfey, you relied on the NYC employee excuse all year and while you're factually correct you miss the larger point about him being a b1tch (an unreliable and emotional mess). Get the jab, fuck your social justice causes, and do your fucking job. That's all he has to do. 99 percent of the other players do it. The 1 percent that don't are also b1tches: Ben Simmons and Zion KFC Williamson.

I never said the guy wasn't a bitch. He's a wacko but he's still a hell of a basketball player. The Lakers are going to get him (along with Curry or Harris) for nothing. And I bet you Kyrie plays 60 games next season.

If Boston had to play Toronto, Jaylen Brown and Al Horford would not have suited up in Canada because they're both bitches too I guess.

That's why Kyrie's a hero to millennials on down. Gen X+ and Kyrie's bullshit doesn't fly.

Why would you? He's played in more than 60 games 4 times in his career.

Ayton signs deal with Pacers. Suns have 2 days to match it.

only to trade Ayton to the Pacers tho?

This is probably the end of the KD waiting game.

Free agency can resume with KD and Kyrie staying in Brooklyn. There isn't a trade package out there
worth trading KD for it seems, at least to a team that KD wants to go to. And if KD doesn't want to join
your team, you're not going to mortgage your future to have a disgruntled KD for a year before he asks out again.

Suns have matched. And they get him at a discount as Missing Link pointed out


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Phoenix played old school, NBA hardball with Ayton. That's what teams used to routinely do with guys back when they had more control. Let someone else establish what his market happens to be instead of knee jerkingly resigning him for more money just to keep him happy. That's why Ayton is shitty. He knows that he would have made a helluva lot more money if Phoenix would have simply maxed him out on an extension. Since they didn't, there was no way (due to NBA rules precluding another team from paying him as much as Phoenix) that he could ever receive as much from another team.
Look for him to demand a trade at some point during the season.

And Phoenix brass (though they will never say so publicly) has to be kicking themselves in the ass for drafting Ayton over Luka. A Luka/Booker combination might already have won a title by now.

If the Suns don't win a championship with this group and Luka goes on to have a HOF career (which it looks like he surely will), it's going to be talked about for a long damn time.

Durant with Tatum in Boston would be sick.

I've only heard Brown, Derrick White + picks being offered. If the Nets wanna add Smart or swap White for Smart the Celtics should ask for Seth Curry along with Durant. Given where they are in their careers, Brown + picks and another player (non-starter) for Durant seems fair.