Basketball (NBA/ FIBA)

Are the Suns about to sign and trade Ayton and obtain Kyrie through those means…?

https://twitter.com/bleacherreport/status/1674462491999367168?s=46&t=eJpgg6uHWRsStnASv-OePg

Irving, Beal and Booker nah.

how there are still teams believing Kyrie Fucking Irving can help their teams to glory?
so unbelievable.

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Urgh…everybody want to change teams. No team culture anymore. Every 5 minutes one of the stars of the league wants to bounce to another house

Guys, forgive me, but I read this on twitter last night and dont know what “picking up his $35.6m option” means?

Or “opting into his…”

What does this mean, hes buying out his own contract for $35m?

It means he has an option in his contract for another year, so if he opts in he is choosing to activate that year. E.g. he might have a 4 year deal and the last year is an option, he can choose to opt in and have the 4 years or opt out and be a free agent after only 3 years.

The $$ figure is just how much he is getting paid in that year.

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So hes opting in, for them to look for trade solutions?

So he wants to stay by extending the deal, but then theyre going to trade him?

This is a really complicated part of the NBA salary cap.

Basically there is a ‘soft’ salary cap and teams can go over this to re-sign players that have been with them for a certain amount of time. But they can’t sign new players and go over this soft cap.

However, teams that are already over the cap can acquire players via trade. Most of the good teams are over the cap.

So basically by opting in to a deal at that salary, he is making himself a better and more likely option from a salary POV for a good team to trade for him.

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Blimey!!

I thought the NFL was difficult to keep up with!!

Thankyou

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Wow Portland give Jerami Grant 160/5.

Well wtf…why did he wait until after the Blazers dropped the load on Grant

The Dame whisperer has also confirmed it to be true

:smirk:.

https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1675176002207510528?s=46&t=eJpgg6uHWRsStnASv-OePg

Brooooooklyn

Deal gets done but will need an additional two teams to help facilitate the move. Some likes Spurs have an interest in taking Tyler Herro.

Dame is trying to get down and dirty. I just don’t imagine him kicking up much of a stink.

have no idea why Warriors sending Poole away for CP3.

Looks like Shaq and Kobe team adding Mailman and The Glove for me.
Aging team adding older guy(s)…

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https://twitter.com/shamscharania/status/1683847244573712385?s=46&t=eJpgg6uHWRsStnASv-OePg

Lillard wants to go to Miami, but the Heats do not have a good package.
Celtics does, and Blazers are interested to trade him to the C’s.

If Blazers do trade Lillard to the Celtics, he has to play for the C’s to avoid fines.

This is probably the right thing NBA to enforce.
The club is over the player.

The vaccine cunts are the lowest of the low, people no point reasoning with and just not engaging with.

Germany vs Serbia FIBA final tonight.

3rd placed playoff USA vs Canada.

Very poor tournament for my Boomers.