NBA: 2020 Off-Season News and Discussion Thread
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LeLakers sign everyone.
Everyone.
Everyone.
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damn already closed the regular season thread??? someone's bitter
anyways excited the lakers won!!!
anyways excited the lakers won!!!
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So uhh... when does the 2020-2021 season start? The 2019-2020 season started October 22nd 2019.
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The draft is coming right up on Oct. 15...so, if I recall, the next season is going to start pronto. Like December-ish.
So, yeah...LeBron better book everyone to fly to LA soon.
Said here first: Mahomes to LA.
So, yeah...LeBron better book everyone to fly to LA soon.
Said here first: Mahomes to LA.
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nah, im gong to destroy the city to celebrate
76 arrested, 8 officers injured after Lakers celebration turns violent outside Staples Center
https://www.foxla.com/news/76-arrest...staples-center
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Silas is the new Rockets coach: https://www.tsn.ca/report-houston-ro...oach-1.1544975
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LeLakers sign everyone they need from the NHL, MLB, and NFL yet?
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honest question, is if even necessary anymore to have individual season and off season news threads? posts and activity seem low
I mean the 2018 and 2019 NBA season threads had less than 500 posts each
MLB had less than 200 posts too.
I mean the 2018 and 2019 NBA season threads had less than 500 posts each
MLB had less than 200 posts too.
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So, what you're asking is to have one continuous thread (i.e. the hockey thread)...? I'm generally fine either way. Just more so maintaining what was the convention in the past albeit, I suppose there was more activity/participation in the past too.
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For me, though, I think the NBA threads should always be locked and refreshed so I can wash away the bitterness and disgust of the prior season won by an all-colluding mega team.
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We all know the LeLakers will repeat. They will sign everyone and so, repeat.
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Sadly activity on azine is dwindling
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Lock threads only after Lakers win.
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LeBron should join the Seattle Supersonics.
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I like having the threads broken up by season. I don't mind merging off season and its respective year threads to compare results to moves. If we do a "basketball" thread, it's going to be a 12341234 pages like the "What are you doing" thread which had to get recreated given the lag.
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D'Antoni to join as an assistant to Nash: https://www.tsn.ca/sources-mike-d-an...n-nets-19.1990
Assuming if Nash does not succeed as HC, D'Antoni would be the logical successor?
Assuming if Nash does not succeed as HC, D'Antoni would be the logical successor?
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https://www.nba.com/news/its-done-th...72-game-season
It’s official: The NBA is coming back Dec. 22.
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Monday night that they’ve struck a deal on rules for this coming season, setting the stage for what will be a frenzied few weeks before games resume.
Teams will play a 72-game schedule, which will be revealed in the coming weeks. The league said a new system will be used to ensure that the split of basketball-related income continues, one of the many details that had to be collectively bargained with the union because the current agreement between the sides had a great deal of language that needed reworking because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Negotiations with free agents will be allowed to begin at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20, with signings permitted starting at 12:01 p.m. on Nov. 22 — an extraordinarily fast window for the NBA, which typically has about a week spanning the start of talks and the beginning of signings. But with training camps this year beginning Dec. 1, both sides evidently feel there isn’t a need to draw out the process any longer than necessary.
Many rosters could be considerably reshaped by then, with trades likely to be permissible again in the coming days — the exact details there still being worked out — and the NBA draft set to take place Nov. 18. Player and team options likely will be settled around that same time. Free agency starts two days after the draft, with around 100 players set for unrestricted status.
The salary cap and tax level will remain unchanged. The cap was $109.14 million this past season, with the tax level at $132,627,000. The real numbers will be affected by the shortened schedule — last year’s numbers were based on the standard 82-game season, a threshold that won’t be reached this year.
The salary cap for 2021-22 is guaranteed to rise somewhere between 3% and 10%, the league said, which means it’ll be somewhere between $112.4 million and $120.1 million.
The league’s board of governors will vote to finalize the deal, which is a formality. NBA general managers also have a meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss matters.
Meyers Leonard, a free-agent-to-be who spent this past season with the Miami Heat and served as the team’s player rep to the NBPA, said he had some concerns about getting all the logistical matters completed in time for a Dec. 22 opening night. He resumed his offseason workouts Monday after he and his wife took a 4,000-mile tour-bus trip arranged by Coors Light from Miami to Los Angeles with many stops along the way.
“Without knowing all the ins and outs, Dec. 22nd, from a money standpoint, you play more games, you play your Christmas games, it probably makes sense,” Leonard said. “But there’s a lot of logistical things that I know cannot be easy. And the discussions that are being had are very dynamic and very difficult conversations.”
There are countless other issues to work out, such as all the health and safety protocols now that games won’t be played in the safety of a bubble and teams will be traveling to various cities once again.
Players were tested daily in the bubble, and nobody tested positive because of the very strict protocols. It’ll be much tougher to avoid a COVID-related issue with the league back to some sort of normalcy this season.
“There’s going to be people testing positive,” Leonard said. “I don’t know about left and right, but it’s going to happen. And then what happens? It’s a tough time we’re all dealing with. The disease is very strange. It’s going to be interesting to see how the league rolls with the punches, so to speak.”
For the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers and Eastern Conference champion Heat, it will be the shortest offseason in NBA history — with seven weeks separating the end of the NBA Finals and the planned Dec. 1 start of training camp.
But for the eight teams that didn’t make the restart bubble at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida this summer, it has been a marathon offseason, with none of those teams — Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Charlotte, Golden State, Minnesota, New York and Detroit — having played since the second week of March. The NBA shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic on March 11, then took 22 of its 30 teams to Disney to resume the season in July.
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Monday night that they’ve struck a deal on rules for this coming season, setting the stage for what will be a frenzied few weeks before games resume.
Teams will play a 72-game schedule, which will be revealed in the coming weeks. The league said a new system will be used to ensure that the split of basketball-related income continues, one of the many details that had to be collectively bargained with the union because the current agreement between the sides had a great deal of language that needed reworking because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Negotiations with free agents will be allowed to begin at 6 p.m. on Nov. 20, with signings permitted starting at 12:01 p.m. on Nov. 22 — an extraordinarily fast window for the NBA, which typically has about a week spanning the start of talks and the beginning of signings. But with training camps this year beginning Dec. 1, both sides evidently feel there isn’t a need to draw out the process any longer than necessary.
Many rosters could be considerably reshaped by then, with trades likely to be permissible again in the coming days — the exact details there still being worked out — and the NBA draft set to take place Nov. 18. Player and team options likely will be settled around that same time. Free agency starts two days after the draft, with around 100 players set for unrestricted status.
The salary cap and tax level will remain unchanged. The cap was $109.14 million this past season, with the tax level at $132,627,000. The real numbers will be affected by the shortened schedule — last year’s numbers were based on the standard 82-game season, a threshold that won’t be reached this year.
The salary cap for 2021-22 is guaranteed to rise somewhere between 3% and 10%, the league said, which means it’ll be somewhere between $112.4 million and $120.1 million.
The league’s board of governors will vote to finalize the deal, which is a formality. NBA general managers also have a meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss matters.
Meyers Leonard, a free-agent-to-be who spent this past season with the Miami Heat and served as the team’s player rep to the NBPA, said he had some concerns about getting all the logistical matters completed in time for a Dec. 22 opening night. He resumed his offseason workouts Monday after he and his wife took a 4,000-mile tour-bus trip arranged by Coors Light from Miami to Los Angeles with many stops along the way.
“Without knowing all the ins and outs, Dec. 22nd, from a money standpoint, you play more games, you play your Christmas games, it probably makes sense,” Leonard said. “But there’s a lot of logistical things that I know cannot be easy. And the discussions that are being had are very dynamic and very difficult conversations.”
There are countless other issues to work out, such as all the health and safety protocols now that games won’t be played in the safety of a bubble and teams will be traveling to various cities once again.
Players were tested daily in the bubble, and nobody tested positive because of the very strict protocols. It’ll be much tougher to avoid a COVID-related issue with the league back to some sort of normalcy this season.
“There’s going to be people testing positive,” Leonard said. “I don’t know about left and right, but it’s going to happen. And then what happens? It’s a tough time we’re all dealing with. The disease is very strange. It’s going to be interesting to see how the league rolls with the punches, so to speak.”
For the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers and Eastern Conference champion Heat, it will be the shortest offseason in NBA history — with seven weeks separating the end of the NBA Finals and the planned Dec. 1 start of training camp.
But for the eight teams that didn’t make the restart bubble at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida this summer, it has been a marathon offseason, with none of those teams — Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Charlotte, Golden State, Minnesota, New York and Detroit — having played since the second week of March. The NBA shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic on March 11, then took 22 of its 30 teams to Disney to resume the season in July.
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LeLakers Acquire Schroder
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Unibrow declines option but let's be honest, he's going back to LA because LeLakers sign everyone. Even Mahomes.
https://www.tsn.ca/report-los-angele...-ufa-1.1552347
https://www.tsn.ca/report-los-angele...-ufa-1.1552347
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CP3 goes to LeLake........oh sh*t...what, not LA?!??? Must be an error in the news. #fakenews
Phoenix gets Paul: https://www.tsn.ca/report-phoenix-su...nder-1.1552557
Phoenix gets Paul: https://www.tsn.ca/report-phoenix-su...nder-1.1552557
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Another tidbit...Harden wants out of Houston?
He's going to LeLakers.
He's going to LeLakers.
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Not sure if I like Chicago's pick at #4...but, I guess the GM has a decent record in Denver with picking players...
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Morey and Doc Rivers making a big splash in Philly.
Shooting should not be an issue this season.
Al Horford to Oklahoma City
Josh Richardson to the Dallas Mavericks I liked Josh
Danny Green
Seth Curry
Tyrese Maxey (PG) - Kentucky
Isiah Joe (SG) - Arkansas
Shooting should not be an issue this season.
Al Horford to Oklahoma City
Josh Richardson to the Dallas Mavericks I liked Josh
Danny Green
Seth Curry
Tyrese Maxey (PG) - Kentucky
Isiah Joe (SG) - Arkansas