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Oh, the thing I mentioned a few pages ago. In this instance, I was discussing his moves as Mavericks GM.

Steph Curry has definitely not ever played for the Mavericks. If you're talking about Seth Curry, he's an old 8th, 9th man. Not nearly as crucial as the others.

Nico Harrison had Luka Doncic, Jalen Brunson and Kristaps, so there's that. But that's all I can think of

Cause AK won't take second rounders. Not for Vuc, not for Drummond.

Cowley is reporting that most of AK's calls are laying groundwork for the summer. The fact that AK reportedly turned down multiple offers for Vuc this year cause he held out for more is infuriating.

AKME and standing pat. Name a more iconic duo.

Sounds like Vuc to the Warriors isn't dead and Coby to Magic is out there. Get anything for Vuc, try to get real value for Coby.

"Nico, we can't give up such assets for Luka, he may gain weight." "Yeah we can totally do that for Williams."

2 years, $20M. In all honesty, it's a great deal if (massive if) Lonzo stays healthy. He brings a vet presence and if they continue to suck, can still be traded. But god they need to trade Vuc.

I don't hate having Lonzo, but I'd rather have assets and tank.

I cannot see Jimmy vying for an extension and Draymond mixing well. This is gonna be a toxic, beautiful mess.

Well, the Warriors have stopped pursuing KD so the Bulls just started looking better. (This strategy is still dumb)

I know, right? Shohei isn't really a bargain at this point. He's worth his contract, but I don't know if you can call a $700M contract a "bargain."

Annoyingly, there were reports from earlier in the year that they were turning down second rounders cause they were holding out for a first. AKME just can't help but overvalue their guys. Never sold high on DeMar or AC, gave Pat an unearned extension, clinging to Vuc for dear life, didn't trade Drummond and then let him walk.

Nico Harrison is also the guy that failed to get Steph to stay with Nike so, you know, he's an idiot.

The Lakers won a ring 5 years ago and just got gifted another star for the, what, 10th time? Wilt, KAJ, Magic (would have stayed in school if the Bulls won the coin flip), Kobe's agent supposedly worked behind the scenes to get him sent to the Lakers on draft day, Shaq, Gasol, Dwight, LeBron AD. You smoking the same stuff as Nico Harrison?

How in the world do you not have the Lakers? Reinsdorf doesn't even crack the top 10, because few care outside of Chicago.

If the Bears buying the $15 burger costs the Brown $10 in credit card fees before next Tuesday?

I saw that the Browns pretty much can't trade Garrett until after the draft or they'll take a ~$30M cap hit? I know that would pose a really, really risky endeavor for the Bears, but if they leave some cap room open, an ideal scenario seems like: - Sign Smith, Dalman - Draft Campbell / Banks - Get a RB like Kaleb Johnson with one of the second rounders - Hopefully Cunningham gets hired and they can build out the rest of the lines with the picks. Here's what a GM told Russini the price could be. If the cost is really 2026 picks and forward, I think you have to do this if it works out. Again, I have zero understanding of the cap.

The TL;DR is that the line was a large deciding factor.

Luka Doncic is distracting everyone so they can sneak DeLoach through waivers.

Getz kept Colas over DeLoach? I'll be damned.

When you miss an open court dunk while up 30, fall and break your leg.

Zavala hits below .200 again because his beautiful, effortless swing ends up just being just being hype from one trainer on Twitter? There's no such thing as a "no floor" prospect. Thorpe loses anything coming back from injury and gets shelled. Iriarte becomes Kopech 2.0

Fair point re: Insiders. But as a counterpoint, AKME are some of (if not the) worst at asset management in the league. I'll argue that bigger sins were: Not trading DeMar and Caruso once it was clear things were falling apart, extending Pat, extending Vuc and just an outright refusal to get a real #4. Lavine is one of the best pure scorers in the league. Before the new penalties, that contract was gonna happen for any player. It looked a lot worse with his injury + before his return to form, but contracts like Poole, Beal, Simmons, Grant, Draymond, Middleton, Wiggins (depending on how you view him as a player) and I'd even argue Embiid at this point, were/are all right up there. Someone was gonna give him that deal.