Takes another swig of blue green aliens titty milk

“They fuck now?!”

• Poe Cameron

I would’ve preferred if this was the real quote from that movie. 

I was about to comment that I can’t wait till we get to the point where he’s played longer after this tweet than prior to it (time-wise at least, he needs another 120 games to match his pre-30 regular season games played). Will never be able to get over his longevity

yes.

lol that would be one hell of a slam dunk lawsuit if they capped an age limit on years an older player can sign.

Bryce is already a redshirt freshman at Arizona. Only needs 1 year or 2 to try and make the NBA

Not now obviously, but 2-3 years down the line he might not be able to give you starter minutes anymore and keep his level of effectiveness.

He’s a nets fan

bird law expert here:

CA CAWWWW CAW CAW CAWWWWW

Here’s my take: the bird law in this country is not governed by reason

The bird is the word

Cap holds are confusing, that’s okay. I’ll try explain using a very simple hypothetical.

First of all, to explain Bird Rights simply, teams can re-sign their own players even if they’re over the salary cap, right? It’s called a Bird Exception. If Brunson’s contract expires the Knicks would still be over the cap, but he can’t go sign a max with, say, San Antonio (because they’re over the cap). But he can sign the max with NY because they have his Bird Rights.

Now, lets say the Knicks planned it so that Brunson, KAT, and OG’s contracts all expire at the same year. Technically, they’d be under the cap, and would hypothetically have max space (enough cap space to sign a max contract) for, say, Giannis, whose contract also expired that same year and is now a free agent.

Do you think the Knicks can just sign Giannis to a max contract, and then go over the cap to re-sign Brunson, OG, and KAT using their Bird Rights? Of course not, that would be busted!

Why not then? What’s stopping them? Cap holds. Your old players salaries don’t come off your books completely when the contract expires. To prevent this Giannis scenario, an expiring contract salary still counts against the cap (in case the team wants to re-sign them). That’s called a cap hold.

Now what if the Knicks truly wanted to utilize their cap space to sign Giannis? They can renounce the rights on OG, KAT, and Brunson, who all expired. This eliminates their cap holds. Now NY have true cap space, and can sign Giannis. But they can’t use the Bird Exception to re-sign the big 3 anymore, the rights have been renounced.

Basically to sign a guy directly using cap space, you have to renounce the bird rights to any players you still have (or however much space you need to use). Bird rights allow you to go over the cap to resign current players. When a guy retires his bird rights stay with the last team he played for. Thats why all these guys were either Laker FAs this offseason or retired. They never needed to renounce the old guys on this list bc the Lakers haven’t used cap space to directly sign a player in a long while. “Cap holds” from bird rights are basically ghosts that you don’t have to deal with until you’re wanting to use cap space to sign a player.

This is also a reminder that there’s really no reason for any recent retired player to actually file for retirement

This is why even bad contracts have some value for some teams, because trade needs to match salary.

Dwight and LeBron in their prime might be the best freak athlete duo ever

Rashard Lewis and Jameer Nelson were all stars as well that season

Prime Dwight was enough to carry a team with no other all stars to the finals. This team would be lit

This is both true and very untrue.

The Magic role players caught fire like no one else. D12 played great, but LeBron was easily by far the best player in that ECF (it was 39/9/9 then… easily ~45/12/12 at today’s pace), and the Magic role players’ variance was crazy crazy high.

And then it all came back to the mean vs the Lakers in the finals.

I will not accept Hedo Turkoglu slander.

Ever heard of Rashard Lewis?

Brother he had two other all stars + hedo putting up 17/5/5 game

He was obviously the centerpiece but he had a great supporting cast

The defense of Avery Bradley smart and Howard would be nuts.

Rashard Lewis was a 2 time all star and was an all star in 08-09 when the magic went to the finals.

Rashard Lewis erasure

This team would be worst team in the league by a mile today. Half these guys are retired

This is some recency bias haterism on him because of a couple of podcast bad takes he had recently lmao people will legit peddle that he can singlehandedly troll THAT team in their primes, sorry bro Lebron, Carmelo, Dwight in their primes would be the current equivalent of Wemby, Shai and Luka being on the same team

PG - Avery Bradley

SG - Marcus Smart

SF - LeBron James

PF - Carmelo Anthony

C - Dwight Howard

Bron as a point forward with AB and Smart as your 3-D guards while being PoA defenders, Melo as a second banana with Dwight at the center is a cheatcode championship team. GTFOH

Did you forget the Olympics entirely?

Prime Melo doesn’t need to give the ball to anyone. Let him run the offense and LeBron, Dwight and Smart anchor the defense

It is if that’s the roster around him.

Who’s rebounding? I think Hayes is the only player on that list who still has knees

23 games.

I was gonna say. Prime Smart/Bradley/Melo/LBJ/Dwight with Dion, Kennard, Dudley, Morris, Kleber, Hayes is winning at least 65, they’d be contending to break the record

Smart, Dwight are both DPOY. Peak Bradley finished 6th and was 1st team all defense. Prime LeBron finished 2nd in DPOY and was 1st team all defense. Thats the best defensive team in the league by a lot. And the offense speaks for itself

lol yeah more like 2

Maybe they didn’t pass because they didn’t believe in their teammates, if they had superstars around them, I bet they’d adapt.

NBA cares more about Ja doing gun signs than someone literally assaulting women

The Jazz still kept Karl Malone

Hell it’s basically a requirement to become a pro athlete

Or politics!

Daniel Tosh has the best joke about Kobe of all time

“I just hope that when parents let their kids run around in #24 jerseys, they have the decency to say, ‘Well come on, number 8 was the rapist’”

Young buck like yourself

Who have thought?

I’m not certain about anything I’m just making a statement