Washington DC or Washington state? The state is very far away from Boston.

Don’t watch then

It’s a more complicated topic than you realize, I think.

I have plenty of saved posts by good analyzers that explain why in the bigger picture this was the best move.

It’s just it usually takes at least 2 paragraphs to explain well and it’s not friendly for people depending on short clickbait fake-news one-liners.

I feel like you’re listening to / reading the wrong sources/analysts.

It’s not even Jokic or anything like that which justify it. It’s more like what Independent Mix is saying and also how the Celtics are the first championship team to really experience the CBA punishment. It’s easy for people to criticize when they can’t bring up a better *feasible* alternative. We’re making as best as we can moves early to deal with it. And it’s just that other top/championship teams haven’t yet come to this point, but they will during the next few years.

perhaps its not convincing ourselves and we just have different thoughts from you.

Not sure why you’re unable to understand CBA, 2 aprons, supermax and basic common sense.

Honestly i’m at the point where anything is better than ESPN for me, it’s by far become the worst network at covering basketball and has all the worst announcers whether it’s NBA or WNBA

It’s summer league so I don’t really care where it’s broadcast (as long a I have access) and Doris Burke isn’t one of the announcers. So Prime is fine with me. 😄

Wizards, pistons

I think both the Hawks and Magic could make the playoffs, but, their best player compared to the 8 teams you’ve listed is not quite up to scratch.

Now that matters less in an 82-game regular season so I won’t be surprised if they both do make it, and in the Magic’s case are actually quite good, but, that’s why the odds are where they’re at, their best players don’t drive winning at the level the other teams’ best guys do.

1. Celtics

2. Pistons

3. Knicks

4. Cavs

5. 6ers

6. Raps

7. Heat

8. Pacers

I also believe DWhite has a better year with Tatum back and won’t shoot nearly as bad as he did last year.

This is going to be interesting to see.

We spent most of the season making the same assumption, and then he seemingly got worse when Tatum returned.

Hopefully it was just a little uneasiness from a mid-season shift in roles.

Now he’s got some time to adjust back to Tatum and will hopefully have a pretty clear idea of his role this season, we’ll hopefully see that efficiency boost.

Thanks, I’ll go check it out

Gonna be hard to get over that one unless Brad has something better up his sleeve. And soon.

I think it;s only the top 4 that play for the actual title chance. Everyone else is playing consolation. Wo we missed out by quite a bit if you go off of rank placement. Idk how the points for the +/-’s are calculated, but we were a decent bit off there. Maybe if we had blown out the Kings and not let them go on that run at the end we would have made it?

Doesn’t matter though, I don’t think the Celtics care one bit about the Summer League title. They would have likely kept Hugo and the other roster locks out and just ran the 2nd unit and Maine Celtics out there to give them a chance to show what they got.

John Calipari?

How many rules violations has John Calipari committed in his career? Get out a calculator, it is a ton.

What Calipari “pitches” here is absolutely illegal and against the current rules. This is antiquated bullshit that goes directly against the current rules that the Celtics followed, and have suffered because of.

In a capped system, “promises” of future contracts is explicitly illegal.

The Bucks and the agent should both be punished, severely.

Yeah it happens all the time.

Whether or not it’s celebrated usually comes down to the player/situation.

The whole “Daryl Morey is a liar” saga comes from some sort of under-the-table agreement about James Harden taking a pay cut in the short term and presumably getting the money back later. People didn’t really care because it was funny.

The Gary Trent Jr situation is interesting, but the Bucks are entering a rebuild and no one takes them seriously atm, and it’s not like this deal helped them win in the past either.

If this was OKC making an under-the-table deal to keep their core intact, then that could be the biggest story of the offseason.

LAC’s situation is under the spotlight because Balmer was already pissing off owners with his overspending, Kawhi is a big-name player, and his signing upset a lot of teams (LA and Toronto were specifically upset with how it went down).

This is basically what the TWolves did with Joe Smith where they signed him to multiple below market one year deals with a promise they would give him a bigger deal once they had Bird rights. The NBA penalized the TWolves by taking away 5 first round picks (two later returned).

It’s expressly prohibited by the CBA so it should absolutely not be allowed. Honestly, kind of weird for reporters and basketball insiders to try to argue that it should be allowed considering the rules and history.

The lovely Pacers journalist and analyst Caitlin Cooper pointed this out:

If the Bucks don’t cap circumvent the deal with Trent Jr, they can’t afford the deal they made with Myles Turner, and if Myles Turner does not have that deal, he stays with the Pacers and the Pacers don’t have to overpay to trade for Zubac to fill the hole he left and they would have added the 5th pick this year instead of it ending up with the other team under investigation for cap circumvention.