I'm getting more comfortable with Mikel Brown. Back injury terrifying. But his pullups are already deeeep. Sort of an unorthodox shot, but his game is. There's a little Kyrie-lite to his around the rim game. He has some shape shifter. Wish he was wider/longer, but built like Coby White pre-draft

Among the many Giannis getting traded indicators that have been flashing since Feb, he's still in Milwaukee. Each of these on their own is easy to talk off, but together it's all momentum in one direction

Please let my team be the team to take advantage of him in some way

I'm not smart enough to figure out the Mke/Min/Por. Getting GA to Min, Jrue to Min and Jaden to Mke. I just can't figure out what Por values enough to give the Bucks pick(s) back that isn't ridiculous. And I'm too lazy to think about 4th teams. I don't know what Min has planned, man

Only 1 team can beat the west: Rollins, Green, Dieng, Nance, Bogi, 10, 13, 19, Ware

Hell yea, give us a game

The future's not "bleak" for Min, but I don't know how they (or anyone) clears the gap. This is a good basketball team. With some good young players and a real star. And they can still get better. But, they can't get *this* much better.

Game 6 loss at home is a top tier gut punch game.

(uh oh)

I have 0 questions about his ceiling. He's a backup point guard who's a reluctant and poor shooter and plays losing basketball.

They forgot that in (uh, 6, damn achilles) playoff games just 12 months ago GA averaged 33/15/6.5 and 2 stocks in 37 mins. Everyone's exhausted. Which is a shame. He's still that dude. Unfortunately, the first time he didn't play 80% of his teams games was the same year the drama beat everyone down.

Maluach and Green were the price for old-ass KD just last summer. Fair to question if you could even turn 13/Ware into KAT (assuming they *had* to break-up for some reason). Gotta stop getting over your skis about nasty-ass no ceiling Heat packages.

The Giannis trade talks really pick up steam on June 14/15. A month from today. A bunch of kids will be back in school and the Knicks will be eliminated. Leaves a lot to sort out in 9 days. But.

Joel played 38 games at 26 mins per. I'm wondering how much more load management they think is possible

Haha. #toomuch #31goingon60

But, what's the Myles Turner - Breanna Stewart connection? Feels random!

🙏 Resist the urge to accept the "easy" trade because the year of giannis trade drama and '26 bucks has been exhausting. You've made it this far. You can make 6 more weeks. Most, or second most, important transaction in franchise history. Stay engaged! Know your worth!

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The more I sit with it, the more certain I become GA will be traded. Even if he never makes the "formal request", and we can't know what's real behind the scenes and exaggerated, you're going to have to travel too far down the road to find out what's out there to walk it back later. For both parties

You should probably have Morez>Mara>Yax if we're being honest about the next 10 years for the Michigan trio

I'm just gonna say it: fuck the NFL on Christmas

He was the 5th pick in the draft and he can't play in playoff games.

Can Jalen Duren win B2B MIP??

I don't need 7 of this, thanks. I'm all good.

Final: Team Carpenter 95, Team Adams 84. Strong showing by the Big 12: Arizona PG Jaden Bradley, Houston SG Emanuem Sharp and Cincinnati PF Baba Miller all stood out. Likely first-rounder Dailyn Swain surprisingly played today, but was just okay.

BREAKING: Starting next season, the Pistons will air their preseason and regular season games for free locally on Channel 20

Wednesday night football. The NFL is such a shit league. Says an NBA fan. Hey, both can be true! A true "champion" isn't as important as everyone got paid along the way!

Wes Anderson's Goodfellas

I'm not picking on anyone, it's all over, but we, collectively "we", have to stop propagating this "well GA isn't getting a haul" narrative. You're allowed to ask and expect more for yourselves and don't let the fear mongering win. Have some respect for franchise agency, precedent, and GA's quality.

Cackling again. This guy is a 20 pt scorer, night 1. He might give up 20! But what a silly offensive package for a teenager, yeeeesh. Just good old fashioned fun hoop.

The dumbest word(s) in the entire English language is combo guard. Cut that shit out

The Wolves knew they'd need Giannis. They just didn't/don't have the capital 🤷. But they knew.

In the comments of each of these measurements threads I comped some recent draftees with similar builds so you can maybe imagine how they'd look in the league

Dang. I wanted a good game. Someone match Wemby

Impossible to overstate how roundball rock always hits

Tough to do the job when the owner makes you duck the tax every deadline while trying to "contend". There'll be a 3rd act for Daryl

Hey, I'm *begging* some Bucks fans: *Respect* Ryan* Rollins*. Stop the KPJ bullshit. Stop the Ja bullshit. And stop drafting a point guard. You have one! You did it! Respect this man! (all these metrics are imperfect, and he won't be Book, but, you get it) Respect Ryan Rollins!!

We all had the "Caris LeVert game"

Its too early for a board board. Still. But after today (measurements threaded below), it's worth giving Swain, who I've resisted, and Carr a more thorough vetting. That might be the draft double post GA I need more information about.

And another thing, anyone who wants Wemby suspended for game 5 is total herb, get the fuck outta here.

This is a reminder for me, as much as anyone, as we navigate the Giannis trade waters over the next 5 weeks. Deep teams win because they have all-stars. Always. This is a blue chip trade, first. That's the mission, *first*.

I lost steam late

How did they get like this? How did they become the most delusional group? How did that happen?

A lot of people had Harper stock but I had as much Harper stock as humanly possible and it continues to pay so so well. Just a star.

Game 8. Let's do it.

All 29 teams and their "best" assets for acquiring Giannis or using the trade as salary ballast for their own trades, threaded below. You know, should it come to that.

I can't believe they rigged the lottery to take away a Clippers pick next week.

Don't think too hard about "tiers". Some teams 2 would be another's 1. Etc. I tried to think about how they'd be talked about, ya know? Sorted by '26 draft order.

You guys remember when the Bucks refused to tank hard and everyone said who cares they're 10, and look what happened to the team in 9, eh