2021 NBA Offseason Thread

[KilgoreTrout]

I'm still just infinitely salty from that draft because I followed and desperately wanted Bradley Beal all season long, just for Washington to snag him from us right before our pick. Kyrie, Beal, LeBron, and Love (I know things would've changed and we probably wouldn't have gotten Wiggins to trade for Love), would have been just an amazing core.

Me too. Beal next to Kyrie would have been lethal. Drummond would have been a better pick there, too.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Apparently our boy Neon Deon had a seizure on the flight home after being woken up after eating gummies.

That may be the nail in his careers coffin. I always liked the kid but he seems to have never grown up.

Gummies cause seizures?

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Waiters was such a shitty pick. There have been three really bad players taken in the top-10 of that 2012 draft.

- Dion Waiters (4th)
- Thomas Robinson (5th)
- Austin Rivers (10th)

Waiters is 25th in the '12 draft class in WS (8.7), 31st in BPM, and 52nd in VORP (-1.6). His VORP is dragged down by some guys who had far less playing time then him, but still, Waiters was another legendary blunder of a high Cleveland pick. A true scrub through and through.

MKG has also underwhelmed. He’s not Stromile Swift or Darko Milicic or Sam Bowie, but he’s still been a disappointment of a #2 pick.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Gordon Hayward, busted hand. Dude has the worst luck.

 

[NMCav]

SGA looking awfully good so far. AWFULLY good.

He sucked tonight against a terrible warriors team...

 

[NIkeL]

Gummies cause seizures?

I read that they were THC gummies. Not 100% sure it's confirmed, but that's what everyone is saying,
What i ask is, is it normal/legal to eat those things "out in the open" in the US or other people in the plane just thought he was stuffing his face with sugar?

 

[PIP]

Man if you’re a casual fan and haven’t followed the NBA for a little while there is no way you recognize the game today...

 

[Jack Brickman]

I think that overstates the case against him a little bit. The 2016-17 Dion that earned a 50M contract was actually a pretty solid player. If not for injuries and off-court issues, I think he would've had a long career as a decent starter or a good 6th man.

I think Waiters had the tools to be a really good player but he was just too stupid to take advantage of them.

 

[Man Called X]

I read that they were THC gummies. Not 100% sure it's confirmed, but that's what everyone is saying,
What i ask is, is it normal/legal to eat those things "out in the open" in the US or other people in the plane just thought he was stuffing his face with sugar?

The league no longer considers THC a banned substance and no longer tests for it. 11 out of 50 states have legalized adult recreational use, while 33 have some form of a medicinal marijuana market. Do most people walk around eating a full baggie of gummies at a time? Not the average person, and probably not even most heavy users.

Really, this is just another case of Dion being Dion.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

I read that they were THC gummies. Not 100% sure it's confirmed, but that's what everyone is saying,
What i ask is, is it normal/legal to eat those things "out in the open" in the US or other people in the plane just thought he was stuffing his face with sugar?

Were they coming back from Denver?

 

[Rich]

I think that overstates the case against him a little bit. The 2016-17 Dion that earned a 50M contract was actually a pretty solid player. If not for injuries and off-court issues, I think he would've had a long career as a decent starter or a good 6th man.

Off the court stuff cant be written off. That's part of the package. If you pick a goofball and he acts like a goofball then that's on you.

He's an idiot.

 

[Nathan S]

Suns are gonna be worse when Ayton comes back and Baynes goes to the bench.

 

[NMCav]

Suns are gonna be worse when Ayton comes back and Baynes goes to the bench.

We should convince them to give us Ayton. I know it will never happen but he would be a nice fit with Beilein and like you said he's going to hurt them when he comes back. Baynes does all the little things that they need.

 

[Rich]

I'll give it till December but Indiana...

I loved their off-season moves. Brogdon is gonna make multiple all-star games.

They can make the Finals if Oladipo comes back looking like a monster.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Waiters suspended 10 games for his gummies. What a knucklehead.