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  1. The Wolves will "contend" for top six at best. They got rid of their spark plug and added Dikembe Mutombo in an era where that type of player is a lot less useful. The Pelicans are getting an awful lot of hype for a team that *improved* to 36-46 last year. The Lakers are an easy target right now, but they grossly underperformed last year. It's not inconceivable that they could jump back into the top six if healthy, but therein lies the problem. Honestly the west looks kind of muddy and tough to predict in general. The Warriors have to be considered early favorites for the title, but their days of outstanding regular seasons are almost certainly behind them; 52 wins or thereabouts unless the rest of the conference craps itself. Chris Paul (the primary reason they became contenders) is another year older and Ayton got his money, so there's room for the Suns to slide in the standings, and their championship window is closing. Utah will definitely fall off to some degree, but as a franchise they have a penchant for hanging around .500 and being annoying in seasons when they're supposed to be terrible, so I wouldn't be too shocked if they somehow stuck as a play-in team. In theory that leaves room for one or two of the Grizzlies, Mavs, Nuggets, and Clippers to jump out front. The Grizzlies made a significant leap last season, I doubt they're going to make another one immediately after. Dallas looks slightly worse on paper than last year. The Nuggets and Clippers have multiple critical players coming off of long-term injuries, not exactly a safe bet. I don't know. I have no prediction.
  2. Minnesota goes east, they're closer to Cleveland than they are to anyone in their current division. Memphis meanwhile is in a nice little pocket down there with New Orleans, the Texas teams, and OKC (in your scenario), no reason to split that up. Toronto would seem to be an obvious candidate for jumping into the new Central/Great Lakes/whatever division due to location, but they've been enough of a heel for the Celtics and Sixers in recent years that I think there's an argument for keeping them together. I don't know what kind of impact customs has on it being an "easy" trip for the most nearby teams like the Cavs or Pistons or whatever. Washington, Atlanta, and Charlotte are three historical whatever teams that have never seem to have anything going on with anyone and therefore can be used to just fill in the gaps as needed. Moving Washington out of the Atlantic and out of the proximity of the other BosWash teams seems unnecessary. I'd send Atlanta and Charlotte to join Minnesota in the Central while keeping Washington and Toronto in the Atlantic. The Hawks did play in the Central up until 2004, for whatever that's worth (not much).
  3. My only wishes regarding a team in Las Vegas would be: red-dominant identity, NOT a desert-themed nickname (or anything animal related), and for "Las Vegas" to be the location name, not just "Vegas", or some other silliness.
  4. I would trade Jaylen Brown for Durant, only because Brown still can't dribble, but that's about it.
  5. I kinda let go of the Red Sox (and baseball as a whole)* when I moved away after the Bobby Valentine year, keeping light tabs from afar and only watching some playoff games in 2013 and 2018. Would it be a stretch to call them the most bizarrely inconsistent team in baseball over the last decade? 2012 - 69 wins, baseball's answer to the Isiah Thomas Knicks 2013 - championship 2014 - 71 wins, sellers at the deadline, generic bad team 2015 - threw money at Pablo Sandoval and a bunch of NL pitchers, finished .500 2016 - playoff team 2017 - playoff team 2018 - best team since the 98 Yankees 2019 - asses reamed out in the first two weeks, .500 team despite returning most of the roster 2020 - sold off their best player because reasons, win% of a 64-win team 2021 - random ALCS appearance 2022 - just sort of piddling along, probably finish around .500 again Is there any other team that has been nearly that erratic from year to year? All that's missing is a 2003 Tigers/2018 Orioles type season. *It recently hit me the other day how stuck-in-the-past my mental map of baseball is. I was doing cardio at the gym with MLB network on the treadmill screen because gotta watch something, the graphic on the left showed Somebody @ Twins highlights coming up. I was expecting to see the Metrodome, and was momentarily surprised when they were outdoors in the sun. They built that stadium over a decade ago! I've become my dad.
  6. Durant's whole persona these days seems really forced, as if impersonating a 14 year old social media troll is written into his contract somewhere. In OKC he was about as controversial as Todd Helton.
  7. Brogdon is a good player but a potentially bad cultural fit in Boston (the city, not the franchise) for reasons that will trip the mods' shotgun booby trap. The Gobert trade is f***ing AWFUL. He's basically Dikembe Mutombo, and at no point in his career was Mutombo ever worth five first rounders and useful on-court players, probably not even half of such a package, and that was back when the game was tilted in favor of guys like him. Gobert gets played off the court on a regular basis because he can't shoot. And that's before getting into the fact that the Wolves already have Towns. They're now paying two different big men an obscene amount of money in an era where you don't necessarily even need one on the court at all times. I will cap off this hacky WalterFootball blog post by awarding this trade a MILLEN.
  8. The farm ought to be on the table, aside from Paul, Booker, and maybe Bridges, and only because letting any of those three go would defeat the purpose of trading for KD and going for it in the short term. I haven't been a cap nerd since the early 10's, can Phoenix sign and trade Ayton as the financial centerpiece of a trade?
  9. The Celtics wore their original green alt (pictured above) for Black Friday home games starting the year they unveiled it. For whatever reason, I also recall a random game in Orlando in 2003-04 - first year of Orlando's ghost piping uniforms, last year of T-Mac - where they wore their regular blues and the Celtics wore white. I can also recall several hard\wood classics games with color at home/white on road but I don't know if those are quite in the spirit of what we're talking about here.
  10. San Antonio's ceiling was/is play-in fodder. It's possible that with the way Murray jumped up this year, they figured it's better to trade him while his stock is high than give him a big contract that they maybe don't feel great about. Murray's a good player but it's not like he's Dwyane Wade or anything.
  11. From landing David Robinson until Kawhi's little bitchfit, the Spurs had been in the business of just maintaining their title contender status for a good 30 years; they haven't had to build a team from the ground up in forever. They're in uncharted waters (for them) and I don't think they really know what they're doing. Or maybe they are just sandbagging for a pick. Meanwhile, hearty laugh at the Knicks moving the earth for f***ing Jalen Brunson. I would ask who's up for a game of "Jalen Brunson or Jamal Crawford?", but I don't feel copy-pasting a bunch of stats right now.
  12. Does Portland even really want a team? They had chances with the Expos and Marlins. I think they're fine with NBA and MLS, and baseball wants them to want a team more than they themselves actually want one. As far as Vegas goes - assuming that MLB does indeed shove this move through in the manner of someone body-checking a couch through a tight doorway - the bottom is gonna fall out on somebody there at some point if leagues keep moving in just because it's trendy. CSA of only 2.3 million people, nothing but desert beyond that, volatile local economy based almost entirely on tourism and hedonism, and yeah that water thing. Also Vegas just put up a new AAA stadium, what would happen to that if they went and slapped down some Globe Life Park monstrosity? I've said it before but both these teams (Rays and A's) have been in limbo forever now. If there was any decent place for them to go that actually wanted them, they'd be there already. Bud Selig was publicly crapping on O.co and calling the franchise unviable without a new stadium twenty years ago!
  13. Yeah I don't think any sort of trade was even rumored for draft night. R*ddit got pretty upset about Autistic Adam Schefter spoiling the surprise Banchero pick before the official announcement, though.
  14. Assuming that Kyrie has salted the earth in Brooklyn and the Lakers could swing such a deal, this is the only situation that makes any sense. The Lakers have absolutely nothing on the horizon past LeBron and therefore nothing to lose if/when Kyrie turns the locker room inside out. In the meantime, he can't be a worse fit on the court than Westbrook. But every other team in the league would be supremely dumb to go anywhere near this guy.
  15. The home OH I'M SORRY, ASSOCIATION home should be white-on-white. I hate that Wizards thing where you're not quite sure what color the uniform is supposed to be.
  16. Maybe slide a pair of Paterno glasses on the main cat logo.
  17. That was a pretty insufferable deluge of cheese even by Laker/Cowboy fan standards.
  18. I'd much rather be Seattle or Utah, losing to an established dynasty, then be the team that cedes a title to the Chris Paul chokebillies or some other fraud squad (which is the term I would probably be using to refer to this Celtics team if they were not wearing green jerseys).
  19. "durrrrr they said we couldn't play together durrrrr" YEP
  20. LOOK AT ALL THOSE CHICKENS TURNOVERS
  21. I'd much rather this loss come against the likes of Golden State than say, Phoenix.
  22. Lmao this is how you respond when Steve Kerr guarantees a victory on your home floor? Garbage.
  23. Disgusting. Just forfeit the game, it'd be less shameful.
  24. Game/series. I don't know why I watch this crap.
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