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Which would you rather do: Pay $46M/yr to a 27yo established top 20 player in Donovan Mitchell Or pay $50-55M/yr in combined salary to Jalen +...
Yes his value is higher with an extension because he is unextendable on his current contract otherwise, and guaranteed to be an unrestricted free...
Lauri Markannen is 100% getting re-negotiated and extended by the Jazz because: - Lauri wants it. By doing this Markannen gets a $20M “gift” in...
First round draft picks don’t get paid out of exceptions for above the cap teams (which we will be operating as). Or rather, there is a “rookie...
Ingram - Not an Ime player or a Rockets FO player. No dog in him, and underwhelming by the analytics. Lauri - 100% getting renegotiated and...
"Has top 10 potential" is a not a particularly meaningful statement. There's 100+ under-23 players in the world who "have top 10 potential",...
It's not pessimistic, it's realistic. If you're the GM you can't be a homer. You have to have some sense of probability. Not "they will be this"...
You wildly underrate Devin Booker. He’s 27, a top 10 player (top 12 at worst), on a long term non supermax contract, and fits with any team in the...
I don't think it's the case we would be outbid, because none of our young guys are untouchable. The Spurs are obviously not trading Wemby. Other...
The situation on the Suns that we should quietly monitor is Booker. Highly unlikely, as in sub 5% chance, but if their impulsive owner wants to...
You win 20 more games than the previous season, have no bad contracts, a bunch of blue chip prospects, and and beat the Vegas line by 10 wins… you...
Yup. High-level prospects on their rookie contracts who’ve performed at the NBA level and are still improving basically never get traded, for a...
The reason the Rockets all of a sudden are a really good team: The NBA quietly decided to change how games are officiated to allow a lot more...
Agree with basically all of that. Except I’m not sure the type of confidence he’s building right now - confidence that he can dominate...
It's an interesting case study in player development. Should the organization continue asking Amen to strictly lean into the stuff he's already...
As rookies, they were the roughly the same age, but Simmons had been drafted and held out for the full year before due to a foot injury. Exact...
Premature to talk about this, but a significant injury would do the opposite -- it would make an extension more likely to happen. Rockets aren’t...
There is 1 singular issue with Jalen that matters. His shot doesn’t go in. I have a ton of more nuanced critiques of his game. He’s weak. Poor at...
It shouldn’t hurt anyone’s feelings to acknowledge that every GM in the league would choose any of SGA, Chet, or JDub over any individual Rocket....
Coaching offense and coaching defense are somewhat zero sum in the NBA. Especially for a first year coach. There’s limited time in preseason and...
