NBA 2015-16

[mtnbiker]

That's a lot of money to jump on a team that has a good shot at a championship. Is their anything else behind this.

Probably just a crummy agent and an overinflated sense of his value.

[falafel]

The "Las Vegas Bucks" has a funny sound to it:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-...gas-or-seattle

I kind of like it. Although I would prefer the Las Vegas Gamblers.

[scottie]

I'd stay with the Clipps if I were him:

Sources: DeAndre Jordan 'leaning' toward return to Clippers

Sources said Wednesday afternoon that Jordan is increasingly "leaning" toward a return to the team that drafted him, with the Clippers indeed optimistic that he will stay in L.A.

Free agents are traditionally considered off-limits once they strike a verbal agreement with a team during the NBA's annual moratorium period, but sources said that Clippers coach/team president Doc Rivers and owner Steve Ballmer will meet with Jordan later Wednesday in Houston -- where Jordan has an offseason home -- in hopes of convincing him to walk from the four-year, $80-plus million max deal he committed to with the Mavericks and instead stay with L.A.

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Sources say that the Clippers, however, contend that they launched this last-ditch bid to keep Jordan only after he called Rivers on Monday and revealed having second thoughts about joining the Mavericks.

[scottie]

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[Color Me Badd Fan]

The "Las Vegas Bucks" has a funny sound to it:

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-...gas-or-seattle

I'd like it if they went to Vegas. You would assume Seattle would get them before Vegas, but Seattle is being used by the NBA to extort publicly funded arenas out of these other cities, and they're not quite done getting everyone a new arena.

Please also allow Mallory Edens to keep a nominal 1% interest in the team no matter where it goes.

[Eddie]

That's a lot of money to jump on a team that has a good shot at a championship. Is their anything else behind this.

Maybe it comes with the promise of a substantial pay increase next year when Duncan retires.

[TripletDaddy]

Maybe it comes with the promise of a substantial pay increase next year when Duncan retires.

The old Joe Smith ploy. what could go wrong?

[HBCoug]

The old Joe Smith ploy. what could go wrong?

Carthage?

[MartyFunkhouser]

Today donuthole became a bigger Rudy Gobert fan.

http://www.foxsports.com/nba/story/r...-pierce-070815

[scottie]

LOL:

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[DrumNFeather]

LOL:

It's been a bit of a week for Chris Broussard. He might consider a vacation.

[MartyFunkhouser]

The DeAndre Jordan saga was awesome. I want more NBA twitter wars.

[TripletDaddy]

Lebron going back to Cleveland!!!!!!

[PaloAltoCougar]

I hadn't paid any attention to the Jordan/emoji war thing but read this column and was both educated and entertained.

...It seems that in the NBA collective bargaining agreement, which I believe is written entirely in dollar signs, there is this eight-day period in which contracts can be negotiated but not formally signed. The Clippers offered Jordan a five-year deal for $108 million. Meanwhile, down in Dallas, Mark Cuban, the world’s smartest human — just ask him — chimed in with an offer of $80 million for four years, which meant that Jordan would get to free agency again sooner, when he would be only 30 years old. This was, in short, a two-payday deal. (One that wasn’t actually the most lucrative option, but no matter.) Jordan agreed to it but, because of that quirk in the CBA, he couldn’t sign. It’s about here in the movie when the first tanker truck explodes....

[MartyFunkhouser]

Michele Roberts spoke at my law school commencement. She was very impressive. I don't think she is going to give in as easily as the former leadership for the players.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ba...223202867.html

On Tuesday evening, NBA commissioner Adam Silver (a very smart man) did well by his constituency (30 NBA owners) to say some dumb things that only dumb people would believe. “A significant amount of NBA teams” are losing money, he swears, and something needs to be done about it when the NBA Players Association opts out of the current collective bargaining agreement in December 2016.

NBPA chief Michele Roberts, a very smart person, decided to say some very smart things in response on Thursday afternoon.