The 2016 Offseason thread

[MixxAOR]

Mood pic.twitter.com/xdfb7br3U4

— Hassan Whiteside (@youngwhiteside) July 7, 2016

hahaha

what a clown lol

[Jclaw]

To follow up on the main page from yesterday, as a reminder that "everyone didn't get better", check out the front page on espn nba today. Two articles questioning what the Heat and Hawks (two expected eastern rivals) have done this summer.

[Superjudge]

Heat fans are going to be absolutely floored by the D-Wade news when they find out midway through the first quarter of the season opener.

— Jeff McDonald (@JMcDonald_SAEN) July 7, 2016

[Superjudge]

Tweet of the offseason hahahahahhahahaha

[Letter N]

Underhand free throws aren't easy to be good at, I think they are a bit of an NBA myth.

Completely agree, people keep making a big deal about it but do you honestly think if it worked well that not ONE player since Rick Barry, in any of the leagues around the world, would be trying it? You think every player in the world is too embarrassed to try it? Every coach in the world is too weak willed to force their big man to use it??

Rick Barry was one of the best shooters in the game, he could've shot one handed with his wrong arm and still drained 70% from the FT line.

[KHD]

Heat fans are going to be absolutely floored by the D-Wade news when they find out midway through the first quarter of the season opener.

— Jeff McDonald (@JMcDonald_SAEN) July 7, 2016

holy shit lol

[3inthekeon]

Rockets draft pick Chinanu Onuaku shot 47% from the line his freshman year, so he went the Rick Barry route last year and shot 59% last year.

May not sound great, but consider he had been shooting normally his entire career, and that was his first year shooting underhand.

[DanH]

Rockets draft pick Chinanu Onuaku shot 47% from the line his freshman year, so he went the Rick Barry route last year and shot 59% last year.

May not sound great, but consider he had been shooting normally his entire career, and that was his first year shooting underhand.

Yeah, it's not that one way is better than the other. It's that if using the usual way is producing crap results, there's a decent chance going the other way produces better results. No one suggests Jose Calderon should shoot underhanded because he could hit 100% instead of 90% that way. It's a suggestion only for players who can't do it the regular way.

[Chr1s1anL]

The NBA's projection for the 2017-18 season has fallen from $107 million to $102 million, filing story shortly at @BBallInsiders

— Eric Pincus (@EricPincus) July 7, 2016

[Mess]

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/16...all-went-wrong

They talked about Millsap trades with Phoenix, Denver, Toronto and Houston

We might see more teams with impending free agents in this age range consider moving them. Unfortunately for tradeniks, the two most interesting potential candidates are point guards on very good teams who won't deal them: Kyle Lowry and Chris Paul. Both have player options for 2017-18 that they will almost certainly decline to dip into free agency. Paul will be 32 at that point, with knee injuries and a ton of minutes in the rearview. Lowry will be 31. Point guards do not typically age well, though perhaps Lowry playing as backup for the first half of his career bodes well for his longevity.

If they play to their normal levels this season, both will seek the max

[DanH]

The NBA's projection for the 2017-18 season has fallen from $107 million to $102 million, filing story shortly at @BBallInsiders

— Eric Pincus (@EricPincus) July 7, 2016

This is why planning for 2017 cap space has been a precarious suggestion. The cap in 2017 is almost entirely defined by how much shortfall there is in 2016, and based on the first week of free agency, I guess the league is seeing a smaller shortfall than expected. Bam, cap space gone. It could still end up higher, hard to project this far out. But the 2017 will be the most unpredictable in years due to its reliance on a) 2016 spending AND revenue and b) the way the CBA negotiations go next summer.

[3inthekeon]

Dedmon to Spurs 2yrs/$6 million

Boban (RFA) signs Piston sheet 3/21

[Mess]

Dedmon to Spurs 2yrs/$6 million

Boban (RFA) signs Piston sheet 3/21

Pfft. Rich get richer. He's a little young to be a ringchaser isn't he?

Not that Masai would have been offering much more $.

[Jclaw]

So....umm....while we're busy finding our PF...who is going to back up JV and start the games he might miss? I know..patience..

[Majesiu]

Still not much movement on even rumors about Terrence Jones/D-Mo/Sulinger/JT so at least that's a good news. At C we are at least 3 man deep, on PF not so much.

Maybe Masai want to have as much wiggle room to trade for as long as possible?