Detroit can in-house recruit AB all year.

Worse than offering ludicrously below-market salaries, Gilbert also screwed Griffin out of a decent next gig when he refused to let him interview for jobs that were available, like Atlanta, Milwaukee, and maybe others. (Milwaukee with Griff would’ve been really interesting) A real dick move when he had no intention…

The thing is, he isn’t cheap at all when it comes to the roster. Cavs had the highest payroll last year, and will definitely be in the tax this coming season. Tyrone Lue is making $7 Million a year. For whatever reason, he devalues the GM position and refuses to pay market value. He’s really Cavalier about it.

Paying significantly more is the only way teams like Valencia would be able to consistently keep their top players (or land new ones) against the likes or Real or Barca.

Slightly off topic, and I’m a perpetual grey so it doesn’t matter much, but I wonder about the stance that Deadspin always takes regarding salary caps and artificially low salaries. (This might get long; I’m old and stuck in a hotel room. If you don’t want to read, feel free to move on!)

He isn’t even the most overrated player on the Raptors.

That take has balls the size of Atlas stones. Lowry is just the second-most-overrated player in Toronto’s starting backcourt.

He and Blake can bond during PT! call themselves “Hob City”!

Lowry is the second most overrated player in the league. Right behind Chandler Parsons.

...”should of...”

This sport is trash, and the fight should have been held anywhere other than Australia. Horn was always going to win that belt.

LeBron’s value is probably equal to the value of one whole NBA franchise.

I’ve seen the theory floated that a bunch of guys have gone to/stayed in the West to avoid LeBron in the playoffs. This seems a little specious, given that the West had the Spurs juggernaut for a decade and now has had the Warriors Death Star for 3 years. I think the more likely explanation is that a lot of GMs are…

Guys, Ainge isn’t saving up those assets to make a trade. Acquiring assets IS HIS GOAL. Unless somebody offers him a Durant/Curry/LeBron/Kawhi/Davis level player he’s not going to part with his precious assets.

I believe this is all about job security and plausible deniability for Ainge. I don’t think he’s as smart as most people represent him to be. You can sit on these “assets” until kingdom come and unless someone offers you Lebron James for them, you can say it wasn’t good enough to beat Lebron James. I may eat these…

Minnesota to Utah? Ricky Rubio is going to have the shittiest stories about America when he returns to Spain.  

D’Antoni has proven again and again that he’s great in situations in which he has a team built the way he wants it, but he does not adapt well. I watched him take over a team that had Kobe, Dwight Howard when he was still useful but coming off back surgery, and Pau Gasol (I leave out Nash because he was already hurt…

Daryl Morey must love the idea of Carmelo Anthony/no wriggle room because this guarantees another 2-3 years of 80-90% turnover in the roster, the only metric of success he’ll ever probably know.

The greatest trick Phil Jackson ever pulled was to convince James Dolan he wanted to stay.

I’m sad that this didn’t happen. This would have been the first Big 3 to have 6 first names, thus making it the most powerful of all Big 3s. Not sure what response the Warriors could have even had to that. Maybe find a way to trade for Kawhi or Carmelo.