This article isn’t very good. How do you write that much and avoid discussing: 1) how Utah handled Hayward’s contract; they could have had him locked up for another year, but chose not to; 2) the fact that they traded for Ricky Rubio, thus making it clear that Hill was no longer wanted.

You are under-selling LaVine. He has made significant progress each year he has been in the league and there is no reason to think he has peaked. His injury is run-of-the-mill now in the NBA and as a 51 yo with a surgically repaired ACL, that knee is better than my original. CHI will love him - he plays hard; he is…

The Triangle worked because it is a great offensive system - when you have to play man-to-man D. The stars, helped, sure, but it takes more than that.

The MN part is kinda dumb. Rubio is playing the best ball of his career the last month or so and Dunn is awful. It’s not clear either is their PG of the future. But, to quote a NY writer on the ‘wolves’ reason for not making the trade is goofy. NY writers have been lying for years about how “rubio is coming to…