One other thing that needs to be brought up is his defensive play in the World Cup. There were several games where Pogba wasn’t really involved in the attack at all, and instead of taking the game off he focused on getting back and shut down every scoring chance on his side of the field. In my mind, he was the best…

In reality, it does negatively impact their front office because people are less willing to trade with him since he’s fleeced Brooklyn, Cleveland and Philly. They just really need to put it into context, yes it’s a negative, but HOLY SHIT WERE THOSE FLEECINGS WORTH IT.

It’s just because he’s mostly known for defense I think, it paints him as solid but not in an outstanding way. 15 million might be a bit high for him, but I definitely think he deserves eight figures.

Yeah dude, but that’s like, Russia.

To be a fraud, you had to have come into the tournament with even a sliver of expectations. Since Japan didn’t have that, they are good.

The reason he’s getting 18 million is because they had to convince him to take a one year deal. KCP is a solid player who can fit extremely well beside Lebron and will contribute to their playoff run this year, but they will cut him loose next summer if it means landing Kawhi or another superstar, so they are overpayin…

Yes, Paul was a star that stuck around through a bunch of shitty seasons until they got him some help, I’d like to think that him grinding through the good and bad until his time came instead of jumping ship whenever it looked rough classifies as earning it. And I realize it seemed scary at the time but let’s not act…

It’s simple: give Adam Silver the right to block any transaction if a deal is deemed egregious and threatens competitive balance. This would almost never happen, even KD’s deal would be OK’d since the Warriors lost the previous Finals and he signed for alot of money. But when things like this happen when an All-Star…

Boogie is gonna do more harm that KD at this point. From now on, whenever players ask for more shares of the money, the owners get to point to Boogie and all of the players who take massive paycuts to ring-chase and argue that if the money was really so important, these guys wouldn’t be taking payctus.

Of course you would, ya dweeb.

Yes, trying to build up your roster to win a championship is the point of a front office. Superteams are cool to see when a GM manages to pull off some killer moves, the pre-Durant Warriors are a perfect example of that, but when a bunch of superstars decide to all take paycuts to play together and screw the system,…

Maybe it’s because I grew up watching them, but damn do I miss players like Dirk or Paul Pierce who got their rings by sticking with their teams, grinding out every season and eventually getting a decent enough team around them to win it all. This new era where stars take their talent to places it’s not needed to get…

I can cry foul because he could’ve done this with any team, but chose to just grab an easy ring. It’s completely within his rights to do so, but he loses my respect because with his skill level, he had the chance to join another team and truly earn a ring by beating the best, but chose a completely laughable path…

I honestly believe that the Lakers still plan on trading for him, but not until the middle of the upcoming season. Boston and Philly don’t seem close on talks for him with the Spurs, so I think the Lakers are waiting a few months into the season for several reasons: 1) to make sure that Kawhi is fully healthy before…

Just imagine: Melo gets bought out, they resign Corey Brewer, and then use the midlevel to go after Mbah a Moute. Next season, when Golden State pulls their center and goes into the Death Lineup, OKC counters by pulling Adams and rolling out a Westbrook-Brewer-Roberson-George-Mbah a Moute lineup.

Man, I’m sure the Laker Kobe stans are fighting off aneurysms right now.

This is awesome. Good for Collin, and fuck everyone who says otherwise.

This point is exactly why I never understood the Philly hype train. The Cavs’ supporting cast this year was absolute shit, but the Kevins alone are a better basketball fit for Lebron than Philly’s entire team. The only pieces that would even fit with Lebron offensively are Redick, Covington and Saric, and JJ is gonna b…

Nah, they’re probably prepared for it. “Fool me once...” and whatnot.

Sure, I’m not saying that he’s a monster for doing that, but showing up to dunk and clown on people isn’t a great example of how he’s not an asshole. I’m sure he’s not a bad guy underneath the surface, but there’s no denying that he goes way over the top on many occasions, and just because he’s having fun doesn’t mean…