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I said something like that. This is in its infancy and may not end up Minny but this is the first media leak which is usually (and I believe it in this case) a first salvo.

So no insider knowledge on that one it just made the most logical sense and now there's this: " https://hoopshype.com/rumor/timberwolves-pursuing-danilo-gallinari-trade/ Dane Moore: The Minnesota Timberwolves have been pursuing Danilo Gallinari from the Atlanta Hawks in the offseason trade market, sources say. Gallinari has two years and $42 million remaining on his contract. The second year (2022-23) is partially guaranteed for $5 million. " I talk all the time about purposeful media leaks to gauge fan interest on possible moves. This is one of those. This information was purposefully leaked to Minnesota and NBA media with I'm led to believe Atlanta's approval. I'm betting this move gets made. Minny does it to see if its going to sell tickets, move the needle. Atlanta does it to improve market interest in Gallo. A Minny/Atlanta trade would look something like this: http://www.espn.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=yzzkr3ok Danilo out Rubio/Okogie in possible exchange of picks. Expect Gallo rumors to heat up. I won't talk much more about this till I hear/know more.

Collins is the clickbait. The article has very little to do with Collins. Okay let me break it down by salary first. Clint, OO, Hunter is almost exactly = to Kat. That's why they use these players. From a salary standpoint its a win for Minny and a loss for Atlanta because 3 salaries for rotation players helps Minny cap wise. So answering question 1, yes this is possible. Plausible even. Now the second point, the picks. This is a terribly steep price to pay. Hunter is a 4 pick, OO a 6. Just those 3 players is effectively Kat for Clint + 2 known quantity draft picks. You could argue Atlanta would overpay just with the players but you could also argue they need to throw in this year's pick. Both are reasonable arguments. However, 2 x 1sts + 2 pick swaps is ridiculous. The author is click-baiting and filling an article quota. Nothing similar to this would happen.

According to Dukes and Bell The Game, although there was a contingent of players who openly voiced displeasure with LP in the end and LP was hard and even undermining with Trae, Trae was not one of those players. He never went to management over LP..... So yah, spot on there.

At this rate, he's going to be projected in the 1st round top 20 by draft night. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nba-mock-draft-6-new-top-5-takes-shape-just-weeks-before-draft-171941877.html 36. Oklahoma City Thunder: C Neemias Queta Ht./Wt.: 7-0, 248 | Class: Junior | Utah State: 14.7 ppg, 10 rpg, 3 bpg

Warning!!! Not for the faint of heart. This thread went downhill quickly.

That's Roseanne Barr, not O'Donnell.

Sam Vecenie: NBA Draft Combine performances from players who played 5 on 5 and helped themselves in the eyes of teams (in no order): Quentin Grimes Joe Wieskamp Bones Hyland Jericho Sims Josh Christopher Neemias Queta AJ Lawson – via Twitter Sam_Vecenie AJ Lawson, Bones Hyland, Draft, Jericho Sims, Joe Wieskamp, Josh Christopher, Neemias Queta, Quentin Grimes Storyline: Draft Combine

Way to harsh my mellow man. Next time just show me pictures of Rosie O'Donnell eating.

So I saw this video article, " https://www.yahoo.com/sports/knicks-next-kevin-huerter-draft-193004430.html" "Can the Knicks find the next Kevin Huerter in the draft?" I can't lie. This felt good. Really good. Seeing before and after pictures when you lose 50 lbs good. Biting into cheese fries after a long road trip good. Other teams want what we have. Are identifying us as a model. They don't just want our star, they want our pieces. This is the turning point. This is the point you get the calls in games, free agents want to come to your city, TNT wants to put you on Thursday night and schedules are rearranged so they can do so. It felt really good.

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Imagine for a minute that Cam Reddish stayed in school for 2 more years and was coming out this year. Are Cade and Mobley still consensus number 1s? Also imagine Okongwu stayed in 1 more year. Would Cade and Mobley still be consensus 1/2. I don't see the draft as weak, just not top heavy like past drafts. I see a lot of value, a lot of NBA players. I don't see Trae, Luka, Ayton.

My preferences 1) Trade out of our picks this year in lieu of a vet PG or Big. 2) There are rumors Kai Jones falls. If he falls to 15 or lower pick him/trade up to pick him. 3) Best available PG left at 20. 2nd round - should we actually take a 2nd rounder this year, IMHO the most underrated player on the board is Neemias Queta from Utah St. Potential steal of the draft (again imho). Expect this guy to start climbing before the draft. He is the most underrated player in the draft (IMHO). Scouting report: https://www.nbascoutinglive.com/neemias-queta-scouting-report/ If not for a knee injury, he's a first round pick. Current projection is 54. We pick 48 (from Miami).

Start with this post and work your way through to page 98. There are some scary good and some pretty awful takes in these 3+ pages as it relates to JC.

Let me dump on this a smidge. Technically they can't package a player with a sign n trade player in a transaction. You can trade a single sign n trade player for multiple players but you can't package someone with a sign n trade player. Technically it is 2 separate transactions and the OG trade would have to have compensation back that matches according to the CBA.

Its a smidge more complicated than a 3 word answer. Simple answer is as long as they remain over the cap throughout the 1 year time frame, yes. The TPE expires 1 year from the day the SNT is signed and received by the league. They accommodate it because they may not be able to sign the player outright but could SnT if they send some salary along in the deal or free up money for another move and can take advantage of giving the player the extra year (#1 reason). https://cosmic-s3.imgix.net/3c7a0a50-8e11-11e9-875d-3d44e94ae33f-2017-NBA-NBPA-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement.pdf Starting at page 208. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign-and-trade_deal Benefits and function[edit] The sign-and-trade helps NBA teams capitalize on financial assets that they would otherwise lose—with nothing gained in return—if a player became a free agent. It is a factor in the departing player's increased salary and extended contract. It helps the team gaining the player, by enabling it to offer a better/more economically competitive contract to the player, than otherwise would be allowed under league rules. Often, circumstances arise wherein a team—knowing that one of its players is planning on pursuing (unrestricted) free agency in the coming off-season—knows that another NBA team is sure to sign him. The unrestricted free agency status prevents the team from stopping or financially benefiting from a new deal the player may sign with any other team(s); so, the player could sign with another team, leaving the original team with neither money nor a replacement (i.e., a player traded from the acquiring team, to them) player, in exchange. However, because the original team starts out as the player's current contract holder, the team can offer the player more money per year than any other team, and, can sign the player to a longer-lasting contract—per the league's CBA. Therefore, it is in the player's economic best interests to get the richest/longest deal possible by re-signing with the current team, then be traded to the new team—which, under NBA rules, will be obligated to honor the newly signed contract's terms—rather than pursue outright free agency, alone. The player's original team will receive players, cash, and/or (future) draft picks in return for the departing player, depending on the terms of the trade. As of the 2017 CBA, sign and trade contracts of five years are forbidden, since the player would not be allowed to sign outright for five years with his new team. Nevertheless, the sign and trade allows players to sign with a new team who is already over the cap for more than the mid level exception amount of approximately $10 million, and in some cases can give the player's old team a trade exception subject to base year compensation rules. Restrictions[edit] Under terms of the current CBA, sign-and-trades come with many significant restrictions. Transactions under this rule require all of the following to be true:[2] The player must re-sign with his former team. Additionally, the player must have been on the team's roster at the end of the immediately previous season. This provision, introduced with the 2011 CBA and maintained in the 2017 CBA, closed a loophole that allowed a team to sign-and-trade any player to whom it held "Bird rights", regardless of whether the player was active in the league.[a] An example of such a transaction banned under the current CBA is the Dallas Mavericks' inclusion of Keith Van Horn in the trade for Jason Kidd in order to match salary. While restricted free agents can be signed and traded, this is not allowed if that player has signed an offer sheet with another team. The team receiving the player cannot have a payroll that exceeds the so-called "apron"—a designated level above the NBA luxury tax threshold—after the trade. A team with a payroll above the apron can only receive a player in a sign-and-trade if the transaction drops that team's payroll below the apron. Once the transaction is complete, the team receiving the player is hard capped at the apron for the entire season. The receiving team cannot have used the so-called "taxpayer mid-level exception" in that season. The taxpayer mid-level exception is a limited financial buffer that teams with total payroll above the luxury tax threshold must use to sign players for up to 3 years. The regular season has not yet started. The player must receive a contract of either 3 or 4 years (not including any option years), where only the first year must be fully guaranteed. (5-year sign-and-trade contracts were abolished in the 2017 CBA to disincentivize the transaction.) In turn, this means that he cannot be signed using a salary cap exception that does not allow the team to offer a 3-year contract.

https://www.nba.com/news/trade-exceptions-what-they-are-and-why-they-matter

https://g.co/kgs/Bp8HJP - McMillan, Jamelle (Development - Parents Nate McMillan, Michelle McMillan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Prunty - Prunty (lead assistant)

Jake Fischer: Longtime assistant coach Joe Prunty and former Pelicans player development assistant Jamelle McMillan are expected to join Chris Jent on the front of Nate McMillan’s bench in Atlanta next season, per league sources. Jamelle, McMillan’s son, spent 7 years with New Orleans. https://hoopshype.com/rumor/1532766/ Cough, cough..nudge. 20 hours ago – via Twitter JakeLFischer

LOL no. He just needs conditioning all summer and serious work on his shot.

The Kris Dunn we haven't seen yet but is there. Dunn just needs his body to catch up now, get his explosiveness back and rebuild his shooting. This is our potential backup if we handle it right.

One more thing on SHIB. 2 things are coming. 1, a switch to digital currencies to bypass international currency transactions (necessary with a flattening of the world's economic landscape) and 2, government oversight which is going to enter the marketplace and put cryptos under the same regulations but on par with world currencies. World governments will be picking winners and losers here and only the stable currencies with utility will survive. SHIB is currently in that space. Once governments start to integrate these currencies, expect involvement and participation to skyrocket. I'm assuming a 3-5 year timetable for that to take root. Anyone getting in to a currency like SHIB, I'd recommend just staking for 3-5 years and adding a little to your portfolio every year. Day trading is going to be risky business in Crypto going forward as a lot of the newer alt coins will fail due to government involvement.

The devs don't control the supply with SHIB. They won't burn coins. If individuals burn, they are destroying tokens which each have a value with SHIB. Its a self-defeating mechanism. SHIB has a locked supply, meaning the only way to become more valuable is through demand for that supply. There is no DEV mechanism to lower supply (as currently constructed). The best way to look at it is through the lens of DOGE and Market Cap. SHIB's market cap is fluctuating around $3 Billion right now. DOGE is fluctuating between 25 and 40 billion. SHIB has that $40 billion market cap potential. So a 13x value increase without a burn is very reasonable. The current crypto market is undervalued about 40% from its previous high and about 25% from its current happy place (based on investment percentage vs number of people in the crypto market as a whole). So a 25% increase over that $40 billion is possible making the real near possibility for SHIB as much as 16x. So lets say you currently have a $1000 valuation in SHIB. Its reasonable that with the right buttons pushed and no burn, you could increase that to as much as $16,000. Anything can happen but I'm looking at reasonable here. SHIB is now firmly established thanks to Shibaswap. Its value against DOGE has effectively doubled in the last month even though the value per shib has been mostly stagnant (within the same up/down range.). As DOGE, ETH have dropped in value, SHIB has stayed in the same low/high range for a good 7 weeks now. It took me 5 days to figure out a good way to stake on Shibaswap (I'd been using centralized exchanges to hold my SHIB). Getting it over to Metamask and onto the swap without paying the enormous fees the first 5 days was a challenge. But the true way to make money with SHIB is through staking on the swap. If able to hold 100 million + tokens, the return (especially in first few weeks) are pretty crazy. But if you are holding, keeping your tokens on the swap and staked is the fastest way to grow it and get compounding returns down the road. For those reading and wondering what we're talking about. Consider the penny and the dollar. It takes 100 pennies to make 1 dollar. These are effectively tokens. They hold no more value than Crypto. The whole world banking system is based on what countries say their currency is worth to buy things. Crypto works the very same way. Its value vs the $ and its value vs other cryptos. Just as every country has a different number of bills in circulation, so does every crypto have a different number of tokens in circulation. Their market fluctuates just like global currency markets. As of today, 1 Shiba Inu is worth $0.0000072. 1 Doge is worth $0.21. So $1 will buy 138,888.89 $SHIB and 4.76 $DOGE. So a modest $100 investment in SHIB has you holding 13.8 million SHIB and 476 DOGE. If SHIB's value goes up to $0.0001, that's a 15x increase in value. You're 13.8 million shib is actually sellable for $1380.00. So for stability sake, the DEVs took the reserve supply out of their own hands. It resides on the contract and is not burnable. They have considered a mechanism where a small percentage is burnt with transactions on the swap but that is not implemented yet and would have no general large impact in a short time...only over a long time. The preferable way to increase the token price is through utility. As more vendors start accepting payments in SHIB coin, more people will hold it to use it as currency. Therefore increasing demand. The good news is SHIB is stable. Many alt coins are not. As other people dump their alts, they will put some in safe investments and some wagered in volatile investments. Because SHIB has now moved to the stable category (and in record time I might add), it will be a steady climb in market cap now. Staking on the swap to earn returns is the best way to grow that investment and multiply growth.

That was a good watch.

I have him at give or take 10% around 20 mil to start.