Mavs apparently getting bullock. Love that signing if true.

Seriously though it's already been a huge L for him and just gonna get worse

Pacers re-sign TJ MAC for 4/35 and sign F Torrey Craig for 2/10

Dougie McBuckets signs with SA for 3/42. Gonna miss him.

Westbrook was traded for John Wall and a pick one year ago in a swap of terrible contracts where the slightly worse contract had to throw in a pick. Now Washington replaces that pick, and gets 3 non-terrible contracts on top of it?

It's not like he was unexpectedly good last year or anything, the only reason his value would go up is now there's only 2 years left on his deal instead of 3.

That said, I'd be interested in taking the "neither" side of that, because ain't nobody gonna want to trade for a 34 year old RUSS making 47 million dollars.

Reverse-Jinx your way to Victory!

The Bald Eagle has landed in CHICAGO!

Lonzo and Caruso REUNITED!

you’re a trip lol

Dwight coming back to the Lakers. I know the potential for it to end poorly is there with RWB coming to the Lakers, but it would be ****ing incredible if the Lakers with Lebron & RWB beat the Nets with Kyrie & KD in the finals. Please to be getting a few shooters now.

@Th4y, @AiM .. wtfr the Knacks doing? > 10m/year x 3 years for Nerlens Noel ... ?

Damn 4/37 for Caruso. Bro got the bag

Lowry and PJ Tucker both to Miami? HEAT CULTURE overload!

Knicks suck. These should be 1-2 year deals. Not 3 year deals. They also traded their #19 pick quite foolishly.


Oh man I would love this!

Get Buddy to the Lakers via a S&T! (Schroeder to Wiz, Kuzma to Kings, Buddy to Lakers).

norm stays in portland, 90/5


all the bags gettin gotten

Every single one of these contracts seems too big to me lol. Are teams just being dumb or am I just overestimating what you can be expected to get per $ in free agency?

ya seems rich for most of these guys, basically getting $1m for every mpg they play

maybe better off playing it cheap, signing foreign dudes, who knows

would def try to be strategic about it
a lot of these signings seem lolbad on the face

I could see spain stealing this while America is preoccupied with free agency

If they lose this, you take Pop out of the Hall of Fame

Giving Pau charity minutes is going to cost Spain

4/72 on THJ seems high, Mavs not going to have cap room or flexibility for awhile and him/KP won't be able to be moved (although I think KP is a little better than his playoff showing, ran into a horrible matchup)

Lakers have done really well getting Ariza/Bazemore/Dwight for free

I wonder if they let Caruso go thinking they're gonna re-sign Schroder as his market seems pretty dry (although would think he would wanna be anywhere else than Lakers)


Also, sounds like Lonzo basically told Pels he was over being there. Probably knows Zion is dipping in 18 months.

Ariza is donezo and Baze is ok, I don't think this is like previous Laker gets where they are coming from bad franchises and Lebron whips them into shape. Losing Caruso for just the MLE is head-scratching to say the least.


At a glance, and I could be missing some teams:

Winners of FA so far imo.

1) Chicago - All of the sudden their roster makes sense on both ends and they got a LOT better defensively.

2) PHX - It's early, but getting CP3 to stay and signing Cam Payne to what I think is a great deal is a win for a team that just made it to the finals.

3) MIA - This is going to hurt later on down the road, but they are clearly in win-now mode and PJ/Lowry are plug and play guys that can fit in any system.

Losers

1) Lakers - Not only did they trade for decent role-players for Russ to provide them what they don't need, but they lose Caruso for fair market value? I just don't get it.

2) Knicks - These deals seem way too long, I just don't get it. I'd put them #1 if they didn't just piss away championship equity like the Lakers didn

decent gap

3) Spurs. Not sure what they are doing.

I'm not seeing great takes on the Lakers tbh. Caruso, Kuzma, KCP and particularly Harrell - by all means from a long term value perspective letting these guys go for a drum of nuclear waste is bad. But this isn't a long term build. It's a two year championship window in a conference that currently forces a high degree of effort during the regular season to secure a strong seeding.

We've just gone through a playoff series where LeBron and AD were banged up and all of the above players contributed NOTHING when it mattered.

How "nice" those players are is absolutely irrelevant.The suggestion that their "correct" path was 'resign everyone and get Buddy' is TZ on steroids. Maybe Westbrook is completely washed and there's no way they can make it work in a playoff scenario, but he can still command 30%+ usage as a positive contributor. They need someone to carry the load for stretches during the regular season and the rag tag bunch of "nice" players they've let go weren't getting it done.

The alternative was them betting on another bullet proof season from LeBron and AD and all those role players not completely crumbling if it came to it but that's a terrible bet in all honesty. The consensus in 2019 was 'lol lakers' after they lost out on the Kawhi sweepstakes and it had them as title favs after huge turnover last autumn. I think the consensus is wrong for a third year in a row.

Welp, we all knew a Knicks trainwreck was incoming.

Completely baffling decisions. Rose, Fournier and Noel - really?