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There'll be 59 I imagine yes. And I don't really care about 5 yet to be determined teenagers versus the integrity of the whole league.

Punishing the Clippers was the right move. The aim is to stamp this out and discourage teams from ever doing this in the future and id say 5 first round picks, 30mil and year long suspensions for key personnel will do that. Was the Kawhi/PG combo the single worst team decision of all time? Cost them 10 first round picks and SGA. The reputation of their franchise. 30mil in fines on top of the salaries of the two players. And they won 3 playoff series total in 7 years.

The Magic should sign John Konchar.

When this Ballmer investigation comes to an end and inevitably nothing happens I'm going to have a very hard time caring about the NBA.

There are pictures going around of Franz, Paolo, Bane, Jevon and Vuc at dinner too. Seems like everyone is connecting on the ramp up towards training camp.

Probably.

Schroeder is the the most classic example of "good enough to be valuable, bad enough where you would basically always be willing to trade him for a roster upgrade"

You wanted Suggs more. The thread still exists.

Not really sure why we want to go back over 2021 NBA draft discourse. The only player worth selecting over Suggs in that draft (who had a reasonable chance of being picked top 5 based on the pre-draft process) was Franz... Who we also drafted.

This is a pretty fair and thoughtful little blurb on Paolo.

Paolo to Golden State has to be the most bull**** rumour ever. For what? Steph? They've not got anything else id want.

Keith Smith I believe has alluded to a lot of apron adjacent teams with one roster spot available leaving those spots open for in season flexibility so I expect we're set at the 14 we've got.

Don't ask me why, and I might be the only Magic fan who feels this, but I'm hyped for this season. I genuinely think a lot of people are sleeping on us and we're going to be a really good team this year.

There's a rumour he wants to sign with a middle eastern team but his Madrid deal only included an NBA out.

There's a rumour going around that the Cavs are going to immediately release Hezonja... So potentially something weird is going on here.

Stepien rule, it's not new.

We could trade the swap rights, we could trade the pick on draft night after we've used it, we could trade it for a 2028 first.

It's also not true. We control our first round pick this coming year.

You ever stop and think about how Paolo and Cade Cunningham are relatively similar stats wise (obviously with a PG/PF trade off of rebounds and assists) and yet the narratives are completely different on the two players because one of them had 3 years of sucking (team wise) before their team got good and now is getting an abundance of credit for their team being good... Whereas the other basically helped his team get good almost immediately and is now on the backlash as "overrated" because that (team) improvement didn't continue to grow linearly...

All this to try and stop Paolo and Franz.

Except we're not doing the same. We hired an entirely different coaching staff.

Noah Penda erasure.

I think if he shoots the 3 well in preseason he'll get a 2 way. Rookie, 6'9 with a 6'11 wingspan who can score in the paint and space the floor is the type of guy someone else will steal if we don't give him a 2 way.

Yea sure. But it's still better that he's saying all the right stuff than not.

It's a forum. We're posting on a forum exactly as it was designed. What else is there to talk about Magic wise in July? If you're saying I need to find something better to do with my time than be on this forum... Well you're probably right... But you're here reading too.