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https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2025/7/14/24466990/nba-summer-league-2025-too-good-best-players-las-vegas

I think Jase has a path to getting real minutes i just don't want to think about that reality. Barring injuries if he is hitting shots and some of those other guys shoot like last year he will get minutes sooner then later. We dumped KCP,Harris and Cole. 3 guys who had next to no offense at the end of last year. Also Jett will get some burn in camp and pre-season, but you know Jase will jump right past him if he doesn't look good. Oh yeah and Caleb is gone as well. So if Black or Tyus struggle a bit Jase is getting minutes i just don't want them to struggle, lol.

Yeah, his logo is a guy sitting on the bench.

It's summer league. I have some time off this week so i was going to go to Vegas because it's cheap, but then i remembered it's summer league. I would have been going the next 3 days when some of these guys might not even play or play well.

Talking heads are so utterly, wrong sometimes. They are piling on Paolo after the extension and forgetting somehow, that bigs with his skill level dominate the league! This years Finals where point guards were the focus obscured 75 years of the league in their heads! Large players with skills dominate basketball, case close, nuff said. There will always be a year where the exception is not the rule and having Curry win 4 times with almost perfectly constructed teams have warped gm's brains. They shouldn't have even won that last one against the Celtics but the Irish messed up and Wiggins and Poole did things they have not done since!

Kevin Love as a back up when he gets waived? I would bet 90% chance he gets waived but waits till in season to sign with someone.

Magic number one in this article. https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2025/7/7/24462740/nba-teams-got-better-offseason-ranked-rockets-hawks-magic-spurs

You forgot where it says Magic: Steph Curry.

This is gonna be one hell of an expensive team next season.

This is great news if true.

I guess in the end if the Lakers wanted either i wouldn't care but i think management wants to see another year of elite defense and both of them are important on that end.

It's hard to say "Why would New Orleans do that?" when everything they do makes no sense. I guess i would kick the can on it if they are that stupid. Anyhow our center situation is interesting. JI was tried as a small ball center and that didn't work. WCJ is our most versatile and offensive center but he sucked on offense last year. He doesn't get near enough rebounds nor blocks but it's because he is always away from the basket switching on defense and shooting 3's(LOL!!!) on offense. If he was used more traditionally could he improve those other numbers? Is it still possible or is he a final product? These are important questions because we have already seen Goga hold down the fort as a traditional center and Moe be the spark plug on offense. Contract wise the reason you see so many of us calling for a trade is when Paolo's extension kicks in both WCJ and Isaac have 3 years left at a combined almost 35 million(15 for JI and almost 20 for WCJ). That's 3 our of 5 contention years. In my mind Paolo's 5 year contract is our contention window. Can we afford to make a mistake on those two during this run? Isaac is a sunk cost and his defense still changes things alot. It just stinks he never learned to score. But his contract is easily waived and stretched since it's only half guaranteed. The big question is WCJ. He could be seen as cheap this year but not next. He is frustrating because about half of each year he might as well be a 3rd stringer because that's how he plays.

It's like signing two players for the price of one. Gary"Gary Harris" Harris makes sense now. The one you think your getting as a good 3 and D guard and the one you actually get who likes to put up 0's on the stat line.

Next years thread will have to be about other teams. Time to stop dreaming about rookies and start stacking championships!

Jett is Caleb now, by the way. His contract is already picked up. There is a date later this year when we either pick up or decline his contract next year. That's why we haven't heard or discussed his contract. The only thing left for him is if we jettison his contract in a trade or not. I do not believe we can, so expect his contract to be non guaranteed for next year later this summer.