All Eyes On Me

The last part. We’d retain his rights but his rookie contract wouldn’t start until he officially signed. Not sure why Chuma would do it, but I guess it’s another possibility of why he hasn’t signed yet

We also need to put our Fultz expectations in to perspective based on what we gave up for him, not what he was supposed to be coming in to the league. We gave up a top 20 protected pick, that after watching this offseasons events almost assuredly turn in to a 2nd rounder, and a veteran who was playing so poorly he fell out of the rotation to a 2nd year 2nd round pick. If Fultz becomes even serviceable the trade is a win, if he re-realizes his potential, it starts being talked about as one of the most lobsided trades ever.

I think the last 2 pages sum up exactly why Fultz doesn’t want video of his progress being leaked. If you’re a Magic fan and you aren’t pulling for this kid through and through and feeling some sort of excitement about yesterday’s clips then I don’t know what to say to ya.

I mean, maybe Cliff will change his ways, but he’s never played more than a 9 man rotation before... for what it’s worth, I agree with you on Wes

Remember Clifford only plays a 9 man rotation. Good chance Wes isn’t in the lineup night in and night out. Season will probably start with starters being: DJ/Fournier/Isaac/Gordon/Vucevic backup 1 is Fultz with some minutes at the 2 backup 2 is Ross with some minutes at the 3 backup 3/4 is Aminu backup 5 is Bamba Iwundu/Birch/MCW are injury insurance and depth

Draymond signs a 4 year - $100 million extension and makes next years free agency class even worse

Who were his comps coming out of college?

Westbrook has made a pretty solid career without having any sort of jump shot

Makes the Okeke stuff even weirder, but glad to have DaQuan on board!

I guess it’s possible, but if we took him without doing significant and thorough research on him with guys like NAW on the board I’d be extremely disappointed and lose a lot of trust in the staff

Not only is Okeke the only first rounder not to be signed yet, I believe he’s one of only 8 players in the entire draft that doesn’t have a contract at the moment.

True. I’d love either Malik here. Obviously, JB and Caris are 1A and 1B, but also would probably cost the most and are least likely to be dealt. Brown, LeVert and Beasley are all due to be RFA next year, which is a risk in itself considering how much money we already have committed.

Yeah, if we’re targeting 2s still on rookie deals that could be available it could make sense. Jaylen Brown, Caris LeVert, Malik Beasley, Malik Monk, Luke Kennard, Lonnie Walker, Josh Okogie?

All depends on 1) our thoughts on MCW or 2) if they involve White or Murray, they got Mills too, but he’s too pricey. But, we’ve also had this same conversation many of times. If we were trading Derozan we wouldn’t have stretched Mozgov

The Spurs had serious ties to Chuma on draft night, so there’s not a zero percent chance

Isn’t that Fultz interview sportscenter special supposed to air in July? We’re running out of month!

Yeah, no way that’s happening. As we’ve discussed, I think if we’re dealing with Boston at all we’re talking something based around Bamba for Brown.

Maybe we’re talking trade? Okeke still not being signed and us dragging our feet on the last spot makes me think we could be having trade conversations. I heard a rumor that the Spurs love Okeke and wanted him on draft night before we took him off the board. I want Dejounte, but I doubt they’d trade him. You’ve probably been right all along and we’re talking Derozan, but that would’ve been a hell of a lot easier if we didn’t cut Mozgov. That’s the part that makes the least sense so far.

Jefferson getting let go has to mean we’re signing Jeffries.

Maybe. He’s a quality player and a $22 million expiring though and by himself he’s not gonna add many wins. I see them retaining him until closer to the deadline unless somebody pays out the ass for him now

Daryl Morey is such an overrated and bad GM... good job by the Thunder going full rebuild. Curious to see what they’ll do with CP3.

Maybe you’re right, I just think Birch coming back continues to point to us being more in win-now mode than everyone thought going in to the offseason. If Bamba didn’t get hurt last year and Birch take his place, I’m pretty confident in saying we wouldn’t have made the playoffs.

If the plan was to trade Vooch we wouldn’t have given him an untradeable contract