2023 TRADE DEADLINE MEGATHREAD
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Tetsujin
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I’m guessing we’re gonna start hearing some wild locker room leaks from the Nuggets in the coming weeks
ockingsfan
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Or you openly put OG name out there on the trade market and you stand to pee him and his team off. I think this makes it more likely that OG may ask for a trade in the future because of this disrespect.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
The Mavs finally getting Luka his second star only for it to be the most toxic person possible who decides to walk to a conference rival after thirty games would be the Kingsiest thing that ever happened to a franchise that wasn’t the Sacramento Kings.
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Well, in all fairness, dallas has also never been a huge free agent spot, and people dont seem to like playing with Luka. This may be the only way to get a guy of this caliber. Its easier to resign your free agent than get a new guy too.
Ozymandias
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Daryl Morey on why he thinks Jalen McDaniels can hang in playoffs, vs. Thybulle:
“I mean, I think it’s pretty straightforward. If you’re making it harder for the team on offense, I think it makes it harder to keep you on the floor defensively.”
“I mean, I think it’s pretty straightforward. If you’re making it harder for the team on offense, I think it makes it harder to keep you on the floor defensively.”
Dime Dropper
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Absolutely nothing to suggest this is true. Windhorst's conjecture is far from evidence of players disliking playing with Luka.
Padrino
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While you're right that there's not yet any strong evidence that Luka's teammates dislike playing with him, it's generally a fair assumption that guys aren't always here for playing alongside heliocentric stars who suck up all the oxygen in an offense. That was the case during Harden's prime, and Luka's now got the highest career usage rate ever. The dynamic should change now that Kyrie's a Maverick, but it's not clear that anybody wants to play with Kyrie at this point, either. Winning cures everything, as they say, but it could be a pretty toxic situation in Dallas if the wins don't come regularly.
Well tell me which player is clamoring to play with him? I agree there is nothing out there officially, but no-one is rushing to dallas to play with him though he is in-arguably a top 5 player in the league. The one former all star who was paired with him didnt work and was frustrated being in Dallas as an after-thought and was thought of so poorly that people even on this forum thought him washed despite averaging 20/8.5. Now all of the sudden looks engaged and happy in Washington!?! Not sure there was any way to get someone to play with Luka beyond making this type of move and hoping people see that he can make it work and then make kyrie want to stay.
What makes you think Luka is the problem in Dallas? They fired their GM in 2021 and he's currently suing the team, claiming he was fired in retaliation for reporting a sexual harassment claim. The last time Jason Kidd was a head coach, he was such a tyrant that one of his players left practice early to check himself into the hospital then quit the NBA.
Absolutely the best thing you can read as Kings Fan. We're all a bunch of emotional dolts that thinks the sky is falling because we missed on Mason Plumlee and are gonna miss the playoffs because of it
McNair not letting other teams dictate their own vision and plans for the roster. Amazing
QWERTYLICIOUS
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Or....A better way to word the bolded part of your comment above is..."We're all a bunch of emotional dolts that thinks the sky is falling because we didn't swing a deal just for the sake of swinging a deal, and telling others, 'Hey, look! We swung a damn deal!'"
Full disclosure: I am not one of those "emotional dolts". I'd much rather swing a deal to help the team than swing a deal to be able to brag to my non-Kings friends about swinging a deal.
Insanity they didn't trade Oubre. Easily would have been in that 4-5 2nd round pick range that all these role players were getting. And getting basically nothing for Plumlee as well. What an absolute failure from their FO.
Is Oubre expiring? I thought he was an RFA only 2 years ago but maybe I am old and senile.
serbiangoat
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Payton II apparently might not pass his physical.......that trade might not go through.
that would nuke the whole 4 team deal?
That’s a possibility
Telemachus
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SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Wow. I don't know why that would scrap the deal. I would have assumed they really wanted Payton back for next season because them getting him back wasn't some kind of league altering deal anyway.
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
weren't the Nets 10 or 11 games over .500 when trading Kyrie?
kingsboi
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Monte received a block of marble and is slowly chiseling away at it, this is a craft that requires patience and know how
Kingster
Hall of Famer
Irving plus Luka is high drama as far as I am concerned. If Irving couldn't make it with his buddy Durant what is going to happen with high-usage Luka??
The only question for me is how long the honeymoon is going to last. Stay tuned.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
Yeah, he just needs to realize that this isn't a super long term thing and there is a financial window. His moves make sense in that way to I think he's fully aware.
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