NBA 2025-26 NBA Thread

[OK Computer]

when Jalen Green signed his extension, he was earning 21.7% of the cap

when Devin Vassell signed his extension, he was earning 20.9% of the cap

when Keldon Johnson signed his extension, he was earning 14.7% of the cap

when Shaedon Sharpe signed his extension, he will be earning about 12.1% of the cap

But you’re not supposed to be looking at the cap like this! Big money is big money!

 

[spurraider21]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1980324802062873024

 

[spurraider21]

Mavs seem expected to do something similar with Flagg/Klay/PJ/Davis/Lively, at least at first

I've been a bit of a broken record about it, but I really think we ought to be starting Kornet at least in these matchups.

 

[spurraider21]

He’s not an enforcer, he’s a provocateur. I remember in his rookie season we were playing the Mavs, and during a time out as the teams were crossing to their benches, he reached out and tweaked Luka’s nipple.

yeah i think provocateur is a much better descriptor than enforcer, though at the same time Sochan also isnt the type who will accept getting punked

 

[Neuromancer]

He’s not an enforcer, he’s a provocateur. I remember in his rookie season we were playing the Mavs, and during a time out as the teams were crossing to their benches, he reached out and tweaked Luka’s nipple.

Was that against Luka? Thought he did that to Steven Adams. Unless he's just a serial nipple pincher

 

[spurraider21]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1980340833766559889

 

[Exstatic]

Was that against Luka? Thought he did that to Steven Adams. Unless he's just a serial nipple pincher

He might have done it to both, for all I know. I personally would never do anything that might upset Steven Adams.

 

[Neuromancer]

He might have done it to both, for all I know. I personally would never do anything that might upset Steven Adams.

He definitely did it to Adams in a game against Memphis:

"In the last play of the game, he was messing me around — pinching me and stuff," Adams said. "I was like, 'Get out of here, dude!' … He pinched my nipple. I was like, 'Get out of here, ya dirty bastard!' Trying to break my concentration."

 

[LeBowen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1980340833766559889

Every Nuggets player should be giving 25 to 50% of their contract to Jokic because that's how much they're worth without him.

 

[wemvp]

He definitely did it to Adams in a game against Memphis:

"In the last play of the game, he was messing me around — pinching me and stuff," Adams said. "I was like, 'Get out of here, dude!' … He pinched my nipple. I was like, 'Get out of here, ya dirty bastard!' Trying to break my concentration."

That's hilarious. Adams, by all accounts I know of, is a good dude with a level head. Sochan also knows on the court he isnt going to take a beating from a dude like Adams for small stuff.

Sochan would be fine if he would just become a serviceable shot maker.

 

[scott]

Steven Adams will one day retire and I'll be sad he was never a Spur

 

[ace3g]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1980350316911685907

 

[Ariel]

It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's...

 

[LeBowen]

Steven Adams will one day retire and I'll be sad he was never a Spur

Obligatory.

Would be perfect for HEB commercials.

 

[LeBowen]

It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's...

Let's just pretend that we wouldn't have gotten Wemby, Castle and Harper if we hit in 2022 draft.
A lesson for the future, but I think we came out fine.

 

[Ariel]

Let's just pretend that we wouldn't have gotten Wemby, Castle and Harper if we hit in 2022 draft.
A lesson for the future, but I think we came out fine.

For sure, I'd rather have that happen than nail the 2022 draft and miss out on Wemby, but still.

For the record, I was totally on board with the Spurs picks at the time.

 

[LeBowen]

For sure, I'd rather have that happen than nail the 2022 draft and miss out on Wemby, but still.

For the record, I was totally on board with the Spurs picks at the time.

I don't follow college ball that closely and obviously it's easy to rate players after the fact, but those Wesley and Branham picks were really bad.
Jeremy would've been a great pick if he had a functional jumpshot, but wasting 2 FRPs on players that were dumped after three years when so many useful players were picked in #20-35 range is a really bad look for whoever made the final call.

 

[Ariel]

I don't follow college ball that closely and obviously it's easy to rate players after the fact, but those Wesley and Branham picks were really bad.
Jeremy would've been a great pick if he had a functional jumpshot, but wasting 2 FRPs on players that were dumped after three years when so many useful players were picked in #20-35 range is a really bad look for whoever made the final call.

It was a time were the Spurs talent cupboard was bare, so they had to take swings. Wesley looked like a very raw prospect with great physical tools who could really pan out if he put it together, shooting was bad but we deluded ourselves into buying his upside dismissing how low a chance it was. It didn't help that he played mostly outside of the radar in Notre Dame, highlights looked great but you need actual tape to make an appropriate eval.

Branham looked like a Rip Hamilton in the making, deadly from the midrange, and again, we thought "he surely can extend his range, he's hard working (according to BWright's buddy who worked with him) so he can improve his defense", and we all know how that went. Sochan's defensive potential we were right about, but saw playmaking where there wasn't and his shooting remained as crappy as advertised. Basically bought into a lot of hypotheticals and passed on more sound players, who maybe didn't have that one skill but were more well rounded and with a more functional archetype. Live and learn.

 

[Ariel]

Also, timvp at ST reported that Wesley had an amazing workout where no one could stay in front of him, not even Dyson Daniels who was on the opposing team. So yeah, we all bought in like crazy.

 

[scott]

Tyler Smith waived by MIL. He'd be a nice two-way pickup if we could ever get over our love affair with Ingram and Minix.

 

[scott]

It's sad to see how empty handed we came away from the 2022 draft class, lots of good players available at the Spurs picks or right before: Dyson Daniels right before Sochan, Jalen Williams a few picks after, then Tari Eason, Christian Braun and Walker Kessler available at Branham's pick, Nembhard available at Wesley's...

Tari wasn't available at the Bran pick. He was taken 17th.

 

[scott]

I don't follow college ball that closely and obviously it's easy to rate players after the fact, but those Wesley and Branham picks were really bad.
Jeremy would've been a great pick if he had a functional jumpshot, but wasting 2 FRPs on players that were dumped after three years when so many useful players were picked in #20-35 range is a really bad look for whoever made the final call.

Honestly... it's about on par with the median expectation for a player picked in that range. The Spurs experience (prior to these two) with picks in the 20s is just 99th percentile.

 

[Shmurs]

Was Malakai thought of as the safe bet that year? The other two were so raw it would have been weird to go for 3 projects when your player development was theoretical at that time.

 

[ambchang]

The 2022 draft were swing and misses for sure. There’s still a chance the sochan icon with turn out to be ok but the chance of it being a home run is nil.

Based on our development the last few years, I’d guess Dyson Daniels would’ve died in the vine here. Kessler I never got, and still don’t as he’s like a worse version of gobert who is pretty much unplayable in the playoffs even though he’s a 4x DPoY. Braun is more due to jokic than anything.

Eason could turn out well here but then the lack of structure can’t be good for him. Jalen Williams would be good anywhere though.

 

[OK Computer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1980325705234936149