2021-2022 NBA Season

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

The Pop watch......

After tonight's loss to Memphis...San Antonio Spurs head coach, Gregg Popovich is still just 1 win away from tying
Don Nelson for #1 all time. Pop passed Lenny Wilkins for 2nd place just prior to the all-star break.

Top 10
Regular season wins:

Nelson: 1335
Popovich: 1334
Wilkins: 1332
Jerry Sloan: 1221
Pat Riley: 1210
George Karl: 1175
Phil Jackson: 1155
Larry Brown: 1098
Rick Adelman: 1042
Doc Rivers: 1029


* The Spurs next game is on Thursday at home vs Sacramento.

 

[Sparhawk]

10 points and 6 assists for Fultz in his return from ACL surgery.
Good for him.

 

[bksballer89]

10 points and 6 assists for Fultz in his return from ACL surgery.
Good for him.

Going to end up being a solid player

 

[Sparhawk]

Going to end up being a solid player

The jumper looks pretty smooth now.

Hard to believe that Simmons got us Harden and with a little help from Mike Muscala, Fultz got us Maxey and Thybulle.

 

[DJ Fieri]

10 points and 6 assists for Fultz in his return from ACL surgery.
Good for him.

And the Magic won.

 

[trojanfan12]

if LeBron stays- between him, Davis and THT you will have slightly less than 30 million in cap room. Not enough to sign a star- but a pretty solid player.

Question...Wouldn't some of that be determined by when the Lakers re-sign him. Meaning, couldn't they sign another star and then go over the cap to re-sign Lebron using their Bird rights?

 

[fightinfunbags]

Question...Wouldn't some of that be determined by when the Lakers re-sign him. Meaning, couldn't they sign another star and then go over the cap to re-sign Lebron using their Bird rights?

I think the concept of the cap hold is what keeps teams from doing this. If you want to retain those Bird Rights a certain percentage of the current dollar amount counts against the cap to keep the player's Bird rights. A team can quit claim on those Bird Rights and lose the cap hold.

 

[WiggyRuss]

Question...Wouldn't some of that be determined by when the Lakers re-sign him. Meaning, couldn't they sign another star and then go over the cap to re-sign Lebron using their Bird rights?

no- because players with Bird Rights have cap holds. Sometimes cap holds are less than for what a guy will eventually sign for- but that is not the case for LeBron.

it might be the case for someone like GArland who is going from rookie scale to likely max- his cap hold might only be 20-25 million while his contract is 30m a year- but for LeBron his cap hold will be at least what he made this year.

 

[bksballer89]

The nets super conservative to KD may lead to them needing to win 2 games to get in the real thing. I would not want to go to Atlanta or Toronto in a win or go home situation

 

[Sparhawk]

And the Magic won.

irrelephant

 

[trojanfan12]

I think the concept of the cap hold is what keeps teams from doing this. If you want to retain those Bird Rights a certain percentage of the current dollar amount counts against the cap to keep the player's Bird rights. A team can quit claim on those Bird Rights and lose the cap hold.

no- because players with Bird Rights have cap holds. Sometimes cap holds are less than for what a guy will eventually sign for- but that is not the case for LeBron.

it might be the case for someone like GArland who is going from rookie scale to likely max- his cap hold might only be 20-25 million while his contract is 30m a year- but for LeBron his cap hold will be at least what he made this year.

That makes sense. Forgot about the cap hold. When the Lakers hire me to be GM, I might have to hire you 2 to be my capologists. lol

 

[fightinfunbags]

The nets super conservative to KD may lead to them needing to win 2 games to get in the real thing. I would not want to go to Atlanta or Toronto in a win or go home situation

I think they still have time. They are only 3.5 back of the 6 seed. I also don't think they care about seeding. I think they just want a healthy squad with all their pieces ready.

 

[flyerhawk]

I think they still have time. They are only 3.5 back of the 6 seed. I also don't think they care about seeding. I think they just want a healthy squad with all their pieces ready.

I would imagine they don't care as long as they are Seeds 1-6. I would imagine they will focus on not being 7-10.

Truth be told, I don't think that team is necessarily good enough to not care about home court advantage but I doubt there is much they can do to change their seeding that much.

 

[Wamu]

Right, Kobe missed fewer 3s because he took FAR fewer 3s not because he was good at hitting them.

Kobe took "FAR fewer" 3's (4.1) than LeBron (4.5) per game? Interesting.

 

[bksballer89]

I think they still have time. They are only 3.5 back of the 6 seed. I also don't think they care about seeding. I think they just want a healthy squad with all their pieces ready.

They should. I would not to play a win or go home in Toronto since Kyrie isn't allowed to play in Canada

 

[bksballer89]

I would imagine they don't care as long as they are Seeds 1-6. I would imagine they will focus on not being 7-10.

Truth be told, I don't think that team is necessarily good enough to not care about home court advantage but I doubt there is much they can do to change their seeding that much.

Yeah the cocky approach where you think you can just turn on a light switch and be dominant usually doesn't end well

 

[Wamu]

The Pop watch......

After tonight's loss to Memphis...San Antonio Spurs head coach, Gregg Popovich is still just 1 win away from tying
Don Nelson for #1 all time. Pop passed Lenny Wilkins for 2nd place just prior to the all-star break.

Top 10
Regular season wins:

Nelson: 1335
Popovich: 1334
Wilkins: 1332
Jerry Sloan: 1221
Pat Riley: 1210
George Karl: 1175
Phil Jackson: 1155
Larry Brown: 1098
Rick Adelman: 1042
Doc Rivers: 1029


* The Spurs next game is on Thursday at home vs Sacramento.

He's on the Mount Rushmore of coaches.

 

[Wamu]

This Minny Cleveland game is crazy

The Cavs need Garland & LeVert back in the worst way. Nice crowd at the game last night though.

 

[Wamu]

I saw some stupid shit the other dah about Bam + Herro for Davis.

Wtf would Miami do that?

Because everyone wants to play for the Lakers?

 

[flyerhawk]

Yeah the cocky approach where you think you can just turn on a light switch and be dominant usually doesn't end well

Especially given how little they have played together.