I’d cut Clarkson loose, who had his moments but is going to be another year older.

Not sure what happens with Sochan. Somebody could outbid us for him or maybe there’s a better player available.

Diawara could very well be gone without a handshake deal to re-sign him on a bigger deal after next year.

I suspect we keep McCullar. Maybe Dillon Jones. Trey Jemison won’t stick around.

We have 3 picks. Given our financial limitations and the FA talent often associated with those limitations, keeping (or minimally trading down) 24 & 31 may make sense from a win now perspective, even if we completely ignore the longterm benefit of young players. Punting 55 to make room for a vet min could definitely happen or they got slotted into a 2-way.

Another moment that I loved: on Mitch’s offensive rebound on the missed FT attempt, he not only pulls down the rebound in a crowd, he has the presence of mind to throw a bullet pass to Anunoby so it’s OG taking the free throws and not Mitch. After he completes that pass you see Mitch clench his fists in victory because he knows he just put the game out of reach.

Oh, yeah — totally.

Generally speaking, they just looked like a cool bunch of guys on the Larry O’B pedestal. No douchery, honest depiction of pure joy at the accomplishment and doing it with the dudes they did it with. Probably my main takeaway from the whole thing.

In basketball terms, the Spurs didn’t shoot and didn’t execute and therefore couldn’t stop the Knick runs. Happened over and over again and was pretty predictable very early on in the series.

In terms of next year’s roster, the typical stock answer is that there needs to be some change, lest the dynamic and ultimately performance become stale. In the afterglow of the championship, the natural reaction is no, that won’t happen, let’s just bring everyone back and they’ll have the same chemistry and everything next spring. But — unfortunately — it probably will.

Back in the day we got Tyson Chandler because Cuban didnt want to pay for his championship team.

Lol Dallas was just going to be bad for a year and then they were going to sign Dwight Howard and Deron Williams. Worked out really well for them.

The Lakers thought Caruso wasn’t good value. The Nuggets didn’t want to pay KCP or Brown.

Back in the day we got Tyson Chandler because Cuban didnt want to pay for his championship team.

You also have to realize there’s a secret benefit to paying Mitch & Landry as much as possible: it gives you salary you can use in trades.

Leon did a great job finding Alvarado but his search was severely limited bc the only salary he could trade was Yabu’s $5M. You give him Landry at $11M or Mitch at $15-20M and now there’s a whole lot of things he can do.

Every recent champ that’s tried to play the “not good value” game found out the hard way. The Lakers thought Caruso wasn’t good value. The Nuggets didn’t want to pay KCP or Brown. We shouldn’t do what those cheap teams did or we’ll regret it as much as they did.

Another moment that I loved: on Mitch’s offensive rebound on the missed FT attempt, he not only pulls down the rebound in a crowd, he has the presence of mind to throw a bullet pass to Anunoby so it’s OG taking the free throws and not Mitch. After he completes that pass you see Mitch clench his fists in victory because he knows he just put the game out of reach.

100%.

It was bad coaching by Mitch Johnson not to have his players immediately maul Mitch if/when he grabbed an offensive rebound.

I don’t necessarily like it as a fan but my guess is that one, if not both, of Mitch & Landry won’t be back.

The thing is, we have bird rights on Mitch and early bird rights in shamet. That makes it much easier to bring them back, even at a much higher number, then to bring in a player from outside who can approximate what they’ve done for this team.

Maybe one or both goes out in a sign and trade, but that’s also complicated because we’re above the first apron now and very close to the second apron.

if you see someone walking around in a smelly and frayed Clyde black T-shirt

I’ll look for you. I’m the guy in the throwback starter cap.

I live in Milan now, since one year, but I’ll still take the free drink 😉

We should gather all the Italians some day, native and adopted. Maybe to kick off next season with a bottle of Prosecco, since we’re all about to go on (glorious Mediterranean) holiday/s for summer.

All best.