Was chatting with a friend last night, whose colleague is next door neighbors to the Brunsons in Westchester. They went to visit them last week and Jalen handed the MVP trophy to her 14 year old son and said, “How does that feel”.

He’s really special, it’s so so good that he’s ours. 🧡💙

Was chatting with a friend last night, whose colleague is next door neighbors to the Brunsons in Westchester. They went to visit them last week and Jalen handed the MVP trophy to her 14 year old son and said, “How does that feel”.

That’s amazing. Between that and KAT going out of his way to let fans touch the Larry O’Brien trophy in the immediate aftermath of Game 5, and at the parade, we’ve got a bunch of guys on this team who get what it means to the people who love the team.

The whole blood in the ground thing, we scoffed, but no one is laughing now. With Jose and Kat in particular, you are hitting two pretty key New York demos very directly. This team has connected with this city, the whole region, so perfectly.

I have made my peace with Drummond, who I definitely thought was one of the elite players in the NBA during my Wins Produced phase. I think he and David Lee were the two guys who disabused me of my belief in it. He is just a terrible defender, despite a 7’6 wingspan.

Still, I was complaining about our lack of beef and Drummond is probably the biggest, most NFL-esque, body in the NBA. He makes prime Oak and Mase look small.

And I can’t seriously say I am going to miss Huk’s defense, although I guess it was a thing. He was so inept on the other end of the court it was hard to watch.

I’m ok with Drummond, for now. I don’t understand why we’re all worried about who we’ll sign to play backup C when the season is long and opportunities can (and most likely, will) arise. We have until the trade deadline to solve this.

“We have until the trade deadline to solve this.”

Maybe even after if someone gets waived!

We do need a third string center, though. You can’t get to the trade deadline with just two, especially when OG and Mo are our only other tall-ish guys.

Kyle Kuzma went on a social media diatribe about the salary cap. He starts by saying the following:

Teams are no longer making purely basketball decisions. They’re making fear-based apron decisions. That means good players get squeezed, homegrown cores get broken up, fan-favorite teams lose their identity, and the overall product loses some of the nostalgia and continuity that made people fall in love with the NBA in the first place.

To me, the salary cap itself has always seemed like a blunt instrument rather than a surgical tool. If the primary goal was to prevent “super-teams” from forming, especially in big-market teams with super-wealthy ownership, and the secondary goal is to equitably distribute both revenue and access to talent, there must be a better way to do it.

third string center

I still think (hope?) that will eventually be Drummond. I can’t imagine that Brown is comfortable having someone with Dre’s glaring defensive liabilities holding down the #2 spot for the entirety of the season and into the playoffs.

Reports are that Leon has made overtures to at least one team (Pels) seeking a trade for a #2 center and that the talks went nowhere. That search is likely still ongoing only now, with Drummond in the fold, Leon no longer has to shop hungry.

I’m sure there will be some no-name brought in on a 2-way as a third big body while Leon continues to shop. Probably shortly after the conclusion of Summer League.

We do need a third string center, though. You can’t get to the trade deadline with just two, especially when OG and Mo are our only other tall-ish guys.

Yeah, of course. But there’ll be players cut after training camp, there’s players out of the league than can be a 3rd stringer C… Mo Bamba is only 28 and is free. He’s from Harlem, btw.
What i’m saying is that we don’t need a good solution to this problem until the trade deadline (and the waiver wire after that, like Z-man said), we just need a placeholder while we’re ready to strike when a good solution becomes available.

Edit: A good solution for backup C, i mean, Drummond is not it and he’ll be the 3rd stringer when Leon solves this.

The #1 purpose of any salary cap is to keep labor costs in check. The parity justification has always been BS.

The Times had a piece last month reporting that MLB owners are unhappy that the value of their franchises are not appreciating at the same rate of increase as those of the other major sports. The reason, they believe, is that the other leagues do a much better job of capping salaries than MLB does. That’s why they’re drawing a line in the sand. The whole “bring the Dodgers to heel” thing is just a red herring.

Mitch finally revealing how he broke his hand

https://heavy.com/sports/nba/new-york-knicks/mitchell-robinson-finals-injury-truth/

I like Bamba. Is he that much worse than Huk?

Kuzma clearly listened to the Simmons pod.

I have thought for years that the salary cap system isn’t finegrained enough. A lot of guys get max contracts they don’t truly deserve.

Like with KAT, who I now love like a brother. But giving him a supermax top of the scale deal going into his thirties, it makes no sense.

All these giant contracts going to 30 year olds make no sense.

Glad Mitch’s brother is okay (assuming so otherwise Mitch would’ve mentioned it). Always thought it involved a truck. Hope the truck is okay.

Yeah, under the circumstances I understand why this happened. And am glad the brother made it.

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