In other news: Linsanity will get a ring.
Easy.Yogi Bear said:Probably? There's no way.sycasey said:Yowch.philbert said:Torn ACL. Brutal.sycasey said:
Klay hurt again!
No one would blame the Warriors if they lose this series.
Probably no title run next year. Which is fine.
SFCityBear said:How did Trump get into this discussion? I haven't read every post, but it appears to be you who brought the President into the conversation. In one fell swoop you demonstrate that you have no more knowledge of what goes on in political press conferences than you do about what goes on in basketball press conferences.concordtom said:
Kerr today
Right after his Lindsay Gottleib comments he gets into the Durant situation, and it made me think, gosh, I wish our president could be a stand up guy and answer questions like that.
"stand up guy"? That conference was a love-fest between sports reporters, most of whom love Steve Kerr, love the Warriors, and love Kevin Durant. Even if there was some small agenda to find out more about the decision for KD to play, to perhaps assign blame to someone for this tragic injury, it does not in any way compare to a Trump press conference, where some the worst human animosity short of violence is on display. The journalists asking questions of the President mostly hate the man. They are trying every trick they know to upset, him, trip him up, catch him in a mistake. They are trying to get him out of office, by planting enough negative thoughts in voters' minds so they defeat him, by trying to uncover a crime for which he can be impeached and driven out of office. They are not reporters, trying to report facts. They are agenda-driven, agenda-controlled. They would cheer Trump's defeat at the polls, or his death by any means. Trump gets no softball questions from the majority of these 'journalists". What he gets is rudeness, (towards him and towards fellow reporters). Trump stands up to this, as he should, and gives back what he gets and more. He is already a bully, but he is goaded into being even more obnoxious behavior by these paragons of the press.
You take these same journalists in a press conference with a President they love, like Barack Obama, and what you got every time was a love fest, with few tough questions, much more like the press conference you saw with Steve Kerr and the reporters questioning him. I grant you it was a little tough to stand up and talk about an issue of a player's injury. First of all the game and series are played at a high level of emotion, and the injury affected all of them, KD, players, fans, coaches, and the team's owner and employees. Kerr is emotional guy, they all all are. The tough part is the probing into the decision, what was actually said between player and doctor, which is confidential and highly personal between the two of them. Kerr can't reveal any more than that, and it has to be uncomfortable to talk to reporters about.
But that is a far cry from journalists trying to rudely grill a President, no matter what you think of the guy. Affairs of state are serious matters. Lives hang in the balance of a President's decisions. The decisions of a basketball coach can affect the outcome of a game, or a player's career, and even with the seriousness of the KD's injury., it does not rise to the level of questions a President has to answer over killing Bin Laden, or placing sanctions on Iran or sending troops to Venezuela, or the questions designed to entrap him into revealing some evidence of violating his oath of office.
In a later post here, you told a poster to leave politics to OT. Since you are the one who often brings Trump into basketball discussions, why not make the first move, and take your own political views to OT? .
I believe Bogut is still under contract in Australia, and his team gave him permission to sign with Warriors for the playoffs.joe amos yaks said:
W's keep F Bell, F Looney, C Jones, F McKinney and journeyman C Bogut.
G Evans surprises.
Cousins moves on. Livingston retires.
Bell matures, makes a commitment and works to improve his game.
Go W's.
Except they could get those deals from other teams too.cal83dls79 said:
Sounds like Lacob is putting max deals on the table for Klay and KD. I can't see either guy declining those offers. Can anyone?
sycasey said:Except they could get those deals from other teams too.cal83dls79 said:
Sounds like Lacob is putting max deals on the table for Klay and KD. I can't see either guy declining those offers. Can anyone?
Is that what battery is called these days?TheFiatLux said:Maybe cooler heads prevailed, and some situational awareness.GBear4Life said:
Should have been arrested.
I wonder why not
Yes. Warriors have been paying luxury tax already these past few seasons, but the upcoming Klay and KD contracts would greatly increase that. The USA Today article below is from February but all the relevant information is still applicable.TheSouseFamily said:
Wouldn't offering max deals to Durant and Thompson create massive luxury tax implications?
85Bear said:Yes. Warriors have been paying luxury tax already these past few seasons, but the upcoming Klay and KD contracts would greatly increase that. The USA Today article below is from February but all the relevant information is still applicable.TheSouseFamily said:
Wouldn't offering max deals to Durant and Thompson create massive luxury tax implications?
Warriors Salary Cap Implications
I have very little doubt that Lacob is going to offer the super max to KD and the max to klay. its just the way the NBA salary cap works, you almost have to offer max contracts to your own players (assuming you're already over the cap), because the rules allow you to re-sign your own players once over the cap, but don't allow you to sign other FA's once over the cap.85Bear said:Yes. Warriors have been paying luxury tax already these past few seasons, but the upcoming Klay and KD contracts would greatly increase that. The USA Today article below is from February but all the relevant information is still applicable.TheSouseFamily said:
Wouldn't offering max deals to Durant and Thompson create massive luxury tax implications?
Warriors Salary Cap Implications
The business model is that Lacob & Co. are developers of a new and very pricey arena who happen to also own the primary tenant in their arena.ducky23 said:I have very little doubt that Lacob is going to offer the super max to KD and the max to klay. its just the way the NBA salary cap works, you almost have to offer max contracts to your own players (assuming you're already over the cap), because the rules allow you to re-sign your own players once over the cap, but don't allow you to sign other FA's once over the cap.85Bear said:Yes. Warriors have been paying luxury tax already these past few seasons, but the upcoming Klay and KD contracts would greatly increase that. The USA Today article below is from February but all the relevant information is still applicable.TheSouseFamily said:
Wouldn't offering max deals to Durant and Thompson create massive luxury tax implications?
Warriors Salary Cap Implications
Put in another way, even if they were to let KD go, they cannot use the money saved to sign another free agent. So yes, the luxury tax is going to be expensive, but Lacob can afford it and its the only way the dubs can stay title contenders.
BearSD said:The business model is that Lacob & Co. are developers of a new and very pricey arena who happen to also own the primary tenant in their arena.ducky23 said:I have very little doubt that Lacob is going to offer the super max to KD and the max to klay. its just the way the NBA salary cap works, you almost have to offer max contracts to your own players (assuming you're already over the cap), because the rules allow you to re-sign your own players once over the cap, but don't allow you to sign other FA's once over the cap.85Bear said:Yes. Warriors have been paying luxury tax already these past few seasons, but the upcoming Klay and KD contracts would greatly increase that. The USA Today article below is from February but all the relevant information is still applicable.TheSouseFamily said:
Wouldn't offering max deals to Durant and Thompson create massive luxury tax implications?
Warriors Salary Cap Implications
Put in another way, even if they were to let KD go, they cannot use the money saved to sign another free agent. So yes, the luxury tax is going to be expensive, but Lacob can afford it and its the only way the dubs can stay title contenders.
Keeping the paying customers of that primary tenant happy is good for their main business -- the arena -- even if it's a loss leader for the tenant.
HoopDreams said:
Doesn't resigning both injured players mean they will play the entire season short two of their best three players, and not be able to upgrade their bench (which is weak)?
Bogut said he's going back to honor the commitment even if GSW wanted to keep him.85Bear said:I believe Bogut is still under contract in Australia, and his team gave him permission to sign with Warriors for the playoffs.joe amos yaks said:
W's keep F Bell, F Looney, C Jones, F McKinney and journeyman C Bogut.
G Evans surprises.
Cousins moves on. Livingston retires.
Bell matures, makes a commitment and works to improve his game.
Go W's.