BREAKING: Trae Young intends to sign a four-year, approximately $212 million deal to stay with the Washington Wizards, with a player option in Year 4, sources tell ESPN. The four-time NBA All-Star declined his $49M player option for a long-term commitment ahead of free agency.
No one knows who MDJ is going to pick but I do get a feeling we wasted our time rooting for any non Brayden Burries guard to put on that Dubs hat tomorrow.
The 'Meh' and 'What are we doing' players are both pretty on point but I'd like to put Stirtz somewhere in there too. Can we add a 'Good player but we have more pressing needs' list?
Of course Steph was one of the greatest shooters of all time in college and Flemings ... not. Flemings FT% is good though and his 3pt% is OK on low volume, and he is only 19 so you can dream on him. If the Warriors draft Flemings and get Emanual Sharp in the 2nd round, they will have the Huston backcourt so I'll vote for that. But I still don't think Flemings will fall to #7 unless there is extreme prejudice against smallish guards.
Thanks, I fixed it, double checking the NBA anthro stats. I got the original wrong numbers from tankathon, which I assumed sourced the same combine data.
He was list at 6’4 throughout the season and it led to a lot of enthusiastic draft reports suggesting he could be a 1 or a 2. I thought I was taking crazy pills, because he looked pretty small
Just hoping they don't trade the pick for a current and future 2nd round pick, end up not signing this year's pick and he goes to another team so they are only left with a 2028 second rounder out of it.
Did we ever get an answer as to what happened there? (In the absence of an explanation, I’ve just been assuming it was a Lacob’s fault, because otherwise it would seem to be a fireable series of events.)
What Beli says below is the official explanation given by Ohemaa Nyanin later: That they needed the cap space to make a big free agency offer and didn’t land the target. It reminded me a lot of the maneuvers (like waiving Jeremy Lin) to make a doomed offer to DeAndre Jordan.
Implicit in that explanation is that they didn’t think any prospect at #8 would be guaranteed to make a deep squad and/or be okay with flaky playing time.
That’s not completely unbelievable, as they ended up cutting fan favorite Kate Martin, alienating Kate and Marta enough that they declined player development spots, and have struggled to give playing time to Amihere, last year’s #5 Jocyte, and the two PD spots.
(The infamously traded player pick, Flau’jae Johnson, herself feuded publicly with Team USA coach Lawson about how lack of playing time really hurt her confidence, so she prob would not be dealing well with getting, say, Kaitlyn Chen minutes. Seattle is a great place for her to get all she can eat.)
My memory was that they were clearing cap space to put a big offer out for a free agent, but then the free agent spurned them anyway so they didn't get anything out of the cap space.
BREAKING: University of Michigan coach Dusty May has agreed to become the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN. Major college-to-pro jump for the 2026 NCAA championship coach and swing for the Mavericks and Masai Ujiri.
Thanks for another great Draft Tourney! Flemings was a worthy winner. Strangely, I'm not as concerned about our pick this year (there seem to be quite a few good choices out there), even though it's higher than usual, maybe I will be tomorrow.
- Dusty May to the Mavs (per Shams))
- Windy saying that the Clippers apparently did recently work out some players that are definitely not top-5 picks. He guesses that the Clippers want a low-lottery pick, possibly because they want Jaylen Brown (and presumably are using #5 in that). Windhorst speculates about a Kawhi trade to either GSW or Miami.
Shams Charania
BREAKING: Trae Young intends to sign a four-year, approximately $212 million deal to stay with the Washington Wizards, with a player option in Year 4, sources tell ESPN. The four-time NBA All-Star declined his $49M player option for a long-term commitment ahead of free agency.
Even as a non Wizards fan I had to throw up in my mouth a little at that contract
No one knows who MDJ is going to pick but I do get a feeling we wasted our time rooting for any non Brayden Burries guard to put on that Dubs hat tomorrow.
The 'Meh' and 'What are we doing' players are both pretty on point but I'd like to put Stirtz somewhere in there too. Can we add a 'Good player but we have more pressing needs' list?
Small typo. Flemings is 6’2.5” barefoot. He’s almost exactly Stephs size coming out. Same wingspan. Half inch taller, 2 lbs heavier.
He’s a pretty small guard though it seems like he’s competitive guarding bigger guys. Not a wing by any means though
Of course Steph was one of the greatest shooters of all time in college and Flemings ... not. Flemings FT% is good though and his 3pt% is OK on low volume, and he is only 19 so you can dream on him. If the Warriors draft Flemings and get Emanual Sharp in the 2nd round, they will have the Huston backcourt so I'll vote for that. But I still don't think Flemings will fall to #7 unless there is extreme prejudice against smallish guards.
Thanks, I fixed it, double checking the NBA anthro stats. I got the original wrong numbers from tankathon, which I assumed sourced the same combine data.
He was list at 6’4 throughout the season and it led to a lot of enthusiastic draft reports suggesting he could be a 1 or a 2. I thought I was taking crazy pills, because he looked pretty small
Just hoping they don't trade the pick for a current and future 2nd round pick, end up not signing this year's pick and he goes to another team so they are only left with a 2028 second rounder out of it.
For those who don’t know, this is a grim Valkyries joke
Did we ever get an answer as to what happened there? (In the absence of an explanation, I’ve just been assuming it was a Lacob’s fault, because otherwise it would seem to be a fireable series of events.)
What Beli says below is the official explanation given by Ohemaa Nyanin later: That they needed the cap space to make a big free agency offer and didn’t land the target. It reminded me a lot of the maneuvers (like waiving Jeremy Lin) to make a doomed offer to DeAndre Jordan.
Implicit in that explanation is that they didn’t think any prospect at #8 would be guaranteed to make a deep squad and/or be okay with flaky playing time.
That’s not completely unbelievable, as they ended up cutting fan favorite Kate Martin, alienating Kate and Marta enough that they declined player development spots, and have struggled to give playing time to Amihere, last year’s #5 Jocyte, and the two PD spots.
(The infamously traded player pick, Flau’jae Johnson, herself feuded publicly with Team USA coach Lawson about how lack of playing time really hurt her confidence, so she prob would not be dealing well with getting, say, Kaitlyn Chen minutes. Seattle is a great place for her to get all she can eat.)
My memory was that they were clearing cap space to put a big offer out for a free agent, but then the free agent spurned them anyway so they didn't get anything out of the cap space.
Shams Charania
BREAKING: University of Michigan coach Dusty May has agreed to become the new head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN. Major college-to-pro jump for the 2026 NCAA championship coach and swing for the Mavericks and Masai Ujiri.
Wow!
Dallas has the #9 pick if this changes anything for them.
Thanks for another great Draft Tourney! Flemings was a worthy winner. Strangely, I'm not as concerned about our pick this year (there seem to be quite a few good choices out there), even though it's higher than usual, maybe I will be tomorrow.
- Dusty May to the Mavs (per Shams))
- Windy saying that the Clippers apparently did recently work out some players that are definitely not top-5 picks. He guesses that the Clippers want a low-lottery pick, possibly because they want Jaylen Brown (and presumably are using #5 in that). Windhorst speculates about a Kawhi trade to either GSW or Miami.