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May 12, 2020Liked by punk basketball

My best lineup: Curry/Thompson/Iguodala/Durant/Green.

I know, not very imaginative. But I say actually maybe best ever on any team.

2nd for Warriors would be your Ewing lineup :)

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for real, I would put that lineup against any team in the entire history of the league, and the future.

Still so surreal that my crappy team went from starting Speedy Claxton to putting together the most daunting team to ever take the court

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I'm sorry because I don't know where to put general Warriors-related comments, no disrespect intended.

But I read something about the salary cap being projected to decrease for next season, which would depreciate the value of the bigger contracts and increase the value of draft picks. Theoretically, seems like something that would help the Warriors if they are trying to trade the pick.

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this is interesting to me Beli, give me a week or so to finish my current writing project and I'll put something together on this.

Not speculative, because like PMC says, who knows? But it would be an interesting thought exercise

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Slater just wrote on this. One thing to look forward to, if you’re itching for answers, is the NBA is supposed to have its “bubble” plan by mid-June. But other than that, I’ll just copy/paste Slater’s words. He even cautioned about that one article where the GSW, specifically, were used as an example of the potentially mind-blowing luxury tax issues: “It’s a problem for all 30 organizations. They’ve planned for a financial world that’s shifted. Money has disintegrated. How much is still unknown. The league is likely to readjust rules accordingly. Maybe they drop tax penalties entirely for a season or two. Maybe they only count a certain percentage of each contract on the books. These are high-level, high-dollar conversations that’ll happen down the line, after the league tries to save every dollar it can from this stunted season.”

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You gotta be patient. NBPA and NBA will meet, rewrite the CBA due to the pandemic, and THEN let's analyze it, right? Why go through all the headache right now when there's just uncertainty? So here's a situation where it's really non-news but some media needs the clicks. It is what it is. Hopefully you can spot this stuff easier as we go.

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All I know is after we got Webber I really wanted them to do whatever it took to get Kidd.

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Still remember the interview Kidd had where he was wearing a Warriors cap. What a tease.

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May 10, 2020Liked by Poor Man's Commish

The Ewing squad would be pretty fearsome in the 90's, since switch-attacking traditional bigs (like Ewing) wasn't as much a thing as it is today. Not sure how well Ewing would fit with the rapid-paced TMC Dubs, but it would give them an excellent weapon for when the games get slown down and they needed some classic 90's ISO post scoring.

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