2019 Official NBA Free Agent thread

Assets in picks are going back to the Utah Jazz in the New Orleans Pelicans deal, League Sources tell The Athletic. NO takes Derrick into cap space

— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) July 1, 2019

Looks like maybe just a trade for his last year, what do we give up? A couple of seconds and maybe that heavily protected cavs pick next year?

Thank Gracie. She made this happen.

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Happy Puppy!

What a great deal! Favors is a very solid pickup!!!!!

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Thank Gracie. She made this happen.

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Happy Puppy!

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Thank you GRACIE!!!

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Originally Posted by JunkHead

Thank Gracie. She made this happen.

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Happy Puppy!

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Ask and you shall receive!

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Originally Posted by JunkHead

Thank Gracie. She made this happen.

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Happy Puppy!

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*Shares for the continues flow of good luck*

Jrue must feel like a kid at Christmas.

Reddick, Favors, Ball, Ingram, Zion, Melli, Hayes, upgraded practice facilities

Do what?!?! We get Favors and his final year at $16.9 million. Sweet cause I’m hoping Jaxson Hayes is ready next year to start.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Jrue must feel like a kid at Christmas.

Reddick, Favors, Ball, Ingram, Zion, Melli, Hayes, upgraded practice facilities

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And the best trainer team in the league from Phoenix too

We shouldn’t be giving up more than a second. favors wasn’t in the Jazz’s plans and the trade helps them to open up space.

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We shouldn’t be giving up more than a second. favors wasn’t in the Jazz’s plans and the trade helps them to open up space.

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Favors wouldn't make it past the Cavs on the waiver wire

The Jazz not being able to figure out how to play Gobert and Favors together is our boon.

Favors has tremendous talent. He's healthy. He's physical. He's long as hell. Rebounds. Only thing he doesn't do is shoot from deep, and he probably could someday.

Niceee soon as I read this I happened to be playing the Jazz on 2k haha and thanks Gracie!!!

Favors = Good https://t.co/Lj9faBcol2

— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 1, 2019

A Jeremy Lin signing would be the cherry on this off-season

— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 1, 2019

I wonder if Boogie has gotten more or less calls than he did last year at this time ��**♂️

— Primetime with Charles Rees (@Primetime_Pod) July 1, 2019

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A Jeremy Lin signing would be the cherry on this off-season

— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) July 1, 2019

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Sham... You're drunk. Get off twitter. If the Pelicans needs a player to sit on the bench and log 0 minutes. They can give me a minimal.

Looks like E'Twan might be going to the Jazz in the deal, which would mean WE STILL HAVE MONEY. :)

(Per Twitter)

Nice!! A legit starting center than can play power forward too. So like Horford he can play with Zion, Hayes, Okafor, Wood, & Melli IMO. He’s not the stretch 4/5 we needed, but hopefully Melli will be that baby!!

Great day for us in free agency! Didn’t break the bank at all, so we keep our future flexibility. Now we just need to move Moore & hopefully bring back Elfrid Payton.

C: Favors, Okafor, Wood
PF: Zion, Hayes, Melli
SF: Ingram, Hart, Kenrich
SG: Jrue, Redick, NAW
PG: Ball, Payton, Jackson

Nice if we can get move Moore and add a point guard as good as Payton. Unless we good with Jrue, Jackson, & NAW as our backup lead guards which could be the case for sure.

Jeremy Lin?? No way unless Payton, Beverley, or others are too expensive. But I could name quite a few point guards over Lin

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Originally Posted by DaPelFromHell

Nice!! A legit starting center than can play power forward too. So like Horford he can play with Zion, Hayes, Okafor, Wood, & Melli IMO. He’s not the stretch 4/5 we needed, but hopefully Melli will be that baby!!

Great day for us in free agency! Didn’t break the bank at all, so we keep our future flexibility. Now we just need to move Moore & hopefully bring back Elfrid Payton.

C: Favors, Okafor, Wood
PF: Zion, Hayes, Melli
SF: Ingram, Hart, Kenrich
SG: Jrue, Redick, NAW
PG: Ball, Payton, Jackson

Nice if we can get move Moore and add a point guard as good as Payton. Unless we good with Jrue, Jackson, & NAW as our backup lead guards which could be the case for sure.

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Swap Hayes and Woods.

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Originally Posted by DaPelFromHell

Nice!! A legit starting center than can play power forward too. So like Horford he can play with Zion, Hayes, Okafor, Wood, & Melli IMO. He’s not the stretch 4/5 we needed, but hopefully Melli will be that baby!!

Great day for us in free agency! Didn’t break the bank at all, so we keep our future flexibility. Now we just need to move Moore & hopefully bring back Elfrid Payton.

C: Favors, Okafor, Wood
PF: Zion, Hayes, Melli
SF: Ingram, Hart, Kenrich
SG: Jrue, Redick, NAW
PG: Ball, Payton, Jackson

Nice if we can get move Moore and add a point guard as good as Payton. Unless we good with Jrue, Jackson, & NAW as our backup lead guards which could be the case for sure.

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NAW is mainly a point guard.

Also points more to my thinking that Hayes barely sees the floor next year.

Front court depth more like:

C - Favors, Okafor, Wood
PF - Zion, Wood/Melli
SF - Ingram, Hart/Melli

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Originally Posted by WeatherNLU

Looks like E'Twan might be going to the Jazz in the deal, which would mean WE STILL HAVE MONEY. :)

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I like Moore, but he was too streaky and never seemed like a "4th quarter clutch shoot in the chamber" good...

I hope we moved Moore in this deal, if it means we bring back Payton. If not then I rather keep Moore.

I checked a few twitter replies on some of the Jazz beat writers' twitter accounts and every single response was nothing but love for Favors. 99.9% of the fans hate seeing him leave and almost all were rooting for him to do great things in New Orleans. #classyfans

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Originally Posted by luckyman

NAW is mainly a point guard

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I thought he was a combo guard

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I checked a few twitter replies on some of the Jazz beat writers' twitter accounts and every single response was nothing but love for Favors. 99.9% of the fans hate seeing him leave and almost all were routing for him to do great things in New Orleans. #classyfans

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Yeah, I've never really had beef with Utah fans.

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Originally Posted by Taker597

Swap Hayes and Woods.

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Maybe at the very beginning of the season, but by mid season Hayes will get more minutes than Wood IMO. He’s 6’11” 220, so he almost has to play power forward early in his career. After this year hopefully he will put on enough wait to be our starting center

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Originally Posted by DaPelFromHell

Nice!! A legit starting center than can play power forward too. So like Horford he can play with Zion, Hayes, Okafor, Wood, & Melli IMO. He’s not the stretch 4/5 we needed, but hopefully Melli will be that baby!!

Great day for us in free agency! Didn’t break the bank at all, so we keep our future flexibility. Now we just need to move Moore & hopefully bring back Elfrid Payton.

C: Favors, Okafor, Wood
PF: Zion, Hayes, Melli
SF: Ingram, Hart, Kenrich
SG: Jrue, Redick, NAW
PG: Ball, Payton, Jackson

Nice if we can get move Moore and add a point guard as good as Payton. Unless we good with Jrue, Jackson, & NAW as our backup lead guards which could be the case for sure.

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Do we really have to keep Paytpn. Both Jrue and Ingram can play the point wen Zo is resting. I dont know if G Dog will make getting another PG a priority.

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Originally Posted by luckyman

NAW is mainly a point guard.

Also points more to my thinking that Hayes barely sees the floor next year.

Front court depth more like:

C - Favors, Okafor, Wood
PF - Zion, Wood/Melli
SF - Ingram, Hart/Melli

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No he’s a 2 guard that can play point. So he’s a combo guard, but he will be listed as a shooting guard for this team

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Originally Posted by DaPelFromHell

Maybe at the very beginning of the season, but by mid season Hayes will get more minutes than Wood IMO. He’s 6’11” 220, so he almost has to play power forward early in his career. After this year hopefully he will put on enough wait to be our starting center

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He needs to acclimate his jumpshot before being used at the 4 and get a feel for the perimeter. He'll probably play a bit of smallball 5 for the majority of the season. I doubt he'll log many minutes away for his bread and butter position.

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Originally Posted by HorneyTexan

I checked a few twitter replies on some of the Jazz beat writers' twitter accounts and every single response was nothing but love for Favors. 99.9% of the fans hate seeing him leave and almost all were rooting for him to do great things in New Orleans. #classyfans

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Griff said we wanted good guys and good players. Redick and Favors are top notch people!

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No he’s a 2 guard that can play point. So he’s a combo guard, but he will be listed as a shooting guard for this team

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No, he's a point guard that can slide to 2, but he's a lead guard first.

He was Virginia Tech's starting point guard all year. A year they went to the elite 8 and beat Duke earlier in the year with him at point.

Domt worry about what he was listed as. Go watch the games.

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Originally Posted by HartOfaPelican

Do we really have to keep Paytpn. Both Jrue and Ingram can play the point wen Zo is resting. I dont know if G Dog will make getting another PG a priority.

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I want to bring him back. Lonzo hasn’t played over 52 games thus far in his short career. We need a good backup point even though I think Jrue would move there with JJ starting at the 2. We have too many 2 guards and I think Hart will be on the second unit. So he will have to be the 3rd guard or point guard. I don’t see him as a point guard. So that leaves Frank Jackson and maybe a rookie, NAW to fill in the second unit point guard role. I don’t think they will want a rookie being that guy to start the season. I’m not sure Frank is ready to be the backup point guard as well. If he is than cool, but I rather someone I know can fill in for Ball & get it done.

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No, he's a point guard that can slide to 2, but he's a lead guard first.

He was Virginia Tech's starting point guard all year. A year they went to the elite 8 and beat Duke earlier in the year with him at point.

Domt worry about what he was listed as. Go watch the games.

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That’s cause their starting point guard Justin Robinson got hurt, so he was forced to move to point guard. Watch them in the tournament or when Robinson was healthy. It was only 10 games too. Robinson will be playing for the Wizards summer league squad and was a fringe draftable player


They lost to Duke in the sweet 16 and Duke lost to Michigan St in the elite 8. They got knocked out in the first round the year before

ok so w.t.f. is d'angelo russell gonna do on the warriors?

someone wanna explain that to me?

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I want to bring him back. Lonzo hasn’t played over 52 games thus far in his short career. We need a good backup point even though I think Jrue would move there with JJ starting at the 2. We have too many 2 guards and I think Hart will be on the second unit. So he will have to be the 3rd guard or point guard. I don’t see him as a point guard. So that leaves Frank Jackson and maybe a rookie, NAW to fill in the second unit point guard role. I don’t think they will want a rookie being that guy to start the season. I’m not sure Frank is ready to be the backup point guard as well. If he is than cool, but I rather someone I know can fill in for Ball & get it done.

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We will see. I wont be complaining about Jreu or Ingram filling in if ball goes down.

One great thing.. Ball signed with NIKE. So he wont be wearing those BS BBB shoes anymore. Hopefully that means more ankle support and less injuries.

Sources: Golden State and Brooklyn are close to a D'Angelo Russell sign-and-trade deal to the Warriors.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2019

This ******** don't make any sense.

It seems like the ONLY thing our local writers have hinted at before it occured is that we would draft Zion after winning the lottery.

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ok so w.t.f. is d'angelo russell gonna do on the warriors?

someone wanna explain that to me?

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You can't keep the Warriors down forever. Watch them somehow get Kawhi too.

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That’s cause their starting point guard Justin Robinson got hurt, so he was forced to move to point guard. Watch them in the tournament or when Robinson was healthy.

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I did. I watched when they lost to Duke in the elite 8 and earlier in the year when they beat Duke at home.

NAW was their starting point both games. Seems like his comfortable spot.

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Sources: Golden State and Brooklyn are close to a D'Angelo Russell sign-and-trade deal to the Warriors.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 1, 2019

This ******** don't make any sense.

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Yes, it does. You play curry at the guard. Klay plays the other guard when he comes back. You then have the best backcourt in the league.

Also... it keeps him from the LAkers. HUGE ADDED BONUS!!!!

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You can't keep the Warriors down forever. Watch them somehow get Kawhi too.

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As long as Lakers fail

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Yes, it does. You play curry at the guard. Klay plays the other guard when he comes back. You then have the best backcourt in the league.

Also... it keeps him from the LAkers. HUGE ADDED BONUS!!!!

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Keeps him front the Lakers and gives them the capability to provide the Lakers with much needed losses.

I'm willing to accept the Warriors not sucking if this were to happen.

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As long as Lakers fail

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exactly. Hate to see GS get him but as long as Lakers fail its all goooooood.

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Yes, it does. You play curry at the guard. Klay plays the other guard when he comes back. You then have the best backcourt in the league.

Also... it keeps him from the LAkers. HUGE ADDED BONUS!!!!

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All we need is for Kawhi back to Toronto or to the Clippers.

All smiles.

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ok so w.t.f. is d'angelo russell gonna do on the warriors?

someone wanna explain that to me?

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GSW is over the cap. Kevin Durant created a trade exception for 30 million. Might aswell get something rather than nothing.

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GSW is over the cap. Kevin Durant created a trade exception for 30 million. Might aswell get something rather than nothing.

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Then why not get a Center that was worth a damn.

Throw money at Horford and damn near guarantee another ring?

Golden State and Brooklyn have agreed on a sign-and-trade, sending D’Angelo Russell to the Warriors on a four-year, $117M maximum contract, league sources tell ESPN.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 1, 2019